The video game company Fawkes has announced its plan to revive the MMO Defiance and attempt to relaunch the IP this year. Fawkes boasts the motto “Breathing life to old worlds and preserving their legacy, together,” which resonates with the company’s current endeavor to revive Defiance. Previously, Fawkes had a hand in resurrecting Shaiya and Last Chaos, while also retaining the rights to Desert Operations and Wargame 1942.
The sprawling title was an MMO third-person shooter developed by Trion Worlds for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, and later received the newer Defiance 2025 version for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Defiance became a transmedia project, similar to the upcoming Oz: Adventures game developed by former id Software level designer American McGee, when the MMO was designed to connect with the 2013 Syfy television show of the same name, which was later canceled in 2015. After its initial launch in the same year, the Defiance MMO switched to a free-to-play model in 2014, but its owner, Gamigo, shut down the servers seven years later in 2021.
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