dark-horizon posts

On Thursday we reported that publisher Paradox Interactive had first revealed their plans to publish Dark Horizon, an upcoming PC space combat game. However the press release from the company was short on details, including who the developer of the game is. Big Download contacted Paradox's PR contact for more info and they told us that the developer is Quazar Studio who in 2007 released another space combat game titled Tarr Chronicles (the US version was published by CDV).

So is Dark Horizon simply a re-packaged version of Tarr Chronicles or an all new game? According to our Paradox PR contact, "Dark Horizon is from the same studio and a new title but in the "same" universe as Tarr Chronicles was." We hope to get more info on the game in the weeks ahead of the game's planned release sometime in the third quarter of 2008.

Paradox Interactive announced today plans to enter the space combat genre with Dark Horizon which they described in the press release to be in the tradition of the Chris Roberts-designed games like Wing Commander and Freelancer. The details on the game are scarce (there's not even word on the game's developer yet) but Paradox did say there will be features like ship customization, original weapon creation and joystick support. We hope to get more info on Dark Horizon (including some screenshots) before it's planned release date sometime in the third quarter.