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The teaser site put up a few days ago has finally revealed its secrets to the Internet. Piranha Games are working on a space MMO in a similar vein to that of EVE or Elite Dangerous, but with one large difference – it will depend largely on procedural and emergent mechanics. In simple terms, they plan to go light on the NPCs and see what happens when a game is mainly populated by only players.
It’s a third-person game, in which you are free to pilot your ship and trade, purchase, sell or pirate as much as you’d like. It’s hoped that the players will instinctively seek out roles for themselves in-game, and that the interactions between the groups that form will be the basis on which the game functions. Sounds very similar to EVE. Piranha hope to provide players with all the tools needed to construct their own space stations and ships and start their own faction wars, which sounds very exciting. The ship customisation looks interesting too. This was shown off in an announcement trailer which has since been made private.
To make the game and fund its development, Piranha are running a crowd funding drive which starts at $1 million. That’s enough to get the basic game made, while the functionality to have local space scraps only comes when $2 million is reached as a target. But then an MMO doesn’t come cheaply, the only concern is what is protecting the backers’ money as the funding is not being run through Indiegogo or Kickstarter but through Piranha’s own site.
Only time will tell whether Transverse will rise or sink out of sight forever.
If you’d like to help fund the game, you can do so here: [x]
Starting TODAY, Sanitarium.FM is going to be committed to bringing you news, opinion and coverage of the best eSports has to offer. eSports is a massively growing section in gaming, and it offers us the chance to sit down and watch top tier players compete in some amazing competition. League of Legends, DOTA 2, SMITE, Starcraft II…these are the biggest games on the scene, and we’ll be working to cover them and do our part to grow awareness of eSports as well as share our love of competition and just plain awesome gameplay.
What You Can Expect:
Tournament Coverage
Patch Notes Breakdowns
POSITIVE Coverage (We don’t like negativity. Unless it’s EA. Then we really don’t have anything else to report….)
Embeds of streams so you can watch from the comfort of Sanitarium.FM
A shiny new forum for you to talk it up about eSports. Its your community, make the most of it
A few surprise guests
Whos Going To Be Involved:
Our two biggest eSports junkies are Digmbot and Novindus. Expect plenty of analysis and news from them. PredictedCyborg may pitch in from time to time, as well as Lonesamurai. Even Crimsonshade might get in on the act when he’s not busy beating the servers about the head to make them cooperate. And…maybe some surprise guests.
You Keep Saying That About Guests:
Yes. Yes I do. Better keep a close watch on this section.
Thats the basic intro folks! Keep it locked here for more in the coming days!
In the midst of the Bukkit episode, it didn’t seem possible for another shockwave to hit the Minecraft community. But it has, and from a completely unexpected direction in some ways.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that according to “a person with knowledge of the matter” Microsoft have been in some serious discussion with the makers of the sandbox game, Mojang with the intent to acquire them for themselves.
The deal, said to be worth around $2 billion could be signed as early as this week. It comes as a bit of a surprise given what else has been happening recently though.
Minecraft is undoubtedly a very popular game and it’s easy to see why Microsoft would be interested. However, Mojang founder Notch has always been fairly wary of venture capital and big business and even once criticised Microsoft’s Windows 8 as being very bad for indie gaming.
All I can say is that the idea of a Microsoft-owned Minecraft makes me feel very… uneasy.
The Lego games are usually quite good for a laugh. There’s just something about seeing a tongue-in-cheek representation of well known licenses in (virtual) plastic that just… works.
The third Lego Batman should hopefully not break that streak, but the news that it’s getting DLC from release day, and that fairly substantial parts of the game are contained within these packs… well, it suddenly makes you wonder a bit. Then there’s the ‘season pass’ which is being offered as well.
The DLC packs will number 6 for this game and each will allow the unlock of other characters and missions to be played. For example, the Batman 75th Pack will allow play as Joker and Harley as they get up to mischief and will contain costume from all periods of Batman’s run. And then there’s the Dark Knight Pack which will allow for the playing of a mission based off a car chase sequence from the second Nolanverse Batman film.
It’s not all bad news though; the prices are at least not extortionate. Each individual DLC pack will cost £2.55/$2.99, while the season pass will be priced at £12.79/$14.99.
The people working on the Sims are currently working to implement a small update to remove something that has already gotten a few fans annoyed about their latest game. Quite simply, the real-life people simulator known for its acceptance of all types of relationships currently considers any reference to homosexuality “forbidden words”.
The issue was highlighted in a recent video from Youtuber ‘WhyStuffIsGreat’ entitled “The Sims 4 – What’s up with the “Gay Filter”?” in which it is demonstrated that using words such as ‘lesbian’, ‘gay’ or ‘queer’ in a Sim’s description or name brings up the warning “contains a forbidden word”.
EA have been made aware of the problem and are now working on the fix blaming an automated word filter that was still set to its default list. (More evidence of the game being somewhat incomplete upon release?)
The published said about the issue “The Sims has a long history of supporting stories that players want to tell, irrespective of gender preference… We are aware of [and] have been working on a fix, which will be out soon.”
