The new red Hero Yamari is coming through the Summoning Portal just in time for this weekend’s Tournament!

Yamari blinked as a bead of sweat slid down his brow into his eye. He glanced around him at the desert. How long had he been waiting? He was so thirsty, but he must keep up his concentration. The ritual wasn’t yet complete.

In front of him, the great stone spire rose from the barren sand. Yamari had performed the annual dedication at this altar since he was a small boy. He’d never thought himself very important, but he knew this time the ritual was different.

This altar belonged to Haaratta — the goddess of the earth and all that burns. The beacon ceremony had been his family’s responsibility for centuries. Each year, the ritual ensured that the magic granted to the Cult of Harratta continued to flow through them. Usually this was formality. He shuddered to think about the consequences if the holy fire suddenly left the world.

“Monk! Stop!” A voice beyond the tower rang out in the empty desert. Yamari’s tired eyes struggled against the sun. There. To the west. A heavily armored fighter was approaching. A helmet of polished obsidian sat atop his head, and he pointed a deadly 5-pronged Spear. Yamari’s heart sank. One of Malum’s honor guard.

“Stay demon!” Yamari stiffened his shoulders and puffed his chest. Exhausted though he may be, he was an Archon of Haaratta and he would stand tall. “It is my holy duty to light this beacon as my father did. Woe betide any who stand in my way.”

The warrior stopped a wyrmlength from Yamari. “My people suffer. Their flesh burns. You will not light this beacon.”

Yamari sized his opponent up. He was outmatched. His humble robes couldn’t compare to full armor and weaponry, but this beacon must be lit. Millions of lives could depend on it.

“Walk away holy man. You don’t need to die here today.”

Still a few minutes left, but it would have to do — may Harratta forgive him. “I am Yamari, son of Yuri. This beacon shall light, and none shall stand in my way.”

The warrior grinned and began to charge. Yamari fixed his eyes on the beacon far above the desert. One chance. He began to chant under his breath, beginning the last step of the ritual.

“For the glory of Malum!” shouted the villain as he charged with spear brandishing. Yamari paid no attention. His thoughts were on the beacon above him, the fire within him, and his darling son he was certain he wouldn’t see again.

Yamari’s eyes snapped back to the oncoming spear. Timing would be paramount. He was ready. Harratta was ready.

The vicious tip of the spear lunged towards him. Encountering no armor, the multiple flailed points bit deep into his gut. Yamari struggled to keep his wits… such pain. Harratta grant him strength.

Yamari cocked back his hand with great effort. The warrior twisted the blade to finish the kill, but Yamari was strong. He stared into the eyes of his attacker and uttered one phrase that he’d said dozens of times before, but never felt it like today, “Let Harrata’s purifying light fill me, that all the world may burn with her love.”

The last line spoken, he raised his hand toward the beacon.

A beam of the purest light shot from his bloody and clenched fist. The blast shot towards the beacon. Its light would be blocked by nothing, and Yamari’s attacker was instantly reduced to ash in the wind. The beacon burst into flame. It was done.

Yamari crumpled to the desert ground. His work done, he thought of his family. Of his son who would fill this sacred role next year. Just as he expected the darkness to come though, a gentle blue light appeared in his wound, spreading gradually.

The pain began to subside. “The Summoning Portal? Am I truly worthy?” His eyes fixed on the beacon’s fire. “Thank you my goddess. I continue to serve you, even after death.” Yamari stood up and walked towards the portal.

Red Tournament Champion: Yamari

Yamari long left the roar of the Tournament crowd behind for a life of simple monastic reverence. Once a champion though… always a champion. Hiding under Yamari’s simple and compassionate exterior is a man with unending resolve. He enters battle without fear, and wields the divine power of his goddess with deadly aptitude.

Yamari is a master of the Blinding Light. Calling down Harratta’s purification on his opponent, he is able to deal tremendous damage to a single enemy, also dazing it and its allies to limit their ability use. Yamari fears no counterattack from any opponent.

