- Fine. I'll Admit I'm Infatuated With The World Of Super Monday Night Combat. - 23 May 2012
Super Monday Night Combat exists in a dystopia in which spectacle, corporate greed and marketing are the fundamental pillars that hold society together. The premise is this: there's a deadly organized sport—that'd be Monday Night Combat—where two opposing teams of corporate-sponsored clones duke it out for money and prizes by shooting each other in the face. Or, well, they shoot each other in the face while escorting robots to the enemy ‘Moneyball' in an attempt to destroy it. First team to destroy the Moneyball wins. The thing about Super Monday Night Combat is that it's charming and personable, all while maintaining a playful tone. At first, there might not seem to be much to the class-based third person shooter beyond the mechanics—the way that Uber Entertainment develops the world is subtle. I like that about the game, too. It means that when Super Monday Night Com…
- Steam Trading Makes Super Monday Night Combat and TF2 Hat-Swappable - 10 May 2012
The update live now for Super Monday Night Combat introduces Steam Trading (among other upgrades and fixes), which means you can pickup crossover costume items in both this title and Team Fortress 2 for the super low price of nothing. Four items kick off the "Friendship is Sharing" campaign for Uber Entertainment, two for each game. You unlock the hats and uniforms by reaching certain levels in Super Monday Night Combat . Here is the lowdown. • The Gunslinger Hat, worn by Sniper in TF2 , is unlocked when you get Agent Level 5 in SMNC . • The Engineer Uniform, worn by Combatgirl in SMNC is yours when you get Agent Level 10. • The Soldier Uniform and Rocket Launcher is Megabeth's in SMNC once you get Agent Level 15. • Finally, Pyro will get the Assassin Helmet if you can reach Agent Level 20. More details, plus full update notes, at the link. Rule Changes: 5 - 5/10/12
- Let's Look at the 31st Build of Super Monday Night Combat - 12 April 2012
Super Monday Night Combat is a third-person five-on-five shooter that most of you can't play yet. It's been in private beta and has been updated more than 30 times since that all began in September. The original MNC was on Xbox Live Arcade and PC. This one's only on PC and a little bit sillier. That's why you'll see someone play as a barrel-throwing gorilla and why we get a big exclusive announcement in the video here: the game's getting a deep-fried butter power-up. Watch the video to see how the free-to-play game is shaping up. One important note: I describe the game as having DOTA or MOBA-like rules. For those who don't know the jargon, that means that players rely on waves of computer-controlled drones to funnel down lanes toward enemy bases. The job of the player is to protect those drones and fend off other players, as the drones assault the enemy base. Check out the game's offici…
- Another Round of Super Monday Night Combat Teasing, Now With More Gameplay - 29 August 2011
Here's just a little bit more of Super Monday Night Combat , the recently announced , free-to-play sort-of-sequel to Uber Entertainment's Xbox 360 and PC game that (this time) draws a lot more influence from DotA -style gameplay. There's more actual gameplay in this clip than Super Monday Night Combat 's debut teaser. There's also some concept artwork strewn throughout and more facetime with SMNC 's new characters , Combatgirl, Gunsinger and the Veteran. Maybe you'll come to understand a bit better how the new, PC-only Super Monday Night Combat aims to model itself after a Warcraft III mod and the MOBAs that it inspired. For more, read Kotaku 's preview of Super Monday Night Combat . You can contact Michael McWhertor, the author of this post, at [email protected] . You can also find him on Twitter , Facebook , and lurking around our #tips page.
