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Bandai Namco has posted on the Steam forums to say that its free-to-play 2v2 fighting game Rise of Incarnates is being shut down. This comes as a surprise considering the game launched only a few months ago, on July 1st.

The in-game currency, Incarnate Points, will no longer be available to purchase on Steam after October 14th. The servers will remain open for remaining players until December 15th 2015. After that it will no longer be playable.

Between those dates, all of the characters in the game will be available for free and all of the in-game items will have a reduced price (some of them will be free, too).

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Bandai Namco has announced that Red Dragon is the next character heading to its free-to-play competitive 2v2 online battler Rise of Incarnates on August 26th.

Living up to his name, Red Dragon makes use of his wings to whip and spin past enemies, as well as incinerating them using his fiery breath. See him in action in the trailer above.

As to the back story, Red Dragon’s human name is Jedrek Tyler, who is a direct ancestor of the one man able to a daiman known as The Prophet during the first annihilation of humankind. Tyler rose against the Sovereign under The Prophet’s guidance but the world still went towards destruction.

Anyway, after a defeat in battle, The Prophet put Tyler’s body into a long-term cold sleep. To keep Tyler alive during this sleep, The Prophet had to implant large quantities of lamina and herald tissue in his body, which is what eventually transformed him into the Red Dragon.

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Bandai Namco will be introducing a new character to the line-up of its free-to-play 2v2 arena battler Rise of Incarnates on July 29th.

Known as Yuki Himuro, or Utsutahim, she summons a snow spirit into battle that dishes out piercingly cold melee attacks. “Yuki had always hated her powers and feared the day she would be found out as an incarnate, and wished instead that her abilities would simply disappear,” reads her description. “However, to protect herself and her friends, she would have to cast her fear away and rely on one dependable thing -- her own power.”

That’s not all. Bandai Namco has updated Rise of Incarnates with a new San Francisco map, available now, that sees California’s city transformed into a metropolis of ice by a supernatural disaster.

Further, Bandai Namco is hosting a Rise of Incarnates launch ranking event from Monday, July 20th until Sunday, July 26th that offers special rewards to the top 100 players. Here’s how the rewards will be distributed according to rank:

●      Rank 1-10: Golden weapon customization item

●      Rank 11-30: Silver weapon customization item

●      Rank 31-50: Bronze weapon customization item

●      Rank 51-100: LP boost tickets for 14 days

And finally, Rise of Incarnates will have presence at EVO 2015 at the Bandai Namco booth with special giveaways for those who play a match. These include cards that contain character product codes and a chance to win an exclusive Rise of Incarnates t-shirt.

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The Gundam Vs. series has been a big success for Bandai Namco in arcades and on consoles. Usually, that would prompt a publisher to consider an overseas release, but so far Bandai Namco has only brought over the Dynasty Warriors Gundam series while the console version of Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. remains a popular import.

Why hasn't Bandai Namco localized the 2-on-2 Gundam fighting games? Siliconera asked Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. producer Ryuichiro Baba.

"The Gundam games have an entertaining battle system, which may explain why people are importing them, but the license is a problem,” Baba replied. “In addition to that, in Japan and Asia, anime airs more often on TV where not as much is aired in the US. Also, the Gundam plastic model kits are readily found throughout Asia. The IP in general is much more well received in Asia and Japan.”

“To try to create that for the Western market would be difficult,” he added. Baba is also the executive producer of Rise of Incarnates, and said that this is partly what led to the creation of that game.

“That is kind of what lead to a decision for [Rise of Incarnates]. The 2-on-2 gameplay is the same, but it's tailored more to the Western audience,” he said to Siliconera. “Not just with the look of the game, but the mechanics, as well, which is kind of how this game started out.”

Baba joked that they haven't given up on Gundam and maybe if Michael Bay made a Gundam movie like he did with Transformers, the series would grow in the West. Baba also said that if the 2-on-2 fighting genre gains popularity, perhaps through Rise of Incarnates, that could increase the chances of seeing the Gundam Vs. games released in the West. In addition to Gundam Vs. staff at Bandai Namco Games, Byking, the developer of Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. and Gunslinger Stratos, is helping developing Rise of Incarnates.

From Gundam Vs. to Border Break, team-battle games have grown in popularity in Japan where you might not expect them—arcades. Baba mused that, perhaps Japanese players are late to the game when it comes to multiplayer online matches and that, compared to a one-on-one fighting game, team battles allow arcade gamers to team up with friends when fighting other players. These are reasons Baba believes that the 2-on-2 and team multiplayer games have grown into a genre of their own in Japan.

Rise of Incarnates is scheduled to debut on Steam's Early Access program sometime in November. This version will have 3 stages and 8 playable characters. 6 are currently in the Rise of Incarnates beta, plus Ra, who uses a spinning laser attack and can create a giant sword for a narrow, but long-range strike. Bandai Namco will reveal another character later on, too.

