Scavengers has both PvE and PvP gameplay in a large multiplayer map.
Scavengers has both PvE and PvP gameplay in a large multiplayer map.
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How Improbable is banking on Midwinter’s Scavengers to prove its game platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Scavengers aims to be a unique strategic survival battleground game where teams of players fight other teams and also fight off dangerous monsters at the same time in a snow-bound world. It could also be the first major title that shows off Improbable‘s new computing platform for online multiplayer games.

Improbable has had a harder time fulfilling the promise of its SpatialOS operating system for games than it expected. Originally, the company pitched Spatial as a distributed OS that could enable vast worlds that were much bigger than those in current massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, with more characters, flora, and pure square mileage of real estate.

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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.