Yamari will arrive on Thursday, September 14th in time for the next Tournament! Are you ready?

Tournament Champions at the Ready!

As usual with a new Hero, Yamari will have a 10x modifier to all Tournament and Dragon Strike damage that will scale down gradually to a 5x modifier for the Legendary version.

The Rare Yamari will have a 5x modifier for all Tournament and Dragon Strike damage that will scale down gradually to a 2x modifier, where it will eventually remain permanently.

Like other Heroes before, Yamari is available all week as a possible bonus summon and will enter the permanent summoning pool.

Yamari will be a great help in this weekend’s Green Tournament. Don’t miss out on this new hero!

Coming up next week is a Purple Dragon Strike… What hero will be unveiled then?

The extraction FPS powered by player-owned Operator’s Nodes is now live in Early Access to anyone with an Early Access Token.

The Last Expedition team is thrilled to release the highly anticipated new build! Even more importantly, this is the first chance Early Access Token holders will have to get in on the action. Until now, only Last Expedition Node Operators (OPs) could play, but with thousands and thousands of Early Access Tokens now active out there in the wild, this is a new era of Last Expedition Early Access.

Remember–Early Access Tokens will grant the owner access to all Early Access playtest builds up until the Beta launch of Last Expedition (date TBA).

The Early Access Token

In the monumental shift to GalaChain operations for everything in our games, some adjustments were required to make the original Early Access Token concept a success. A new version of the Early Access token has now been minted on GalaChain and distributed to everyone who purchased Operators’ License Bundles in the earlier sales.

Please note that the original Early Access Token NFT is now completely devoid of utility and should not be bought, sold or transferred.

Now, each Early Access Token is a unique GalaChain minted item complete with an ID number. Operators may now distribute these tokens to anyone they’d like to have early access to this amazing game.

Get in the Game

If you’re ready to play right now, we’ll help you get started! Look for a more detailed guide on securing your Early Access, downloading the game and logging in with your Epic Games account in an upcoming Support article.

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Get an Early Access Token

For everyone who’s not operating their own Last Expedition Node and toting a nice bag of Early Access tokens to show for their subscription: You’ll find a shiny token of your own (among other goodies) in the Hunter’s Early Access Pass, available now for $50 in the Gala Games store.

Create an Epic Games account

While you’ll launch the game from the Gala Games platform, this build is hosted by Epic Games, so before playing you’ll need to ensure your account is in order.

Prepare to Get Killed and Eaten

You’ll see.

Operating a Node

The powered by player-owned Nodes feature is one of our favorites. It reminds us of the old days of garage LAN parties where everyone drank yellow soda all night long… The glory days.

Anyway, if you’re a Last Expedition OP, then you’ll be interested in knowing that you can start running your own server now. Check your email for all the specifics so we don’t have to bore the non-OPs.

If you’re interested in becoming an OP by grabbing a Summer Operator’s License Bundle, they’re still available (limited time only) in the Gala Games store. This one comes with 4 Early Access Tokens, a Forest Snapper OP Mod predator, and subscription to the OP Mod club so you’ll get the new OP Mod every time!

The Harvest Awaits

There are tons of precious minerals and resources out there among the terrifying predators that all want to kill you and your team. Survive, extract and get out.

We all hope you enjoy this new Early Access playtest build, and we can hardly wait to bring you the next round of juicy updates. For now, secure your Early Access and start enjoying the game!

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With the Season 2 update, 3 brand new Legendary Champions will have a 4x in-game Summon rate for a limited time.

If you still haven’t started playing Champions Arena, this is the perfect opportunity to start your Champion Book with a real bang–Introducing 3 brand new Legendary Champions: Zafrina, Lavina and Jia!

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New Legendary Champions

As a limited-time special appreciation event until the next build update in mid September, you’ll have a massively enhanced chance to summon any of these 3 Legendary ladies. In fact, now you have 4 times the chance to summon Zafrina, Lavina or Jia over any other Legendary Champion!