When it launches, Rise of Incarnates will be a free-to-play game with customization items available to purchase. Some items are drops, but others can only be obtained if you purchase them. The Early Access release will have 1,500 items (head, body, weapon, and accessories) to collect.

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A beta for Rise if Incarnates, Bandai Namco’s free-to-play arena fighter, will begin on August 8th, the publisher announced at a at the San Diego Comic-Con this afternoon.

Namco made the beta announcement alongside a new trailer for the game.

Rise of Icarnates is developed by of the Soulcalibur and Tekken development teams and is in development for PC. Namco said they're working with arcade stick maker MadCatz to create a controller for the game.

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Rise of Incarnates, Bandai Namco’s 2-on-2 arena fighter, introduced two characters this week—Brynhildr and Odin. Details on the two can be found below:

• Erendira Quinn / Brynhildr : A childhood of abuse at the hands of her father ended the day she awoke as an incarnate. Fear of retribution for his violence led the man to take his own life a few years later. Already isolated by her status as an incarnate, Quinn faced further alienation as she was ed from orphanage to orphanage, ultimately ending up at a facility run by the United States federal government.

  Dreaming of a society in which incarnates could coexist with normal humans free from discrimination; she began to seek out ways to contribute towards the greater good of the world. Yet headlines about incarnate crimes and acts of terror indelibly marked her kind as a threat to be feared by the general public. Her frustrations grew into a deep resentment of the rampaging incarnates, and she came to believe that the tremendous power incarnates hold required an even more powerful system of law and justice to restrain it. She found that power as commander of the Wild Hunt.

• Reinhold Kruger / Odin : Feared as the kingpin of the EU, age has not dulled Kruger's fangs, nor his ambitions. Under the guise of retirement, he is secretly at work unfurling a new scheme: a pan-European revolution at the hands of the incarnates to secure their human rights--and to heighten their power to greatest extent possible. In his arsenal is the unparalleled intelligence network "Odin's Eye," the ranks of incarnates under his command, and the multi-legged assault tank "Sleipnir" he pilots. All of the pieces are in place for his plan to assassinate a host of key figures and overturn the European power structure...

  Yet now he has dispatched a portion of the force he gathered for his revolution to America. Men as calculating as Kruger seldom alter long-laid plans for no reason--behind this change lie the whispers of another, fed directly into his brain. And by its bidding, Kruger now turns his attentions from Europe to the United States, where the Prophet is being held in secret.

The two new characters the existing roster of Ares, Mephistopheles, Lilith and Grim Reaper. Rise of Incarnates is slated for release in the latter part of 2014.

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Last month, Bandai Namco revealed a new fighting game for PC, titled Rise of Incarnates. A 2-on-2 battle arena game, Rise of Incarnates is being developed by Namco staff that have worked on Tekken and Soulcalibur.

This morning, Namco announced that Rise of Incarnates is going into Alpha starting tomorrow, May 30th. The Alpha will run May 30th – June 1st, and you can sign up for it here.

Alongside the announcement, Namco also released an “extended intro” trailer, which explains the basics of the game.

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This morning, Bandai Namco announced their plans for the Japan Expo in . The publisher highlighted a number of games that will be at the event, and said that they will also have “additional titles and surprises”. Note that this doesn’t necessarily mean new game announcements.

The games that we already know about include:

• One Piece Unlimited World: Red
• Tales of Xillia 2
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle
• Rise of Incarnates
• Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

In addition to games, the Bandai Namco shop space will also feature an “extended catalogue” featuring a range of merchandise that hasn’t been released outside Japan before.

Japan Expo will be held from July 2nd – 6th at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, . Bandai Namco’s booth is Booth BF76 Hall 6.

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Bandai Namco Games announced a new title during Global Gamer's Day called Rise of Incarnates. This 2 vs. 2 battle arena game is being developed by staff that worked on Tekken and Soulcalibur. Yuichiro Baba from the Gundam Vs. franchise is the executive producer of the project.

The game is set in a ruined world with New York, London, San Francisco, and Paris as battle arenas. You play as an Incarnate, a human who has demonic power. This gives you abilities to transform and fly around the game's 3D battlefields. Rise of Incarnates will have four characters at launch – Ares, Grim Reaper (who looks like a zombie summoning mad scientist), Lilith (a speedy fighter), and Mephistopheles.

The goal with Rise of Incarnates was to make a fighting game focused on camaraderie that's also free to play. During the presentation a representative said the game will not be "pay to play." Microtransactions will be for aesthetic items or to speed things up.

Rise of Incarnates will be released for PC on Steam in Q2 2014.

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