

A once-popular Steam game is back, but in a new form and with some major changes. Each generation many of the most popular games are multiplayer games. The problem with multiplayer games is when people lose interest, the cost of maintaining servers outweighs the money coming in. When this happens, the servers are promptly shut down, and in cases where the game requires an online connection and/or is strictly multiplayer, it becomes unplayable. And because of this, it ends up being removed from sale. This is the fate of many multiplayer games, including 2012’s free-to-play first-person mech shooter Hawken That said, Hawken is coming back tomorrow as Hawken Reborn. The news comes the way of 505 Games, the developer and publisher of the original game and the developer and publisher of this comeback. The game is set to debut in early access form via Steam Early Access and PC on May 17. When it will fully release, there’s no word. There is also no word of it coming to console. What there is word of is that like its predecessor it will be free-to-play.