“We said from the beginning we would remove the Early Access tag from Rendwithin a year of hitting Steam,” said Jeremy Wood, co-founder and CEO, Frostkeep Studios. “We introduced Rend as a fully developed game experience with room for growth and advancement so we could work alongside players to determine the best direction and evolution for the game. Today’s final version of Rend is the direct result of this valuable feedback and we couldn’t be more grateful for the support of our players, community and partners throughout the development process.”

Rend takes inspiration from the motifs of ancient Norse mythology to bring players a colorful world of epic battles and survival-based gameplay. Players worldwide can now choose to play solo or join one of three factions as they work with teammates to survive in the brutal shattered remains of Midgard.

As a final release title, Rend holds a unique position in the survival space with its RPG mechanics, sandbox elements, factional combat, and win/loss conditions. The game was created by a team of 18 developers at Frostkeep Studios, many who had previously worked together on other AAA games and projects like the original World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, WildStar, God of War and more.

*Introductory launch price is valid until April 26, 2019 before returning to the regular price of $29.99 USD

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Team-based faction PvP game Rend is available today on PC for $29.99 USD. Players worldwide can join one of three factions and work with teammates to survive the vividly beautiful, yet brutal shattered remains of Midgard. Victorious teams will earn their right to ascend to Valhalla as honored heroes and bask in the glory of victory while collecting earned rewards. Rend pairs RPG mechanics, sandbox elements, factional combat, and massive battles with win/loss conditions to introduce a new gaming experience to the survival genre.

Rend is being developed by Frostkeep Studios, an independent game studio founded by a team of veteran game developers – Solomon Lee, Mat Milizia, and Jeremy Wood – who met working together on the original World of Warcraft before moving on to other successful game titles like Overwatch and League of Legends. Frostkeep Studios plans to take advantage of this Early Access period to continue receiving constructive community feedback to further improve upon Rend. 

“Since we first announced Rend, we have been developing it side by side with our players through Pre-Alpha and Alpha testing and by gathering feedback through Discord and our official channels,” said Jeremy Wood, co-founder and CEO, Frostkeep Studios. “Our goal has always been to transform the way players interact and participate in survival games while delivering on the fantasy that they have come to expect from this genre.”

Added Wood, “We have created a unique space that doesn’t feel like any other game in the survival genre and while this marks a significant milestone for our studio, we’re only just getting started.”

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Rend is coming really soon to Steam, according to an official release by the developers.

Frostkeep Studios, an independent game studio formed by veteran World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and League of Legends developers, announced today that after a period of constructive community feedback during its closed alpha of Rend, the new faction-based fantasy survival game will launch its beta on Steam Early Access later this month.

Beginning on Tuesday, July 31, players can purchase the game for $29.99 and immediately align themselves with one of three factions before they’re dropped into the beautiful, brutal world to experience its fierce Norse-inspired battles and gameplay.

“Early access marks a pivotal moment for Frostkeep Studios,” said Jeremy Wood, co-founder and CEO, Frostkeep Studios. “We have been developing it side-by-side with our players since we first announced the game and are grateful for the invaluable feedback they provided to help shape Rend into what it has become today: the game they want to play,” said Jeremy Wood, co-founder and CEO, Frostkeep Studios.

The game introduces RPG mechanics, factional combat, sandbox elements, win/loss conditions, and massive culminating battles to the survival genre to deliver an entirely new gameplay experience for players.

For more information about Rend, please visit the game’s official Steam page.

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Starting today, select players worldwide can participate in the invite-only PC public alpha test for Rend, the upcoming faction-based fantasy survival game from Frostkeep Studios, the new independent game studio whose founders boast more than 50 years of combined experience on some of the world’s most popular games, including the original World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, WildStar,and more.

Players can register for a chance to be invited to the public alpha on the official website. Participants in the Rend alpha will have the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the development team and to help shape the game on a fundamental level as it progresses through early testing.

“Our goal at the start of this project was to continuously grow and improve Rend by gathering direct feedback from our players every step of the way,” said Jeremy Wood, co-founder and CEO, Frostkeep Studios. “As we lovingly craft this game with the help of our players, this project remains just as much theirs as it is ours, and this public alpha marks a significant milestone as we offer even more players around the world the opportunity to enter the world of Rend and join our community.”

