Last week, Robot Entertainment announced that their free-to-play third-person action/tower defense-ish game, Orcs Must Die! Unchained, will be coming to an end this April. Sadly, it sounds like this attempt to shift the popular franchise to the "games as a service" model didn't pan out for the Texas-based developer.

Following their big overhaul of the system this past fall, Orcs Must Die! Unchained officially got released on the PC back in April. There have been a number of patches and updates since that time, including one that added a 3v3 PvP mode back into the game, and it appears the title is now at a point where it's good for a console release.

Last night we went back and checked out the recently updated Orcs Must Die! Unchained, which is now up to beta version 1.7.  If you missed the news, the game has recently retooled itself dropping all PvP elements and strictly becoming a co-op (PvE) affair. 

This past summer we checked out Robot Entertainment's next entry in the Orcs Must Die! series, Orcs Must Die! Unchained, and enjoyed what we played of the co-op Survival mode. While the game has received a few updates in between then and now, the next one (1.6) promises some big changes that will improve the "Survival" mode experience.

Last night the Co-opticrew took to the latest update of the beta version of Orcs Must Die! Unchained - the free to play sequel to one of our favorite co-op games, Orcs Must Die! 2. The game is split into two modes, with one being a competitive MOBA style game and the other more traditional OMD style survival. It's the latter we hit up.

Robot Entertainment's Orcs Must Die! Unchained is now available for all to play. The free-to-play title with some MOBA elements has entered the open beta phase on PC.

Developer Robot Entertainment is celebrating "Orc Week," a holiday with which I'm wholly unfamiliar but hey, just go with it. During this time, all Orcs Must Die! games are on sale with a whopping 90% off discount. That means you can get Orcs Must Die! 2 for just $1.50, or you can get a two-pack (for you and a friend) of the "Complete" edition (i.e., the game and all DLC) for just $3.99. What savings!

Be it through books, games, or movies, the fantasy genre of late has started to take a closer look at mankind's greatest foe: the orc.  Stances have begun to soften, their portrayals as heartless monsters have been replaced with those presenting them as savage, yet honorable creatures, and certainly not created to oppose the forces of good.  The Orcs Must Die! franchise (including Orcs Must Die! Unchained) brings us back to the days of yore, when orcs were evil and needed to be slain.  That was that.

News about the next entry in the Orcs Must Die! series, titled Orcs Must Die! Unchained, has been scarce since it was first revealed last autumn. Unlike previous entries, the game has shifted in mechanics to be somewhat more "MOBA-like", though there would be a non-PvP option for players just looking to play with friends. With the latest update to the game's beta (still closed), it looks like we'll be getting a type of endless/horde mode in addition to the standard game.

Question time. Do you loathe members of the Orcish persuasion? Do you own a Playstation 4? Do you only speak in declarative statements? If you answered "yes," to all of these questions, you may proceed to rejoice. Orcs Must Die! Unchained is headed to the PS4 for all of your green-skin dismemberment needs. The multiplayer series originally made its home on the Xbox 360, and now it appears it has arrived in the new generation on Sony's team.

While the next Orcs Must Die! game, Unchained, is still in a closed beta, developer Robot Entertainment has been putting out the patch notes for it for the world to see. In the latest notes, it's become clear that the game, which is more MOBA style than the previous entries, will have a strictly co-op/PvE setting.