Greetings Citizen.
After a successful trip to the UK studio, I’m now at the Frankfurt offices working with the team and, while I’d love to share what they’ve been working on, I don’t want to take away from their studio update on next week’s ATV. I think you’ll be just as excited by all their progress as I am.
As you may already know, the 2.6.2 update was released to the Evocati and the first two waves of the PTU this week. The feedback we’ve received from all the dedicated backers has been immensely helpful. It’s brought to light some networking issues that we’re continuing to sort out, so thanks for submitting bugs to the Live Spectrum Feedback Channel. Gathering and replicating these bugs is essential so the CIG team can fix issues and get 2.6.2 into the hands of everyone as soon as possible. One item that we snuck into this patch is an eagerly awaited addition to Drake Interplanetary: the Buccaneer. We kept this bit a surprise up until the Evocati release, since we weren’t sure how well the untested ship would fly. Thankfully, the feedback on the latest addition to the Drake lineup has been promising.
Lastly, I’m set to talk at the GamesBeat Summit on May 2. Though we’re still fleshing out all the details, the theme for this year’s summit is “How Games, Sci-fi and Tech Create Real-World Magic.” Rich Hilleman from Amazon Game Studios will be joining me at the event in Berkeley, CA. I’ll keep you posted about as the event draws closer, but in the meantime, you can check out their line up here.
-- Chris Roberts