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Hero’s Song : Kickstarter cancled

John Smedley and team have announced that the KickStarter initiative to fund Hero’s Song has been cancelled. The reason being, the team realized that the trend in acquiring nearly $800,000 to complete Hero’s Song was too low and that the goal was not going to be met.

Hello Everyone,

After looking at our funding levels and the reality that we aren’t going to reach our funding goals, we’ve decided that the best thing to do is to end the Kickstarter. We sincerely appreciate all of the support we got from the backers and the Kickstarter community. This was our first Kickstarter and we made mistakes along the way. I want to acknowledge that right up front. We put a lot of time and effort into the Kickstarter, but it’s obvious missing things like physical goods hampered our efforts. It’s also fair to say because we’re early that we didn’t have enough gameplay to show the game off enough to get people over the hump.

So where do we go from here? Well the good news is that our Investors are backing us all the way and we’re going to get Hero’s Song done exactly when we said we would. I’m also happy to say that we’ve been able to do this without having to take money from publishers, something that was of key importance to us so that we could remain in creative control.

We’ll be updating you all along the way.. holding development streams (on Cohhcarnage’s stream on Twitch) and being completely transparent with our development process. You’ll be hearing from us all the time and we’ll be updating our website and all of you on a constant basis as we have cool stuff to show.

Thanks again for all the support you’ve shown, and thanks for the constructive criticism as well. We took that to heart and we’ve learned a lot from it.

Kickstarter remains an incredible source of both goodwill and community support, and we’ll never forget the kindness our backers showed us.

Thanks and we’ll see you soon!

Smed and the Pixelmage Games Team.

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Blade & Soul : One million active players since launch

NCSoft has announced that over a million active players have started playing Blade & Soul since its official launch which was less than a week ago. NCSoft is also ensuring that players are given the best possible experience and is hard at work addressing concerns as they come up.

“The sheer enthusiasm – not to mention volume – of North American and European players that have jumped into Blade & Soul since launch has been tremendous,” said John Burns, senior vice president of Publishing at NCSOFT West. “Blade & Soul is one of the most exciting games for Western players in 2016.”

For more information, please visit their official site by clicking here.

The Black Death : To launch this year

The Black Death is an upcoming survival MMO that revolves in the midst of the historical period marked by the plague. Players take on the role of an ordinary citizen trying to survive insurmountable odds as any one of ten classes. The Black Death is said to begin on Steam later in 2016.

  • Survive. It’s not just the plague you need to watch out for. Hunt, harvest or steal supplies to avoid meeting your end in a harsh medieval world.
  • Live. Pick from range of over 10 classes to suit your play style. Fight as a Warrior, farm as a Peasant or even entertain as a Minstrel.
  • Fight. Choose your battles wisely. Time your swings and parries wisely to strike your foes with a unique combat system.
  • Explore. Inspired by the landscape of Western Europe, Plague features a 8km2 world with a day / night cycle, animals and a range of characters to interact with.
  • Buy. Everything has a price. Weapons, armor, houses and more are all able to be purchased throughout the land. How you earn your coin is up to you…

For more information, please click here.

Necropolis : To launch on March 17th

Harebrained Schemes has given word that its 3D action roguelike game, Necropolis, will launch on this coming March 17th. Fans will be able to preorder the game on Steam starting February 2nd.

Necropolis is a third-person dungeon delve filled with intense action, off-kilter humor, and diabolical traps. The 3D action-meets-roguelike is filled with an ever-changing assortment of bizarre rooms, cool weapons, tasty treasure, and nasty monsters that’ll in all likelihood kill you deader than Dumbledore, only for you start all over again to see how much further you can get.

https://youtu.be/2sVSy8GuBsI

For more information, please click here.

City of Steam : To close its doors!

Word is out that the ARPG sensation, City of Steam, is ending service on Sunday, January 31st. It is claimed that the developer of the game, Mechanist Games has been having a rough time after ending a publication partnership with R2Games.

You might have already heard that City of Steam is closing, and that’s true – payment service has already been suspended, and game servers will close down for good on JANUARY 31st, 2016. It was a tough decision to make, but the browser game space is changing rapidly, we have to take this step.

To find out more about the game, please click here.

 

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings free for Xbox One players

CD Projekt Red has announced that XBox One players can grab a free copy of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings via the backward compatibility program. The free download is available from January 21st until February 5th in the US, Canada, UK, France and Germany.

For more information, please click here.

World of Tanks : Released for PS4

The PlayStation 4 version of World of Tanks has now been released and it comes complete with exclusive new content including the Skorpion Pass map and a free Girls und Panzer Elite tank.

All players who log into the game before the end of January will receive the free T1E6-PS US Premium Light Tank with special camouflage. Also included in the release version and available until April 30 is the Girls und Panzer Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. H Elite tank, which can be unlocked by battling with the regular version of this tank.

For more information, please click here

Blade and Soul has been officially launched!

Word is out that the MMORPG sensation, Blade and Soul has officially been released. As per yesterday’s announcement game developers NCSOFT have officially revealed Blade and Soul for the public.
Currently available in NA and Europe; Blade and Soul is made free to play and thousands of downloads have already took place. Do consider that many started calling Blade and Soul the next big thing in MMORPG even when the game was in beta stage. For many Blade and Soul is the game that would be able to achieve the legendary status in MMORPG that was once owned by World of Warcraft.

To download the game and to have more information regarding, please visit their official website by clicking here.

Project Genom : New updates

A new blog post on the official site posted by the developers of the game reveals a few changes to both the game interface and the inventory systems based on players’ feedback. Rather than using a list inventory system, players will be able to get better visual clues through the use of slot inventory system and paper dolls. The inventory can also be expanded.

Also, in the very near future there will be a new character controller, reworked animations, expanded locations that we had to change once we switched to the open world model. There will be new storylines, many new quests with new mechanics, new character leveling system. We will also restore the work of transport, exoskeletons and special equipment.

For more information, please click here.

Firefall : Upcoming update to include new PvE/PvP content

Red 5 Studios has recently revealed the contents of the next update for the MMO game, Firefall which is scheduled to hit live servers on January 20th. There is a massive number of changes and new content coming to the game.

Some of the things that can be expected by the players are:

  • Arena PvP mode: Jetball. More modes will be available later.
  • Jericho Holdout – instanced PvE gametype for high end players.
  • Instanced missions with 3 difficulty modes.
  • 2 new operations.
  • Visual updates to some outposts.
  • Battleframe combat update.
  • Modified battleframe progression.
  • Module adjustment.
  • A new upgrade system called Tinkering.
  • Increased itemization.
  • Improved LFG tool.

For more information, please click here.