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Space battleship MOBA Fractured Space to end development, go free soon
October continues to be a rubbish month for free-to-play games, especially niche ones. The latest to take a hit to the warp core is Fractured Space, Edge Case's free-to-play MOBA-like take on capital-class space combat. Announced on Steam today, the studio are officially ending development on the game and moving on to other projects. As of the next and final episodic update to the game…
Feature: "Make it slow."
Fractured Space [official site] finally warped out of the safety of the early access nebulae this month, making it a ripe target for the RPS fleet. We sent Brendan to do battle with the interstellar MOBA and tell us wot he thinks. A few years ago there was a game called Stellar Impact. It was a MOBA set in space and it was pretty good.…
Update: There's now a statement from the developers about the current state of the microtransactions below. Fractured Space [official site] was already cheap as space chips, but its journey towards completing development has taken another step forward as the game is now free-to-play as of today.
Feature: attack ships on fire
Each Monday, Rob Zacny picks through the detritus of early access to separate the games might one day be assembled into something worthwhile from those which should remain on the scrapheap. Capital ship warfare is my favorite kind of pornography. I've watched Master and Commander a dozen times or so, but sometimes I put the disc in the drive just to watch the part where…
Fractured Space [official site] is free this weekend on Steam. It's the early access cousin of Strike Suit Zero, which was from some of the same developers, and trades that game's nimble space fighters for gigantic capital ships. It's World of Tanks in space. That sure sounds like a game that ought to exist and ought be good, but I haven't played it. Maybe you…
Fractured Space [official site] is the team-based capital ship shooter that launched onto Steam Early Access late last year. It's still there, waiting for a full launch next year, where developers Edge Case Games have recently released a pretty expansive update that includes a new game mode. "Frontline", as it's called, will take place in a single lane marking a distinct flip of the script…
The three coolest things to pilot in space battles are, in no particular order: mecha; capital ships; and EVE Online's Rifter. Edge Case Games was formed by folks behind Strike Suit Zero so they've dabbled with the first, and that third is off-limits, so here they are with capital ships in Fractured Space, the first game from their new studio. It's a five-versus-five multiplayer capital…
