Project Eagle is a vision for a Mars base.
Project Eagle is a vision for a Mars base.
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Blackbird Interactive releases demo for Project Eagle base on Mars

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Blackbird Interactive created Project Eagle, an interactive art demo of a human colony on Mars, in 2017. And, just in time for the touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, the company is releasing the demo as a free app on Steam.

Canada’s Blackbird worked with Jeff Norris, founder and director of the Mission Operations Innovation Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to create the vision for a human settlement on Marsh. They first unveiled it at the DICE Summit, the elite game event in Las Vegas in February 2017.

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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.