{"id":8196,"date":"2012-11-28T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=8196"},"modified":"2013-08-22T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:52:24","slug":"space-shooter-miner-wars-2081-released-today-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/space-shooter-miner-wars-2081-released-today-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Shooter Miner Wars 2081 Released Today on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081_large.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"Miner Wars 2081 | Space-shooter and combat simulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8197\" title=\"Miner Wars 2081 | Space-shooter and combat simulation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081.jpg\" alt=\"Miner Wars 2081 | Space-shooter and combat simulation\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans of space-shooters and space simulation will be pleased to know that Miner Wars 2081 has just been released for the PC, and is now available on\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/223430\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>\u00a0with a 20% discount till December 12th 2012. It&#8217;s also available on GamersGate, Gamestop and Desura<\/p>\n<p>Miner Wars 2081 is part of the\u00a0<a  title=\"Miner Wars 2081 - 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/a-list-of-sci-fispace-games-you-cant-miss-in-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Sector\u2019s Sci-Fi\/Space Games You Can\u2019t Miss in 2012 list<\/a>, and\u00a0it\u00a0features a fully destructible and persistent universe where you can navigate through <a  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Six_degrees_of_freedom\" target=\"_blank\">6DoF<\/a> (six degrees of freedom). There&#8217;s a 31 missions single-player story campaign, co-op multiplayer and a death-match mode up to 16 players.\u00a0Joysticks are supported.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 3-year development of Miner Wars 2081, Keen Software House will now aim on finishing their Miner Wars MMO that they are already pre-selling as a separate product to release in Q4 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081_weapons_and_equipment_large.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"Miner Wars 2081 | Weapons and Equipment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8200\" title=\"Miner Wars 2081 | Weapons and Equipment\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081_weapons_and_equipment.jpg\" alt=\"Miner Wars 2081 | Weapons and Equipment\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081_weapons_and_equipment.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/miner_wars_2081_weapons_and_equipment-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively to Steam, you can also\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.minerwars.com\/Store\/?aid=?aid=21912\" target=\"_blank\">buy Miner Wars 2081 directly from the dev&#8217;s website<\/a>\u00a0(where you&#8217;ll also be offered a Steam key).\u00a0The game is also available at\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-5249670-10731427?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamersgate.com%2FDD-MW2081%2Fminer-wars-2081\" target=\"_blank\">GamersGate<\/a>, Gamestop,\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.desura.com\/games\/miner-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Desura<\/a> and retail stores in Czech and Slovak Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding anti-piracy measures, KSH states that they don&#8217;t use any sort of DRM protection or activation code on Miner Wars 2081, unless you go with the Steam version I would add. The game is not locked to your computer but an &#8220;active internet connection is needed to play the game&#8221;, <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.minerwars.com\/About.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> KSH.<\/p>\n<p>You can grab a demo for Miner Was 2081 at the\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.minerwars.com\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>. Happy looting, trading and shooting! :)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILhUdox1yYk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of space-shooters and space simulation will be pleased to know that Miner Wars 2081 has just been released for the PC, and is now on Steam with 20% off until December 12nd 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[914,1169,601,1168,1167,755,117,906,1144,789],"class_list":["post-8196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-campaign","tag-co-op","tag-demo","tag-destructible-environment","tag-keen-software-house","tag-miner-wars-2081","tag-pc-game","tag-persistent-world","tag-simulation","tag-space-shooter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}