The multiplayer spaceship combat game Dead Star will essentially be shut down on November 1, seven months after launch. Armature Studios, the Austin-based team behind the game, is shutting down the game's multiplayer servers on that date, leaving only the tutorial playable. Armature has also pulled the PS4 and PC game's listings from the PlayStation and Steam stores.
You can invade people's games in the Souls games, Dying Light and Watch Dogs, but, until last week, Mike Fahey and I had never done an invasion quite like the Battlestar Galactica-inspired one we did in Dead Star.
PS4 and PC game Dead Star is a neat little shooter. It also has some of the sexiest concept art for an indie game I've seen in a long, long time.
As announced today at the PlayStation Experience event in San Francisco, Armature Studio's 10v10 space shooter Dead Star will actually support an experimental, Battlestar Galactica-inspired 5v10v10 mode. And the plan is that you will be able to try it today if you pre-order the game, since pre-ordering immediately gets you into the game's PS4 beta.
Armature, the studio run by ex-Metroid Prime developers, has announced a second new game for 2016 -- a top-down arcade shooter called Dead Star that supports 10v10 multiplayer. It'll be on PC and PS4 early in the new year.
