{"id":61233,"date":"2014-01-06T01:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61233"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:32:24","slug":"new-moba-deadbreed-from-just-cause-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61233-new-moba-deadbreed-from-just-cause-developers","title":{"rendered":"New MOBA Deadbreed from Just Cause developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Swedish game developer veterans have joined up to create Deadbreed &#8211; a game they are billing as &#8220;a darker hardcore MOBA with unprecedented hero customizability and RPG gameplay features.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tactical 3vs3 battles online versus players or AI combatants.<\/li>\n<li>Each hero has its own unique set of special abilities and plays differently depending on the way you equip them. Choose your hero from a range of night-, half- and daybreed.<\/li>\n<li>Heroes level up with matches \u2013 Earn experience to rank up the heroes you favour.<\/li>\n<li>Artifact Items level up and wear down with matches \u2013 Earn experience to unlock upgrades and crafting relic slots for your artifacts.<\/li>\n<li>Summon totem creatures to aid you in battle.<\/li>\n<li>A team chosen Sentinel becomes the endgame bossfight challenge. The outcome of each match change your status with the Sentinels and affect their power.<\/li>\n<li>Maps have customizable options like Dungeons, side- and PvP-Quests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to play a MOBA where I could totally customize how my hero looked and, more importantly played, but I couldn\u2019t find one,\u201d explained Stefan Ljungqvist, developer at the Stockholm based studio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talking to friends, I realized I wasn\u2019t the only one wanting this, so we decided to make it. Also, this was our chance to make a darker themed MOBA for hardcore gamers like ourselves and bring in some additional RPG gameplay features.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a decade of making triple A action console games, it feels good to return to your roots,&#8221; said Ljungqvist. &#8220;It feels great to make monsters again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deadbreed is accepting <a title=\"Deadbreed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadbreed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">signups for its upcoming closed Beta<\/a> and is available for PC. The game has also made its way to <a title=\"Deadbreed\" href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=206741561\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Greenlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKX-5aY2zT4\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61228-trojan-found-in-fake-world-of-warcraft-client.html\">Trojan found in fake World of Warcraft client<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61226-2013-was-not-a-great-year-for-games.html\">2013 was not a great year for games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61225-fallout-disappears-but-hope-remains-bethesda.html\">Fallout disappears, but hope remains: Bethesda<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of veteran Swedish developers are working on &#8220;a darker hardcore MOBA with unprecedented hero customizability and RPG gameplay features.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":61234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11915,21],"class_list":["post-61233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-deadbreed","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}