Last month at Apple’s latest media event held in San Francisco, Epic Games revealed Infinity Blade Dungeons, due out for release this year. Dungeons takes a different turn from the previous two installments, firstly the game is being developed by Epic Games themselves, rather than their subsidiary Chair Entertainment. Secondly, the gameplay differs greatly. Rather than being guided through your quest on rails, and taking part in third-person battles, all with limited movement, the new gameplay seems to be in the same vein as Diablo and Dungeon Hunter.

The game acts as a prologue, as it takes place thousands of years prior to the events that transpire in Infinity Blade and Infinity Blade II. Specifically, before the Infinity Blade itself is actually forged. You’ll be taking the role of an apprentice weaponsmith, who serves the Master of the Forge. You’re sent on a dangerous quest to forge the “the one thing the Deathless will come to fear the most,” the Infinity Blade.

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