Those additions include an offline single-player mode for Steam users. Those worried about having to stay connected and logged into servers can now breath a little easier when playing the campaign.

The biggest additions include the new add-ons – Cheats and 2.5D Experiment. The former adds infinity ammo and the ability to skip to any mission within the game by simply hitting Ctrl+F1 in game. The latter is a multiplayer add-on for the game, which is available as a set of death match maps.

There have been several others optimizations and bug fixes made as well.

Miner Wars 2081 is available for Xbox Live Arcade and PC, and has reportedly crossed 50,000 units in sales since its release.

Keen Software has revealed that their game Miner Wars 2081 is now available worldwide and considering the amount of press releases I have covered, it is kind of a happy thing for me as well!

It is a 6DOF–six degrees of freedom– space shooter set in the year 2081 (duh). You can operate a mining ship and have a destructible and open-world environment to play with.

“From day one, I have been pushing myself and everyone in the team to make the best 6DOF (six degrees of freedom) gaming experience of our lives and I’m incredibly proud of my team and our supportive community. Together we have achieved this goal,” said Marek Rosa, CEO and Creative Director of Keen Software House, author of Miner Wars 2081.

The game runs on the company’s proprietary engine called VRAGE, and it is one of the reasons why the game has a fully destructible environment. The game is set in an open world area which contains the whole Solar System.

The story revolves over two brothers, Marcus and Apollo Rainier, who are “trying to uncover what they expect to be a groundbreaking discovery leading to ancient times.”

“Releasing Miner Wars 2081 is the culminating point of my work in the last three years. I am very happy that now I can start focusing on our next projects. I am full of ideas and Miner Wars 2081 just scratched the surface of what can we achieve with our in-house engine – VRAGE. Miner Wars MMO will blow your minds; Also I can’t overlook that the community demands for the continuation of the story and gameplay introduced in Miner Wars 2081.” said Marek Rosa as he jumps in excitement.

“I personally want to thank to our community for supporting as for all these years, keeping our forums troll/hater-free and especially for helping us to get through Steam Greenlight,” said Marek Rosa.

Check out the trailer from the game to know how it is.

As the developers – four of whom recorded the video – state, “You’ll get a chance to get deeper into the story behind Miner Wars 2081 and experience a mission where you as a player have to exterminate a hidden Raider base. Pay special attention to the solar wind at the end and also the solar map that’s used for traveling through the solar system.”

Have a look above.

There is no confirmed release date for the game yet, but we will keep you informed, so stay tuned.

Miner Wars is a first-person action-survival space simulation game set in the year 2081. This first installment of the Miner Wars franchise is currently being developed by Keen Software House a. s., an independent software company founded and lead by Marek Rosa. There are currently two branches: Miner Wars 2081 as a classical single-player, co-op and multi-player and Miner Wars MMO as a massive multiplayer online version.

Taking place in a post-apocalyptic inner Solar System, approximately 10 years after the destruction of Earth. The premise of the story supposes a very limited technological advancement, and a population desperately struggling to live long-term in space without a home planet. War breaks out over vital resources such as food, oxygen and fuel.

Updates on the new public build – currently at 01.082.009 – currently features three missions “EAC Survey Site”, “Laika”, “Barth’s moon”, each about 30 minutes in length. A lot of work still needs to be done to iron out glitches and bugs, but they’re close to completion. Good job! Out of 31 story mission, that’s three down.

Other features of this new public build include:

– Enemy ship sizes increased by 50% (easier aiming and it looks better)
– New gameplay elements: merchants, mining, drilling, turrets, terminals and 50 weapons
– 15 deathmatch sectors
– Hall of Fame – multiplayer sector with posters of our contributors
– Optimisation for weaker PCs – now the game should run better even on weaker PCs
– Co-op (but it’s very buggy)
– A glitch where locking doors on your mother ship before you leave a sector causes them to stay locked when arriving in a new sector. But you respawn outside the mother ship so you’re pretty much locked out.

