Crimson Skies Creators Enter Dark Void

First details for Capcom's gods-vs-humans game coming next year.

Four years ago the founders of development studio Airtight Games were finishing up work on Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, an airborne, Indiana Jones-esque game for the Xbox. Now Airtight is trading in that 1900s vibe for something more sinister and, at the same time, futuristic in its new game, Dark Void.

Revealed by Capcom as part of its slew of announcement last week, Dark Void is a new action game with both in-air and on-foot elements. The game tells the story of the Watchers, creatures once regarded as god by primitive men and who were kicked out by super-powered humans called the Adepts.

The Watcher have been biding them their time and have chosen now - now being some future time by the looks of things - to exact their revenge.

Video from the announcement, captured by GameSpot (where the above screen-grab comes from), shows a leading man wearing a jet-powered back pack and flying strange, circular flying craft.

Other hints of what we can expect come from the website for Airtight, which shows off some of the demonstration work the developer has done with tech company Ageia's PhysX card, which does for physics what standalone graphics card do for visuals. There's been no confirmation on whether this technology will be included directly in Dark Void.

As is usual in such early announcement, Capcom is being skimpy with exact details on the game. It has yet to say which consoles Dark Void is coming for, though it has confirmed that the game should be out by the end of 2008.

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo