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Beleaguered battle royale game The Culling has risen from the dead once more - despite apparently being canned for good last March - this time sporting a monetisation model that will require users to pay for the matches they want to play. The Culling, a survival-themed last-man-s
It's the game that, up until now, could never quite die: but this time The Culling is gone for real, as developer Xaviant has said the game will close its doors in May. In a post on The Culling's website , director of operations Josh Van Veld explained the time had come to pull t
The Culling: Origins , the free-to-play do-over of The Culling that went live in September 2018, will be closed in May. Developer Xaviant said in a farewell message that it had hoped in-app purchased would generate enough revenue to support the battle royale game, but it hasn't w
Despite being one of the first on the battle royale block, even going free-to-play hasn’t been enough to save The Culling . Developers Xaviant have announced that the lights go out on their dystopian game show-themed survival shooter on May 15th. It’s been a rough year for the st
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. It’s pleasing to see gas traps appearing in Apex Legends , courtesy of token toxic male Caustic. But let us lower our heads and observe a moment of silence for the fallen pro
Battle royale games. For a long time the RPS treehouse was unable to comprehend these chaotic, destructive influences on society. Shooters, yes, we understand. Survival games, we get it. But 100-person death marches in a shrinking zone of hate? What s so good about that? Well, th
Greetings contestants! Last time we spoke we were beginning what we thought was a short road to Xbox Certification. A few weeks later, it appears that road might’ve been a bit longer than our GPS led us to believe. In retrospect, using Mapquest in 2018 was probably not the best c
Greetings contestants! The air is crisp, the leaves are beginning to change, pumpkin spice is in our lattes, fall is officially upon us.Though the clocks are soon to be moving back, this change in season has us looking at the road ahead. Origins has been a passion project for us
Greetings Contestants! It’s been a very busy week here at studio Xav. We’re having a blast with Origins and we’re proud to say that many of you have reached out to share that you feel the same way. We’re doing our best to get as many new contestants onto the Island as possible an
Greetings contestants! As we close in on a week of The Culling being free-to-play, we have our first post-Origins patch inbound. Rather than making sweeping changes this new patch is intended instead to get melee combat feeling even closer to Day 1, as well as to address some big
Greetings Contestants! Yesterday, we shared our findings related to shove spam becoming a “thing,” and took you down the rabbit hole explaining how we intend to make some small tweaks to help you escape the grasp of a nasty shove sandwich in duos. As it turns out, the rabbit hole
Greetings Contestants! Thank you all for coming out en masse for the Origins launch! We’re happy with our initial results but we’re certainly not satisfied yet. We think there are plenty of potential contestants out there who don’t even know about The Culling or that it’s free-to
Game show style battle royale The Culling has returned in free-to-play form, allowing players to take in the jungle sights, bludgeon one another to death, and ruminate on the dystopic reality TV they re making, all without paying for the privilege. (more…)
The Culling is going back to the beginning. With the battle royale’s sequel now officially shelved , developer Xaviant has returned to its predecessor; today it relaunches as The Culling: Origins. If you played the original back in its early access days, it might be familiar. “Wh
Greetings Contestants! Battle Royale is back. Not only is that the official tagline of The Culling: Origins, but it’s also very true, which makes it the best slogan of September 2018. With Origins right around the corner, we think it’s time to give you an overview of the update a
Xaviant Director of Operations Josh Van Veld offers a special announcement on The Culling: Origins Watch here
Xaviant Director of Operations Josh Van Veld delivers a development update for The Culling and shares when you might expect to be playing Origins.
In preparation for the Origins update and a shift to Free-to-Play we have taken The Culling (incl Day 1) off of sale on Steam. We want to offer a huge thank you to all of our founders for your support.
If you haven’t heard, the team here at Xaviant is working on a big new update called The Culling: Origins. The goal of the update is to take the game back to its roots. The look and feel will be very close to the Day 1 version, but we’ll be keeping the bug fixes, improved art con
Find out more about The Culling's journey to F2P and return to active development in our latest Developer Video Diary.