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We know John Smedley has ed Amazon Game Studios, but we only just realized that nearly all of Pixelmage Games has ed with him. The hawk eyed investigators at MassivelyOP used a newly minted photograph of Smedley and crew at Amazon and compared it with the profile pictures of former Pixelmage employees. And there's a match. Interesting. So, of course, this [...]
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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 🙁 /news/heros-song-is-shutting-down" class="more-link">Read more
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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Heros Song Gameplay First Look - mmos.betsandodds.netWatch 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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Following a week of backer-exclusive Alpha 3 access, Hero's Song is now available on Steam Early Access. While the exact state of the game is currently unknown, 15 of the game's 21 classes were available in Alpha 3. The Steam store page states that up to 25 people can be on a server at a time. Over 8000 items can [...]
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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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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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Following a failed Kickstarter earlier this year, John Smedley's action RPG project Hero's Song fell off the radar. Updates were few and far between and it was unclear whether the game would find the funding it needed through other avenues. Today, however, the game returned with an IndieGoGo campaign that is asking for $200,000. What's more, the campaign contains an [...]
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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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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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