Hardware: Shipbreakers

[RooksBailey]

Is this the LucasArts' oldie but goodie Koronis Rift remade?

Seems it to me.  :)

[GDS_Starfury]

Hardware: Shipbreaker debuted back at the end of 2011; and more than a year later, developer Blackbird Interactive–the creators of the critically acclaimed Homeworld series–have debuted a new trailer, which you can see below.

While motion comics were so overused in the last few years–and seem like a cheap easy way to knock out a video–Hardware's carries the weight and tone of the story it's trying to convey: a game about people venturing to a "graveyard planet" to scavenge whatever treasure of wrecked spaceships they can find... even if that means fighting for it.

Hardware centers around its fictional megacorporation "Long March Industries" (or LMI), and is described by Blackbird below:

Long March Industries (LMI) is a ruthless interstellar megacorporation that owns all rights to LM-27, a mysterious and hostile desert planet littered with the buried wrecks of ancient starships. LMI oversees a galactic gold-rush as prospectors and fortune seekers converge on LM-27 in search of the untold riches buried in its burning sands. In this persistent multiplayer game, players command a fleet of massive vehicles as they explore, salvage and fight for fortune and survival in the world's first planetary-scale social strategy game.

Not much else is known about the game besides the information above, though if you've played Homeworld, you know that Blackbird Interactive–made up of former Relic developers–are good at what they do. You can check out Blackbird's Hardware website to sign up for the upcoming closed beta, and check out the screenshots below the trailer for a better look at the game.

Hardware is set to release later this year.

I want spaceships.

[RooksBailey]

Hardware: Shipbreaker debuted back at the end of 2011; and more than a year later, developer Blackbird Interactive–the creators of the critically acclaimed Homeworld series–have debuted a new trailer, which you can see below.

While motion comics were so overused in the last few years–and seem like a cheap easy way to knock out a video–Hardware's carries the weight and tone of the story it's trying to convey: a game about people venturing to a "graveyard planet" to scavenge whatever treasure of wrecked spaceships they can find... even if that means fighting for it.

Hardware centers around its fictional megacorporation "Long March Industries" (or LMI), and is described by Blackbird below:

Long March Industries (LMI) is a ruthless interstellar megacorporation that owns all rights to LM-27, a mysterious and hostile desert planet littered with the buried wrecks of ancient starships. LMI oversees a galactic gold-rush as prospectors and fortune seekers converge on LM-27 in search of the untold riches buried in its burning sands. In this persistent multiplayer game, players command a fleet of massive vehicles as they explore, salvage and fight for fortune and survival in the world's first planetary-scale social strategy game.

Not much else is known about the game besides the information above, though if you've played Homeworld, you know that Blackbird Interactive–made up of former Relic developers–are good at what they do. You can check out Blackbird's Hardware website to sign up for the upcoming closed beta, and check out the screenshots below the trailer for a better look at the game.

Hardware is set to release later this year.

I want spaceships.

Yup...it's Koronis Rift! 

BTW: where did that article come from?

[Longdan]

A quick look found this: http://www.destructoid.com/products_detail.phtml?p=Hardware%3A+Shipbreakers&category=android
H. Beam Piper's Junkyard Planet anybody?

[Huw the Poo]

Wow, I haven't thought about Koronis Rift in a long time.  That was a great game!

[bob48]

It was a great game, and before that was 'Rescue from Fractalus', both on the C64.

[GDS_Starfury]

Hardware: Shipbreaker debuted back at the end of 2011; and more than a year later, developer Blackbird Interactive–the creators of the critically acclaimed Homeworld series–have debuted a new trailer, which you can see below.

While motion comics were so overused in the last few years–and seem like a cheap easy way to knock out a video–Hardware's carries the weight and tone of the story it's trying to convey: a game about people venturing to a "graveyard planet" to scavenge whatever treasure of wrecked spaceships they can find... even if that means fighting for it.

Hardware centers around its fictional megacorporation "Long March Industries" (or LMI), and is described by Blackbird below:

Long March Industries (LMI) is a ruthless interstellar megacorporation that owns all rights to LM-27, a mysterious and hostile desert planet littered with the buried wrecks of ancient starships. LMI oversees a galactic gold-rush as prospectors and fortune seekers converge on LM-27 in search of the untold riches buried in its burning sands. In this persistent multiplayer game, players command a fleet of massive vehicles as they explore, salvage and fight for fortune and survival in the world's first planetary-scale social strategy game.

Not much else is known about the game besides the information above, though if you've played Homeworld, you know that Blackbird Interactive–made up of former Relic developers–are good at what they do. You can check out Blackbird's Hardware website to sign up for the upcoming closed beta, and check out the screenshots below the trailer for a better look at the game.

Hardware is set to release later this year.

I want spaceships.

Yup...it's Koronis Rift! 

BTW: where did that article come from?

here:
http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/04/01/the-creators-of-homeworld-debut-new-sci-fi-game-along-with-trailer-hardware-shipbreakers/

and theres this thread over at the relic forums:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?271678-HARDWARE-shipbreakers

[Longdan]

Rrrrrr

[Staggerwing]

Rrrrrr

Is that the sound of a phase-shifted saw blade cutting through quantum-stabilized Amazium alloy deck plate?

[bob48]

Rrrrrr

Is that the sound of a phase-shifted saw blade cutting through quantum-stabilized Amazium alloy deck plate?

I wuz thinkin' the exact same thing  ;)

[Longdan]

Actually it was a Tiberium Flatulence Modulator that I have been working on.  The idea is to fine tune it so it is capable of speech, then, eventually, song.
Then politicians will be able to sing in harmony with themselves.  Right now the accent is too beanish with peanut butter sibilants and a pervasive eggy tonality.

[mikeck]

They Had me until I saw persistent multiplayer.... Sigh

[undercovergeek]

They Had me until I saw persistent multiplayer.... Sigh

wha?

its a MMORPG?

[mikeck]

The Post says "in this persistent multiplayer game"

[mikeck]

The Post says "in this persistent multiplayer game"

The concept is so cool I might have to play anyway...but I HATE Multiplayer online. Your trying to have a nice relaxing game session and some 14 year old a-hole and his friends have decided its time to play " $&!? with the newbie". I don't have time to play 8 hours a day like some of these college kids...that was the problem with Eve for me. Unless you can play a lot, it's hard to enjoy. Shame...