After 7 years, young game developer takes his Novus Aeterno online real-time strategy game to Kickstarter

Switzerland’s Taitale Studios is launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for its massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game, Novus AEterno.

The Zug, Switzerland and San Francisco company aims to raise $200,000 to accelerate the addition of new expansions. The PC sci-fi game is nearing completion after seven years in development. The title will be a persistent online world for the PC.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.