{"id":68148,"date":"2014-08-22T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68148"},"modified":"2014-08-22T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:56:38","slug":"new-galactic-rts-ancient-space-announced-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/68148-new-galactic-rts-ancient-space-announced-for-pc","title":{"rendered":"New galactic RTS Ancient Space announced for PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox Interactive has revealed its new galactic RTS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientspacegame.com\/the-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Space<\/a>, due to be released for PC and Mac before the end of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The story-driven RTS is being developed by Creative Forge and features a single-player story that puts gamers\u00a0in command of a fleet of spaceships exploring the edge of the known universe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A rich and compelling story will guide the player as they build and upgrade their fleets, and then survive overwhelming odds in deadly strategic missions,&#8221; said Paradox.<\/p>\n<p>Ancient Space is billed as an &#8220;engrossing single-player campaign story with time-honored RTS gameplay for a suspenseful experience&#8221;, with multiple mission &#8211; ranging from exploration to stealth, and assault to defence.<\/p>\n<p>As with most RTS games, Ancient Space will allow you to upgrade and expand your space fleet as you progress through the game.<\/p>\n<p>Game features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Classic Gameplay<\/strong>: Build, maintain, upgrade, and strategically command a multitude of ships in tactical battles and missions, facing aliens, pirates, and the unknown.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Space Opera<\/strong>: A compelling story, performed by a stellar cast, follows the player as the fleet tackles questions of humanity and science in an epic single-player campaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Live with Your Choices<\/strong>: Each mission advances the plot, and introduces new challenges to be met by choosing the right crew and the right upgrades for the job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_68152\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ancient-Space-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68152\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68152\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ancient-Space-1-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Space\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ancient-Space-1-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ancient-Space-1-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ancient-Space-1-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ancient-Space-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ancient Space<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The game will also feature a star-studded cast, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Billingsley &#8211; Star Trek: Enterprise, True Blood;<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Douglas &#8211; Battlestar Galactica;<\/li>\n<li>Ron Glass &#8211; Firefly;<\/li>\n<li>Richard Gunn &#8211; Dark Angel;<\/li>\n<li>Dina Meyer &#8211; Starship Troopers, Star Trek: Nemesis, Saw;<\/li>\n<li>Dwight Schultz &#8211; Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">System Requirements<\/h3>\n<p>Keen on Ancient Space? Here are the system requirements<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum hardware requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CPU<\/strong> &#8211; 3.10GHz Intel Core i3-2100<\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM<\/strong> &#8211; 4GB<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 or AMD equivalent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended hardware requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CPU<\/strong> &#8211; 3GHz Intel i5 quad-core or equivalent<\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM<\/strong> &#8211; 8 GB<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU<\/strong> &#8211; Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 or equivalent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OS support:\u00a0Vista 64 bit, Windows 7, Windows 8,\u00a0MAC OS Mavericks<\/p>\n<p>Watch some epic space battles in the game&#8217;s announcement trailer, below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbjCgwDkLKM?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/68030-r-a-t-tournament-edition-gaming-mouse-sa-price.html\">R.A.T Tournament Edition gaming mouse \u2013 SA price<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67982-best-selling-pc-ps-xbox-games-in-sa.html\">Best-selling PC, PS, Xbox games in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68010-robin-williams-fans-call-for-legend-of-zelda-character.html\">Robin Williams fans call for Legend of Zelda character<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox Interactive has revealed a new space-based RTS, and it&#8217;s coming to PC and Mac before the end of 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":68150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12852,21,595,6747],"class_list":["post-68148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-ancient-space","tag-headline","tag-paradox-interactive","tag-rts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68154,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68148\/revisions\/68154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}