The game codenamed Pioneer, a non-violent exploration title from Ubisoft, has reportedly been rebooted as a co-op multiplayer shooter.
Kotaku reports that Pioneer is still in development, but the original vision of a non-violent space exploration game has been scrapped. Instead, it’s been re-imagined as a co-op multiplayer alien shooter that is being developed using Rainbow Six’s Anvil game engine. It will reportedly retain some features of the original Pioneer.
The mysterious space-themed video game was initially revealed in a side mission in Watchdogs 2 that had players break into an in-game version of Ubisoft’s San Francisco offices to find a theoretical E3 trailer of Pioneer. The meta nature of it all generated a buzz around the game, but earlier this month it was thought that the project was cancelled after former employees took to Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Space Game Teased in Watch Dogs 2 Reportedly Rebooted Rather Than Canceled