“The noise of a large pot galloping in the fire, mixed with the rumble of a gigantic tom-cat purring.”
Paradoxical though it may seem for a game franchise called “Infinity Blade”, Chair Entertainment’s 4-year-old series is drawing to a close. “All good things must come to an end, even the Infinity Blade trilogy,” the developers said on their blog last week. “On September 4, Chair will release the final content update for Infinity Blade III, titled Kingdom Come.” The update will include one final quest to defeat “one very pissed-off dragon”, presumably the scaly chap in the screenshot up there.
We’ve never written too much about Infinity Blade around here. The battles in the swipe-controlled action games are simple affairs that I never really felt like I was in control of, like a modern spin on laserdisc games like Dragon’s Lair. But Infinity Blade games are a bit of a national treasure for iOS: the first game was unveiled at the Steve Jobs-hosted Apple event in 2010 and there’s a whole universe of spun-off novels, a web video series, and customised collectible figurines 3D-printed from your in-game character.
This is surely not the end of iOS games from Epic Games subsidiary Chair, though. We’ll keep our ears to the ground for what they’re doing next. A video retrospective of the Infinity Blade series is below.
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