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Amazon Game Studios announced today that Crucible, their free to play multiplayer hero shooter, will be shutting down in November, 2020. The game is shutting down just 5 months after soft launching in May and is yet another failure for the studio which is now 0 for 2 (Breakway, their first game, also shut down shortly after launch). Given the [...]

After a short delay, the Crucible rework is now well underway after the game was pulled back to closed beta following negative reviews from the community. The latest game update has just been released which introduces hero balance tweaks, a new minimap, new contextual comms ping options with roughly 2000 new voice lines, UI fixes, and the first iteration of [...]

Back in June, Amazon Game Studios announced that they were going to send Crucible back to closed beta just a little over a month after the game officially launched. Players who ed the game before the announcement were given access to the closed beta with additional invites scheduled to be sent out earlier this week along with the release of [...]

Crucible may have gone back to Closed Beta status but Amazon Game Studios is still hell-bent on keeping the playerbase active by continuing to run the cash tournaments that have been held every Sunday over the past few weeks. They’ve even increased the cash prizes for the said tournaments. The more teams participating in the tournament, the higher the cash [...]

After a rocky first month and a steadily declining playerbase, Amazon Game Studios has decided to pull Crucible from the shelves and send it back to closed beta for further development. “Starting tomorrow, Crucible is moving to closed beta. We’ll continue following the roap we laid out previously and working on map, combat, and system changes to improve the Heart [...]

The ability to communicate with your team through voice chat is an important feature for PvP shooters, especially since stopping to type a message in the chatbox will almost always get you killed during a firefight. Unfortunately, the said feature is still missing from Crucible more than a month after it launched on Steam. The good news is that voice [...]

Rocky launch days seem to have become the norm with today’s online games as Amazon Game Studios’ Crucible struggled with problems and prolonged queues after the game officially opened its servers yesterday. Apparently, the issues were caused by datacenter routing problems. The developers, however, were quick to roll out a hotfix late in the evening along with a number [...]

Over the past few days, Amazon has rolled out a series of Crucible character introduction videos in preparation for the online shooter’s launch on May 20th. Players will get to choose from 10 unique classes called Hunters and three game modes: Heart of the Hives, Alpha Hunters, and Harvester Command. As of today, the studio has released six spotlight videos [...]

Last month, Amazon Game Studios announced their plans to launch their battle royale shooter Crucible in May. Well, it’s now the first week of May and the studio has just dropped a definite date for the PvPvE shooter’s release along with a new video that shows off the three available game modes: Heart of the Hives, Alpha Hunters, and Harvester [...]