24th April 2013
Legendary Party for Prince Harry
As part of his visit to Nottingham Prince Harry will be touring Antenna Media Centre where Legendary Games is based, one of only three stops on his visit to Nottingham.
Prince Harry will be accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottingham Sir John Peace and members of the Royal Household. He will go on to officially open the city’s new television station and several Legendary Games staff will be at the celebration.
4th April 2013
Happy Birthday, Mozilla!
Fifteen years ago, Mozilla was born out of the idea that a tiny non-profit powered by a huge global community could build a better Web. The Mozilla story is one that excites us and we are doing our best to support all they do. We have donated and ordered our own 15th anniversary dinosaur. Have you?
14th March 2013
Legendary in Lincoln
Last Wednesday Ewan Lamont the CEO of Legendary Games shared his experiences and insights into the games industry with the students of University of Lincoln. As Legendary Games opens up its next round of internship positions it has been reaching out to local universities. Ewan said “Legendary Games has been well supported with quality internship candidates from the University of Lincoln and are happy to help support them in any way they can - particularly when it involves encouraging the technical and creative talent of the future”. Anybody interested in applying for an internship at Legendary please follow us on our social networking sites to find out when the next application round begins.
8th March 2013
Cavatore Kickstarter Busting Stretch Goals
Legendary Games congratulate Alessio Cavatore the creator of Shuuro with his and Mantic games success in their joint kickstarter bringing the characters from Wrath of the Elements to life on the table top. If you are a shuuro player and fancy your own finely sculpted chess set dont forget to plegde your support whilst the project is open:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/loka-the-world-of-fantasy-chess?ref=live
14th February 2013
Legendary Runs Testing Seminar for Game Students
Every year Students at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies look forward to meeting and being inspired by top names in Music, TV & Film and Gaming. The students’ usual timetable stopped, to be replaced by a week of workshops, activities and evening events delivered by invited industry experts. On Wednesday Ewan Lamont the CEO of Legendary Games shared his experiences and insights into the games industry and then lead 50 students through a game testing seminar letting them have access to Legendary’s mid development game Year 0.
24th January 2013
First Testers Experience Year 0
Lots of positive feedback from first Year 0 testers:
“Once you understand the basics it is a very addictive game”
“Have been playing for a couple of days and have become hooked.”
” Love the feel of the game.”
“Pleased to see that you don’t have to level up and that at any time you can find a new bit of tech”
We will soon be letting in more people to test the changes suggested by the first wave. If you want to join them please join the community page
8th January 2013
New Year New Platform: Shuuro on Chrome Web Store
Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements has just launched on the chrome web store. The game is linked at the server so the players on facebook can play against the players on google plus... I wonder who would win. The Chrome Web Store is Google's online store for web applications for Google Chrome or Google Apps. The software allows users to install and run web applications for the Google Chrome browser. The store hosts free and paid applications and has been described as being like Google Play, but for "apps on the web”.
Legendary Games plans to have all their games on all game app stores by the end of 2013.
24th December 2012
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We wish you all the best over the festive season. What ever age you are may Santa bring you lots of toys and games to play with. It has been a great year for Legendary Games and we are looking forward to the next one and we really hope you will be part of it
3rd December 2012
Year 0 “tops the bill” in New TIGA Curated Page on Kickstarter
Legendary Games is delighted to have its game featured in the new TIGA curated page on Kickstarter. TIGA is a rapidly growing and successful award-winning trade body for game developers and digital publishers. Kickstarter is a crowd funding website and represents an exciting new way to fund video games. With increasing concern over the ability of some organizations to be able to deliver on their projects it is great that TIGA is able to facilitate a page where pledgers can find a gold standard of project that is more likely to deliver
The URL to the Curated page can be seen here: http://www.kickstarter.com/TIGA
26th November 2012
Legendary Games is Two Years Old Today
Two years ago Legendary Games successfully managed the transition from AAA Console and PC MMO to HTML5. Now employing 15 full time and freelance staff the company has come a long way. Legendary worked with a famous games games developer publishing two games on Social networking sites, a teacher training educational game for Protocol National, developed several web sites and has lead three large government funded R&D projects.
