Automaton Games, the British indie developer which recently released Deceit, has announced a new investment from Cambridge Venture Partners to the tune of $10 million dollars. This sizeable cash injection is to help the studio develop its next title, one that fans of large-scale multiplayer games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will likely want to keep an eye on.
The investment is being used to develop a new MMO combat game, a tactical shooter as they describe it, built with SpatialOS and CryEngine. This yet unnamed project will feature an impressive 1,000 concurrent players in a shared world that's 12 km x 12 km, comes with "strong character progression", and a last-man-standing PvP arena combat mode.
Automaton Games' yet-to-be-named survival-MMO is coming out sometime during 2018, and we'll get our first taste of the game sometime next spring.