About Miner Wars 2081:

Game Overview :
Miner Wars is a 6DOF interior and exterior space shooter played in a fully destructible environment. Miner Wars 2081 features single player, co-op, and standard multi-player modes. Miner Wars MMO is a massively multiplayer online game situated in the same game universe.

Publisher :Keen Software House

Developer : Keen Software House

Platforms : PC and X360

Release Date : Q3 2012 (online) (PC)
Q4 2012 (online) (X360

Stay tuned to Gamingbolt.com for more news and updates.

Keen Software House, the studio developing Miner Wars 2081, has announced that the game will officially support Oculus Rift–the new snappy VR headset that was announced via Kickstarter.

They say that their game is a solid fit for the Rift because of their engine VRAGE that allowes them to implement 6DOF–which is sort of essential for virtual reality. The game will also purportedly support future VR headsets.

Here’s what they said as to how it enhances their game: “With Head-Tracking and the addition of Stereo Displays compatibilty we expect players to be able to experience a richer Miner Wars 2081 immersion. We’ll be polishing the cockpits in places we thought people would never look, and you may start using the side windows tactically in ways that we never initially intended!,”  Marek  Rosa, the creative director of Miner Wars 2081, revealed.

“We feel this project is perfect for our type of game, and itwill bring the six degrees of freedom feel that virtual reality units are traditionally attracted to! So we’re stocking up on our whips, forcing our 3D artists to model things behind and under the ‘viewport’.”

The dev kits for the Oculus Rift will be shipped this December and a consumer version of the same is yet to be announced.

You can check out his letter and in-depth explanation below.

Our Miner Wars Fans,

So you thought you could build in Miner Wars, but it was clunky!? Well this is the update for you. We’ve tweaked up the editor and it’s possible to build a mother-ship in about three minutes!  We’re going to show you how to speed build in our creative environment. As always you’ll be able to save sectors to our servers, but now you’ll also be able to cut and paste from sectors and modify as you see fit. So you can make a multiplayer level very quickly and incorporate a few buildings or asteroids from other select maps for the perfect fight scenario.

The in-game editor has been revamped to be more intuitive and be more robust. Now anyone will be able to make creative and complex structures with ease. We know it was a bit difficult in earlier builds to get the hang of things, but we’re streamlining the process and adding more powerful tools! We’ve added hundreds of new prefabs, and have also allowed more control over your environments.

While enhancing our VRAGE engine, we’ve added many of these new features to the editor as well. The new Copy Tool will allow you to cut and paste from other sectors to your own! We have introduced influence spheres to set events, from setting radioactive areas to creating an eerie mood with ambient sounds. You’ll be able to control spawn points for bots and players, and set way-points for bots for patrols or missions. Things have never looked this good, until you get a hold of the dynamic lighting and particle effects in our editor. No more boring dark caves of a base, pick a color and don’t be afraid to accent it with a few particles here and there!

And don’t worry our staples are still here, you’ll have voxel hand to create your own custom asteroids! But now all those items you’ve been looking at in the editor are in use. Time to play with the new: Cameras, turrets, HUBs, computers, scanners, alarms and much more! If you haven’t touched the editor as of now, this is a great time to dive into it! We’re excited to see what other’s do, when they have the same power to create missions as we do! Slowly but surely we’re implementing new features to add more power to the user! Can you control the power?

They have also released some new videos to show you how it is done. Check them out below.

According to Keen Software, “The Fourth Reich strive for an ideal society through technocratic government, genetic purity, and the breeding of a pure human species through eugenics.

“Renouncing their traditional racist views, they have adopted a retooled ideology that has attracted many great minds to their ranks: to organise society according to scientific principles, to raise the most perfect population, and – last but not least – to maximize human potential through the latest advances in genetics and cybernetics. Technology, the Reichists believe, has at last given mankind the tools by which to realize the grand ideals of Plato, Nietzsche, and other historic visionaries.”

So wait, you can still believe in pure breeds and NOT be a racist?