Anxious to learn more about the skills and stories of the new Legendary Champions?

They’re live in the game now, so even if you don’t manage to summon one yourself, you’re bound to start facing them in the Arena very soon! Will they fight for you or against you? Time will tell!

New Champion NFT Bonus

Each of these new Champions is only available through Summoning in-game. However, players always have the option to mint their Champions on GalaChain, using the required number of Minting Scrolls through the Estate’s Altar of Champions.

Players who play with minted NFT versions of any of these new Legendary Champions will receive an additional 15% boost to Victory Points for each battle (per Legendary Champion NFT used). This Victory Point boost will remain in effect until the end of Season 3.

We understand that minting an NFT Champion can be costly and is not a lightly-made decision. Plan, strategize, and check the OpenSea secondary market for current listings and trade history of existing Legendary Champions.

New Champion Growth Package

This is an especially exciting addition to the in-game Cash Shop. Suppose you summon one of the first Legendary Jias and you’re so excited you can’t wait for the level grind. Now you don’t need to. Just pick up one of the New Champion Growth Packs and power up your Champion fast.

Keep in mind that Growth Packs are only available for a limited time. When the new Legendary Champions’ Summons return to regular odds, the Growth Pack opportunity ends!

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Fixes

The team at OneUniverse has been hard at work on updates, improvements and bug fixes, as you can see from the list below!

• Fixed the issue where the skill description wasn’t correctly matching the actual skill effect
• Fixed the issue where Ifrit casts turn gauge increase instead of buff removal
• Fixed the issue where it says that the skill is activated when attacked while it should say that it’s activated when attacking, in Tasaria’s passive skill description
• Fixed the wrong name displayed in Sakaris passive skill description
• Fixed the issue where there was a missing skill in King Titan’s passive skill description: about 50% increase in effect accuracy when it’s in Rampage mode
• Changed Bjorn’s unique resource effect from speed increase to defense increase that matches the actual effect
• Fixed the issue where Devi & Stan’s overcharge is recharged immediately after using skill3 when there’s 1 overcharge skill
• Fixed the issue where the Angel’s Fury is not created by Seraph
• Fixed the issue where the turn gauge increase was applied instead of buff removal when used Ifrit’s basic attack’s Card match effect
• Fixed the issue where the Quixote passive effect was intermittently working abnormally
• Fixed the issue where the attack power reduction is applied instead of speed reduction as a status effect when Demias’ Card match skill2 is used
• Fixed the issue where the removed aura did not reactivate after using Desdemona’s Card match skill3
• Variety of improvements to the reward UI
• Fixed localization and translation issues
• Fixed the issue where NFT Champions were unlockable when linked

As you can see, the team is hard at it, making Champions Arena the the best mobile RPG game you’ve ever played, with brilliant PvP strategy, endless combos, and real player ownership.

Play the game on your favorite mobile device now, or on PC through the Gala Games launcher.

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The new Hero Intiara is arriving this weekend through the summoning portal, ready to rage against your foes in this week’s Dragon Strike!

Ruins. Death all around her.

Intiara walked through what remained of her forest, staggered both physically and emotionally by the untold destruction.

Just two days ago, it had been a peaceful sanctuary of the old ways. Intiara lived in connection with the forest, and it with her. They each gave freely of their power in a beautiful, symbiotic coexistence. But that was all gone. Now Intiara felt the forest dying… and with it, herself.

Malum’s army had camped several leagues away. Intiara didn’t care for the politics of the world, and she’d paid little notice. The foraging parties descended first — uprooting stem and peeling bark. Before long the forest had become a siege workshop, where the army’s engineers felled tree after tree to construct behemoth weapons of war.