Legendary have released a podcast celebrating their achievements and revealing what they think about their most recent Kickstarter project Year O.
Ewan Lamont CEO said “It is sad to see local AAA studio closing I only hope that the success of Legendary can show that there is hope still for the industry “
22nd November 2012
Year 0 Launched on Kickstarter
Legendary Games has just launched a Kickstarter project to fund Year 0, a Post Apocalyptic themed, browser-based, multiplayer,turn based tactics game. at the recent Press launch in London we announced that players will battle for survival and to mould the new world in their image. Not only do they need to scavenge for food and material to rebuild their world, they must also form alliances and fight the other survivors for scarce resources and territory.
The game will be truly innovative using brand new HTML5 technology that will allow it to be accessed from any browser equipped device and embedded in any browser carrying platform. Players playing on the facebook version of the game on their pc will be able to play directly with and against players using the app on their mobile phone.
The project URL:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playlegendary/year-0-the-war-is-over-the-battle-for-survival-has?ref=email
13th November 2012
Year 0 at Tiga Discovery Day
One of the biggest challenges facing game developers PR! How can we get opinion leaders to play and then talk about our games? Thankfully Tiga our trade body are trying to help by organising a press conference for new and up and coming games at Panmure Gordon’s swanky offices in London. We will be presenting our demo of Year 0 and launching our Kickstarter funding drive to finish off the last little bits of work before we can get it live. You can find out more about the event here http://www.tiga.org/events/raising-finance-and-discovery-afternoon and see our current trailer for Year 0 here. http://youtu.be/6XUVQZ-Ddn4
5th November 2012
New opportunities with the DNCC
Legendary Games has recently joined Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce. Through membership of DNCC Legendary hopes to access extensive networking opportunities and a wide range of discounted services, international trade services and information services.
10th October 2012
Are You all Set for Game City?
Europe’s biggest and best-loved videogame culture festival is set to come back to Nottingham on October 20th-27th and Legendary Games are excited to be part of it. We will be showing off the progress on our latest game, Year 0 in the main tent on market square all day Wednesday and answering any questions about past, present and future projects. We are all looking forward it and hoping to meet as many of you as possible.
3rd October 2012
The Silent Era is Over: Long Live the Noisy Era
Until recently, the ability to play any type of audio within a browser involved using Adobe Flash or other browser plugins. As a developer specialising in HTML5 games this was not an avenue we even wanted to consider going down. Now after a lot of technical work at our end and the browsers catching up one of the most exciting and long-awaited features in HTML5, enabling native audio playback within the browser, is ready. A massive update to all our games is being tested at the moment and will be rolled out very soon. Where players could only imaging the sounds of the world of Loka now they will hear the mighty elemental hordes sweep across the plains.
22nd August 2012
Tester Entry for Year 0 opening soon
After cataclysmic finale to the last world war the world is a broken hellish version of its former self. By day the sun is visible as a faint ghost through the pall, a memory of golden promise. Rain spits black torrents from the heavens. Stagnant rivers reflect the hazy sheen in an inverted pall. Black trees morph and twist out of the hellish bracken. The War may be over but as the survivors to emerge from their underground bunkers the Battle has only just begun. It is Year 0. While scavengers forage the ruins of civilisation for anything that might ensure another day of survival, mechanised factories continue to provide sufficient material to ensure death at high velocities. There isn't much left, but it is worth fighting for...
