{"id":68496,"date":"2014-09-03T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68496"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:41:50","slug":"dinosaur-hunting-game-the-stomping-land-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68496-dinosaur-hunting-game-the-stomping-land-disappears","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur hunting game The Stomping Land disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64551-fight-and-ride-dinosaurs-in-the-stomping-land.html\">The\u00a0Stomping Land<\/a>, the game we wrote about a few months ago that lets you hunt and ride dinosaurs?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the game has been pulled from Steam Early Access and reports are that The Stomping Land&#8217;s developers have gone quiet.<\/p>\n<p>The game came to our attention after going through a stint on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/524168447\/the-stomping-land?ref=nav_search\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>, and looked promising. Riding and killing dinosaurs was a novel concept, and several MyGaming readers gave the title the thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, there is no word on what will happen to the game after it was successfully funded through its Kickstarter campaign in June 2013 and put on Steam&#8217;s Early Access list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/valve-pulls-dinosaur-game-from-steam-early-access-\/1100-6422063\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a>\u00a0contacted both Steam and The Stomping Land&#8217;s developers for comment, but had not received any feedback at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheStompingLand\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheStompingLand\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0pages have not been updated in months, pointing towards bad news for gamers who were keen for a bit of prehistoric hunting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity, the game looked fun.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3j4YJ_5kHEI?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Any The Stomping Land backers out there? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/68372-behold-the-games-of-september.html\">Behold the Games of September<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/68384-sims-and-sleuthing-games-you-can-play-this-week.html\">Sims and Sleuthing \u2013 games you can play this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68216-digital-pc-games-dominate-the-sales-charts.html\">Digital PC games dominate the sales charts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stomping Land has vanished from Steam Early Access &#8211; does this mark the end for the game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12741,21,2366,9376,12443],"class_list":["post-68496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-game-delay","tag-headline","tag-kickstarter","tag-steam-early-access","tag-the-stomping-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68496","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}