Midnight Star: Renegade is the sequel to 2015's Midnight Star.
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Ex-Halo developers create Midnight Star: Renegade mobile shooter

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Industrial Toys wants to get us hooked on playing shooter games on mobile. That’s why the indie game studio is unveiling Midnight Star: Renegade, the second in a series of shooter games for mobile devices.

Shooters are a multibillion-dollar genre on consoles and PCs, but they haven’t translated well to mobile because of the touch-screen controls. But Industrial Toys — headed by Bungie cofounder Alex Seropian and Tim Harris — has figured out a way to do simplified shooter controls on smartphones and tablets. If they succeed with their second free-to-play title, they could establish a new haven for hardcore gamers in the $30 billion mobile-game industry.

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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.