LIGHTYEAR FRONTIER

Standby for Titanfarm

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Or Armored Corn, if you prefer. Farming with mechs is an instantly appealing pitch, even before you see what Swedish developer Frame Break has done with the idea: think of how many farming games have you painstakingly watering individual grid squares of crops, taking up a sizeable chunk of each working day, and then imagine hopping into the cockpit of a vehicle with a spray attachment that lets you hose the entire patch within seconds. “We call it a ‘farming power fantasy’,” CEO Joakim Hedström says. “Giving the player all these mighty abilities to work on a larger scale.”