Wildgate, the space shooter from former Blizzard-led studio Moonshot Games and publisher Dreamhaven, will launch on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on July 22 of this year.
This was announced today at Summer Game Fest, during which it was also revealed that there will be a cross-platform, open beta from June 9 through June 16 on all platforms. The beta will include two new characters, one with telekinesis (Kae) and the other with a jetpack (Adrian). Additionally, the beta will add three new explorable points of interest, new daily missions, a revamped mission system, and other improvements.
Wildgate was first announced back in March. It's a sci-fi multiplayer competitive shooter about a crew performing heists in space, with elements of both exploration and combat and a Sea of Thieves-like quality to the whole thing. We previewed it ahead of its announcement and our previewer said that it "will be one of those games where crazy things happen every single match that send me howling to my friends in victory or defeat, then swapping war stories with anyone who will listen the next morning, and if it manages to pull that off, it could very well be my next squad-based obsession."
We've chatted with Dreamhaven founder and former Blizzard president Mike Morhaime a few times now about his vision for the publisher. In March, alongside the announcement of Wildgate, he told us that he still hopes Dreamhaven can eventually be a beacon for the industry as he proclaimed he wanted it to be when the company first launched, but clarified his vision a bit:
“Really what I want to see happen is for Dreamhaven to build a reputation with gamers that the brand stands for something, a seal of quality, hopefully, that hopefully there's some trust that we've built up where players know that if a game is coming from Dreamhaven, regardless of genre, that it's going to be something very special and they'll want to have the curiosity to check it out.”
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