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Isometric DarkEden vampire MMO enters closed beta

by Jef Reahard on Nov 8th 2011 11:30AM

Betas, Fantasy, Horror, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play

Quick, name a vampire-themed MMORPG other than CCP's long-awaited World of Darkness. If you said DarkEden, you get a gold star. The isometric hack-and-slash game debuted way back in 1997 and while none of its various versions really caught on in the western market, that's not stopping Ignited Games from attempting to reanimate the game for a modern audience.

The game features three races and "distinctive gameplay mechanics and methods for character progression such as the vampire's need to drink blood to gain experience points," according to a new press release. DarkEden's closed beta phase is currently live, and you can sign up for a chance to test at the game's official website.

[Source: Ignited Games press release]

Source: Beta signup
More coverage: Ignited Games website

Tags: beta, closed-beta, darkeden, darkeden-online, f2p, fantasy, free-to-play, hack-and-slash, horror, ignited, ignited-games, isometric, testing, vampire-mmo, vampires

Reader Comments (10)

I'm in the beta, its very rough, not very fun, and half in some asian language, but it has potential I guess. So unless you like making about a million bug reports and slogging trhough with very little help I would wait for a good bit.

On a good note you do get to suck some blood.

Zzzzzzz

The screenshot looks great...

...for a game produced about 15 years ago.

Gave it a try, only made it about 10 minutes in -- I can usually handle terrible MMOs, but this one is quite bad. It's like they attempted to clone Diablo 1 and failed miserably.

So far this game has been released twice (or was it three times?) here in the US by different people and failed each time.

Why is somebody actually trying again? Sometimes you just got to let the thing die! The market is too crowded now, not everything is going to make money. You guys want to give something a shot, why not buy the rights to some hidden gem like the English version of Talesweaver rather than some old beat to death thrice failed game?

I have been playing this game for a long time now, I have also tried it in CBT graphics may not be that excellent but the gameplay makes the players stay to play this game. Great community! Check them to see for yourself at http://bit.ly/windslayer2ignited :)

Dark eden just ended CBT and will now Open Beta

Sign up and download your game client @
http://dk.ignitedgames.com/center/account/launcher_v2.asp or
http://bit.ly/uc5mFL

PS: Playing as a Vampire is addictive.. specially when your scking blood~ the vamp's laugh is so cool!!

See you there! ( *,...,* )

Thanks Ignited Games for reviving this game!!! At last! been waiting for some game company to release an Official North American Server!!

Spent 2 Years playing DE from some crappy private server(s)

must sign up.... must sign up...

@shadowstalker003 I Second that!! Thanks ignited games for bring Darkeden to life!!!

Darkeden is awesome!!!!

DARKEDEN CBT 2 STARTS TOMORROW! Yeeey!! :D
NOv 30 6PM(PST)

Isometric DarkEden vampire MMO enters closed beta

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