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Meet 5 Lives Studios, a small indie developer from Brisbane, Australia. One of the lead developers is Mike Diskett, who was also involved as a director during the development of Syndicate Wars<\/a>. 5 Lives Studios started a (already successful) Kickstarter<\/a> campaign to get funds to create the spiritual successor to Bullfrog’s 1996 hit Syndicate Wars, called Satellite Reign<\/a>. The first pledged goal of \u00a3350,000 has already been met, as are the first two stretch goals, getting Russell Shaw, the composer of the original Syndicate series on-board, as well as translations into other languages.<\/p>\n Satellite Reign will be a “real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open world cyberpunk city”. That already sounds impressive, doesn’t it. The artwork, as you can see on the image below, depicts a dystopian metropolitan city.<\/p>\n With less than three days to go until the end of the Kickstarter campaign, you can still fund the game, via the Kickstarter site<\/a> or via PayPal. Which probably means you can still fund the game after the end of the Kickstarter campaign.<\/p>\n The game will be released by the end of 2014 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. We’ll keep a close eye on this game, as it is definitely an interesting title. For more information check the Kickstarter campaign<\/a> or the official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Currently, there is no actual gameplay footage, but one of the Kickstarter updates provides a short “In Engine Gameplay Visualization”\u2019. Which means some pre-rendered animations where the devs show off how the gameplay would look like. You can watch it below.<\/p>\n![\"Satellite](\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satellite_Reign_screenshot2.jpg\" "\\"Satellite")
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