Mircosoft's Surface campus, they showed the very first videogame ever for this new computing platform. Carbonated games (of Uno and Hexic fame) created it and it's called Firefly.
Firefly Online boasts a large number of the original cast of Firefly as voice actors for their game. These include Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk. Create a captain, a ship, and a crew then explore the verse and try youe best to keep your ship in the sky. Browncoats unite as the game comes to PC, Mac, iOS, and Android with cross-platform play.
Podcasting is a beautiful thing. Every once in a while, when a group of friends gets together on a weekly basis to talk about videogames, a phrase gets uttered that is so silly – so ridiculous – that it just has to be the title of the show.
On this week’s Pixelitis Podcast, the phrase that stuck out had to do with male genitalia. Which in hindsight, is pretty much par for the course. We won’t say who says it, but it was bad enough that it kinda derailed the show for a hot minute.
When Andrew Martins, Karen Rivera and Tom Farndon aren’t dicking around on this show this week, they managed to talk about more Xbox rumors, a Firefly MMO hoax and same-sex lovin’ in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Firefly fans may soon get a video game to call their own. The Facebook page for the MMO Firefly Universe Online has been relaunched with a promise for a Kickstarter campaign. Are fans' hopes about to be crushed again, or is the game actually coming out?
As much as I love Firefly, I doubt it'll be a long term success as an MMO.
I want it to succeed, but the MMO market is in transition right now. WoW is the only 'big winner', with the rest fighting over scraps. When a high quality Star Wars MMO from one of the worlds most renowned devs is struggling, then realistically what chance does another Sci-Fi MMO have?
Good luck to them.
I think it really depends on execution. It doesn't matter how popular the license or the premise is if the game sucks.
This thing is going to FAIL as a games application. Really don't see how this does anything new for games. Its essentially just a touch screen right??? They could have just made a hand held with a touch screen if they wanted it for games. For other applications it could be successful but not for gaming
This kind of ties into the other news article "Was Windows XP M$'s last good OS?" and I think it's safe to say no. Surface is going to be something quite special I think.
maybe it can be good for designers but thats all!
finally M$ is doing something that resembles innovation
this thing looks incredible, i really want it if they release C&C 3 on it or Starcraft 2
shame it will probably cost a fortune though (i think they said $10,000 right?)
Not that it is very innovative...
You just have the screen in a flat position, have more than one input device... and there you have it. But I can think of many applications that would love this. Heck - imagine playing something like Age of Empires - the interface will be totally different... but could be very cool. Like the DS... have one screen as the input device - and have a second for the game itself...