Hades News

Hades comes to Xbox Game Pass next week

Hades will arrive on Xbox Game Pass on August 13th. That's our favourite game of 2020 for the price of a subscription. It's also just one of a bunch of new games coming to Game Pass in August.

This small patch has some final touches on localized text, as well as this brief update from our team:

With some months having passed since our v1.0 Launch Update, we're soon going to remove the Patch Notes section from the Main Menu, and also remove the F10 bug-reporting feature (of course you may still contact us via Discord or email if you encounter any bugs). We feel these changes will help reflect the fact that our Early Access development phase has been complete for some time.

We are humbled and grateful for the incredible support so many players have shown Hades, and our team is excited to press on and figure out what's next. Thank you very much for playing,

Miscellaneous

• Various fixes and improvements to localized text in different languages
• Added several more names to Special Thanks in the Credits

Bug Fixes

📢 Fixed a rare issue where the final Zeus affinity event would not unlock
• Other minor fixes

Quote of the Patch

'Farewell now, you dwellers in Olympus, and you island continents, and the salt sea between.' ~Theogony (Hesiod; M. L. West translation)

Объявлены победители Game Developers Choice Awards 2021 — игрой года стала Hades

Hades победила в трёх номинациях GDC 2021, включая категорию «Игра года». Творение Supergiant Games завоевало награды за лучший звук и дизайн, а проектом в лучшем визуальном стиле была признана Ghost of Tsushima.

Umurangi Generation and Hades are officially ‘the best’ at the IGF and GDC 2021 awards

The Independent Games Festival awards and the Game Developers Conference awards were held last night in cyberspace. Like a Zoom meeting for the soul, the ceremony hopped between the winning game developers’ living rooms, with host Victoria Tran (community director on Among Us) stitching it all together with a remarkable combination of enthusiasm, sincerity, and silliness. She gets an IGF from me.

The big winner was Umurangi Generation by Origame Digital. The photography sci-fi game won the 'Seumas McNally Grand Prize' and the narrative prize at the IGF awards. Hades was also recognised as the game of the year at the GDC awards. The rest of the winners, and the whole darn ceremony, are below.

A lot of people really liked Supergiant's mythological roguelike game, Hades. (It ranks high on our GotY 2020 list, too.) Now, it's inspiring fans not just to get into Greek myth, but to record their own reading of The Iliad, one of the most notable writings of classic myth, and one of the most foundational works of Western literature.

The Iliad Project is a reading of The Iliad, as translated by Robert Fagles, set to be released on June 20. The recording is done by 27 community readers, and even includes the vocal talents of Courtney Vineys, the actor behind Dusa and Aphrodite. It will be available on YouTube and various podcast apps, following a release stream on June 20 at 3pm PDT / 6pm EDT / 11pm BST.

As you might imagine, the Hades developers are excited about it too, and creative director Greg Kasavin is even providing a forward for the project. "It's wonderful when Hades can help spark new or renewed interest in Greek myth," the devs say on Twitter. "These folks from our community will soon be taking it to the next level with a complete audio recording of the Iliad of Homer, which inspired our Achilles and Patroclus and many other details."

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