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As Epic Games’ Fortnite Rises in Popularity, Paragon Closes Its Doors
Success comes at a price. The price for the success of Epic Games’ Fortnite is Paragon, which will shut down on April 26th.
Yesterday, Paragon‘s developers released the following statement:
It’s with heavy hearts we’ve decided to close down Paragon.
We truly appreciate everything you’ve put into Paragon. We received many passionate ideas for where to take the game; the outpouring of thoughtful suggestions is another testament to this incredible community.
After careful consideration, and many difficult internal debates, we feel there isn’t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable.
We didn’t execute well enough to deliver on the promise of Paragon. We have failed you — despite the team’s incredibly hard work — and we’re sorry.
This news comes a little over a week after Epic Games created a reddit thread stating that progress on the game’s updates was slowing down partially because numerous team members had started working on Fortnite, as it had “grown far large than anything in Epic’s past.” This statement, understandably, shook many gamers’ confidence in the long term viability of Paragon. While the MOBA genre has seen many games come and go, usually the short-lived games were the ones that didn’t try shake up the standard MOBA formula. Paragon adopted the same third-person perspective as SMITE, another popular MOBA, and added in verticality, a feature completely absent from any other MOBA. While the game didn’t become as popular as Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm or Riot Games’ League of Legends, it still maintained a dedicated fan base, which is more than can be said of plenty of other failed MOBAs. Still, players were able to read between the lines and took the thread for what it was: an announcement that Paragon would sooner rather than later shut down. However, nobody could have predicted how much sooner that would be.
Paragon isn’t the only game on the chopping block, though. Gamers are also rightfully worried about Epic Games’ other competitive multiplayer game, Unreal Tournament. Many of Unreal Tournament‘s developers worked on the Battle Royale mode for Fortnite that was designed to cash in on the success of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This mode is partially why Fortnite became large enough to require the talents of Paragon‘s developers, which in turn led to the closure of the game. While we have not heard any news yet from the Unreal Tournament team, gamers are now actively patrolling the Unreal Tournament reddit page and forums for any closure announcements.
Gamers who purchased anything for Paragon are eligible for a refund. Moreover, while the game won’t close until April 26th, they should expect drops in matchmaking times and quality. Although, perhaps this news will inspire many gamers to play Paragon, if only to give it one last hurrah and let it end with a bang.
One player found an unusual way to roam Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s New York City as Venom again. However, intentionally crashing your game during a story segment requires nerves of steel, so we wouldn’t recommend it. Possible Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 spoilers!
UnderTheHood788 explained their method, which involves reaching a cutscene that switches players to Peter. They unplugged their PS5 when the screen blanked while switching to fidelity mode. As the game renders slower, fidelity mode was used. Players get Don’t Be Scared, a mission without an objective, after reloading the last save.
UnderTheHood788 advises, “Wait a bit and go to an unidentified target mission or talon drone mission to become Venom. Reload and become Venom, committing crimes against hunters, the flame, thugs, and even symbiotes. Bases are possible.”
If you like causing carnage, get a move on—Insomniac will spoil the fun in the next update. This indirect approach—what do you think?
On December 7, Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora hits PS5. Fans can expect new creatures, characters, and storylines that are influencing other Avatar projects as part of James Cameron’s canon.
Massive Entertainment director Magnus Jansén told IGN that the game’s new Western Frontier region—from plants to Na’vi clans—is now Avatar lore: “The Western Frontier is no less a part of the world of Avatar than what’s in the movies.” Jansén says one of their creations is in an Avatar exhibition, but most excitingly, “there is already some talk about maybe using some of the stuff that we did in the upcoming movies.”
Jon Landau, producer of the Avatar films, said: “I think clans are a perfect thing to someday try to weave into the movies. However, new environments follow. Go and say, “Okay, let’s explore what you did in the video game in the movie.” Frontiers of Pandora introduces the Aranahe, Zeswa, and Kame’tire Na’vi clans.
In addition, Lightstorm VP of franchise development Joshua Izzo teased: “I can say that there are going to be some future sequel elements in Frontiers of Pandora that will pay off when the movie comes out when Avatar 3 comes out in 2025. Because of ’25, careful Avatar fans may want to revisit certain things.
CD Projekt’s live-action Cyberpunk 2077 won’t arrive until 2025. In the company’s latest earnings call, the PM project was only mentioned as not expected in 2024.
During a call with IGN, chief commercial officer Michał Nowakowski stated that the company will continue to promote the game and develop the Cyberpunk IP through activities beyond the game.
Nowakowski said, “We’re not really discussing specifics here, but one of the obvious things that we have announced, not happening next year, but going to be developed or moved in the direction next year, is the project we have announced with Anonymous Content.”
Anonymous Content, which produced Crime & Punishment, True Detective, and Mr. Robot, seems like a good fit to bring Night City’s mean streets to life. We don’t know if the project will be a TV show, movie, game adaptation, or standalone story.
Would you attend a live-action Cyberpunk event? Would you like it in what form? Jackie and V lost six months. With Johny Silverhand, Behind the Music?
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