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Line of Defense Momentarily Made Free On Steam
Line of Defense went into early access last week and while the idea was that players would need to purchase one of the game’s founder’s packs to gain access, a mistake in the game’s Steam listing...
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3000AD Reconsidering Free To Play After Weekend
Line of Defense, MMO Shooter currently in an early state of development, recently ran a free play weekend that has developer 3000AD rethinking whether or not free weekends will be on the menu for the...
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Derek Smart Slams Star Citizen
Derek Smart is an industry veteran whose work and legacy goes back two decades, with the Universal Combat and Battlecruiser line of games, and he has bad news for those eagerly awaiting Star Citizen:...
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Ben Lesnick Addresses Recent Criticisms Of Star Citizen
Ben Lesnick (not Chris Roberts) of Cloud Imperium Games has posted a very long and detailed Q&A session on the official Star Citizen forums in an effort to improve communication and dispel recent...
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Derek Smart Used Star Citizen “To Promote His Line of Defense Game,” Smart...
In what might be the first case of public corporate banning, CIG’s Ben Lesnick has posted a message on the official forums announcing that they have refunded Derek Smart’s Kickstarter pledge and...
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CIG Might Refund $2.1 Million Kickstarters, Derek Smart Promises Lawsuit
Cloud Imperium Games publicly announced that they refunded Derek Smart’s Kickstarter pledge and disabled his account may strike as odd, given they accused him of using the game to push his own MMO,...
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Derek Smart Enlists Law Firm, Threatens Lawsuit
If you haven’t been keeping up with the kerfuffle between Derek Smart and Chris Roberts, it goes as follows: Derek Smart has been a very vocal critic of Star Citizen and Chris Roberts, over the fact...
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Derek Smart: There Will Be A Lawsuit
If Cloud Imperium Games thought that booting Derek Smart out as a customer would be the end of the story, they were sorely mistaken. Smart has been heading a crusade against Star Citizen over claims...
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Derek Smart, Indie Devs, And Death Threats
As those of you who follow my Twitter account (see right hand side of page) know, I spent a good part of last night following up on a story that broke earlier in the day yesterday. Derek Smart, game...
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Star Citizen Threatens Lawsuit Against Escapist Magazine
If you haven’t been paying attention to the ongoing drama surrounding Star Citizen, the public spat between Chris Roberts and Derek Smart has expanded to include a very critical article published, and...
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Line of Defense Leaving Steam
3000AD has announced that Line of Defense is leaving Steam, citing trolling and harassment from the community. In a post on the Steam forums, Derek Smart points to the lack of developer control when...
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Line of Defense To Split: Line of Defense and All Out War
Turns out Daybreak isn’t the only company that can split its games in half. It’s been a while since we last heard from Derek Smart’s Line of Defense, the Planetside-competing open world shooter....
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Alganon Has Not Been Sunset, Is Still Planning A Comeback
Alganon isn’t dead, it’s merely resting. You may be surprised to read that Alganon’s servers went down for maintenance and migration in November 2017 and haven’t been up since. In that time, Derek...
View ArticleLine of Defense Shows Life After Two Years
It’s nothing significant. Line of Defense is a game that regularly makes its way into MMO Fallout’s list of titles that are probably never seeing release and you’d be forgiven for having assumed that...
View ArticleAlganon Still Returning, Says Smart
After years of the servers being offline. Alganon’s servers have been offline since they were taken down for a server migration. In November 2017. But if there is one person still keen on bringing the...
View ArticleAlganon Hits Four Year Cancelversary
As server code migrated by hand written on rice. Alganon; it’s the game people think about when people think about a game called Alganon. November 13 marks the four year anniversary of Alganon being...
View ArticleDerek Smart Promises Alganon Coming Back Again
For serious. It is Wednesday March 9 in the year of Arnold, and that means we’re talking about Alganon again. You know, that game whose downtime we celebrated the four year anniversary of last...
View ArticleAlganon Is All Back And Stuff
Derek Smart promises more in the coming months. Alganon is back. It’s been nearly five years, but Alganon is in fact back. How do I know? Derek Smart posted on the official game news page “we’re back...
View ArticleDerek Smart Announces Line of Defense For UE5
Being rebuilt from scratch-ish. Derek Smart is back, and he’s talking about Line of Defense. A game we pretty much assumed was dead given the last blog post on the website wouldn’t be all that familiar...
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