I don’t normally like to talk about games prematurely. I prefer to let a game be released and have the hype cool down before I take a look at it. I also cannot stand MMO’s. So it’s a little unusual that I come to you to discuss an unreleased MMO. 
The game is called Miner Wars, and it looks fairly interesting. The overall framework appears to be similar to classic space trading games like Elite or Freelancer, but the emphasis is on mining. Mining in space games is has been criminally under-represented: Mining is usually nothing more than shooting little rocks and then beaming up the debris.
Not so in Miner Wars. Asteroids are massive, and fully destructable. The player can use their ship to actually dig networks of tunnels into these planetoid-sized rocks to look for resources and probably fight other miners. This feature alone sounds really cool. I hope the development team, Keen Software, can follow through with a great execution.
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