ArcheAge Chronicles is an online action RPG from Korea's XLGAMES, set fifty years after the first ArcheAge. Settlers are returning to the rediscovered land of Auroria; you arrive as an explorer for a trading company and get drawn into the mystery of a wrecked airship.
The team says it is neither ArcheAge 2 nor a traditional MMORPG: the world is shared but built for small groups. Combat uses combos, rolls, blocks and parries, with builds from melee, ranged or magic weapons. Gathering, farming, crafting, trade runs and housing in shared neighbourhoods return.
It is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox, self-published in the West. There has been one short network test for the US and Canada; Early Access is next, undated. Good for fans of ArcheAge's life skills and trading, not for those after its big guild wars.
