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Steam News · Dec 14, 2019
Daybreak Games has confirmed it's switching off PlanetSide Arena's servers at 5pm PT on 10th January, 2020 (that's 1am on the 11th January UK time), just three months after it launched in early access. As spotted by Blue via our pals at VG24/7, executive producer Andy Sites said it was a "difficult decision" but while the team had "set out with an ambitious vision for a game that combined the mass...
Steam News · Dec 14, 2019
Daybreak Game Company last night announced plans to shut down PlanetSide Arena on January 10th, 2020. The free-to-play battle royale FPS spun off from PlanetSide 2 launched into early access on September 19th, so that s less than four months. Daybreak say it hadn t attracted enough players to sustain the sort of large battles it s meant to. The servers will shut down, the game ...
Steam News · Dec 14, 2019
Planetside Arena went into Early Access on Steam in September, but seemed to run into trouble less than a month later when developer Daybreak Games laid off an unspecified number of employees, including members of the Planetside Arena team. Two months on, the studio has announced that that the game is not working out, and so servers will be closed in January. While our team set out with an a...
Steam News · Dec 13, 2019
Hello Everyone, After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down PlanetSide Arena servers. While our team set out with an ambitious vision for a game that combined the massive-scale combat and camaraderie of PlanetSide through a diverse collection of new game modes, it has become clear after several...
Steam News · Oct 19, 2019
The battle royale-focused sci-fi shooter PlanetSide Arena is intended to be the "stepping stone" to PlanetSide 3, its developers have said. In a post on the PlanetSide 2 website, executive producer Andy Sites said PlanetSide Arena, which recently released in Early Access form, is designed to link present day PlanetSide 2 and PlanetSide 3 storylines and give the developers a platform to try out new...
Steam News · Oct 12, 2019
H1Z1 and PlanetSide 2 developers Daybreak Game Company went through another round of layoffs yesterday, though the number of employees affected is unknown. This is the third wave since the beginning of 2018. (more…)
Steam News · Oct 12, 2019
Daybreak Games has laid off multiple employees, including some that were working on battle royale Planetside Arena, which went into Early Access last month. The scale of the layoffs at the H1Z1 and Planetside 2 studio is not yet clear, but one developer who lost his job said multiple teams had been hit, while Planetside Arena's lead designer said his team had lost some really good peopl...
Steam News · Sep 20, 2019
Raise the purple flag, comrades. PlanetSide Arena came out yesterday, bringing some royale to PlanetSide 2 s vast battles in a spin-off game of jeeps and jetpacks. Its big thing is that everyone has a quad in their back pocket, but another major draw are the big 12-person team battles. That s in keeping with the scale of the bottomless futurewar, but is it as shooty and adrenal-gland-taxing as o...
Steam News · Sep 19, 2019
Last week we got our first hands-on time with PlanetSide Arena's massive 240-player battle royale mode. It was chaotic and fun, and today the multiplayer shooter enters Early Access on Steam so you can try it yourself. PlanetSide Arena is free to play in Early Access, but there's a Recruit Edition selling for $20 that comes with 80 standard crates and an alpha strike banner. We've g...
Steam News · Sep 19, 2019
Gear up, Mercenaries, PlanetSide Arena is now available for FREE on Steam Early Access! This is just the beginning of our epic journey to bring you the ultimate massive multiplayer sci-fi arena shooter. If you’ve been with us since we first began playtesting in Beta, a HUGE thank you. We never would have made it this far without you! To all of you new recruits, we’re t...