News archive
07.01.2012New Castle Empire Developer Diary
Castle Empire Players! Happy New Year! We wanted to start the New Year off right by letting you know what we have in development for Castle Empire.
Click here to read the new Developer Diary.
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
05.01.2012Castle Empire Maintenance 1/5 12:00 AM PST Christmas Event Ending!
As a reminder, the Castle Empire servers will come down on Thursday morning at 12:00AM PST(3:00AM EST) for a 5 hour maintenance. The game will be playable at 5:00AM (PST)
Click here to find out what changes were made!
Be sure to follow Castle Empire on Facebook and Twitter for news and exclusive updates!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
Update: 12.05 AM PST - Servers are down.
Update: 01.10 AM PST - Database clean-up done.
Update: 03.05 AM PST - Servers are being restarted now for internal testing.
Update: 03.30 AM PST - Servers are back online.
Have fun!
The Castle Empire Support Team
03.01.2012Ornament Event Ends January 5th! Win 250 Gems!
Oh tannenbaum, Oh tannenbam! Creative Castle Empire Community, we need your help! In order for us to have a festive Christmas, we need you to create some ornaments to decorate our lovely Christmas plant. These ornaments can be any shape, any size, any idea! As long as you use your imagination and some holiday cheer. Perhaps you’d like an ornament to commemorate a glorious victory, or perhaps you just really like Castle Empire mulled wine (and who doesn’t!?), well make those moments and memories into ornaments!
You could be one of 10 lucky winners to win 250 Gems! Hurry, this contest ends on January 5th!
Help me Castle Empire Community, you are my Christmas plant’s only hope!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
22.12.2011After Christmas Sale - 20% Off Gem Bundles!
Didn’t find what you were looking under the Christmas tree this year? Well Castle Empire is giving you a second chance! Castle Empire is holding a one day sale. Starting December 29th, you can get 20% off nearly all of our Gem packages. There isn’t much time so act fast! This sale ends December 31st at 12:01AM PST
Click here to start saving NOW!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
21.12.2011Maintenance Thursday 12/22 12:00AM (PST)
As a reminder, the Castle Empire servers will come down on Thursday morning at 12:00AM PST(3:00AM EST) for a 6 hour maintenance. The game will be playable at 5:00AM (PST)
Click here to find out what changes were made!
Be sure to follow Castle Empire on Facebook and Twitter for news and exclusive updates!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
Update: 12.46 AM PST - Servers are down.
Update: 01.52 AM PST - Deployment complete.
Update: 03.35 AM PST - Servers are back online.
Have fun playing!
The Castle Empire Support Team
20.12.2011GM Holiday Trivia This Week
‘Tis the Season to throw snowballs, drink mead, and play Castle Empire! We want to make your holiday game sessions as eventful and festive as possible. The GMs will be hosting a Christmas Trivia event. This event is like the others we have had, however, you could also win Assassin's Creed Brotherhood for the PC. This is one of Ubisoft's most popular games!
Presents under the tree? Who needs ‘em! You can win all your Holiday goodies during this event!
UPDATE: Event extended! Due to popular demand, we have added a whole weeks worth of new trivia. You can now participate in the GM trivia from December 26th to the 30th!
The times the trivia will be occurring can be found on the forums, here.
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
13.12.2011Christmas Wishlist Event
Christmas is coming! Don we now our shiny armor to deck the halls with blades and mead. Okay, okay, that may not be the best or safest way to start off the season, but you know what makes a great start to the holidays? Writing your very own Christmas wishlist for the Castle Empire Santa! Have you been naughty or nice? Ensure that you have a bountiful Castle Empire Christmas with presents under the tree. Hey, at least in Castle Empire, a lump or a thousand of coal wouldn’t be so bad!
Head to the forums and create a wishlist of the 5 things you want from the Castle Empire shop. You could be one of 5 lucky winners to win their entire wishlist! Enter the contest here
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
12.12.2011Server Maintenance 12/12 at 10 PM (PST)
The Castle Empire servers will come down on Monday night at 10:00PM PST(1:00AM EST) for a 4 hour maintenance. The game will be playable at 2:00AM (PST). We will be updating the storage of Uplay, to make sure that Uplay will be available during the holiday season.
Be sure to follow Castle Empire on Facebook and Twitter for news and exclusive updates!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
09.12.2011Castle Empire Christmas Ornament Event
Oh tannenbaum, Oh tannenbam! Creative Castle Empire Community, we need your help! In order for us to have a festive Christmas, we need you to create some ornaments to decorate our lovely Christmas plant. These ornaments can be any shape, any size, any idea! As long as you use your imagination and some holiday cheer. Perhaps you’d like an ornament to commemorate a glorious victory, or perhaps you just really like Castle Empire mulled wine (and who doesn’t!?), well make those moments and memories into ornaments!
You could be one of 10 lucky winners to win 250 Gems! Enter the contest here
Help me Castle Empire Community, you are my Christmas plant’s only hope!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
07.12.2011Castle Empire Christmas Event & Maintenance
Christmas is coming! Don we now our shiny armor to deck the halls with blades and mead. You can read all about this in-game holiday event on the Castle Empire Forums here.
The Castle Empire servers will come down on Thursday morning at 12:00AM PST(3:00AM EST) for a 5 hour maintenance. The game will be playable at 5:00AM (PST) Click here to find out what changes were made!
Be sure to follow Castle Empire on Facebook and Twitter for news and exclusive updates!
See you in-game,
~Katealyst
Ubisoft Player Experience Manager
Update: 12.15 AM PST - Servers are down.
Update: 02.05 AM PST - Detebase clean-up in progress.
Update: 05.25 AM PST - Servers are back online.
Enjoy the game!
The Castle Empire Support Team