16th August 2012
The Latest Game Thinking and Technology for all: Legendary Services Launched
If you need a unique site to service your customers and beat your competition Legendary Services offers cutting-edge interactive web design, gamification, consultancy services, animation, social network integration, and multi-platform compatibility (including mobile devices). Legendary Services is the business services side of online games company Legendary Games and brings the latest game thinking and technology to the commercial sector. Visit http://legendary-services.com/ for more details
8th August 2012
Legendary Games to Lead £650k R&D Project on Artwork and Animation Production Processes
Legendary Games are leading a consortium containing Demontfort University, Idhammer and Babel Ltd PR and other creative specialists in applying lean processing principles to art and animation production. The result of the R&D project will be a commercial tool (working title MAAPIT) that will facilitate reductions in levels of production effort & time, increase output levels per unit of resource & enable reductions in lean wastes through higher levels of synchronous work flow. MAAPIT will focus on animation production processes generic to games, films, TV & advertising & the avoidance of non-added value work in art production where Babel Ltd (BL) will provide industry expertise & knowledge
27th July 2012
SCRI: A Powerful New KPI Analytic system
Legendary Games can now announce that it has developed SCRI (Segmented Customer Response Indicator) a powerful analytics tool built with government funding from the Technology Strategy Board. SCRI will collect data on user activity and provide feedback on a per user basis of how they are interacting with features of the site. Unlike most other off the shelf KPI/analytic systems SCRI not only displays this analytic data but includes a second stage: identifying what are the best solutions are to the identified problems. The user base can be segmented into groups. These groups could be made up of random selections of users or any other given determinate such as "users who have made at least one purchase". Each group can be given a slightly different version of the site or game experience, with one particular improvement in place. There will always be at least one control group which will continue to receive the unchanged experience. This system will work on any online based application including smart phone applications.
6th July 2012
Legendary Games Welcomes New Creative Quarter
Up to £60m is to be invested in Nottingham's economy after the council agreed a new "City Deal" with the government. The money will go towards establishing a "creative hub" in the east part of the city to encourage new business and potentially create thousands of jobs. Nottingham is one of eight English cities outside London to have received one of the new deals. Speaking to BBC news Ewan Lamont CEO of Legendary Games said “This is absolutely fantastic news Legendary Games and other creative companies will benefit from this and be able to prosper significantly.” See link below: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-18721971
27th June 2012
Kings of Chess Upgraded
The latest upgrade to Kings of Chess has just been released. There have been several changes made to improve the game. The biggest change is the ranking system now uses the Elo Rating system used by the World Chess Federation. New players start with a rating of 1200, and this can go up or down as you play opponents. The better the opponent is relative to you, the more you increase your Elo Rating for a win. Existing players will have their rankings recalculated using the new system. We hope players enjoy this change to the game and it motivates them to play more to climb the ranks. Another new feature is you can spend crowns to challenge strangers on the ranking table. In Kings of Chess all opponents are real people - there are no computer opponents - so a player’s Elo Rating is an accurate reflection of their chess skills compared to other players.
18th June 2012
Legendary Games to Launch Legendary Services
In addition to making online games Legendary Games has started consulting on and designing websites for non-games companies. The web and web sites are evolving with the arrival of HTML5. This includes WebGL hardware accelerated 3D capabilities, sound, video playback and other features to take web content to the next level. Legendary Games are well positioned to take advantage of these developments as they become more widely supported and as a games company can bring skills and features to the online space not possessed by normal Web design companies.
In addition to the technical skills Legendary can apply game design thinking to non-game applications to make them more fun and engaging. This Gamification of non-game applications is one of the most important trends in recent time. Gamification can potentially be applied to any industry and almost anything to create fun and engaging experiences, converting users into players.
31st May 2012
Year 0 Harvester Wins Master Gold Award from Ballistic Publishing
Two pieces of concept art from Year 0 which is currently in production have been selected to appear in EXPOSÉ 10, the tenth edition of the premier annual art book, which celebrates the creative talents of digital artists worldwide.
The Harvester and Recon drone created by Thomas Crausaz (aka Tharmine) will appear in the book alongside other major pieces of art from the world of in the film, game and animation world.
