New game from DayZ creators is dead

In the summer of 2015 at the Microsoft E3 conference stage was announced game called Ion. A brief and sketchy announcement would be ignored if it is not about the first independent game from DayZ mode for Arma II creator. Dean Hall back then represented the new wave of fresh ideas in the gaming industry, while already said Ion was announced as highly ambitious MMO address of space theme.

Hall described the game as a universe that is not built on scripts or quests rather on the laws of physics, biology and chemistry, just like colonization simulation of unexplored universe. However, whole that universe was covered in the darkness after the initial announcement. About the game after that nobody longer talked, a portal Eurogamer reveals that this is not a coincidence. Namely - the game has since ended in blind alley and that no one works on it.

Ion was originally conceived as a project on which two teams supposed to work - New Zealand RocketWerkz owned by Dean Hall, and British studio Improbable. On Eurogamer inquiries neither company has not confirmed that they have Ion in plans or that the game is in active development.

By judging all the facts, the fate of the project sealed the company Improbable that its resources clearly shifted completely to the development of ambitious and promising SpatioalOS platform. The creator of DayZ said that Ion was a project that the company RocketWerkz could not manage to do independently, so it seems that the end of the cooperation on that project meant the end of the game itself.

Mindful of the fact that behind him are now already two unfinished project, Dean Hall has decided to watch the whole situation in a very optimistic way. "I'd far rather people were pissed off I didn't release something than I release something I wasn't happy with and try to take money from them. That's the most important thing." - Claims Hall.

Tagged with: multiplayer, cancellation, Space