riders of icarus News

Yesterday's Riders of Icarus update may end up being fairly controversial, as it introduced a feature that has been polarizing at best in other titles: the ability for certain cash shop items to be sold on the in-game auction house. The aforementioned cash shop items are hand-selected by the team at Nexon America and relegated to a tab known as [...]

Following a slight delay, Riders of Icarus' Rift of the Damned update is finally here. The new Tritael Rift zone, the game's "first entirely airborne zone," is now open and players can tame an assortment of unique and bizarre "Void" creatures that have been "warped by their time spent in the damned realm." The update also raises the level cap to 40, the [...]

Those of you who were looking forward to jumping into Riders of Icarus' Rift of the Damned update and exploring the new Tritael Rift zone will unfortunately have to wait a bit longer, as Nexon America announced today that the update has been delayed to October 5th. According to Nexon, the reason for the delay is as follows. After much deliberation [...]

Nexon America announced yesterday in a Letter from the Producer that "major changes" are being made to both Riders of Icarus' Alliance System and Manastone Battles due to players exploiting them. The current system doesn't use a system of automated matchmaking and, as such, major alliances have decided to "take advantage of this system and trade wins with one another [...]

Nexon America announced today that Riders of Icarus will be receiving a new update entitled "Rift of the Damned" on September 28th. The update will introduce the previously announced Tritael Rift zone, a new dungeon, The Breach, new familiars, and more. Highlights from the patch include the following. New Zone: Floating high above a black and bottomless sea, filled with the [...]

Is there one familiar in Riders of Icarus that just keeps managing to elude you? Have you searched high and low with no success? Perhaps the new Lair of Ienos dungeon can help with that. The Lair of Ienos is a level 34 solo dungeon that can be run three times a day. At the end of each run, two out of a possible [...]

In a new Dev Blog published today, Riders of Icarus Lead Game Designer BK discussed some of the game's upcoming content. First off is an upcoming, level 35 solo dungeon called "the Lair of Ienos." Located in Parna's Coast, the Lair of Ienos tasks players with a daily quest to kill Ienos. Once he has been defeated, two random familiars—drawn [...]

Nexon America announced today that, following a one-day delay, Riders of Icarus's Exarahn Badlands update is now live. Players can now travel back 1000 years into the past and do battle against each other in large-scale combat. New features included in the update are as follows. The Exarahn Badlands: A chaotic region, steeped in darkness and lawlessness since the recent [...]

In a new Producer's Letter published on Friday, Riders of Icarus Producer Han Sol Junger discussed a topic that many of Riders of Icarus's players have become increasingly concerned about: bots and spammers. The team working on Riders of Icarus had previously believed that the best way to handle both groups was to silently work on countermeasures behind the scenes. [...]

In the latest community post to their site, Riders of Icarus details the "ultimate test of individual strength and group cohesion:" Manastone Battles. The fights for glory will take place in the eldritch PvP zone Exarahn Badlands, releasing with the next update later this month. To participate in Manastone Battles, you will either need to be in a Guild Alliance (requires [...]