IGN recently sat down with DR Albright, founder and president of Signal Studios, who said explained the studio's upcoming free-to-play XBLA game Ascend: New Gods requires an active internet connection at all time, even to play single-player.
Related, current rumors state that the next Xbox console will require a constant internet connection as well.
According to Albright, this has to do with the fact that "almost everything is hooked into some kind of database that we can just save and export without changing the executable, even content we're running off of title manage servers," meaning Ascend is always pinging information off of the server. The reason for this? Signal Studios "can't authenticate a user without
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