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Dead Star Coming to PS4

Dead Star Coming to PS4

Armature Studio is mostly known for its work on handheld titles. The company brought the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Injustice: Gods Among Us to your PS Vita, and also developed Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate .

Today Armature excitedly announced its new game: Dead Star , an arcade-style multiplayer space shooter. You take on the role of a pilot recently exiled to a desolate stretch of uninhabitable space where hundreds of other outcasts and criminals have been banished before you. It’s a free-for-all as players fight for domination of this prison-space and any resources that might be salvaged from the accumulated wreckage. As if things aren’t chaotic enough already, adding to the sense of urgency is the Dead Star, a red giant that could collapse in on itself and go supernova at any moment.

Gameplay looks to be hectic and challenging with procedurally generated battlefields and tons of on-screen action. Design lead Tom Ivey remarks, “We wanted combat to feel exciting and engaging: scout ships zipping in and out of asteroid fields, raiders appearing from cloak to strike at the enemy, and frigates bombarding the area with missile fire. In order to ensure that a player’s skill and strategic choices were paramount to success, we adopted a top-down perspective for the game and focused hard on keeping the controls simple and responsive.”

Dead Star is slated for an early 2016 release. Enjoy the reveal trailer below:

Source: PlayStation Blog

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