It’s been over a year since we were first introduced to Moon Rover Games, an indie studio made up of former Ubisoft and EA vets that began working on “an ambitious cooperative action game set in an original IP.” And while the gaming world awaits details on just what this title will be, we can now report that the studio has gotten a fresh injection of cash from NCsoft in the amount of $3.5M.
NCsoft remarks that this investment begins a “long-term partnership” between the two companies, while NCsoft co-CEO Byungmoo Park characterized the move as an enhancement of the corp’s “genre diversity and regional reach” while also talking up Moon Rover’s “profound experience in the FPS genre and innovative approaches.”
As for Moon Rover’s debut title, all we know from this announcement is that it’s a co-op shooter due for PC and console that’s codenamed Project Aldous. The studio’s website has otherwise been mostly talking up high-level concepts about brainstorming, game development in general, and why devs should join the studio.