EXPOSÉ 10 will be released worldwide in July 2012
24th May 2012
Legendary Chess Challenge
Kings of Chess is all set to receive some extra features. We will soon change the ranking system to be based on the ELO international chess ranking system rather than the current prestige system and today we introduced challenge direct. You can view the results summary of other player's on the Global Ranking table, not just your friends, you can also challenge them directly, by expending 1 Crown. This means you can select players who have a similar ranking to you, get an exciting and challenging match and make your way up the table to be the King of Chess!
15th May 2012
Reign of Fire
After a week of fighting in Wrath of the Elements Agni reigns supreme. Can they be knocked off their perch by the rest of the Elemental powers? We have switched to awarding prestige to each faction for the number of campaign territories held by all the players in the faction. In addition, you can see how much campaign prestige you are contributing displayed at the top of the campaign screen, so you can see how much your efforts are adding to the faction total!
10th May 2012
The Battle for Loka Begins
We have just rolled out the latest version of Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements. You can now experience the long awaited campaign mode and play any friend, in any type of game as many times as you like all absolutely free.
3rd May 2012
May Day... May Day.... Wrath of the Elements Campaign Imminent!
Legendary Games are pleased to announce that very early in May we will release of what effectively amounts to the second version of Shuuro: WOTE brimming with bags of new features. Right from the very beginning we knew the actual games of Shuuro were fun but for the online game to be complete it needed a great meta game system to link all the games together. The time is here. In the next few days everyone will get the chance to conquer Loka playing on the new campaign map with their results and who they attack effecting the overall faction score. This great new feature will replace open challenges. You can dominate the centre ground of Kendra or lay waste to the forest realm of Prithvi. All Challenges will be played for prestige and XP as normal but games against friends will be completely free no matter the size of game: Skirmish, Flank or Battle. Mana will only be spent on challenges in the campaign mode of the game. We certainly can’t wait to play this new version of the game and hope all the other players will be equally excited.
11th April 2012
Legendary Games to Drive Power Sector Technology Development
Legendary Games has been selected by the technology strategy board to lead a study with Staffordshire University exploring the feasibility of creating an Augmented Reality Intelligent Agent game (ARIA) the playing of which will directly reduce energy consumption in the home. The game application will be connected to the output of a British Gas home energy monitoring meter. ARIA will use a novel computer game interface with real time inputs to facilitate monitoring, control and communications of data and reward players virtually for their real world behaviour. ARIA will be playable on any device that has access to the internet PC, smart phone, etc. The application will also capture the energy consumption habits and the location of the user during consumption. This will be essential information in the future development of power distribution in a time of increased distribution generation. The intended output is a tech demo to demonstrate the feasibility of a game delivering sustainable engagement and usable data to aid future power distribution challenges.
Ewan Lamont CEO of Legendary Games said: “This is an exciting project for Legendary Games. Where gamification has been used before for energy users to compare and compete against each other consumption has dropped by up to 10%. We have the right partners and have the right technology to enable consumers to deliver real cost and environmental savings and have fun in the process. “
21st March 2012
Legendary Games Welcomes Tax Breaks for Games
The UK government has declared its intention to establish a nationwide games tax break policy, in a dramatic manoeuvre that leaves the British Games Industry in a state of excitement and jubilation.
Standing in the Commons for his 2012 Budget speech, Chancellor George Osborne said the UK games development industry would benefit from similar tax break measures that benefit the UK film industry.
8th March 2012
Legendary Games to Promote Amplify Award
Legendary Games won the Amplify Award from Nottingham’s flagship creative business centre in 2010 and has now been asked to help promote the next round. Budding entrepreneurs or anyone with a creative business idea, benefit from more than £25,000 worth of business support. Ewan Lamont said:
“The free virtual tenancy was a great boost to the company in the early days when money was really tight and encouraged us to make full use of the facilities Antenna had to offer. Free business consultancy is also proving to be really useful. As much as you think you know your business it is always good to have your beliefs reconfirmed and fill gaps in your knowledge.”
