Worms Armageddon News

Humble's new Bundle is packed with Worms! Worms! Worms!

Ahh, Worms. The long-running, turn-based tactics series that sees oodles of little pink invertebrates blast chunks out of each other with bazookas, holy hand grenades, and exploding grannies. The Worms games are fantastic fun, and if you're a fan, Humble's new Bundle will surely be your bag - it's all about Worms! Worms! Worms!

The Humble - yes, you guessed it - Worms! Worms! Worms! Bundle is filled with $211 worth of Team 17's grub-related goodies, and like many of the site's other offerings, has four different price tiers on offer. First up, for a teeny weeny £0.77 / $1 you can unlock the original 1995 Worms, which - although missing the polish of the series' newer titles - is ideal for classic PC games fans. Also in tier one are three Worms spin-offs; the puzzle-action game Worms: Blast, and the self-explanatory Worms: Crazy Golf and Worms: Pinball.

The Bundle's second tier, meanwhile - which unlocks if you pay more than the average of £7.37 / $9.53 - has 2010's Worms Reloaded, one of the series' classic 2D artillery titles and a port of Worms 2: Armageddon, along with the 3D game Worms Ultimate Mayhem, and range of add-on goodies for the two.

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Worms Rumble - Launching December & Open Beta November 6th!

Hey everyone

We’re super excited to share with you that Worms Rumble will be launching on Steam this December!

Worms Rumble is the next instalment in the Worms franchise! For the first time ever in a Worms game you’ll be able to jump into intense, real-time battles with upto 32-players!

You can squad up with friends or fight solo in different game modes from Deathmatch to Last Worm Standing. Worms Rumble will feature a variety of fan-favourite weapons from past games as well as new additions to the franchise for you to get your wormy hands on!

So to celebrate this awesome news we’ve put together a new trailer for you that reveals a new, never before seen level as well as some new mobility items…

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Let's take a look at some of the new trailer reveals shall we!

New Mobility Gadgets

Mobility tools play a huge part in any Worms game and today we’re revealing two of these tools that will be available in Worms Rumble for you to swing and soar through the skies with. (Yes, for those wondering, there’s more.)

As we all know, the ability to move around the map in a quick and stylish fashion is a key Worms feature and that’s no different in Rumble, so let’s take a look at what you’ll be getting to grips with:

The Grappling Gun

A close cousin of the Ninja Rope, the Grappling Gun rewards skillful worms with unrivaled mobility and speed, allowing you to swiftly navigate through the map, change your momentum and even access hard to reach locations.

Worms that become comfortable with this tool will also find many useful applications for the Grappling Gun during a firefight too…

The Jetpack

The classic Jetpack is back and ready to take your worm to the skies!

This tool is perfect for use in open spaces and larger rooms, giving you the ability to rain down destruction from above or fly above the carnage of an enemy Banana Bomb.

Perfect for ambushing enemies from above or quickly escaping a losing battle, Jetpack users should be aware that whilst highly mobile they are vulnerable to precision weapons whilst hovering, so unless you’re wanting to visit the respawn screen try and avoid that!

Bonus mobility move - Rocket Jumping!

Yes, for the first time ever you’ll be able to rocket jump in Worms (without ending your turn anyway!).

This high risk - high reward technique speaks for itself, so we’ll leave it to you, our brave players, to figure that one out in battle…

Crossplay Open Beta - Starting November 6th!

As existing Worms players you know Worms better than anyone. For that reason we’d love to invite you to try out Worms Rumble absolutely free from November 6th - November 8th in our crossplay open beta.

We know real-time Worms is very different to our turn-based history and that many of you will have questions on how it plays, what it is like and whether your experience with the turn-based classics will carry over to the real-time world. The Worms Rumble beta is the perfect time to have those questions answered, whilst also seeing how we’ve taken what makes Worms, well Worms, and crafted it into a real-time experience.

The Dev Team will be playing during the beta and be closely watching your feedback too, so it’s a brilliant time to share your thoughts directly with the team… And even lob a Banana Bomb at them!

With no sign-up required you’ll be able to jump straight into the action alone or with friends as you clash with players both here on Steam and on console.

We’ll be revealing more about the beta over the coming weeks, so keep an eye on the Worms Twitter and Worms Rumble Steam Community page to stay in the loop!

Pre-order & Digital Deluxe Editions

Just like its peers, Worms Rumble will be packed full of cosmetics for you to customise your worm and make them unique.

Some of these will be available from the start, with lots more being unlocked by just playing the game however you like and progressing through the ranks, using your preferred weapons and completing special challenges.

As a special thank you to those that pre-order Worms Rumble here on Steam we’ll also be giving them a unique cosmetic pack known as the ‘New Challenger’ bonus pack!

If you’re a fan of the classics and want to rep your favourite weapons then may we introduce you to the Digital Deluxe Edition that includes the following…

Here's a first look at the Retro Commando outfit too!

Pre-order Worms Rumble Now!

If you like what you’ve seen you can pre-order Worms Rumble from right now to secure your exclusive cosmetic pack and support us ahead of launch:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1186040/Worms_Rumble/

You can also support us with a Wishlist if you’re not ready to pre-order just yet!

Thank you for taking the time to check out the newest iteration of Worms. We’re excited to share this next step with you and we hope you enjoyed today’s news.

We look forward to chatting about Worms Rumble with you over on the forums and hurling a Holy Hand Grenade or two at you in the beta on November 6th.

See you then!

What's the best Worms game on PC?

When Worms released back in 1995, there was nothing else like it. The idea of taking the cute wiggly woos from the bottom of your garden and outfitting them with more firepower than Doomguy was absurd. But of course, that's where the appeal lay: there's nothing like the sheer, almost Pythonesque absurdity of a sentient worm wielding an Uzi.

It also helped that Worms was at the forefront of a new kind of action game that was mixed in platforming, terrain destruction, and could be played in multiplayer with only one input.. The series has only got more absurd as time has gone on, and while it's gone through an awful lot of iterations in the 25 years it's been around, that core has remained intact.

There are a lot of Worms games out there though, and finding the best one to play right now can take a bit of work. You might be inclined to assume that the series has gotten better as time has gone on, but you'd be wrong. That's where we come in. We've put together a list not of every Worms game, but of the ones that are worth taking a look at today, either because they're interesting, important, or still hold up well. This way you can find the best Worms game without having to do any of the leg (haha) work.

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Two decades on, Worms Armageddon has a jam-packed new update

Remember Worms Armageddon, Team17's turn-based tactics game about little pink invertebrates blasting bazookas and flinging holy hand grenades at each other? The strategy game's turned a whopping 21 years old, which means one thing - it's got an all-new patch. Yes, you read that right - now, in July 2020, we've got more Worms Armageddon fun to delve into thanks to patch 3.8.

As announced on Steam, the update means the chance to "customise your matches in weird and wonderful ways" with a hefty batch of new scheme options - more than 70, in fact. You can tweak the game's physics, the post says, send the artillery-happy anthropomorphic worms bouncing around the landscape, or even use more than just the one weapon in a turn. The thought. The only requirement for accessing these options is being a "seasoned Worms veteran" - so, completing single-player mode and unlocking The Full Wormage.

In addition, the wormy war game's patch makes your little critters' epic treks and flips around the map look sleeker than ever - with 3.8 you can "experience the fully silky smoothness of whatever frame rate your hardware can support", the dev says. Lovely.

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