As you journey through your own unique world of Environ, you’ll primarily be splitting your time between exterior landscapes, building interiors, and underground caverns. Not only that, but you’ll be traversing shards of nine different time periods, ranging from the prehistoric, to medieval, to modern, to far-future. Each has a very different feel, often different…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to announce a partnership with Matrix Games and Slitherine that offers the AI War Alien Bundle up for purchase both in physical and digital forms at the Matrix Games Online Store effective immediately. The AI War’s Alien Bundle contains the base game along with all three currently released expansions: The Zenith Remnant,…
DetailsNote: This guide is now hugely out of date, and we’ve written a replacement that you can view here. A Valley Without Wind Getting Started GuideBy Josh Knapp The year was 888. Wind blasted snowfields have covered the world of Environ for centuries… Hey! Never mind all that, let’s just get to the game! If…
DetailsOver on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jim Rossignol has published first impressions of A Valley Without Wind, which marks the first official media hands-on with the beta ahead of its imminent release. Lots of good stuff, but we’ll let Jim do the talking. Head over to one of our favorite gaming sites period and check it out. Also,…
DetailsThis one has the lately-omitted AI Hunter/Killer ships returning to take up a role in exo-galactic strike forces. Perhaps more interesting to more people are the forcefield changes: the blocking effect that was removed in the last patch is now back, but the various other forcefield improvements from the last patch have been retained: regarding…
DetailsIt’s been a couple of weeks since our last update, but we’ve been hard at work! No video this time, but I wanted to tell you about a few things that are new or altered in the game, since we’re getting close to public beta. We’re hoping to hit that stage in about another week…
DetailsThis one has some really substantial changes to forcefield balance. First of all, the player forcefields are buffed and increased in ship cap. Then players also get a new line of mark I-III hardened forcefields, which are high-armor but lower-heath alternatives to regular forcefields. Next, the way that enemy ships collide at the edge of…
DetailsAs of September 1st, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $27,779.12 for Child’s Play! That’s $7,098.82 since our July update, all of which has already gone directly to the charity. This means that we’re just a hair away from doubling the original goal of $14,000.00 raised for Child’s Play, which we could not…
DetailsThis one has a number of balanced tweaks that are notable, as well as one performance tweak that may or may not actually do anything. We’ll be curious to hear more feedback on the performance thing a wider variety of scenarios and machine setups. In terms of the balance changes: 1. The Spirecraft Martyrs have…
DetailsWith the last day of PAX Prime several hours away, it may seem a bit late to mention that Arcen Games is in fact represented at the expo! While, unfortunately, we’re boothless as the timing didn’t work out for us to present a build of A Valley Without Wind; we still want to be a…
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