Block Battles: TimeGate Announces Minimum

Michael Dunaway
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With blocky graphics and a title like "Minimum" you would expect TimeGate Studio's latest shooter to offer little more than cheap minimalist square-filled thrills. But on closer inspection the Free-to-Play shooter suddenly evolves into something very much the opposite. What it lacks in visuals it certainly makes up for in scale and sheer ridiculousness. Giant golems wage war for their respective sides while blocky insects skitter across the arena floor. I'm pretty sure I even saw some red dinosaurs. Meanwhile players are busy shooting, slashing, collecting, and upgrading their weapons.

Speaking of upgrading weapons, the game features the ability for players to collect powerups which actively change a weapons abilities as it levels up to its maximum potential. You'll need to be careful though, the powered up weapons only last as long as you can keep yourself alive. Weapons will come in a variety of styles including exploding ice-snipers and burning dual-wield katanas all complete with unique alt fire modes.

After watching the trailer one of my immediate -and I assume many people's immediate- thoughts was "what do I need to do to get into one of them fancy rock'em sock'em golems?" Unfortunately my dreams of re-enacting old monster movies were cut short when I found out these "Titans" as they are called can only be indirectly influenced by players. Players are tasked with harvesting energy from creatures within the environment in order to power their team's Titan which I assume allows it to then beat the crap out of everything and anything.

Minimum is set to begin closed alpha testing on April 16th via Steams early access program. You can check out the game's (albeit currently limited) site here.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (32)

Jellopy 11 years ago
Oh wow.. I want to play this. I was expecting brickforce when i read 'block' but the graphics and effects on this are quite fancy.

elkiko 11 years ago
OMFG as soon i can i'll dwonload it

asdasd 11 years ago
Counter cube strike?

PeaceKeeper 11 years ago
This game reminds me a bit of a game I played on Kongregate a while ago i think it was called splat death salad or something :P

anip 11 years ago
reminds me of old-style Transformers.... LOL (cause the characters all look "blocky"/ "machine" like)

ToxiNz 11 years ago
At the beginning of the trailer I thought 'ANOTHER SHOOTER?' but then more awesome stuff started appearing. At one part, it looks like the environment is going to be destructible.

MrPants 11 years ago
dem effects

Seunji 11 years ago
Game looks likes the first Roblox FPS Game and totally would be awesome if that name was the title for this game. Should be awesome since there is PvP or Player vs Player in this game also Team Deathmatch and other sorts of other fun modes you can play. I suggest this would be an awesome game to play.

Kelorin 11 years ago
The blocky exterior looks amazing, and that blocky weapon looks amazing also and the blocky rocks,environment, titans,little bugs, dinos, all blocky its simple yet amazing. I'm serious!

Anonymous 11 years ago
But it looks and feels like MicroVolts. :(

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Gamer X 11 years ago
when I saw this on the news I was like OMG I have to see this ... and looks like we got a pretty awesome game here with graphics ! I think it will be promosing I hope I wont be disappointed :D

LuthexColbark 11 years ago
Looks awesome, might even consider getting early access. It's the Lego Shooter that I've always secretly wanted.

Akshansh 11 years ago
When I read the name I thought pure fail! But when I saw the trailer I was proved wrong .I thought that blocks will never look good . But I found it quite good . Till now it looks very good . But I have to play it and then onliy I can conclude but I think its innovative and somewhat nicely executed.

LeiHngWei 11 years ago
I like big blocks and I can not lie.

interesting 11 years ago
not usually a big fan of fps...or block style games ( which there seem to be a lot of after minecraft became so popular ) But this one is definitely one to keep an eye on

dagudman 11 years ago
It actually looks really cool. I like the blocky art more than realistic. Looks new and I hope it will be a good mmotps.

DeadLocks 11 years ago
Looks like a never seen before Shooter, Look very good.~ Dead

unera 11 years ago
No objection! But I still hold the point that MMO without charater-level makes me more excited. For example, Age of Wushu, EVE Online, City of Heroes...

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Girikfrost 11 years ago
The game looks pretty awesome and on April 16th you can get early access to the game on Steam
^_^

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Ero-Shinigami 11 years ago
At first I was like "meh, another tps but with blocky style" but them the other features kicked in, monsters, those big mofos, the other environment and I think this might be good.

ugurano 11 years ago
this game looks shit

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from_hell 11 years ago
looks cool, but it's gonna be a while before most of us get to play it

Sakee 11 years ago
A possible chatlog:

Blocky: OMG, dude.. they are r***ping us... where ya been?
Menta: Just a block away.
Blocky: that darn cheater - he uses a female avatar...
Menta: How do you know? Lolz
Blocky: he haz a smaller hitbox

Spammie 11 years ago
OMG, this looks awesome !

LolReally 11 years ago
Brick version of halo.

rickey williams 11 years ago
mounted

70calories 11 years ago
alright this looks pretty awesome I'll be looking forward to it

chense 11 years ago
mounted.
but looks like team fortress but then awsome in another way


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