The Amazing Eternals

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The Amazing Eternals
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Key art of The Amazing Eternals
Developer(s) Digital Extremes
Publisher(s) Digital Extremes
Designer(s) Allen Goode
Artist(s) Mike Sebalj
Craig Sellars
Engine Evolution
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
ReleaseCancelled
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Multiplayer

The Amazing Eternals is a cancelled team-based multiplayer online first-person shooter video game developed and published by Digital Extremes.

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Background

Digital Extremes publicly announced and began the game's closed alpha on May 23, 2017, under the development codename "Keystone". [1] Closed beta began on August 29, 2017. [2] On October 26, 2017, development was "paused", according to a forum post by a staff member. [3] [4] The cancellation of the project and Digital Extremes' decision to refocus on its more successful title Warframe was later attributed in part the commercial failure of LawBreakers and the lack of interest in The Amazing Eternals closed beta. [5]

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References

  1. "Digital Extremes ANNOUNCES KEYSTONE". Digital Extremes. May 23, 2017. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019.
  2. "FOUNDERS PROGRAM REVEALED". Digital Extremes. August 16, 2017. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017.
  3. "The Amazing Eternals Development". The Amazing Eternals (Closed Beta). 2017-10-25. Archived from the original on 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  4. Bailey, Dustin (October 16, 2017). "Digital Extremes have "hit the pause button" on the Amazing Eternals development". pcgamesn.com.
  5. Bailey, Dustin (July 9, 2018). "Digital Extremes' the Amazing Eternals was cancelled partly because of LawBreakers". pcgamesn.com.