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1 year ago
1000 players is a lot of people. At least a small-ish town. Imagine trying to get all your neighbours to take time out of their day to hide in bushes shoot each other. If you're one of the lucky multiplayer games that break big, it's easy to forget just how big a thousand is. I've played games that would kill for even half of those…
2 years ago
Worlds Adrift, Lazarus and other MMOs at risk from Unity dispute over SpatialOS
The future of several MMOs using SpatialOS cloud server tech is in question over a dispute between Unity Technologies and SpatialOS studio Improbable. The dispute is over a change in Unity's terms of services in December. Improbable released a statement saying that Unity have now revoked their Unity development license. So far, Spilt Milk's early access space shooter MMO Lazarus briefly went offline, but is…
The last time we saw Mavericks: Proving Grounds, developers Automaton said they were going to have 400 murderers running around in the forest hunting each other and tracking footprints with a deep bloodthirst. Now they are promising battles of 1000 players, fighting across 100 square miles of “deformable” terrain. These are big claims, yet to be proven, but at the PC Gaming Show during E3,…
3 years ago
Feature: Whose footprints are these?
A man in black scrambles through the overgrowth, looking lost. So I shoot him. Puffs of bloody air erupt from his body, but he runs on. Behind him something explodes from a stray bullet – my bulet or somebody else’s? I don’t know. But the man in black keeps moving, dodging behind some trees, over a ridge. Behind me, a wall of wobbly energy closes…
Mavericks: Proving Grounds talking 400-player battle royale at Rezzed
What do you get if you cross a video games show with a 400-player battle royale game? A newly-announced session at EGX Rezzed in April where a developer will gab about the upcoming Mavericks: Proving Grounds. The Plunk 'em up will use Improbable's much-vaunted SpatialOS cloud server technology for fancy features like trackable persistent footprints and destructible buildings, so even if you're not interested in…
Mavericks: Proving Grounds is an FPS MMO with a 400 player battle royale mode
Imagine we're trapped in a lift. If I started to pitch "400 player Playerunkown's Battlegrounds" to you, would you scream and start clawing ineffectually at the doors - or gesture for me to continue, with a weary yet intrigued expression on your face? FPS MMO Mavericks: Proving Ground was revealed last Saturday, and it promises just that - with some fancy features powered by Improbable's…
