The Syndicate Studio

Beginning in 2006, The Syndicate has worked tirelessly with Prima Games to usher in a new era of strategy guides. Traditionally strategy guides were heavily focused on lists of data and maps without much in the way of strategy, advice and expert content. Utilizing teams of gamers with diverse play styles The Syndicate has infused expert strategy content into the traditional strategy guide experience. This model proved to be so successful that between the years of 2006 and 2009, the combined sales for Syndicate written strategy guides exceeded the combined sales of the works by legendary author John Grisham.

Since 2009, The Syndicate has been its own independent studio of Prima games filling the roles of author, writer and editor. Where a traditional full time author can complete four to five detailed guides in a calendar year, The Syndicate Studio team can complete ten to twelve guides. Those guides are complete with the necessary traditional content that customers expect but more importantly are loaded with expert strategy that only exists in Syndicate Studio guides.

One of the additional challenges with MMO games is keeping content current once the game goes live. By utilizing Prima's e-guide infrastructure, teams of members work to keep the more popular guides current as patches and new content are released. Often this content is made available free to those who already own the guide thus keeping guides fresh and current long after they are printed.

The Syndicate is not simply limited to MMO guides. Our studio has branched out into First Person Shooter (FPS), Real Time Strategy (RTS) and Role Playing Games (RPG) guides. With hundreds of members to pull from, there are experts in every major game type. With a track record of success, we continue to expand into new guide types.

The Prima/Syndicate alliance seeks to change the paradigm of strategy guides by offering more expert content and, where appropriate, updates and additions to content once the game is live. Their work includes such guides as:

Star Wars: The Old Republic (Atlas, Class Guides and Digital Products
Dragon Age: Legacy
Walkthroughs for:

• God of War 3
• Borderlands
• Fable 3
• Batman Arkham Asylym
• Halo: Reach
• Red Dead Redemption
• Killzone 3

Battlefield 2142
Lord of the Rings Online
Lord of the Rings Online World Companion
Warhammer Online
Warhammer Online Atlas
Pirates of the Burning Seas (all 3 versions of the guide)
Might and Magic: Dark Messiah
Vanguard
Gods & Heroes (although the game was canceled right before go-live in 2007)
and many more..