Beyond a Steel Sky is headed to the consoles and PC.
Beyond a Steel Sky is headed to the consoles and PC.
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Beyond a Steel Sky’s Dave Gibbons and Charles Cecil explain why this sequel is 27 years late

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 17 min

Revolution Software’s cyberpunk adventure Beyond a Steel Sky debuted in June 2020 on Apple Arcade. The mobile game was a sequel to the original title, Beneath a Steel Sky, which debuted in 1994.

Incredibly, the original creators, comic book artist Dave Gibbons (Watchmen co-creator) and Charles Cecil (CEO of Revolution Software), got together decades later to finally deliver the sequel they had always expected to do but never had time for. And now, a full year later, the mobile game is being ported to consoles. These versions debut November 30 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. It is available for preorder now.

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Dean Takahashi

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.