{"id":11093,"date":"2023-08-07T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/citizen-sleeper-2-learning-to-live-on-the-edge-of-a-corporate-war\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:37:23","slug":"citizen-sleeper-2-learning-to-live-on-the-edge-of-a-corporate-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/citizen-sleeper-2-learning-to-live-on-the-edge-of-a-corporate-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Sleeper 2: learning to live on the edge of a corporate war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like sea mines washing up on the beaches of the Black Sea, the consequences of someone else\u2019s war keep arriving in the lives of this science-fiction game\u2019s characters<\/p>\n<p>In any other game, two mega corporations obliterating each other in a galactic war would be the story\u2019s focus. But in Citizen Sleeper 2, the conflict between Conway and Senetstat at the centre of the Helion System is background noise. \u201cCitizen Sleeper is a game about the periphery,\u201d designer Gareth Damian Martin says.<\/p>\n<p>You, an escaped android, have more immediate problems than the brewing war at Helion\u2019s centre. Out in the Starward Belt, an archipelago of asteroids at the edge of the corporation-dominated solar system, you\u2019re running from a violent gang leader after stealing one of his spaceships. You need to keep your vessel fuelled, your supplies stocked, and your synthetic body topped up with a hard-to-find serum that keeps it from shutting down.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen Sleeper 2 will release initially on PC; release date TBC<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/aug\/07\/citizen-sleeper-2-learning-to-live-on-the-edge-of-a-corporate-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5725df70d045ffe664a397c2d5f5aa44672d07d1\/182_288_2656_1594\/master\/2656.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8d374706783f0169f0f9dfa6426d3107\" title=\"Citizen Sleeper 2: learning to live on the edge of a corporate war\" \/>Like sea mines washing up on the beaches of the Black Sea, the consequences of someone else\u2019s war keep arriving in the lives of this science-fiction game\u2019s characters<br \/>\nIn any other game, two mega corporations obliterating each other in a galactic war would be the story\u2019s focus. But in Citizen Sleeper 2, the conflict between Conway and Senetstat at the centre of the Helion System is background noise. \u201cCitizen Sleeper is a game about the periphery,\u201d designer Gareth Damian Martin says.<br \/>\nYou, an escaped android, have more immediate problems than the brewing war at Helion\u2019s centre. Out in the Starward Belt, an archipelago of asteroids at the edge of the corporation-dominated solar system, you\u2019re running from a violent gang leader after stealing one of his spaceships. You need to keep your vessel fuelled, your supplies stocked, and your synthetic body topped up with a hard-to-find serum that keeps it from shutting down.<br \/>\nCitizen Sleeper 2 will release initially on PC; release date TBC Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like sea mines washing up on the beaches of the Black Sea, the consequences of someone else\u2019s war keep arriving in the lives of this science-fiction game\u2019s characters In any other game, two mega corporations obliterating each other in a galactic war would be the story\u2019s focus. But in Citizen Sleeper 2, the conflict between &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/07\/citizen-sleeper-2-learning-to-live-on-the-edge-of-a-corporate-war\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citizen Sleeper 2: learning to live on the edge of a corporate war<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}