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Hardspace: Shipbreaker nominated at SIGGRAPH 2021

August 9, 2021

 
Blackbird Interactive and Focus Home Interactive’s acclaimed space sandbox salvaging game is on a roll! Fresh off a double win at the 2021 Canadian Game Awards - that saw it take home both the “Best Game Design” and “Fan’s Choice” awards - the game’s opening cinematic has now been selected as part of the prestigious Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH, the premiere conference for computer graphics.

A bitter-sweet opening, setting the tone for a blue-collar worker dystopia


Human warmth and intimacy clash with the daunting scale and indifference of outer space in the first few seconds of the introduction sequence, as the player gets indentured to Lynx - a massive corporation that has industrialized much of the solar system. How can workers who take pride in their job fight for their rights? Players will have to play the first few recently released chapters of the upcoming Career Mode to find out.


More content to come during the game’s already successful Early Access


Hardspace: Shipbreaker hit Early Access on Steam in June 2020 and has been continuously enriched with new content thanks to the close partnership between the dev team and the community. With new ships, story, and additional content coming in the future, there’s never been a better time to sign up to become a registered Lynx Employee and join our ever-growing community of shipbreakers on our social channels.
The game offers a strong sense of place through highly interactive physics-driven hazardous environments, immersive audio, and a three-dimensional approach to problem-solving in Zero-G. 


It is currently available on Steam Early Access, and can be purchased at a discount through the bundle including the game + OST. Console releases are planned at a later date.

 
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Rest of the world: juliec@focus-home.com
About Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Official website
 
Welcome to LYNX, the galaxy’s leading ship-salvaging corporation!


Across your career, you’ll have the privilege of paying your debt to us by purchasing salvaging rights to increasingly large and valuable ships. Cut them open and extract as much value as possible!
You are equipped with the latest in LYNX tech. Slice through material at any angle with your cutter. Carve entry points, cut off profitable materials or slice scrap metal into a million pieces as you ponder a lonely existence… the possibilities are endless! Be cautious – dying is extremely unprofitable.
We strongly advise upgrading your tools, helmet and suit to take on more lucrative contracts - all you need to worry about is how you’ll pay for it!


As of today, your debt amounts to: 999,999,999 Credits
Good luck on the job, cutter!


Hardspace: Shipbreaker is available in Early Access on Steam. PS4 and Xbox One versions will be released at a later date.
 
  • Experience daily life as a blue-collar spaceship salvager, working to pay off your debt
  • Cut and destroy at will within a next-generation physics simulation
  • Upgrade tools and unlock new perks to take on harder contracts
  • Join the community within an ever-evolving galaxy as new ships, campaign acts, mod support and more arrive throughout Early Access.

About Focus Home Interactive
 
Focus Home Interactive is a French publisher based in Paris, France. Known for the quality, diversity and originality of its catalogue, Focus has published and distributed original titles (A Plague Tale: Innocence, Vampyr, Farming Simulator, Call of Cthulhu, Insurgency: Sandstorm, GreedFall, The Surge 2, SnowRunner, Shady Part of Me, Curse of the Dead Gods, Hood: Outlaws & Legends, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground...) that have become benchmark titles worldwide, available both in store and for download across the world. Focus publishes games on all major platforms, consoles and PC. The publisher's catalogue will get even richer in the coming months and years with eagerly awaited games such as Evil West, Necromunda: Hired Gun, as well as future updates of Hardspace: Shipbreaker.

More information on the website: www.focus-home.com
 
 
About Blackbird Interactive
 
Blackbird Interactive is an independent Vancouver-based studio formed of game development veterans, with multiple titles in development. In 2016 Blackbird released the critically acclaimed RTS Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, which Gamespot called “a real-time strategy masterpiece”. In 2018 the company released the free educational Mars base simulation Project Eagle, in association with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They are currently hard at work on the recently announced Homeworld 3, as well as a number of other titles. Blackbird's new project in partnership with Focus Home Interactive is the product of a dedicated and passionate team who have been working hard to create an innovative game based on a brand new IP.
 
 
More information on the website: https://www.blackbirdinteractive.com