Friday, June 10th 2022
Hell, It's About Time! Frost Giant Studios Unveils Stormgate, the First Truly Social RTS
Millions of viewers around the world today watched the world premiere cinematic trailer for Frost Giant Studios' eagerly-anticipated real-time strategy game, Stormgate. Southern California-based Frost Giant Studios was founded in 2020 by Tim Morten and Tim Campbell, veteran game development leaders who helped create some of the most acclaimed and best-selling PC games of all time-as well as some of the most-watched esports-including Blizzard Entertainment's WarCraft III and StarCraft II.
"We are building Stormgate for the real-time strategy community--past, present, and future," said Tim Morten, CEO and production director at Frost Giant Studios. "Our vision is to create a social experience that breaks down the barriers that have kept people away, to welcome back players who have been waiting for the next great RTS, and to prove that the RTS genre can thrive once again."
Stormgate is coming to Windows PC via Steam and will be free-to-play. Players will be able to take part in a wide range of game modes and activities including:
Built in Unreal Engine 5, Stormgate will support high-resolution HD visuals in 4K and hundreds of unit models in epic, large-scale wars across a variety of maps and tilesets. The user interface is also being designed to make RTS more approachable by eliminating unnecessary inputs, automatically assigning units to control groups, and streamlining gameplay.
Stormgate's powerful in-game editor arms creators with the same tools that Frost Giant is using to build the game, in a creator-friendly ecosystem where creativity and effort will be rewarded.
"The Stormgate universe's combination of science fiction and fantasy, along with our focus on character-driven narratives, will provide years of storytelling opportunities for our players to enjoy," said Tim Campbell, president and game director at Frost Giant Studios. "Our team is building a best-in-class real-time strategy game that will continue the RTS tradition of high-skill competitive play while innovating in areas such as user interface and co-op to make the genre more approachable than ever before."
Stormgate takes place in an all-new post-apocalyptic game setting where science fiction and fantasy collide. The story begins hundreds of years in Earth's future, following the near-extinction of humanity. The great calamity was caused by the Infernals—a playable alien race of demonic invaders hellbent on claiming this planet for their own. These otherworldly demons emerged from Stormgates—seemingly dormant portals that began pouring out demons during powerful solar storms. As the Infernals return to threaten humanity once again, humans must gather their courage—and climb into their 20-foot tall mechs—to save the world.
RTS fans who have been waiting for this announcement won't have to wait long to learn even more. Stormgate will be featured on PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show, which kicks off on Sunday, June 12, at 1:00 p.m. PT, hosted by Sean 'Day[9]' Plott of day9.tv.
Stormgate is currently in the pre-alpha development stage and is scheduled to commence beta testing in 2023. To learn more, visit playstormgate.com, where you can sign up to join the beta test and be among the first to play.
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"We are building Stormgate for the real-time strategy community--past, present, and future," said Tim Morten, CEO and production director at Frost Giant Studios. "Our vision is to create a social experience that breaks down the barriers that have kept people away, to welcome back players who have been waiting for the next great RTS, and to prove that the RTS genre can thrive once again."
- story-driven campaign missions, playable solo or with a friend
- fully-integrated in-client esports, including 1v1 ranked matches on the competitive ladder and team-based 3v3 with unique win conditions
- a cooperative 3vE (three players vs. AI) mode, featuring meta-progression and ways to customize army abilities to create powerful synergies
- expressing their creativity and design skills with the in-game Editor
- custom games created by other members of the community
- spectating matches and leveling up IRL with enhanced learning tools
Built in Unreal Engine 5, Stormgate will support high-resolution HD visuals in 4K and hundreds of unit models in epic, large-scale wars across a variety of maps and tilesets. The user interface is also being designed to make RTS more approachable by eliminating unnecessary inputs, automatically assigning units to control groups, and streamlining gameplay.
Stormgate's powerful in-game editor arms creators with the same tools that Frost Giant is using to build the game, in a creator-friendly ecosystem where creativity and effort will be rewarded.
