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Trion Worlds launches Defiance 2050 reboot without SyFy TV show

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Trion Worlds has launched Defiance 2050, a reimagined third-person shooter in a massively multiplayer online sci-fi world. The game is a reboot of Defiance, one of the most ambitious online games ever attempted by a game startup. It’s on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It takes the story and gameplay of the original and gives it a major overhaul.

Trion Worlds launched the earlier game to mixed reviews in 2013, and the SyFy television network aired a Defiance TV show in tandem with the game for three seasons. The show and game were meant to complement each other, with intertwined storylines. But SyFy canceled the show in 2015, and the online shooter continued.

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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.