Kotaku: Tribes

Who Wants Codes for the Tribes: Ascend Beta Test?

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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When Hi-Rez Studios contacted Kotaku about giving away 100 codes good for entry to the Tribes: Ascend beta test, I thought long and hard about the most efficient and fair way to distribute those codes to our readers. More »

There's One Sure Way to Get Into the Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta

Mike Fahey — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:20:00 EDT

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If you're anything like Joel and I, you'd really like to get into next month's closed beta for free-to-play online multiplayer shooter Tribes: Ascend. If camping out in front of Hi-Rez Studios until they let you in isn't an option, you can always drop $30 for the beta-guaranteed VIP preorder package. More »

A Hardcore Triber Tells You Why Tribes: Ascend is So, So Close to Being Transcendent

Joel Johnson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EDT

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I have played Tribes: Ascend. If that statement doesn't make you jealous, provoke salivating, or awaken tense memories of last-minute flag captures that you can physically feel in your shoulders and mousing hand, this probably isn't going to be the article for you. More »

Twenty Minutes of Tribes: Ascend in Glorious Shaky-Cam-O-Vision

Mike Fahey — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:40:00 EDT

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Direct from QuakeCon 2011, here's twenty minutes of Tribes: Ascend in action, filmed during a demonstrations of Hi-Rez Studios' revitalization of the beloved franchise. Makes me want to play it all over again. More »

Tribes: Ascend Revisits the Series' Glory Days

Mike Fahey — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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I first played Starsiege: Tribes at the 1998 E3 Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. A relative newcomer to the multiplayer first-person shooter, I fondly recall ignoring whatever objective our team was supplied with, instead spending my time whooshing about the map with my jetpack, giggling to myself. More »

Finally, Some Gameplay Footage of the Free To Play Tribes Ascend

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:40:00 EDT

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The next Tribes game, Hi-Rez Studios' Tribes Ascend, will be free. It's the loadouts in this online PC shooter that will cost you. More »

What the Sharp-Dressed Heavy Will Be Wearing in Tribes: Ascend

Mike Fahey — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:40:00 EDT

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Hi-Rez Studios continues to tease Tribes fans with concept art from its upcoming online multiplayer sequel Tribes: Ascend. Here's a look at the heavy-class armor Diamond Sword and Blood Eagle troops will be sporting once the game drops. More »

Do You Think Halo: Reach Is Severely Lacking In Dinosaurs?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:30:00 EST

Then perhaps you'll find the game Orion: Prelude of interest. It combines Tribes and Counter-Strike influence with a feature few sci-fi shooters are brave enough to include: Tyrannosaurus rex. Perhaps you'll be interested enough to fund it. More »

There Is A New Tribes Game Coming

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:30:00 EDT

Hi-Rez Studios, the team behind PC MMO Global Agenda, has bought the rights to the Tribes franchise. And, not screwing around with it, has promptly revealed that a new Tribes game is in development. More »

Firefall, A Massively Multiplayer Online Shooter, Revealed By Ex-WoW, Tribes Creators

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EDT

Red 5 Studios, the developer founded by former World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern, finally unveiled its long-in-the-making online shooter, Firefall today. The free-to-play futuristic action game also has a futuristic release date. More »

The 10 Tribes Of Final Fantasy XIV - Oh Look, Dark Elves!

Mike Fahey — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:20:00 EDT

Sure, Final Fantasy XIV only has five races that are renamed versions of the races from Final Fantasy XI, but with two tribes each, that's like ten races total! Let's take a look at them, shall we? More »

Hey, Tribes 2 Is Back!

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:30:00 EST

Turn those frowns upside down, Tribes 2 fans. While the game may be officially six feet under, a group of dedicated fans have brought Tribes 2 back to life, online multiplayer and all. More »

When Spore Tribes Go To War

Mike Fahey — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:20:00 EDT

Continuing EA's slow screenshot walkthrough of the stages of evolution in Will Wright's Spore, we now take a look at the Tribal Stage. In this stage the game slips even deeper into RTS waters, with you controlling a herd of whatever it was you ended up with after the Creature Phase of evolution. Your creatures hunt, gather, fish, and use your foodstuffs to barter for tools, forging and breaking allegiances with other tribes using super powers determined by how you played the Cell and Creature phases. More »

Fallen Empire: Legions In InstantAction

Mike Fahey — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:00:00 EDT

InstantAction.com draws closer and closer to the wide release of the Tribes-channeling Fallen Empire: Legions, a first-person shooter with jet packs for the innovative web-based gaming community. It's not a bad little game, if a bit simplistic in its current form. The only thing missing from it right now are large groups of people to play it, but that should be rectified once it finally emerges from private beta testing. Looking good so far! More »

The Evolution of the Team Multiplayer FPS

ogood — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:00:00 EDT

According to one writer, seven games parented the genre of the multiplayer FPS. Halo and Call of Duty: Not on it. Ed Borden reasons they did not add gameplay innovations, merely perfected the themes. That's up for discussion (and why I'm posting it, of course), but a fair point. More »

The Fallen Empire: Legions private beta...

ZhouYu — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:41 EDT

The Fallen Empire: Legions private beta is right around the corner, and we want to give you a chance to be among the first to jump into the fast-paced FPS melee. The 30 InstantAction users who get the most friends to sign up by 3/31/2008 will be granted access to the private beta. Winners will also get to invite 2 friends into the beta, and receive a limited edition Legions avatar.

Video, Details on Tribes-Like Legions

Brian Crecente — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:38:50 EST

Video Leaks for Tribes-Like Game

Brian Crecente — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:00:03 EST

Shack News is reporting that they've discovered videos showing off GarageGames' unannounced Tribes-esque shooter for InstantAction. More »

Starsiege: Tribes

Brian Crecente — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:00:41 EDT

Joel is an inconsolable mess right now. He only had the energy to IM me about Sierra's announcement today before curling back up into a fetus position. More »

Tribes Designer Joins Red 5

Mike Fahey — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:20:18 EDT

So fledgling MMO studio Red 5 not only has the creative director for D&D 3.0 & 3.5, the lead designer for the Legend of the Five Rings CCG, and several members of the World of Warcraft team, now they've recruited Scott Youngblood, the lead designer on StarSeige Tribes and Tribes 2. More »

GDC '06: Hands-On with Garage Games' 'Not Tribes' Legions Demo

Joel — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:32:22 EST

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We had a chance to talk to Garage Games' Tim Aste about Legions, the Tribesesque game they're using as a technology demo for Torque engine. We didn't beat much around the bush—we wanted to know about a Garage Games-designed Tribes title. More »

Potential First Look at Tribes Blood Eagle Model

Joel — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:29:11 EST

From the same threads over at Tribalwar that gave us our (hopefully) first look at the Tribes title, the above image, which appears to be concept images and first models of those shrieking harbingers of molten doom, the Blood Eagle tribe.This is looking more and more official isn't it? As soon as Oregon sees the light of day, we'll get an official statement from Garage Games. More »

Garage Games to Show Next Tribes Game at GDC?

Joel — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:52:41 EST

A throwaway post on the infamous Tribalwar forums by 'ajaxprojection'—who we're told is a Garage Games employee—linked to this video of an "old capture of what may be at GDC." Garage Games, as you may remember, was formed by core members of the now-defunct Dynamix, makers of Tribes and Tribes 2. More »