"The Stormgate universe's combination of science fiction and fantasy, along with our focus on character-driven narratives, will provide years of storytelling opportunities for our players to enjoy," said Tim Campbell, president and game director at Frost Giant Studios. "Our team is building a best-in-class real-time strategy game that will continue the RTS tradition of high-skill competitive play while innovating in areas such as user interface and co-op to make the genre more approachable than ever before."
Stormgate takes place in an all-new post-apocalyptic game setting where science fiction and fantasy collide. The story begins hundreds of years in Earth's future, following the near-extinction of humanity. The great calamity was caused by the Infernals—a playable alien race of demonic invaders hellbent on claiming this planet for their own. These otherworldly demons emerged from Stormgates—seemingly dormant portals that began pouring out demons during powerful solar storms. As the Infernals return to threaten humanity once again, humans must gather their courage—and climb into their 20-foot tall mechs—to save the world.
RTS fans who have been waiting for this announcement won't have to wait long to learn even more. Stormgate will be featured on PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show, which kicks off on Sunday, June 12, at 1:00 p.m. PT, hosted by Sean 'Day[9]' Plott of day9.tv.
Stormgate is currently in the pre-alpha development stage and is scheduled to commence beta testing in 2023. To learn more, visit playstormgate.com, where you can sign up to join the beta test and be among the first to play.
40 Comments on Hell, It's About Time! Frost Giant Studios Unveils Stormgate, the First Truly Social RTS
free 2 play you say?
yeah I think we all know (or all SHOULD know) where this is going.....
From what I understand Starcraft original dev team and some people from Warcraft 3 days are making this... I am very optimistic.
A F2P RTS doesn't sound like my speed either.
"past accomplishments offer no warranty for the future"
Having 2 or three people from a 100 person team doesnt mean much, especially if those people were creatively over-ruled by others (Look at star wars, george lucas was over-ruled on heaps of the original trilogy and the movies became better for it)
two player campaign and 3vE sounds right up my alley
There are plenty of RTS fans waiting for something good.
RTS games got ruined by all of them trying to be E-sports, which is very far from what most RTS games were about - they changed to be fun to watch, instead of fun to play.
Everything suddenly had time limits to keep matches under 30 minutes and focused on how high your APM is - when crazy shit like supreme commander had you go mega-scale with thousands of units and coastal artillery
ModDB.com if anyone is wondering...True! Which is most disheartening.
(Why'd this tech die? because you cant youtube or twitch stream two monitors for people watching on one screen)
Isn't it great that a 2007 game lets you run multi monitor, with mixed resolutions and refresh rates in windows 11, an OS released over a decade later - at resolutions and refresh rates that never even existed back then
I think my fav RTS in order, that I still replay:
Age of Mythology
Age of Empires II
Warcraft 3
Starcraft 1 and 2
there are more but I forget at the moment...
Watching that trailer my first thought was "Kerrigan? That you?"
And Free to Play? Ugh. What am I selling?
All gamers have to think hard about this now, we are on the cliff edge with this right now. If we accept this coming it will only get worse, its like Microsoft and Windows 11 (Mandatory online registration to install) trying to drag us all to subscription based OS model where they can terminate you at any point leaving you owning nothing and forever tethered to paying every month for the rest of our lives.
Just take the recent talk of Tesla having issues with battery packs, knowing the issue and using the BMS to 'patch' the issue to push it past the warranty periods of the units instead of fixing the issues correctly. These companies don't care about us as customers, we are just jars of money they want to crack open and take from as much as possible. Whats responsible about that, where is the sustainability in that, the world doesn't have infinite resources?
All around the world the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, its not hard to see from the above its all about the 'death by a thousand cuts'.
all cnc series even the 4,
all red alert,
Rise of the nation
man i miss some campy, cheesy, over the top rts RTS.
btw anyone play that new age of empire ? I'm afraid it will be suck so i never look for it
I will eventually though.
Empire Earth was another one of my favorite RTS's growing up as a kid... but it didn't age as well as say Age of Empires II and Warcraft 3 did.
@lexluthermiester Did you ever play Empire Earth? Just curious.