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Crucible is on its last legs.
Less than half a year after its launch -- and three months after its un-launch and removal to closed beta -- Amazon Game Studios has announced that it is pulling the plug on Crucible.
It's update day for Crucible.
A patch last week added a mini map and other changes.
One of the Crucible's most-requested features is finally live.
As some of you already know -- because Mike told us about it on Monday -- Crucible returned to closed beta yesterday.
It's no secret that Amazon Games has been having a rough time with the launch of Crucible.
Crucible Team Lead Colin Johanson started off today's developer blog video by acknowledging that there's been a "great response to the premise and promise of Crucible" but also a lot of "feedback that the game needs more work ...
Take on both a hostile planet and even more hostile enemies in Amazon Games' first entry into the free-to-play shooter genre, Crucible!...
Crucible launched into early access -- or "pre-season" as Amazon Games Studios is calling it -- just last week and its reviews have been mixed.
The servers for Amazon Game Studios and Relentless Studios' Crucible are now live, but you can only access them if you've secured a key for a three-hour early access window.
As the saying goes, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
When you announce a launch date for your game just two weeks out, having done virtually zero PR for it, you need to churn out the info in a hurry.
We got a glimpse of Crucible's hunters in the announce video from last week, but there was precious little that actually described them -- either in terms of personality or in-game ability.
Last month, we got word that the date the release of Crucible, Amazon Game Studios' free-to-play shooter, would fall in May.
Back in 2016, Amazon Game Studios announced that it was working on three new online games: Breakaway, New World, and Crucible.
A few weeks ago, we learned that Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had left ArenaNet back in November -- a fact that was unknown to the general public for several months.
19 months after leaving Daybreak Game Company and just a month after shuttering the doors of his indie startup Pixelmage Games, John Smedley has found new employment. Smedley will head up the San Diego office of Amazon Game...
UPDATE: Zach Sharpes got this ad to pop up on Facebook yesterday: And Magicman says there was a section on the Amazon website that also labeled the game as a "free sports brawler," thought that section is now gone.