- Get Ready for Super Monday Night Combat, a Very DotA Shooter That is Free to Play - 25 August 2011
As people play it in the beta, they'll notice some tweaks to the MNC format that the Uber guys say make the game play differently. As mentioned, the lethality of attacks has been diminished. All characters will have slow-down abilities that can decelerate the enemy advance while giving a time to converge for a group assault. Turrets that players build in the arena will now start with level-three shields, helping them last longer. And the grand prize that each competing team has their eyes on—the Moneyball—will be more valuable than ever because dropping its shields will be the action that spawns the mighty Jackbots into the Moneyball-attacker's parade of bots. In the previous game, those Jackbots simply showed up every five minutes. The new approach, Comes said, "helps push the end game. It helps amp up the action." There will be new bots in the bot lanes of Super MNC , incl…
- The Real Story of 'Chickey Cantor' - 24 April 2011
Well, I blew it. Monday Night Combat and Uber Entertainment dropped a story with perfect Easter ties in everyone's lap on Friday, and I missed the point. Chickey Cantor, the crazy clucker you can rodeo-ride for big buxx in the game's new title update , is not in fact named for Monday Night Combat P.A. Mickey Cantor. He's named for a chicken named for Monday Night Combat P.A. Mickey Cantor. Chickey's a real chicken, the one pictured above, and he lives on a farm in New Hampshire. Back in the winter, Griffin Thomas, a high school senior who lives on the farm with Chickey, lamented the fact that two friends of his had been in a car accident and, while unharmed, all their cash would be going to repairs, not a purchase of Monday Night Combat as the group had planned. Griffin wondered to his mom, Wendy (who blogs about her farm here ) whether publisher Uber Entertainment could be convinced to…
- Keep Pluckin' That Chicken In Monday Night Combat - 23 April 2011
If your fetish happens to be rodeo-riding a giant chicken named for a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce , you're going to want to get Monday Night Combat's latest update, which went live last night. That's "Chickey Cantor," the newest star of Monday Night Combat, found in its newest map, Uncle Tully's Funland. Yes, yes, I know "Mickey Cantor" is the name of the supersmarmy announcer in Monday Night Combat. I'm still amused that, of all names, Uber Entertainment picked that (though I would be even more amused if they picked Charlene Barshefsky ). Should you manage to wrangle Chickey (wait for him to slam the ground, then grapple him) and ride him for eight seconds, you get a big cash money prize. Of course, while riding that chicken you are a sitting, er, duck for opposing pros. You may also shoot Chickey and make him fly away, earning a huge single-life buff for your side. Other updates…
- Five Awesome XBLA Games, One Great Price - 15 April 2011
There's quite the sale going on over on Xbox Live Arcade at the moment. Five of the very best games around - Limbo, Shadow Complex, Castle Crashers, Trials HD and Monday Night Combat - are going for half price. Normally, they're 1200 MSP. For today, April 15, they're only 600 MSP.
- How A Randy Robot and a Bit of Team Fortress Showed up in Monday Night Combat - 28 January 2011
It started with a lunchtime brainstorm by the guys who make Monday Night Combat: Maybe Valve would like to do a Team Fortress crossover? That began a process that required all of a 15-minute drive and a handshake. No money changing hands, no strings attached. "For us, it was like, ‘Really? That's it?'" said Chandana Ekanayake, the art director for Uber Entertainment, a Seattle-area developer located just up the road from Valve. "It was a handshake agreement, completely free." Team Fortress 2's signature hats, plus Penny Arcade's - ahem - Fruit Fucker will appear in Monday Night Combat for those who order the game before Tuesday. It's the latest in a string of recent high-profile crossovers touching the indie community, with Valve as a player in nearly all of them. Telltale Games produced "Poker Night at the Inventory," uniting Penny Arcade, Homestar Runner and Team Fortress 2 with its S…
- Monday Night Combat, Team Fortress 2 Have Steamy Item Swap Love Fest - 24 January 2011
Monday Night Combat is now available on Steam. To ensure that you buy the damn thing, Valve and Uber Entertainment are injecting Monday Night Combat with Team Fortress 2 stuff and Team Fortress 2 with Monday Night Combat stuff. Here's the deal. If you buy a Monday Night Combat on Steam before 10 a.m. PST, February 1st, 2011, you'll get all manner of Team Fortress 2 hat, mask, bandoleer, eye patch and dispenser for your MNC players. You'll also get a handful of Monday Night Combat-themed hats, socks and personal items for TF2. Everybody wins. I think you also get Penny Arcade's Fruit Fucker, aka Juicebot, in Monday Night Combat, but I'm not quite sure why. But, hey, free thing! More details about the MNC launch at the developer's official site. Monday Night Combat on Steam
- Monday Night Combat Is Half Off Today - 29 December 2010
Less than a month before it releases on Steam, Monday Night Combat has dropped to half off over Xbox Live Arcade for the time being. You can grab the cooperative/competitive shooter for just 600 Microsoft Points ($7.50) while supplies last. Clarification: The sale is for today only, says Uber Entertainment. For those who are buying this, or already have but have forgotten - the Spunky Cola Special DLC also is free so run go get that, too. The package, which released Dec. 1 gives you two new arenas and a slew of other details and features you may read about here.
- Monday Night Combat Smashes Keyboards, Releasing On Steam - 14 December 2010
Monday Night Combat, one of the year's surprise hits on Xbox Live Arcade, will be released on PC next month. While a first glance may have you wondering why , since being a cartoon-based team shooter it's firmly on Team Fortress 2's turf, you're not being very fair. Monday Night Combat is its own creature, as much a fast-paced game of tower defence as it is a straight-up shooter. If you pre-purchase the game on Steam now, you'll get access to the beta which begins on December 16. If you want to wait, the game's proper release date is January 17. We reviewed the Xbox 360 version earlier this year , and liked it. A lot .
