Skotos

Skotos, sometimes known as Skotos Tech, is an online game company that was founded in 1999 and released its first game, Castle Marrach, in September 2000. Its primary focus is prose online RPGs (essentially, MUDs and MUSHes), though it currently offers a total of 15 different games. These include a number of graphical RPGs and online strategy games, which are also available at other sites.

Skotos is a commercial service that charges a monthly fee for its services. It is also the owner of RPGnet, a free tabletop role-playing web site.

Sony Online Entertainment acquired Worlds Apart Productions as of August 10, 2006. Worlds Apart Productions is now known as SOE-Denver.

Worlds Apart Productions originally intended to provide text-based role-playing games online and launched The Eternal City in 1996, and later released Grendel's Revenge in conjunction with Skotos Tech Inc. However, declining interest in text-based games led WAP to seek other online gaming niches. Worlds Apart Productions partnered with Decipher Inc. in 2003 to create the Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game and noting the success of the game, then developed the online engine that allowed them to bring the card game online and reach a broader audience. The Lord of the Rings game was followed by the equally successful Star Trek Online, Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga and The Auto Assault Online card games.

Two of Worlds Apart Production's games are available solely through the Skotos service. Scott Martins, co-founder of World Apart Productions, stated on the Skotos.net forums that the two text-based games would continue to be offered by Skotos Tech Inc. after concern was expressed by players upon hearing of WAP's acquisition by Sony Online Entertainment.

In 2010, Sony SOE divested itself of any owning interest in The Eternal City and Grendel's Revenge, ceding the titles to Skotos.

In 2010, Sony SOE shut down the Sony SOE Denver division.

Games created by Worlds Apart Production, either independently or in conjunction with Skotos Tech., include:

Worlds Apart Productions was also in the process of creating a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) prior to joining Skotos Tech. Called The Eternal City: 3D, screenshots previously available on the old Worlds Apart website revealed some of the landmarks visible in The Eternal City. However, the project was abandoned in favour of the trading card games which eventually led to Worlds Apart's acquisition by SOE.

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