Today I had an informal chat with one of my contacts at Smilegate, and I’m able to give you some fairly exciting news!

My contact has confirmed that Turf Battles will 100% be coming back! They are working on it right now to get it fixed and ready to be played. I haven’t been given confirmation on whether they will be publishing the game themselves, or if they will be looking for external publishing.

There is also no date set for when the game will be coming back, and there’s no news on exactly *what* they are fixing/changing/preparing/updating, but I think it’s going to be fixing all the glitches, bugs etc. And as we all know, there were quite a few problems – so it’s going to take them a bit of time to fix it all up.

ANDO’S SATURDAY BIG STRESS TEST DROP PARTY EVENT #2
Starts 11AM PST (2PM EST / 19:00 GMT) – both servers!

Since last weekend’s event went so well, I’m running another drop party this SATURDAY to encourage everyone to log in at the same time and do a final stress test of the servers.

To encourage as many players as possible to log in at that time, I’ve decided to sweeten the event I’ll run if we can get a lot of people on. Here’s the plan: (more…)