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Jeff Kaplan’s New Open-World Action-Survival Shooter Gets Its First Public Steam Playtest Next Week

Jeff Kaplan’s indie studio Kintsugiyama will open a public Steam playtest for its debut game, The Legend of California, next week. The game was shown in a short reveal video and a long developer livestream, and the team says a larger beta is planned for summer before Early Access.

1 min read Mar 19, 01:32 PM

Gaming

Jeff Kaplan Says Free-to-Play Needs '8 Billion Players' — His New Team Has 34

Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan, now leading The Legend of California, joked that true free-to-play success needs an absurd scale and a content factory. His small team plans a different route: unlocks by playing and a simpler approach.

2 min read Mar 19, 12:15 PM

Gaming

Jeff Kaplan's New Game Turns Gold Rush California into a Gorgeous, Dangerous Playground

Jeff Kaplan's Kintsugiyama is cooking up The Legend of California: a hand-crafted, seed-shifting survival-action game inspired by 19th century vistas. Early alpha drops soon.

2 min read Mar 12, 03:14 PM