Korean MMO giant NCSoft just bought a stake in developer emptyvessel and upcoming Cyberpunk shooter Defect.
NCSoft is taking something of a step away from MMOs today with the news that the Korean studio just completed a strategic equity investment in the independent, Austin, Texas-based development studio, emptyvessel. The news means that anybody who caught the original reveal trailer for Defect’s cyber dystopia, can be pretty sure it’s going to make it to release.
Emptyvessel’s team has collectively worked on several global hits including first-person shooters (FPS) and action-adventure games such as DOOM, Quake, Call of Duty, The Last of Us, Borderlands, Tomb Raider, and Uncharted. The injection of cash from NCSoft adds to investments in Swedish-based Moon Rover Games; Polish-based Virtual Alchemy; and Korean-based Mistil Games, currently in development with first-person shooter Time Takers, and Vic Game Studio.
For fans of shooting their way through far future dystopias Defect is a sci-fi shooter that mixes the relentless pace of DOOM with the backdrop of Ghostrunner, and a more than a bit of DREDD. Picking a Squad and blowing through an AI controlled city, players joining this fight will face off in 4x4x4x4, multi-objective, multi-finale face-offs featuring futuristic weapons & tech. To check out the upcoming title, head over to the official Steam Store page before it arrives, sometime in the future. In the meantime, I’m off to see what’s new in NCSoft’s latest MMO.
