Blaseball

A number of staff are being laid off in the process The bizarre internet sports-sim Blaseball is coming to a close. Developer The Game Band has announced that it’s ending Blaseball ahead of its new era, and laying off some staff in the process. Posted on The Game Band’s Medium page, the studio confirms Blaseball is headed to an end, rather than its planned Coronation Era. In short, Blaseball “isn’t sustainable” to keep running. “Since Blaseball’s inception, we’ve been fighting against the amount of work it takes to keep…

Born during covid, Blaseball was a bizarre text-only fantasy baseball simulator that imagined, essentially, baseball as played in a world of otherworldly horrors. I regret that I never got to play Blaseball, and now it looks like I won’t get to because developer The Game Band is shutting it down. The company is laying off its Blaseball development team and will provide them with severance pay, healthcare extensions, and a dedicated staff member for job search help.It was a remarkable example of procedural storytelling.…

The Game Band has announced that the newest season of Blaseball, a horror-fantasy baseball game, kicks off today (January 9). The latest season launched at 3PM today and The Game Band teased that it will send players into a “new era of unruly gods and deadly competition.” “This era will mark the debut of an entirely new kind of Blaseball, formed via the supermassive black hole that ended the previous universe,” shared The Game Band. “The Pre Season already saw players drafted onto different teams, and over the course…

The Game Band has announced that Blaseball, the fantasy sports league and horror metagame, will return on January 9, 2023. In preparation for the upcoming release, the Blaseball website has been revamped with social features and moreTo celebrate the start of the upcoming Blaseball season, an official app will launch alongside Opening Day. The app will allow fans to view games, as well as place bets on the outcome and conditions, talk to other fans, and even vote to determine how the story plays…

Absurdist sports (or splorts, to be more accurate) simulator Blaseball will return for a new season on January 9, 2023. That day will also see the launch of the game’s long-awaited mobile app, making it available outside of internet browsers for the first time. Blaseball first launched in 2020 as a free browser game. It’s an idle game that simulates full seasons of a fictional sports league filled with often comedic teams like the Canada Moist Talkers and the Kansas City Breath Mints. Players interact with the game…

We talk to the Blaseball team about what’s in store for the new Era It was the year 2020, and everyone was inside. The world was slowly coming to grips with a pandemic, and everyone was indoors and online. Amid it all, there was Blaseball. Blaseball is, at its most distilled form, a sports game. Users join through the website and assign themselves to a team of choice, like the Houston Spies or Baltimore Crabs, either through regional loyalty or just digging their vibe. Each team is populated by generated players, who…

Disaster. We had been so arrogant — we wished to spite the god itself. So we took its snacks, its so-called “gifts,” and we sacrificed them to our dead — 100 million tributes in all. How could we have known that it would return with its progeny to crush our champions? That it would abduct our beloved players and force them against us? This was the most public and humiliating of punishments. This was Blaseball. In October 2020, as season 9 of Internet League Blaseball concluded, I was left reeling. I had just watched a…