We are excited to announce a closed beta from July 12th through the 14th for all players who have pre-ordered Age of Mythology: Retold Premium Edition. Experience the newest iteration of Age of Mythology and let us hear any feedback you might have too! Can't join us for the closed beta this weekend? Keep an eye out for more news on a future Stress Test that will be accessible to all Steam players for a limited time, without the need for a pre-order.

Haven't pre-ordered your copy of Age of Mythology: Retold? It's not too late to join the fun!
If you pre-order the Premium Edition anytime, you'll be eligible for the beta - even if it has already started!

The official Age of Mythology: Retold Closed Beta will run from Friday, July 12th through Sunday, July 14th.

• Starts: Friday, July 12th at 10:00 AM PT (17:00 UTC)
  
• Ends Sunday, July 14th at 11:59 PM PT (6:59 UTC)

During the closed beta, Age of Mythology: Retold Premium Edition owners will be able to:

• Brush up on the basics by playing the Tutorial and continue to grow your skills and experience the main campaign with the first 5 missions for the Fall of the Trident campaign.
  
• Test your skills in Skirmish or Multiplayer matches in our Standard Map Pool which gives a wide variety of the maps intended for release (MP limited to 8 players for the closed beta).
  
• Try out three of the four Pantheons, including Greek, Norse, and Egyptian. Call upon a host of mythological creatures and godly powers to dominate your enemies.

Our community is important to us, as is player feedback. At this stage of development, we’re interested in getting Age of Mythology: Retold into the hands of the player to:

• Fine-tune our existing systems, World’s Edge and our development partners are counting on you to play as many matches as you’re able to while trying out the various game features available during the beta!
  
• Arm our development team with impactful bugs or balance feedback. Balance is ongoing, so the unit balance you see during the closed beta isn’t necessarily reflective of what you’ll see when the game launches or as the meta evolves.
  
• Share your ideas on how to best grow Age of Mythology: Retold post-launch. While our primary focus during closed beta is to ensure stability and lend overall polish to the game by conquering impactful bugs, we’re also eager to hear your thoughts. The Age of Mythology: Retold team is dedicated to continually improving and growing the game while making sure it stays true to the roots of the Age of Mythology you know and love. As a beta participant, you help guide our vision.

The beta will be available to anyone who has pre-ordered the Premium Edition of Age of Mythology: Retold

• Age Insider membership will not be required for participation.
  
• The beta will not be under NDA, so feel free to capture, stream, and record your gameplay.
  
• The beta is available for players who decide to pre-order the Premium Edition even after the beta has started.

• Not all localization is present for supported game languages.
  
• Cross-network play may or may not function fully.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1934680/Age_of_Mythology_Retold/

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Stay tuned for more news about an upcoming Stress Test, open to all Steam players for a limited time window each day, designed to fully load out and test our servers.

Remember, Age of Mythology: Retold launches on September 4th. Play up to 7 days early with Advance Access with the Premium Edition.

Please note the beta will not be the final version of Age of Mythology: Retold.

Greetings Jumpers!

The team has continued to listen to the feedback has implemented some great quality of life changes and bug fixes! As always, if something you want us to know or discuss, is not listed here please let us know in the Steam Discussions tab or in the Midwest Games Discord.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2545740/Hive_Jump_2_Survivors/

New unlock reward animations now appear at the end of every run for any achievement you finished.

End of run menu overhaul.
- Includes animated display of unlocked achievements and statistics from the run.

Achievement progress meters now implemented in various places for easy reference.
- Shows on currently locked jumpers in the jumper select screen
- Shows on currently locked permanent upgrades in the Upgrades menu

All permanent upgrades are now visible.
- The locked ones now have a locked icon to their left and the upgrade unit boxes are hidden.

Banishing achievement created to unlock in permanent upgrades menu
- "Reroll Roulette" - perform 100 store rerolls
- Can be purchased 3 times for a total of 3 possible banishing options in the end of wave stores.
- Your remaining banishes are listed on the button itself

Amber counter is now hidden by default to save space. Only appears when you collect amber and then goes away again.
- New SFX when amber is collected.
- New particle effect on amber.

Visual and audio improvements to the Ordinance Drops
- Fixed some UI not going away properly behind the ordinance drop store menu
- Ordnance drops include goo, amber, and a special chest drop (based on the tier of hive you defeated)

More decor and visual updates to levels.

Item drops now animate out of their eggs instead of just appearing.


A number of achievement requirements have been lowered to give quicker access to some permanent upgrades.

