If you could travel close to the speed of light, you could effectively nip forward into the future and skip the next couple of weeks. It's all thanks to relativity and some complicated laws of physics, but why would you even want to, you ask? Well, Exodus, the upcoming sci-fi space exploration and time dilation game developed by Archetype Entertainment and published by Wizards of the Coast, is getting an extended gameplay look right after the Future Games Show Summer Showcase on June 6, and there'll be a highlights trailer for it in June 7's PC Gaming Show, too.
The Future Games Show Summer Showcase airs Saturday, June 6, 12 pm PT, 3 pm ET and 8 pm BST. Stick around after to learn more about the third-person space opera starring Matthew McConaughey himself. You'll also be able to catch a glimpse of the game during the PC Gaming Show, airing Sunday, June 7, 12 pm PDT, 3 pm EDT, 8 pm BST.
Exodus sees you playing as the Traveller, an apt name for a protagonist thousands of lightyears away from Earth who has to journey to distant worlds and gather mystical MacGuffins known as Celestial Remnants. But, unlike some sci-fi, Exodus takes a stance on interstellar travel more akin to something like, well, Interstellar.
As you get closer to the speed of light or space-time warps around you due to ultra-high gravity, time gets all weird—that's the super-scientific way to explain it, honest. Remember when Interstellar's Cooper went down to a planet close to a black hole and a few hours there was decades back on Earth and up in space? Well, when you undertake a mission in Exodus, you'll be dealing with those same ramifications. Days or hours for the Traveller and their crew could be many, many years for the people they leave behind. Thankfully McConaughey is back to help us through it all.
