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It's been over a year since the free to play fighting game Rising Thunder shut down but the company behind the game is taking an incredible step to support fans of the game. They're launching an open source "Community" version called "Rising Thunder: Community Edition" in January, 2018. The developers posted the following on Reddit: Hey folks. Super inspired by [...]
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Radiant Entertainment announced today via a newsletter sent to all Rising Thunder Alpha participants that it has been acquired by Riot Games. The studio's developers are confident that the acquisition will allow them to "continue their mission of building incredible games that speak to us personally as players." As part of the acquisition, Rising Thunder's Alpha will be shut down [...]
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Rising Thunder, the free to play fighting game designed specifically for the PC, launched build 1423 which introduces numerous new features to the game as well as some balance changes. The biggest changes with this update include bigger lobbies (up to 8 players) and the ability to spectate an active match. Lobby matches are quite fun, because even though only [...]
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MMO Fighter, Rising Thunder, has now launched their Custom Matches system. Previously players had a hard time matching up with specific people— but now with the alpha implementation of their lobby system, players can now play unranked matches against whoever they want. For now only two players can join a lobby at a time with the first iteration of the [...]
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Radiant Entertainment pushed Build 1292 for Rising Thunder today which gives Edge and Vlad new S1 variants—a fancy term for special moves. Edge's new S1 variant allows him to charge his Kinetic and Overdrive meters without attacking while Vlad's new S1 variant calls down a missile from the sky with its timing hidden from the opponent. Other changes include Vlad's [...]
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Rising Thunder Gameplay First Look by Omer Rising Thunder is a unique arcade style fighting game designed for the PC market in mind. Most fighting games are designed for consoles and arcades, which makes Rising Thunder a unique experience. It's the only free to play arcade style fighting game available in the West, aside from perhaps Rise of Incarnates. The [...]
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Following a successful initial test involving those that received alpha keys, the Rising Thunder newsletter was sent out last night telling those on their mailing list that the alpha is now open to everyone. You can now log in and play all six characters immediately without waiting. Along with the public launch, two new variants were announced. Talos received the move [...]
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Upcoming PC fighter Rising Thunder has announced via twitter that they have started sending out alpha invites this afternoon (July 29, 2015.) The 2D fighting game with giant 3D robot character models promises to bring the 1v1 competitive experience to a wider PC audience. Developed by Radiant Entertainment, Rising Thunder works fluidly with a keyboard and does away with complicated [...]
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