DayZ creator Dean Hall’s sci-fi survival game Icarus delayed until November
Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, will no longer launch on 11th August as originally announced and is now expected to arrive some time this November.Icarus (now a full-price release after developer RocketWerkz pivoted away from its initial free-to-play plans) casts players as deep-space prospectors attempting to salvage what they can from the surface of a hostile alien planet following a terraforming disaster.”Icarus was once destined to be a second Earth,” explains the game’s Steam page, “but when terraforming collapsed, the air turned toxic and humanity’s hopes of colonising a new world died… Yet when xeno-biologists discovered the cause of the failure – exotic matter – new interest was ignited. Valuable beyond reckoning, these ‘exotics’ sparked a gold rush, fuelling political tensions on Earth, and bringing prospectors flocking to Icarus.”Read more
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