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Monday16th Sep 2024
News Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures Scoops Up Immortals of Aveum Talent, Forms New Studio
Welcome back, Absurd Marin
Update: A spokesperson from Absurd Ventures has contacted us to point out the newly formed Absurd Marin's game will be set in a "separate, yet to be announced universe" — and not part of the A Better Paradise universe, as previously reported. Original Article: A core of developers from Ascendant Studios (including its...
Friday12th Apr 2024
News Majority of Immortals of Aveum Studio Reportedly Furloughed
The hits keep on coming
Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff. Word comes to us by way of a LinkedIn post
Wednesday3rd Apr 2024
News Immortals of Aveum Getting Futuristic FSR 3, HDR Support on PS5
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Immortals of Aveum is making a second attempt, available this month via PlayStation Plus, and it seems developer Ascendant Studios still has a few magic tricks up its voluminous sleeve. Two patches are planned for the game, one which will add the now-expected HDR support and...
Tuesday13th Feb 2024
News Immortals of Aveum Cost $125 Million, Branded a 'Truly Awful Idea'
Ex-employee pulls no punches
Ascendant Studios' debut game was Immortals of Aveum, a single-player, magic-based first-person shooter with semi-open environments and high production values. Published by EA Originals, it launched last summer to a somewhat mixed reception, and reportedly didn't sell. As a result, the developer let go of practically...
Monday20th Nov 2023
News Magical PS5 FPS Immortals of Aveum Is Probably Coming to PS Plus at Some Point
Immortality
In a year that's been drenched in top notch releases, you'd be forgiven for forgetting about Immortals of Aveum — the magic-based first-person shooter that launched back in August. The title was met with fairly middling reviews and there was talk of poor sales not long after. A shame, too, because despite some obvious flaws, the game...
Friday17th Nov 2023
News Immortals of Aveum's Big PS5 Echollector Update Has Arrived
Second time's a charm
Immortals of Aveum, it seemed, came and went, with the flashy FPS failing to set the world alight, resulting in significant layoffs at the studio. Despite that, developer Ascendant Studios has been plugging away at the Echollector update, which adds endgame content, Grand Magnus difficulty, and a New Game+ mode, all available...
Thursday2nd Nov 2023
News Huge PS5 Update Makes Immortals of Aveum Better Than Ever
You can also play for free
Ascendant Studios has today announced it'll be deploying a huge PS5 patch for Immortals of Aveum on 16th November 2023 that adds new playable content, New Game+, and an even tougher difficulty mode in Grand Magnus. On that same day, the PS5 game will also be available for anyone to play for free up until the third chapter...
Thursday14th Sep 2023
News Poor Immortals of Aveum Sales Leads to Significant Lay-Offs
Nearly half the entire studio is gone
Almost half of the entire workforce at Ascendant Studios has been laid off as a result of poor sales for its magical FPS Immortals of Aveum. Speaking to Polygon, three employees at the developer said "nearly half of its staff" was let go on Thursday, with bad sales of the game cited as one reason why. Sources...
Tuesday25th Jul 2023
News Make Sense of Immortals of Aveum's Magical PS5 World in Comic-Con Cinematic Trailer
Jak was right to keep the Binding Stone
We're still trying to get a read on the first-person sorcerer simulator Immortals of Aveum, and it's proving resistant to our scrying. The gameplay looks promising enough, but the fairly generic fantasy setting still gives a little pause (we got enough of that for the year in the mediocre Forspoken,
Friday7th Jul 2023
News Immortals of Aveum Gameplay Unpacked in Maximalist PS5, PS4 Overview Trailer
Sigil up
Immortals of Aveum is shaping up to be a big, bombastic AAA first-person shooter and a single-player one, at that. Generic fantasy setting or not, that's a rare enough treat these days, and so we were eager to learn more about it. Featuring different colours of magic that correlate to different combat situations, there are 25 spells total...
Tuesday20th Jun 2023
News Promising FPS Immortals of Aveum Delayed to August
For more polish and optimization
Immortals of Aveum team Ascendant Studios has made the decision to delay its PS5 first-person shooter by a month. It was originally set to launch on 20th July 2023, but will now release on 22nd August 2023, a few days prior to Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. The developer says pushing the title back by four weeks...
Thursday8th Jun 2023
News Tricked Out Magic FPS Immortals of Aveum Makes One Final Push for PS5 Launch
A kinda magic
Immortals of Aveum, the breakneck Call of Duty-esque magic shooter from EA Originals, made one final push for launch during Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest today. The trailer showed plenty more magic-based machine gun action, and a few cinematics from the final release. This debut effort from new studio Ascendant Studios is...
Thursday25th May 2023
News Immortals of Aveum Conjures an Enchanting PS5 Gameplay Trailer
Let's be Aveum you
We were pretty impressed when we first laid eyes on Immortals of Aveum, and it continues to look very promising in this latest trailer. Coming from EA Originals and developer Ascendant Studios, the game is essentially a first-person shooter, swapping out guns for magic and placing you in a colourful environment full of dragons and...
Monday10th Apr 2023
Rumour Magical FPS Immortals of Aveum Conjures 20th July Release Date
The portents align
EA's magical FPS Immortals of Aveum could be out in just two short months, according to a dataminer with an unusually reliable track record. Billbil-kun reports that the sorcerous single-player shooter is coming to PS5 on 20th July 2023. We only got our first taste of the title at The
Friday9th Dec 2022
News Immortals of Aveum Made by Dead Space, Call of Duty Alumni
Coming to PS5 next year
You've heard the story before: a couple of developers that have worked on prominent gaming franchises in the past have gotten together to form a new team. This time around, former Dead Space and Call of Duty developers have come together to form Ascendant Studios. Collectively, they're bringing Immortals of Aveum to PS5 next...
