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Satellite Reign: Lou’s review

Last updated: 3. Jan. 2017 So Satellite Reign has been out for a while, and I am finally sitting down to write a review. I have been following the development of the game rather closely between the launch of the Kickstarter campaign and the release of 1.0 and covered it on this blog and on […]



5LS: We have ideas about what we want to do with the franchise

While the game is being updated frequently on Steam Early access (current build is v0.86) and is getting ever closer to the 1.0 release, a new interview with two members of the 5LS team has popped up online. It includes a brief recap of the Kickstarter experience, their views on Early Access, as well as […]



Game reaches Beta, v. 0.8 now live

The Early Access version of Satellite Reign has reached v. 0.8 and is now officially in “Beta” state, which means that it is feature complete. The remaining dev time will be spent on polish and bug fixes. 5LS have also announced that the game in its final, 1.0 version will be released on 28. August. […]



Nightly builds

5LS have set up a mechanism to automatically upload the current nightly build of Satellite Reign to Steam. You can opt-in to this if you want to; go to the “Properties” of the game inside your Steam library and choose “nightly autobuild” in the “betas” tab. This was announced by Mike on Twitter today: @MikeDiskett: […]



City map published

5LS have published a full map of the city in which the game takes place. Here is a snippet: The original in zoomable form is available here. The developers have also announced that work has been ongoing on porting the game from Unity3D 4 to 5, and promised a new game update “in a couple […]



Patch 0.2.10 out

Release Notes (source): We’ve got a new update for Satellite Reign available. This update does include some significant changes to the Save/Load system. We’ve tried to make sure it is still backwards compatible with old saves, and it seems to be working in our testing. When an old save is detected, it will be slightly […]



New patch out, v. 0.2.9.1

As announced here, a new patch has been released on Steam. Here are the details: A new update is out just in time for the holidays! – Cars now explode in an appropriate fashion. Use this to clear out traffic jams until the traffic system is less broken! – Further fixes to save and load […]



Early Access release coming up

Christmas will come a bit early this year for backers of the Satellite Reign Kickstarter campaign. According to the Steam website, the Early Access version will be available from 11. December, which is less than two weeks away at the time of writing. 5 Lives Studios have said that all backers will get access to […]



Dev Diary #11: Release plans clarified

The latest Dev Diary is mainly about the team’s visit to PAX Aus 2014. But it also i contains some clarifications regarding the upcoming releases of the beta build and the early-access release on Steam. 5LS announced that the beta will be available as early as next week! The beta build will be available to […]



Satellite Reign at PAX Aus 2014

First of all: I am sorry for the lack of updates recently. My laptop died, and as I don’t have a second computer available at the moment I had to wait until the replacement arrived. It’s all sorted out now, though. Satellite Reign has been shown off at PAX Aus 2014. You can find some […]