In the year 2061 space mining has become a major priority for explorers. Players control adventurer Marco Polo, after he and his brother, Mario Polo, are attacked by a group of Space Peace Activists. The Activists are apparently a bunch of hippies who don't want man drilling in outer space. There are many factions, corporations, and black market dealers players can join up with.
The open world is persistent and is made up of millions of kilometers of space. Keen says you can dig a tunnel, fly off somewhere else, and return a month later to find your work still there – if another player hasn't messed with it.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
