Know no fear: Trese Brothers are working on a Star Traders 4X game By Owen Faraday

Los Hermanos Trese are the Troma Studios of game development. They don't make beautiful, high-brow stuff, but the scrappy duo have built a cult following with their rough-and-ready games that very squarely hit a particular old school sweet spot. Their most popular title by far is the open-world sci-fi freelancer RPG Star Traders (one of the few Trese Brothers title available on iOS -- they tend to make Android exclusives ), a game that borrows liberally from old classics like Starflight and Space Rogue The Treses have written in to let us know that their next game will be building on the success of Star Traders. Star Traders 4X will be an empire-building game set in the Dune-esque universe that the brothers have created, where competing Great Houses of ancient trading families jostle for influence in a technologically stagnant sector of space.The Treses don't seem remotely daunted by the scale of what they're trying to pull off here, and I can't wait to see how it plays. Star Traders 4X is in alpha right now. I'll let you know about any release dates I hear.