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Train2Game News Tron Style Shooter Cyber Combat Announced

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Indie solo developer Ofir Agami just announced today Cyber Combat, a new movement oriented first person shooter.

Featuring a distinct Tron-style visual aesthetic for the world, the game also draws inspiration from other shooters in the genre such as Doom and Ghostrunner, as well as real life sports for both the movement and combat mechanics. The game will be coming to Steam in Summer 2023. Wishlists are now available. 

ABOUT THE GAME

Cyber Combat is an extremely fast paced shooter that excels at breaking ankles which also incorporates a grappling hook as part of your gear. Hop, skip and jump your way through each level while you turn your opponents into a red mist with your tools of their destruction.

Inspired by other fast paced shooters such as Doom, Ghostrunner, Ultrakill and even real life sports such as football, take advantage of your surroundings and terrain as you dodge and weave through a barrage of bullets and enemy fire while dishing out pain of your own. Use the grappling hook and momentum as your ally to fly around the arena as you riddle each enemy with more holes than a sponge. Use dashing and wall-running to traverse the world and create opportunities for you to flank your enemies.

KEY FEATURES

  • Combat at breakneck speeds. Take advantage of dashing, wallrunning, momentum and your grappling hook to get around the arena for both survivability as well as destroying your enemies
  • Cause chaos by pushing enemies against each other! Inspired by real-life sports, you can push spherical enemies around with shotgun shots. Colliding with other enemies will hurt or kill them, causing physics-based chain reactions – with enough skill, you can rein chaos in to be your ally!
  • Style and gory kills. Pump rounds into your enemies at close range with your shotgun, or perhaps turn them into scrap with your rocket launcher
  • An explosive arsenal to choose from. Choose your method of delivering pain via weapons that all feature a primary and alt fire, allowing you to obliterate your opposition with weapons that feel powerful on every trigger pull
  • A gorgeous Tron-inspired world. Explore a beautifully crafted world that draws inspiration from many sci-fi and futuristic themes such as the movie Tron and games such as Ghostrunner
  • An incredible soundtrack. Enjoy listening to a fast paced, high tempo original soundtrack that perfectly fits into the world of Cyber Combat with it’s futuristic sounds

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Train2Game News Ready Player One a reality?

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A group of talented gaming industry veterans with over a century of combined experience working at leading publishers such as Nintendo, Microsoft and Electronic Arts have teamed up to form 8 Circuit Studios, a video game developer focused on utilizing blockchain technology to redefine the rules that govern digital interactive entertainment content. 8 Circuit Studios’ mission is to develop a new ecosystem for gaming that allows all participants — gamers, developers and publishers — to collaborate and work together seamlessly, with each group reaping the benefits.

By harnessing the potential of blockchains and cryptocurrency, 8 Circuit Studios believes that the Metaverse – a digital universe envisioned by authors William Gibson and Neal Stephenson and featured in Ready Player One, TRON and The Matrix – is closer to reality than we may think. In the Metaverse, visitors can traverse different virtual environments, maintaining an illusion of reality throughout – with a consistent, yet privacy-protected avatar, carrying with them the various objects that maintain usefulness and utility within (yet also specific to) each reality.

“At 8 Circuit Studios, we believe that games are portals to new worlds and experiences,” said James Mayo, Navigator and President of 8 Circuit Studios. “By leveraging the power of blockchains and cryptocurrency, game developers finally have the last piece necessary to build a functional Metaverse. Step one is making blockchains easy and fun to use, while the second step is showing people they can actually own their digital stuff in a completely new way. With blockchains, players never have to ask for permission from an authority to give, trade or even sell their digital assets.”

By using the Ethereum blockchain, 8 Circuit Studios is able to create, attribute and safeguard digital assets — based on Smart Game Objects — that you can own and store, along with your cryptocurrency, in a virtual wallet. By developing Smart Game Objects, 8 Circuit Studios is building the foundation for eliminating the barriers between game worlds, while also creating a platform to make entry easy for both gamers and developers. Players will experience the opportunity to truly own their Smart Game Objects, while game developers and publishers will find new, exciting and profitable methods to develop even more highly immersive games.

To better illustrate Smart Game Objects and showcase the Ethereum blockchain’s real-world use, 8 Circuit Studios is currently developing two games: Alien Arsenal: Battle for the Blockchain, releasing in Spring 2018, and the self-aware A.I. focused D-PARC, releasing in 2019.

Alien Arsenal: Battle for the Blockchain – A mobile game for iOS and Android, Alien Arsenal: Battle for the Blockchain is a cooperative boss battling game where players collaborate with others to defeat invading bosses to win prizes and glory. Collect and evolve an arsenal of aliens, then trade, buy, sell and/or gift them with complete freedom on the Ethereum blockchain. Alien Arsenal is designed to make it easy and fun to play with blockchains without having to download wallets, plugins or navigate the often confusing world of cryptocurrencies.

D-PARC – A deep space survival game for console and Windows PC, D-PARCallows players to create a character that can live forever on the blockchain. D-PARC fuses first-person shooter gameplay with space combat in a galaxy where choices matter and have permanent consequences. Players inhabit an A.I. that learns that it must choose between self-sacrifice to save the last vestiges of the human race or opt for self-determination to embark on its own destiny.

For more information about 8 Circuit Studios, visit https://8circuitstudios.com.