City of Steam Articles
Mechanist Games has announced that the City of Steam beta will kick off tonight at 10:00 pm EDT / 7:00 pm PDT. The team is reporting that an aggressive development schedule took place over the past five months, allowing for new features to be added to the beta and a new zone later this month.
R2Games and Mechanist Games have announced that City of Steam will be launching into beta this week and that all interested players can check out the forthcoming game. The beta is expected to kick off on May 10th with a host of new and improved features.
Mechanist Games and Reality Squared have announced that the early access open beta for City of Steam will begin on May 10th. The early access beta is being designed to test out some of the newly added and overhauled features suggested by the closed beta community.
Mechanist Games has proudly announced that City of Steam is now included in Valve's Steam Greenlight program after a successful campaign to drum up enough votes for inclusion. The future goal from here out is to ensure that CoS is included in Steam's stable of games once it hits release.
During GDC, we had the opportunity to check out City of Steam, a steampunk based MMO on the rise in many folk's mind. We have a full report of our time with City of Steam that you won't want to miss. Read on before heading to the comments.
Part of our ongoing effort to keep our readers informed is to make sure they have the knowledge they need to be excited about a game. We've reached out to every developer releasing a game this year to have them talk a bit about why their game is special. Next up in this ongoing series is City of Steam. Read our mini-interview and then talk about it in the comments.
Mechanist Games has reached a publishing agreement with R2Games (Reality Squared) to bring City of Steam to a worldwide audience. R2Games currently publishes Wartune and Crystal Saga and City of Steam will be its first foray into the browser-based games market.
As the open beta phase of development approaches, City of Steam's Dave Lindsay has penned a new letter to the community on the official site. In it, Dave talks about his experiences with closed beta testers and how his own game time led him to some important changes the team will be bringing to CoS in the next version.
In the latest in a series of developer diaries, the City of Steam team has revealed the look and purpose behind the guard uniforms that players will see in the game. The journal reveals that the team wanted to go for a more "Victorian look".
The City of Steam development team has released a new "dev humiliation" video based on the Steam-o-Meter that is now live on the site. As the team reaches certain goals, the meter rises and those things are included for the upcoming closed beta. In addition, as goals are reached, certain...embarrassing things will happen to devs. Check out the first installment!
As (reluctantly) promised, live action FemGab and AndrewYunk humiliation! ENJOY!!
The City of Steam team has let us know that the official Steam Greenlight campaign has kicked off. Participants voting for City of Steam will benefit from a bevy of in-game rewards for helping out.
The latest City of Steam developer blog lays out the details about recent changes to the user interface. The GUI has been retooled, overhauled and refitted into the current beta version of the game.
The City of Steam team has announced that the game will be released in North America and 'emerging markets' in Q1 2013. CoS will be available to players in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey and will be fully localized in both Arabic and Turkish.
City of Steam is a clear entry into what we like to think of as a new sub-genre of MMOs, steampunk. We offer our readers a brand new hands on preview of City of Steam. Check it out and then leave your reactions in the comments.