Hero's Song Is Shutting Down

It must have been a grim Christmas over at Pixelmage Games. This morning their CEO, John Smedley, tweeted that development on the early access title had ceased: It breaks my heart to have to do this 🙁 https://t.co/pTWymRiYn3 — John Smedley (@j_smedley) December 26, 2016 The Hero's Song saga began early this year when the game appeared on Kickstarter on [...]

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Pixelmage Games Is Having Financial Issues

If you've been following the development of Hero's Song, you're likely aware that there hasn't been an update in just over two weeks. There also hasn't been any mention of why there hasn't been an update. That changed today when Pixelmage Games CEO John Smedley made the following announcement on r/Herossong earlier today. Brief Update from Herossong While the extent [...]

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Hero's Song Gameplay First Look

Heros Song Gameplay First Look - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Hero's Song Gameplay First Look by Omer Hero's Song is a buy to play rogue like fantasy action RPG with 2D pixel graphics developed and published by Pixelmage Studios - the company founded by John Smedley, the ex president of Sony Online Entertainment (Daybreak Games Company) and original developer of [...]

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Hero's Song Alpha 3 Begins October 31st, Early Access In November

Pixelmage Games announced earlier this week that Hero's Song Alpha 3 will begin on October 31st. According to a Steam Community announcement, the Alpha will include 15 of the game's 21 classes, multiplayer, "likely with up to 25-50 people," dungeons, loot, the underworld, and more. The announcement also reiterates that "Early Access is still planned for early November." The exact [...]

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Hero's Song Will Have 15 Classes At Early Access Launch, 30 Players Per Server

Now that Hero's Song has returned with an IndieGoGo campaign, you undoubtedly have questions about the title. In today's backer update, Pixelmage Games CEO John Smedley has answers. When Hero's Song enters Early Access on November 7th, it will feature 15 classes—the classes in question have yet to be announced. The team will be working to bring that number up to 21 [...]

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Pixelmage Games Cancel Hero's Song Kickstarter

Following less-than-adequate results that brought their campaign to only $136,849, John Smedley's new company Pixelmage Games has decided to cancel the Kickstarter campaign for their in-development title Hero's Song. The game had a promising feature set, great art, a clearly laid out development schedule, and industry veterans, but its $800,000 funding goal remained well out of grasp. From here on [...]

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Smedley Returns With Hero's Song, A Kickstarter Game With An $800,000 Goal

Following his leave from Sony Online Entertainment/Daybreak Games, former CEO John Smedley's new company, Pixelmage Studios, has been unveiled. Their first game is called Hero's Song, a "open world rogue-like fantasy game" that can be played either offline or online—via a server you can host and modify—with hundreds of others at once. The world will supposedly be "uniquely shaped by [...]

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