Mike Morhaime, co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, has joined a special showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley and revealed new titles from the company Dreamhaven that he co-founded, including a unique first-person space shooter called Wildgate.
Morhaime co-founded Blizzard and worked there for three decades before he departed. He founded Dreamhaven in 2020 with many other Blizzard veterans, with the goal of “reimagining the studio model” and a vision of “taking the chances that most big publishers won’t.” The company has two development studios, Moonshot Games and Secret Door.
Wildgate is a game created by Moonshot Games. It is a PVP multiplayer shooter set in a distant region of space, where players, known as Prospectors, team up in small crews, choose from a variety of characters, each with their exclusive tools and abilities, to engage in tactical ship-to-ship combats to claim the ultimate prize called the Artifact.
Recently, an offline play event was held in Hangzhou, China, with Mike Morhaime joining an interview to talk about Wildgate’s development, including the inspiration behind it and the advantages and highlights it has.
Speaking of the inspiration and how the genre and core gameplay were decided, Mike said (via Chinese gaming outlet 手游那点事) that over 50 ideas were generated from the initial brainstorming, which shrank to 30 after evaluations. Five made it to make demos. In the end, Wildgate’s demo survived and was selected to be developed into a full game that players will be able to enjoy after five years of work.
Wildgate has some advantages and highlights compared with games of the same genre. “I think the biggest advantage of the game is that it has a variety of rich gameplay elements such as procedurally generated random maps and three-dimensional spaceship combat, and they all occupy the same important position in the game.” So besides the FPS gameplay, the game also “meets the different gameplay experience needs of other player groups.”
Wildgate is scheduled to launch later in 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam. A playtest is scheduled for April 10 to 14 so fans can have a taste of it.
Dreamhaven’s upcoming games also include their debut title Sunderfolk, a turn-based co-op RPG developed by Secret Door and coming on April 23, and Lynked: Banner of the Spark, an action RPG that was created by FuzzyBot with Dreamhaven working as a publisher. It was released in Early Access last October and scheduled for a full release in May.
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