29th February 2012
Legendary Games to Join Creative Class 2012
The Creative Class exists to profile and celebrate new companies with a creative flair, many of whom have grown to become significant employers. Nottingham is fortunate to have an increasing number of these companies in a range of sectors from life sciences to gaming and clean tech to fashion and film. The Class is being promoted by Invest in Nottingham Club. Invest in Nottingham Club is the campaign set up to help promote and grow the East Midlands' commercial capital.
22nd February 2012
Legendary launch their Virtual Studio Concept
Legendary Games will spearhead their virtual studio concept. With the British Games industry receiving disappointing story after disappointing story of studios closing down, Legendary plan to facilitate a lighter more flexible production model. Legendary are applying for funding to create a system where teams of outsourcers working from different locations can collaborate on a project via a production tool designed for this purpose.
3rd February 2012
Legendary Join Tiga
Legendary Games announce that they have joined Tiga the UK Games Industry trade body. Ewan Lamont CEO said “ I think it is vitally important for a growing games company to be a member if its trade body. We are delighted to be joining Tiga. We have been impressed by how much work they have done to support the industry in the UK. Their work on helping to drive government policy has been inspiring and the events and information they provide members is excellent."
25th January 2012
We Are Now Actively Recruiting
We are actively recruiting for two full time positions: a Web Developer with a good eye for layout and a more technical PHP Developer role. See our careers section for more detail.
As a fast growing business we need the best talent now and are actively looking for people to contribute to the company at any level. Full time, part time, freelance... volunteer.
We will be interested if you want to freelance and pitch in part time. So if you are in a full time job that you love or taught course but still want to contribute drop us a line.
We will be interested if you are a Student looking for a short placement or internship that will build up your CV.
19th January 2012
Games and Smart Energy
Can games designers help people manage and reduce their consumption of energy? This week Legendary Games met with academics and partners in the energy supply chain to form a collaborative partnership which will come up with how can games developers and designers contribute to the development of products and services that encourage consumers to reduce energy consumption.
11th January 2012
Legendary commission Tharmine and PB studios
Legendary announce that they have signed arrangements to work with Tharmine Studio and PB Design Solutions. PB are a design company based in Snowdonia, UK, with over 10 years commercial experience working for a range of clients around the world. Tharmine is a specialist in 3d art, Illustration and Matte Painting and has worked for games companies and independent film makers for the last 7 years.
7th January 2012
New Year New Look
A Happy New year to all our fans. The observant of will have noticed our logo changed a few weeks back. Following on the heels of the logo revamp will be an overhaul of the corporate website and games portal site. The old website served us well for a year but the new design is looking a lot more exciting. It should make it much easier for anyone accessing information and will automatically scale to a size appropriate to the device being used be it Console or Kindle.
23rd December 2011
Kings of Chess announced
Merry Christmas one and all. As a Christmas treat we have just launched our free open beta version of Chess. There are only two kings rather than three but there will be lots of wise men playing it. Enjoy. Follow this URL to play: http://chess.legendary-games.com/
21st December 2011
Legendary Speaking at Launch and Develop
In November both founders were engaged in the industry speaking circuit. Gavin spoke at LAUNCH: Future Gaming & Digital Conference 2011 in Birmingham and shared some of his experience of starting a company at this time particularly focusing on the fickle nature of the freemium model and how it may not be the silver bullet everyone believes it to be. Ewan gave a rousing performance at Develop in Liverpool extoling the virtues and problems associated with a start-up company looking for investment and encouraged everyone with drive and imagination to just do it.
25th November 2011
Happy Birthday Us
A year ago today Legendary Games was incorperated. We have come a long way in a year but hope to so much further in an other year. A big thankyou to all our friends and business partners
1st November 2011
Game for a Job
Legendary Games will be offering an internship to the applicant with the highest score in their open Beta version of Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements. To apply log on to the open beta at this URL http://shuuro.legendary-games.com/ or via facebook http://apps.facebook.com/shuurofb/ and invite the player intern@legendary-games.com to be your friend. The placement will last three months with the opportunity of a full time job at the end. We publicised this opportunity at Game City with the deadline date of the 30th November we are now extending this to the 15th December.
