Monthly Archives: September 2015

Smite Preparing for Steam Launch

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Testing intensifies for Smite on Steam as the HiRez team has been actively looking for more players to test the game on Valve’s platform.

HiRezStew has sent out multiple keys in the past few days on Twitter, and PonPon has been answering some questions about the platform too. Looks like we’ll see Smite on Steam soon, giving old and new players a new option for accessing the game.

This Means WAR! Debuts Real-Time Strategy on Android

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Kabam’s This Means WAR! brings enormous innovation to modern combat gameplay with today’s Android launch.

This free-to-play game delivers players a robust mobile strategy experience as they take control of a competitive battlefield. The game innovates with simultaneous base-on-base and army-on-army action as players fight to push forward against an ever-moving battle line.  This unique battle line mechanic puts This Means WAR! far ahead of the latest mobile strategy games with deeper tactics, faster action, and more replay-ability.

In This Means WAR!, each Commander must effectively strategize against enemy bases while simultaneously defending his own base, using a full spectrum of combat vehicles and troops. Players progress to the top of a competitive leaderboard by forging Alliances, attacking friends and deploying missile strikes in a never-ending war for resources, medals, and glory.  To download the game now, go here.

R.O.H.A.N.: Blood Feud Launches Transcendence System

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From September, PC Gamers around the world will be able to experience exciting new content on the free-to-play MMORPG R.O.H.A.N.: Blood Feud. Players will be introduced to the Transcendence system to maximize their powers and fight against menacing monsters in a brand-new dungeon!

  • Transcendence – Players can Transcend by reaching vastly increased Conqueror level cap. Transcended characters will be able to equip higher level items and gain new bonus stats, bonus mitigation, and unique Transcendence glows.
  • New Dungeons – Embark on a quest through the Mirror Dungeons. Slay monsters to earn experience paramount for Transcendence and acquire knowledge crucial to Transcending powerful weapons and items.
  • Level Jump Event – New players who create a character and reach level 50 during the event period will be level boosted and receive powerful weapons, armor sets, accessories and more as a reward for participating.

Learn more about this update here.

Pre-Alpha Testing Begins for ArtCraft’s Crowfall

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Independent game developer ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. announced that the Pre-Alpha phase of testing for their highly-anticipated MMO, Crowfall.  This initial test centers on Player-versus-Player combat, and marks the first time that backers with the Pre-Alpha Kickstarter reward can log in and play. Crowfall is a crowd funded game and to date has raised almost $2.3 million from more than 21,000 backers.

“Today is a huge milestone for Crowfall and ArtCraft.” said Gordon Walton, president and executive producer. “We promised our backers that we would deliver a playable combat prototype by the end of summer, and this morning we officially delivered on that promise.”

Many Pre-Alpha testers have already started, with invitations for almost a thousand more backers expected in the next few weeks.  The company made a surprise announcement, revealing that the module also includes a Player-versus-Player game mode known as The Hunger Dome.

“Crowdfunding changes everything,” explains J. Todd Coleman, CEO and creative director. “Our backers are doing us a huge favor by helping us test our game and refine our vision.  They are contributing because they are emotionally invested, and we want to recognize and reward that passion by over-delivering.”

In a Hunger Dome match, players are divided into teams and participate in a single-elimination death match session, scavenging for weapons and armor as the map is consumed by “the Hunger” – an enormous, turbulent maelstrom that devours everything it touches.

“The purpose of the Hunger is to force the teams to compete,” explains Coleman. “As the Hunger expands, the play space condenses – forcing them to take refuge in the keep at the center of the map.  In the end, only one team is left standing.”

Shadows Expansion for Endless Legend Available Today

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Critically-acclaimed indie developer Amplitude Studios today released the latest expansion for its award-winning 4X strategy game Endless Legend on Steam. Endless Legend: Shadows brings a brand new faction, The Forgotten, and features the much-requested new espionage system that gives players the chance to spy, infiltrate, pillage, and assassinate. Players can control invisible units using the new Camouflage and Stealth systems, defend themselves by utilizing counter espionage skills and the new Detection ability, and much more.

 

Endless Legend: Shadows is available for €12,99 / £9.99 / $12.99 on Steam PC. The base game, as well as the previous expansion Guardians, currently features a 50% discount on Steam until September 4.

 

“Espionage is something we have been dreaming about doing in Endless Legend for some time now,” said Romain de Waubert de Genlis, Creative Director at Amplitude Studios. “We tackled the subject in a new way that will reinforce paranoia, test nerves and put players on edge.”

 

The Forgotten are the latest major faction to be introduced in Endless Legend Shadows. Masters of deception and subterfuge, they were assumed lost or dead by all. Against their will, the faction were forged into a tight society of violent and distrustful survivors, having spent the final years of the cataclysm alone on the surface of Auriga. A violent and distrustful society, who after many years have emerged from the shadows once more in the hopes that the other factions will accept them – or kneel before them.

 

Endless Legend Shadows Features:

  • A new major faction, The Forgotten, experts in the new espionage skills.
  • New invisible units, with the new Camouflage and Stealth capabilities.
  • Infiltrate rival empires to steal, capture, sabotage and assassinate.
  • Pillage villages, extractors and watchtowers to slow your enemy’s progression.
  • Heroes can be equipped with Scope accessories to give them espionage abilities.
  • Players can defend themselves with new counter espionage and the new Detection capacity.