Our latest coverage of Ashes of Creation.
Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter hit $1.75 million in funding this past Friday, which means that the Underrealm is happening. Once the game is completed, players will be able to head underground and venture through a "vast underground area." The Underrealm is described as a "rich environment" that will be lit primarily by the bioluminescence that is given off by the [...]
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Ashes of Creation just recently passed the 9500 backer milestone, which means that it's time for Intrepid Studios to show off what backers will unlock if they reach the 11,000 backer milestone. At 11,000 backers, backers will unlock an eight-finned, turtle-like underwater mount called the "Tidesnapper," which can be seen in the image embedded below. And...that's all we know about [...]
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Whether or not you believe that Ashes of Creation is the next big thing, the Kickstarter campaign has undoubtedly been interesting to watch. As of yesterday, Intrepid Studios has raised a total of $1.5 million for its ambitious MMORPG project, smashing through the "Enhanced Naval Combat" stretch goal. As all of its previous stretch goals have now been reached, more [...]
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Ashes of Creation is fully funded on Kickstarter, and in less than 12 hours. It is easily one of the fastest funded big-budget projects to hit the crowdfunding website. If you happened to check in on the campaign at all today, there was little reason to doubt that the it wouldn't meet its funding goal. What is surprising is just [...]
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Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter began today at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT and it is looking like it is an instant success. Intrepid Studios is asking for $750,000 and it raised over $200,000 of that in a mere half an hour. In the five minutes that I've been watching the campaign as of writing this sentence, it has [...]
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Intrepid Studios announced yesterday that the Ashes of Creation Kickstarter campaign will be going live on May 1st. It's seemed for some time now that the MMORPG audience has room in their hearts and wallets for another crowdfunded MMORPG, but the moment of truth will arrive at the beginning of next month. It will be interesting to see whether the [...]
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Ashes of Creation's node system has not been the most easily understood touted feature for the game, so the devs have made a tasteful video explaining the system. Around the game's world you'll discover Nodes, which players then contribute to help it grow. Here's the zinger paragraph explanation (or jump to the video below if you're a visual learner): Nodes [...]
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Still skeptical about Ashes of Creation? Be skeptical no longer. Intrepid Studios has released a new video that shows off in-game footage with the UI, meaning that, unlike the previous video, it is significantly harder to write off as cinematic non-gameplay footage. Furthermore, I would like to think that the only reason that you would show off a UI that looks the [...]
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Intrepid Studios definitively proved earlier today that it does not, in fact, have nothing and that there is, in fact, more to Ashes of Creation than just the environmental scenes when it released a video of Pre-Alpha gameplay, showing off part of one of the game's dungeons. A lot of what we see in the video seems more akin to single-player [...]
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Ashes of Creation came out of nowhere at the end of last year and impressed everyone with stunning visuals and innovative ideas. There are quite a number of systems that Intrepid Studios seems to hope will revolutionize the MMORPG genre. Yesterday, the company gave us a closer look at one of those systems: the node system. Ashes of Creation's node system isn't [...]
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