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We are getting close to the end for CrimeCraft's episodic expansion Bleedout. Today the first person shooter MMO's developer Vogster Entertainment announced that the ninth chapter of the Bleedout saga, titled Tenax Propositi, will go live for its players on Saturday, February 26 at 7 pm Eastern time.

The episode, which features cut scene artwork created by artist Vince Proce, will supposedly reveal what actually caused the events that lead to the current storylines that have been depicted in the Bleedout expansion. The ninth chapter will be the next to the last episode for the Bleedout series in CrimeCraft.

After taking a few weeks off, the first person shooter MMO CrimeCraft continues its 10 part episodic BleedOut event later today with chapter six, The Achilles Helix. This chapter includes cut scenes drawn by comic book veteran Gary Erskine.

In addition to the new BleedOut chapter, the game from developer Vogster Entertainment has an extensive amount of new updates as indicated in these patch notes. They include three new PvP maps (Deckard Harbor, Municipality Bank and Maxym Alley). There's also new customization items in the new update, game balance and skill changes and new features such as player signatures.

As promised, the first chapter for BleedOut, the episodic expansion pack for Vogster Entertainment's first person shooter MMO CrimeCraft, has been released for free to both free-to-play and subscribers to the game. As we have previously reported this is the first of 10 planned chapters for this PvE expansion.

This first episode features comic book-style cut scenes drawn by well known cartoonist Nathan Fox. Future chapters for the BleedOut event will continue to be released every Saturday night,, each with cut scenes by cartoonist and comic book artists. Each episode will cost money to download after tonight for free-to-play users. You can check out a trailer for the first episode after the jump:

CrimeCraft, the first person shooter MMO from developer Vogster Entertainment, has started its big revamp today with an automatic update to the game. The update paves the way for what the game is calling BleedOut, its single player PvE oriented episodic release.

Starting at 7 pm Eastern time on Saturday, December 4, all CrimeCraft players will be able to download and play the first BleedOut episode for free. After that the remaining nine episodes in the series will be free for the game's Deluxe and Premium members while folks who use the free-to-play game option will have to fork over 40 of the in-game Gold Bars to play each of the episodic releases.

Last month, Vogster Entertainment announced plans to expand its fire-to-play first person shooter MMO CrimeCraft with an expansion/event called Bleedout that tied into an upcoming graphic novel of the same name. Now Vogster has revealed more about the Bleedout expansion for the game with word that it will begin in December with the release of a 10 episode weekly series.

Each episode will contain several missions for the gamer to complete in a storyline that sees the CrimeCraft world "thrown into chaos by a global economic disaster. " The episodic expansion will add a total of between 20 to 30 hours of gameplay to CrimeCraft and will scale to fit the level of the player's character. Players who play CrimeCraft as a free-to-play shooter can get each episode for $2. The episodes will be free for Premium and Deluxe CrimeCraft players.

Earlier this year we reported that Vogster Entertainment's first person shooter MMO CrimeCraft would be getting some kind of single player expansion. While not much has been revealed about said expansion this week it was announced that it would be getting a comic book tie-in.

Archaia Entertainment announced on Friday that it would publish BleedOut, a graphic novel that's tied into the world of CrimeCraft, where oil is in short suppled. The graphic novel is due out sometime in 2011 and will feature artwork from a number of notable comic book artists including Tim Bradstreet, Howard Chaykin, Trevor Hairsine and more. You can check out a preview of the comic at the BleedOut web site. The CrimeCraft expansion itself is still due for release sometime this fall.
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About a year ago today, developer-publisher Vogster Entertainment released CrimeCraft, a first person shooter-themed MMO that's similar in some ways to Realtime Worlds' title All Points Bulletin. Like APB, CrimeCraft did not get good reviews and sales were slow. The developer suffered from mass layoffs and quickly turned the game into a free-to-play title.

A year later, CrimeCraft is still up and running and in a recent update on the game's official web site it announced plans for a large content update that will be released later this month. The update will include 14 new weapons including "assault rifles, LMGs, sniper rifles and SMGs." New player abilities will be added and many of the game's current playable abilities will get some changes. In addition, the game will now have "level gates". That means at a low level players will only have access to a few abilities, while the middle and high levels will increase the number of accessible abilities.

Back in April it was announced that CrimeCraft would be getting some kind of single player campaign but so far there's no word on when or even if such a feature will be added to the game.

Download the CrimeCraft Install Client (2 GB)

Last summer Vogster Entertainment launched their first person shooter MMO CrimeCraft. It began as a typical MMO with a retail release and a monthly subscription fee but a few months later it switched directions and became a free-to-play game. Now there's word that yet another major change to the game is in the works.

Newsarama chatted with Vogster's Mike Kennedy (misidentified as working for Dark Horse Comics) at this weekend's C2E2 convention. At the very end of the interview Kennedy announces Vogster is "working on adding a single player aspect to that title. It's an MMO, right now it's very PvP focused, but were adding this single players campaign aspect that we're going to flesh out into this great big awesome episodic thing. " There's no word on when this new addition will be released with Kennedy stating, "It's very early in the works."

Australia's video game ratings board have yet again denied to rate a PC game effectively banning the game from sale in that country. The latest title is CrimeCraft, the first person shooter MMO from developer/publisher Vogster Entertainment. After beginning its life in the US as a retail title with a monthly fee, Vogster has since switched over to a free-to-play business model for the game.

It's currently unknown why CrimeCraft was not given a rating in Australia although we are betting the title's violent content has something to do with it. As the web site Refused-Classification.com points out CrimeCraft is the fifth game title to be denied a rating in that country in 2009. Three of those games (Necrovision, Left 4 Dead 2 and the WiiWare game Sexy Poker) have since been given a rating by the country's classification board after edits were made to each title. The other game, the RPG title Risen, is still banned for sale in Australia.

Download the CrimeCraft Install Client (2 GB)

This client installs the free-to-play version of CrimeCraft, an online shooter game where players battle to rise in ranks in a criminal organization. Players have the option to upgrade from the free model to a subscription system for $9.99 a month, which provides access to additional features. Visit the official website for more information and to sign up for an account.

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