14 DAY TRIAL // Activision has announced that it plans to put out Singularity on June 29 on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the good old PC. Singularity was initially set to arrive late in 2009, was then pushed back because of the launch of the oxygen sucking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and now appears to have settled for a date in the barren period, which starts in June and ends with the release of Madden NFL in August.
The story of Singularity stars a pilot serving in the Air Force, called Nate Renko, who is sent to investigate why an island off the Eastern coast of Russia generates some pretty mysterious events.
The plane he flies crashes on the island, which at some point disappeared, and Nate discovers a device that can manipulate time in the current reality. The so-called TMD can be used to solve puzzles and also to combat enemies. It has the ability to move objects forward or backward in time but can also be used to gold objects in place and to send off waves of energy.
As Renko searches for his copilot and a way off the island, he discovers that the reality he inhabits moves, apparently randomly, from current time to the 1950, when experiments with a mysterious substance called E99 led to a Singularity event happening on the island. The initial viral marketing campaign for the videogame suggested sinister forces and a whole conspiracy would lead to the leadership of modern Russia as existing behind the events.
The developer of Singularity is Raven Software, which, in 2009, created the new Wolfenstein and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The studio is also responsible for Quake 4. The creators have said that Singularity will have a multiplayer component but no details have been offered until now.