26th October 2011
Legendary at Game City
As part of the Game City Festival in Nottingham Legendary Games will be running demonstrations and talking through their upcoming releases on Thursday 27th October in the main tent in Market Square. Players will be able to sign up for the Open Beta of Wrath of the Elements the online strategy game based on the board game Shuuro and earn a bundle of free virtual goods. Prizes will be offered to the player with the highest score with the offer of an internship to the highest scoring student.
See link for details: Schedule
13th July 2011
Legendary's first game 'Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements' is now in Open Beta!
1st April 2011
Credit to Facebook Credits
It seemed only natural with the integration of Shuuro into Facebook, the popular social networking platform, that we also incorporated Facebook Credits into the game. It is now possible to use Facebook credits to purchase manna in game. It is also of note that you can play Shuuro cross platform meaning players in Facebook can play players playing via web Shuuro on the iPhone.
21st March 2011
Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements Receives a Facelift Thanks to Sculptor Wojciech Flis.
Legendary Games have employed the concept sketches of Wojciech Flis, a Polish sculptor in their most recent rendering of Shuuro. Flis is sculpting figures designed for Alessio Cavatore and Riverhorses as replacements for the standard chessmen in the board game. The sculptures have been implemented into the computer version of the game allowing the player to experience the world envisioned by Cavatore.
15th March 2011
Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements makes the IC Tomorrow competition finals
Over 120 applications were entered into the IC Tomorrow competition and Shuuro: Wrath of the Elements was the only game to make it to the finals where the live panel will assess those that have made it through. IC Tomorrow is a market simulation for businesses that produce new innovative digital products, a platform created with a core objective to grow the UK economy. Legendary Games are ecstatic to have reached the finals of the competition and look forward to performing our pitch to the panel later this month.
3rd March 2011
Legendary 3D
In response to closed beta testing Legendary Games have made the decision to alter their soon to be released strategy game from 2D to isometric view. Feedback suggested the move would improve the overall aesthetics, aid strategy and scale well for future releases.
17th February 2011
Legendary Sign with Adknowledge
Legendary Games have signed up with the pioneering market leader of virtual currency provision Adknowledge. The integration of Adknowledge’s micro-transaction services into Legendary Games products will allow players to purchase game enhancing upgrades for both current and future titles. Ewan Lamont, Chief Executive Officer of Legendary Games said ‘Working with Adknowledge allows us to invest a great deal more into the games we produce. This will offer both a better level of service and a deeper experience for our players.’
1st February 2011
Legendary Sign with RDG Accounts
Legendary Games are pleased to announce they are now working with RDG Accounting. RDG Accounting are a progressive accountancy practice and will be provide accounts, taxation and business advice to Legendary Games. Held in high regard by the accountancy industry and their customers Legendary Games feel RDG meet all the requirements needed to help the company become even more successful in the future.
14th December 2010
Legendary enter into detailed negotiations with River Horse
Legendary and Riverhorse have started work on looking at how to port their board game Shuuro to an online social platform like facebook. Shuuro creator Alessio Cavatore will play a lead role in the game design. In the last thirteen years, Origins awards winner Alessio Cavatore has written or co-written the current rules sections of the rulebooks of all of Games Workshop's widely known miniatures game systems, not to mention a plethora of expansions and other type of supplements and support material for these systems.
26th November 2010
Gav and Ewan meet with Ed Vaizey, Minister for Communication, Culture and the Creative Industries
As part of his visit to Nottingham, Ed dropped in to see us to chat about the industry as a whole and what pitfalls start-up and established games companies face, and what government can do to help.
25th November 2010
Legendary Games Founded