She’d tried. The destruction of the forest had filled Intiara with rage. She’d rallied every living thing in its borders against the soldiers. United, they fought back… but both she and the forest were nothing against the endless waves of steel and fire. Now the forest was dying. The army was gone, but the companion she’d lived with so long was beyond her power to save.

She burned with hatred for the engineers, for the soldiers, for everything but her forest. She felt herself fading, but saw no reason to let go of her anger. Sitting down to rest, she looked out across the falling leaves and smoldering fires. Any moment now. Her focus was already fading. She so deeply longed for just one chance at revenge against those monsters though before the end.

An unexpected blue light began to pool in front of her. “The Summoning Portal,” a distinctly maniacal grin spread across her face. “I will have my chance then.”

She turned sadly to look at the ruins of the forest one last time. “Goodbye old friend. You shall be avenged.”

Green Dragon Slayer Hero: Intiara

Intiara has nothing left but her rage. Her connection to nature allows her to enrage those around her, allowing them to accomplish unbelievable feats of strength.

Intiara is a master of the Ability Tribal Frenzy. Channeling her rage into her natural affinity, she is able to massively boost the critical rate, attack and defense of all allied Green Heroes. She has long stood as guardian of her forest, and she will stand firm for her new allies with her more than formidable defenses.

Intiara will arrive on Thursday, August 24th for the next Dragon Strike event. Are you ready?

Dragon Slayers, Attack!

As usual with a new Hero, Intiara will have a 10x modifier to all Tournament and Dragon Strike damage that will scale down gradually to a 5x modifier for the Legendary version.

The Rare Intiara will have a 5x modifier for all Tournament and Dragon Strike damage that will scale down gradually to a 2x modifier, where it will eventually remain permanently.

Like other Heroes before, Intiara is available all week as a possible bonus summon and will enter the permanent summoning pool.

Intiara will be a great help in this weekend’s Dragon Strike. Don’t miss this new hero!

Coming up next week is a Blue Tournament… What hero will be unveiled then?

Dear Gala Games Community,

We wanted to provide you with an important update regarding recent legal developments involving the founders of our company, Blockchain Game Partners, Inc., also known as, Gala Games, Gala Music and Gala Film.

On August 31, 2023, a derivative shareholder lawsuit was filed by Gala Games’ co-Founder and CEO, Eric Schiermeyer against Gala Games’ co-founder, Wright Thurston and True North United Investments, LLC. Subsequent thereto, a lawsuit was instituted by Wright Thurston against Eric Schiermeyer. A derivative shareholder lawsuit is a legal action filed by a shareholder on behalf of a corporation to address perceived wrongs committed against the corporation. These litigations, undoubtedly, may engender inquiries and apprehensions within our community, but we assure you that the Gala community has our unwavering commitment to transparency and accountability throughout this process.

In accordance with the principles of justice and due process, we must allow the legal process to unfold in its entirety. As an active case, we are legally restrained from making public comments or speculations concerning the ongoing litigation.

We want to emphasize that this legal process is primarily a dispute between the founders and does not involve the company in any substantive way. We are confident that we are well-positioned and will remain unscathed. Gala Games will continue to thrive and achieve sustained success. We persist in our dedication to ongoing innovation, crafting remarkable games that deliver joy and entertainment to a global audience. Our film projects advance with enthusiasm, and we eagerly anticipate forthcoming releases poised to captivate audiences. Furthermore, our Gala Music artists continue to thrive, churning out exceptional and unforgettable music that resonate with listeners. Our unwavering commitment to innovation, creativity, and our cherished community remains undiminished.

We pledge to keep our esteemed stakeholders apprised of developments as these legal actions evolve, and we remain dedicated to addressing any inquiries or concerns that may arise in the course of these proceedings. Your ongoing support is the lifeblood of our enterprise, and we eagerly anticipate sharing further exciting updates and milestones with you in the forthcoming juncture.

We extend our profound gratitude for your invaluable participation in the Gala community.

Yours sincerely,
Blake Walker
General Counsel