Rend combines elements of role-playing games (RPG) and other genres into a survival gaming experience never seen before. Challenging traditional survival game tropes, Rend introduces factional combat, RPG mechanics, sandbox elements, win/loss conditions, and massive, culmination battle experiences to evolve the genre.

Rend will launch on Steam Early Access later this year. For more information, please visit the game’s official Steam page.

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Last month we were excited to hear about Rend. The open world survival game with action mechanics looks to add something fresh to the genre.

This week, we get an exclusive peek at the game’s class system. Rend will have 4 classes at launch that players can pick from. The interesting thing is that you don’t select your class at the character creation screen. Unlike other games and MMORPGs, every player here will start as the same blank canvas.

The selection of classes will take place at level 2. By then, players will have enough talent points to spend in one of 4 class paths. These paths are the Assassin, Soldier, Survivalist and Mystic. What’s cool is that players will have enough talent points to spend in two trees.

That means that you can pick two class paths, and they play differently depending on your primary and secondary selections. So a player who picks Soldier as the primary and Mystic as secondary will have a different experience compared to a player who picks the reverse.

It’s a unique class system that not many modern games do, save for Grim Dawn. Advancements will mean ascending path tiers, which of course will require more talent points. Therefore, earning experience will be central to how you “level” up your chosen paths which is standard affair.

The classes themselves are pretty much self explanatory to the game. Assassins are for the stealthy, moving quickly around the map and dealing lots of burst damage.

Soldiers are for players who enjoy being tanks. You carry more weight and can take more damage than the rest. Survivalists are handyman, capable of being flexible in the game. Crafters and gatherers will enjoy this path.

Finally, Mystics are the secretive class, and the best way to describe it is magic. They are the support class of Rend, able to heal and do cool things to help the faction and group.

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New Trove Launch for Consoles.

Good news Trove fans. The awesome Sandbox MMORPG is about to launch for PS4 and Xbox one. Trion Worlds, the developer, has released the game in 2015, and after long months of beta testing they are finally launching it for consoles this week. The Trove Launch for Consoles will sure bring new audiences to the bricksy universe. If you haven’t heard about Trove then you should know that this game is epic.

As a sandbox MMORPG, you have a lot of room for customization. There are 11 different classes that enable many play styles and the randomly changing universes are very interesting. The player generated content is the true treat of the game. There is just so much content that this game is never boring. However, the minus of the game is the grinding. You have to grind a lot in order to improve. The cash store is also relatively modest and buying stuff won’t necessarily help your character by much. In short, it’s a really cool game

If you own a PS4 or a Xbox one than you should try it. It’s free for download and the community around trove is growing rapidly. In my opinion, the PS4 launch will help the game reach new audiences and steal some users from their ultimate nemesis, Minecraft.

The similarities between Minecraft and Trove are a bit disturbing, but with Minecraft selling for 2.5 Billion dollars to Microsoft it’s not surprising that competition will try to mimic the block phenomena. Many of the people in the Trove community are refugees of Minecraft, they get something out of Trove that they couldn’t in Minecraft. Either way, both games are cool and worth a try.

What do you think? are you excited about the trove launch for consoles? please share your thoughts with us

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Brace yourselves for Rend everyone. Frostkeep Studios are brand new developers formed by former World of Warcraft developers. This week, we hear that their debut project is a faction-based survival game called Rend.

This isn’t your customary survival game either. So try and banish the thought of Ark:Survival Evolved or Conan Exiles. In Rend, players join one of three factions that in it for domination and survival. The setting takes place on a world that is dominated by hordes of demons called the Lost Ones.

Upon selecting a faction, players must now build bases to defend themselves and their faction from these demons. This can be done done through several progression mechanics we expect in survival games. There’s crafting, harvesting and more to do in this semi-open world game.

The catch is, it’s not just the demons that you’ll be up against. Other players who have joined the two other factions different from yours are also the enemy. Each faction’s ultimate goal is to work towards winning the race for survival, but there are no details on the meta objectives yet.

I’m guessing that server games will take place over ‘seasons’, where winners are declared based on how much is accomplished over a period of time. What is interesting is that all factions can come out as losers too. I find the concept to be pretty intriguing even at this early stage.

Rend sounds a lot like a PVP based survival MMO and that’s fine. Based on the information and screenshots from the website, it does look and feel great too. There’s medieval undertones mixed with steampunk, considering you can use hand guns and other modern weapons.

Let’s wait and see what more details will be coming out. In the mean time, let us know your thoughts!

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