{"id":25422,"date":"2013-09-06T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=25422"},"modified":"2013-09-06T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T20:07:23","slug":"battleforge-folds-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/09\/06\/battleforge-folds-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"BattleForge folds its hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BattleForge, developed by EA Phenomic, is closing down at the end of October. The &#8220;Play 4 Free&#8221; branded hybrid card-collecting real-time strategy game will be shut down on October 31st by publisher EA. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.battleforge.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=80261\">notice<\/a> on the official forums, players are encouraged to spend any remaining in-game currency before the lights go out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision to retire older games is never easy. We hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed playing BattleForge as much as we enjoyed making it and we wish to extend our sincerest thanks to all of our passionate and dedicated players for supporting BattleForge over the past 4 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>EA Phenomic was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-07-12-ea-phenomic-closed\">closed<\/a> by EA in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BattleForge, developed by EA Phenomic, is closing down at the end of October. The &#8220;Play 4 Free&#8221; branded hybrid card-collecting real-time strategy game will be shut down on October 31st by publisher EA. According to the notice on the official forums, players are encouraged to spend any remaining in-game currency before the lights go out. 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