Frost Giant Studios Reveals Stormgate with Cinematic Trailer

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Frost Giant Studios, one of the many studios formed by former Blizzard developers, went public last year, claiming it was working on the next big real-time strategy game. The studio just revealed its ambitious project at the Summer Game Fest: Stormgate.

Stormgate is being marketed as a social real-time strategy game which will prioritize single-player campaigns, co-op play, competitive esports, and custom maps equally. Utilizing Unreal Engine 5 and custom simulation technology, Stormgate aims to be crisp in aesthetics, gameplay, and response time alike.

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The setting of Stormgate is a futuristic, alternative history of Earth. Marketed as a science-fantasy story, the story revolves around the stormgates, portals which opened up across earth, spewing forth a world-wide demonic invasion. These Infernals, as well as the technological Human Resistance, are the two playable factions revealed for Stormgate so far. Though post-apocalyptic, Stormgate is not a grimdark game; the environments are colorful and hopeful, even as giant demon skulls adorn the abandoned ruins across the game world.

The RTS genre is notoriously difficult to break into, and Frost Giant Studios is well aware of that. It is planning on making the game more approachable in several ways, while simultaneously catering to competitive players all the way up to the eSports level.

One way it is doing this is by introducing a 3vE co-op mode. Players will be able to team up with two other players to tackle unique PvE challenges, similar to the popular game mode introduced to StarCraft 2. Stormgate is also adding several intuitive additions to the UI. For example, instead of selecting a