Category: Shards Online News

Shards Online is taking off in a big way on Steam with its arrival in the Steam Store and the commencement of the Steam Greenlight campaign. To celebrate, a new Shards Online trailer has been released and will be starting a special 7-day free trial pro…

Derek Brinkmann has updated the Shards Online site with a new look at how players will progress skills throughout the game. In essence, players will grow skill competencies through actually using them. At launch, there will be thirty available skills f…

Shards Online pre-alpha backers are being invited to helps test out the Catacombs and the latest build of the game. Players will be able to check out Catacombs levels 1-2 which includes level 2 “rearranging” itself every few hours to include different …

The Shards Online site has been updated with a notice to testers that the 0.3.3 update will be delayed by one week to give the team more chances to get some more bug squashing done. The new client will be available for download on March 31st.

The latest Shards Online newsletter has been published that gives some nice information to fans and players of the game. First off, April will see an alpha preview event with players asked to submit feedback regarding the state of the game prior to Alp…

The latest Shards Online newsletter has been released that details the activities of a very busy game studio. Derek Brinkmann starts the discussion with a brief overview of what the team is working on followed by several interesting announcements inclu…

Back in December, Citadel Online hosted a big party for backers of Shards Online with Pre-Alpha 3. We caught up to the always running Derek Brinkmann to find out more about PA3, what lessons the team took away from the event and what the future holds f…

The Shards Online community had the opportunity to take part in a Tournament of Champions event last week that resonated well with players. DusyMonkeyGaming took the stream footage and created a highlights reel that shows off some of the good times had…

The latest Shards Online newsletter has been released with some interesting tidbits of information including the first community PvP tournament to be held on January 16th at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. Players will be able to compete in 2v2 bat…

Beginning on Saturday, December 12th, some big, big things will be happening with Shards Online during this weekend’s Pre-Alpha 3 event. The NDA has been lifted temporarily through the weekend so that fans and potential backers can get a first-hand loo…