Game Updates

Immortals of Aveum – Update 1.0.5.5 Release Notes

October 31, 2023

Update 1.0.5.5 arrives November 2nd, with performance improvements on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

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Immortals of Aveum is Upgrading to Unreal Engine 5.2!

October 3, 2023

Today at Unreal Fest, our Associate Art Director, Julia Lichtblau, announced plans to update Immortals of Aveum to UE 5.2.

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Bringing Improvements and Enhancements to Immortals of Aveum

September 29, 2023

We’re listening to your feedback on Immortals of Aveum and are continuously working to bring as many improvements to your gaming experience as possible.

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Immortals of Aveum – Update 1.0.5.0 Release Notes

September 29, 2023

The PC patch 1.0.5.0 arrives today, September 29, with the launch of FSR 3 in Immortals of Aveum on PC!

Immortals of Aveum – Update 1.0.4.2 Release Notes

September 26, 2023

We’ve got an update for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC headed your way. We’ve been listening to your feedback and we’re working to get everything we can into patches over the coming months.

Immortals of Aveum – Update 1.0.4.1 Release Notes

September 11, 2023

We continue to work to make Immortals of Aveum™ the best game it can be and we appreciate everyone who has taken the time to play, share their feedback, and send in bug reports.

Immortals of Aveum – Update 1.0.3.0 Release Notes

September 4, 2023

We wanted to thank you all for the support, feedback and bug reports. Our second patch update brings a lot of key fixes, so please be sure to read over the release notes.

Immortals of Aveum – Update 1.0.2.1 Release Notes

August 25, 2023

Thank you for playing Immortals of Aveum™ this first week. We appreciate all of your feedback and have rolled out our first post-launch update.

The Call to Create a New IP

After 26 years in the games industry, Bret Robbins (Founder & CEO at Ascendant Studios) felt it was time to begin something new. He had spent his career working on world-famous franchises like Lord of the Rings, 007 James Bond, and directing multiple Call of Duty campaigns, but there was something about his experience creating an original IP from scratch, like Dead Space, that kept calling to him.

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Dreaming up a new game and the studio to create it

"I remember working on one of the Call of Duty levels and thinking, what if instead of a helicopter, that was a dragon. And instead of RPG explosions, those were fireballs. And instead of soldiers, we were all battle mages, firing off spells and wrecking the place.

And I stopped and thought ‘Where is that game? I want to play that game!'"

Investing in the Vision

"I had an opportunity to just sit and write for about four months. I would park myself at a small cafe and work on the game design document and the story outline. It was a time of allowing myself to think that anything was possible and I could design whatever I wanted. Since then, a lot of the ideas have changed and gotten better, but the heart of what I wrote back then is still the vision for the game today."

When a surprising opportunity strikes

"We had been going for about a month when we heard that Telltale Games was shutting down and that the entire staff had just been laid off. Someone heard that they were commiserating over at a nearby bar, so we drove over and started meeting with people.

I hired about a half dozen people that day, including my Art Director."

Building a sustainable culture

"One thing I learned over years of working at different studios is that the culture starts at the top. I don't want people to crunch and burnout, because I personally don't want to do that either. I want people to feel that they are being treated fairly and honestly. I put a high premium on being open and transparent with the team, and I think that's surprisingly rare in our industry."

A partnership to launch Immortals of Aveum

"Just when we were getting into full game production, we started to attract attention from publishers. It was a very validating moment. We chose to partner with EA because we knew they could reach the biggest audience, and their Originals label had a great track. We also kept creative control and ownership of the game, which was key for us."