- A study of bombadiers - reduced from 400 bombardier kills to 200
- Attractive - reduced from 10 collected magnet power ups to 5
- Critically Acclaimed - 8000 critical hits to 4000
- Cyborg - robotic arm relics collected from 100 to 25
- Honorary Doctorate - total health pickups from 400 to 200
- I can take a hit - 1000 damage taken to 200
- If you can dodge a... - 400 melee attacks dodged to 10
- Laser focused - 8000 kills with the laser sights equipped to 4000
- Lots of ordovician autopsies later - 2500 kills to 1000
- 5k fanatic - renamed to "Relay Runner" - changed from 5000 distance traveled to 500
- Thats a lot of damage - 8 million damage dealt to 4 million


Fixed high resolution text option not being selectable with keyboard/controllers

A number of codex entries that had been missing or copies of other objects have been given a more thematic "coming soon" message. Will be given full entries in a future update.

Minor text corrections on Jumper select screen

- Team Hive Jump

• Fixed the Engineer Trap Fire Rate skill for Floor Traps as well - this was missed out from the last patch (v1.0.13)

Hey Next Fest Participants,

We hope you have enjoyed the Adventure Forge Next Fest Demo! But like all good things, this too must come to a close. We are sunsetting our Next Fest Demo. If you'd like to keep playing in the Forge, you are welcome to join our Closed Beta program and help us make the tool even better! Reach out to us in Discord and we'll get you a Beta Code.

Please! Record any videos of your games or gameplay you want to keep, as your data won't transfer over. If you publish your game, we might be able to port your data to the Closed Beta, but we can't promise anything, since the dev branches have drifted quite a bit.
Thanks for understanding, and we hope to see you in the Closed Beta! Contact us on Discord if you have questions or would like a Beta Code.

Cheers,
Adventure Forge Team

Can you feel the tension?

The support act is finishing their set. The crowd can't wait for you to enter the stage and give them the performance of a lifetime.

This is how we feel at this moment.

In just two days we will lift the curtain on the console versions of Disaster Band - we are totally stoked!

We can't wait to see the wonderfully weird chaos you will produce together with your fellow console performers in full cross-platform-multiplayer.

Show the world, that playing wrong can feel so right!

We'll see you on the stage!

Produktivkeller Studios and SunDust

- new letter about saplings after mashing
- new letter about participation money
- edited letter on competition schedule
- increased mail notify sound
- changed the second dev letter to be about telling the player that there are no trait descriptions in the demo.
- back button in comp center ui now moves down to top of comp list instead of a random competition record
- removed bobo geting angrier when picking up while sleeeping for the demo
- removed bobo cracker
- nerfed skateboard a bit
- masher null reference bug fixed. you can now only run one masher at a time in the garden.
- changed all mentioned of Demo to "Alpha" to manage expectations better
- fixed camera zoom in/out bug
- can't go on top of boxes in courtyard anymore
- fixed pet sit slide glitch
- fixed jump, drop, pet, pickup, infinite jump glitch
- can no longer press play button twice real fast lol
- keyboard wraps around now

Beach vibes, a cookin’ sun, and the smell of barbeque – it’s summer, baby, and it’s time to Jam!

That’s right – we’re hosting our first-ever Summer Music Fest Jam! Think of it as a VRChat beach episode, but with more bangers. This Jam will have a few parts. We’ll go into more detail below, but here’s the general idea:

• A World & Avatar Jam!
  
• A bunch of events (hosted by you!) utilizing the new worlds
  
• Promotion (from us!) for as many of the events using said worlds as possible.

In addition, there’s a chance we might throw our own event on your map!

Jam submissions open July 8, and will remain open until August 2. The submissions will be judged, and the winners will be featured starting August 12 until September 6. During this period, we’ll be looking for events to promote that utilize the maps in question.

Where can I find more information?

Check out the full blog post on our website, which you can find here! Also, keep an eye open to look out for events being run starting August 12!

• Added dark mode.
  
• Removed text selection outside of input fields.

• Added option to hold key for the duration of the inner blocks.
  
• Fixed bug where blocks inside detection block would not reorganize properly.
  
• Fixed bug where custom blocks would minimize after every update.

Howdy Pilgrim,

we've been hard at work to make Wild West Dynasty the best possible gaming experience when we will release version 1.0 - the exact date will be announced very soon.

In the weeks to come we want to introduce some of the mechanics to you, that are either fully new or revamped to give you a better gameplay experience.



One element that we completely overhauled is the farming system.

Not only is it heavily connected with our new water supply mechanics. It is also a prime example how you can utilize the workforce of the settlers that joined you.

They will help work on the fields, watering the crops and taking in the harvest.





So in short: Take good care of them (don't forget to give them a roof over their head, food and water) and they will take care of you!!

We'll see you in the prairie!

MoonPunch Studio and Toplitz Productions

- Changed bullet impact particles
- Changed explosion particles
- The font has been changed
- Some minor changes to some maps
- Some minor changes
- Bugs Fixes