Yaaaaaaaay!

Great news. No further infos on their site but one of the random hompage artworks shows an astoroid belt and they were involved in the devolopment of Tachyon. So i'am looking forward for 2012 🙂

Maybe we will get some news on the game in the summertime when I believe E3 is conducted. Another rumor of sim game development is from the dev team behind Warhawk on the PS3. There has been lots of talk that their secret project game will be in space, so we shall see.

lots of space game sims coming out this year and next. I've not played Wing commander since I had a 386 PC 🙂

please let it be Tachyon 2............. i played the frist one to death the game made me laugh alot

If they get Bruce Campbell to reprise his role it would be an instant buy for me 🙂

The thing I thought about is where they are based “Austin Texas” which IIRC was home to Origin and Digitalanvil.

Wonder if there’s any connection

There’s also a pic of a ringed gas giant, which pops up now and again on the site.

Since we are talking about rumors, it seems that Soldak Entertainment 's (Depths of Peril, Din's Curse) next game, may have a space setting. Check this:

http://www.soldak.com/Blogs/Steven/Next-game-intial-thoughts.html

Definitely interested in seeing what they've got planned. We need more space games.

Seamless have announced there game called ” SOL: Exodus”

Wed site here

http://www.YouAreSOL.com .

It doesn't seem to be Tachyon 2 unfortunately, but still worth keeping an eye on, good find Pinback! 🙂

Theirs some pics and some more info about Sol Exodus on their site http://www.youaresol.com/ and they have started a blog and are looking for questions about the game.

http://solexodus.com/dev-blog/

First one should be about changing that url

Also a bit from IGN about it.

“Whether or not you care about story, what SOL: Exodus has going for it is its gameplay. This is a classic space combat game, but not a simulation -- there's no shield management or hyper-realistic physics at play. You can play with a controller, a joystick or mouse and keyboard, with the goal being for players to jump in and start immediately kicking ass rather than spending hours mastering complex controls. You play from the cockpit, blasting away at enemies with a combination of missiles and bullets. It is a sci-fi title, but more grounded in reality than set in a world with things like cloaking or shields. More importantly, the short time I spent with it was fun. Shooting ships in space, where you can fly in a full 360 degrees is liberating, and fulfills all my nerdy Star Wars fueled fantasies.”

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/1191023

Also some more pics from IGN.

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/113723 ... 09551.html

Well the game play vid out can’t say it looks that much different to any other game.

Definitely not reinventing the genre. But the gameplay was smooth and the HUD was very responsive. I would have liked to see a bit better visuals for a game that will be coming out 2011-12. I very much like the effect of shooting and flying into that station/hull and flying out the other end. But after that the destruction of that satellite could have been better. But they are still developing and my biggest questions are storyline and size of universe and what can you do in it besides shoot baddies.

Definitely agree I don’t think they will lighting any bonfires in-less theirs more to come.

Had the impression that the game take place with in our own solar system, with each of the planet having a number of mission set around them an I guess the asteroid belt would be in there as well.

Interview here with one of the Exodus's devs

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ombat-Sims

Macro economy simulation and super-niche game, must mean an X game.

Real interesting thing about this interview is that if they can sell half a million copies, they might have a go at doing a GTA in space.

This was interesting as well:

I think what I am interested in most is the storyline and the size and scope of the game universe.

This is a little worrying actually, if they trim all the "boring" bits out, they might be left with a very shallow game. Yes trading in space games can be boring if it's not right, however it also adds more depth and gives the player more to do than just shooting at everything. So yes I agree that this does seem to be a space sim done by the numbers, nothing new and ground breaking here at least with the current info to hand.

Probably just hype with them firing a broadside at there competition.

But I would agree that any GTA style game set in space would have to have some sort of trading in it.

There should be because how else would I part out Pinback's cruiser that I capped. 🙂 GTA style of game would actually have a decent economy if done right because you would be trying to make money off stolen goods and parts. I doubt people would make a living the old fashion way (except for the poor npc's).

IIRC from the space ship thread mines is the Blockade Runner and yours is the battleship Yamato.

So you would never catch me as I would just jump to hyper space. 😀 and run away 😆

Some new screen shot from SOL: Exodus on there site.

http://solexodus.com/media/screenshots/

The art team on this project are doing a great job with Sol Exodus that's for sure. Those shots look amazing.

Bit of news about sol Exodus on their site they have a couple of links to previews of the game.

http://solexodus.com/2011/11/sol-exodus ... /#more-553

Price is expected to be between $10/$15 and released on steam, another interesting point is one of them mentions a possible console version to be released later.