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HYBE IM (CEO Jung Woo-yong) announced the Global launch of 2D action MMORPG ASTRA: Knights of Veda, their highly anticipated title for the first half of 2024, developed by FLINT (CEO Kim Young-mo).
ASTRA: Knights of Veda has garnered significant anticipation through Global users prior to its launch, the game is now available from today April 2nd, 2024, through multiple platforms including Google Play / Google Play Games, Apple App Store, and Steam.
As a prequel to its previous series, ASTRA: Knights of Veda is a 2D Action MORPG possessing years of development knowhow, providing an in-depth worldview and artwork with a mysterious and alluring atmosphere, also doubling the fun with 20 unique characters created through craftsmanship and sophisticated details.
Users can experience unrivaled action quality that can be expressed in a 2D environment to its highest level, the game is meticulously designed to challenge and thrill players by dismantling gimmicks and patterns, delivering an authentic and exhilarating action-packed experience.
In order to enhance users’ immersion and completeness of story production, ASTRA: Knights of Veda offers full voice in Korean, English, and Japanese, as well as a total of 13 subtitle languages for global users’ convenience.
To commemorate its official release, ASTRA: Knights of Veda introduced the 5-star dark element damage dealer ‘Xanthia’ as the first event character for the ‘Calling of the Stars’, and plans to provide abundant rewards through in-game events.
The newly revealed ‘Xanthia‘ is called as a genius with celestial talents. Although she is an object of fear and admiration for the Wizards of the ‘Tower of Sages’, she also has unpredictable and quirky charm, thinking she can talk to the stars.
Xanthia is known for her signature skill, ‘Event Horizon,’ which pulls enemies to the center and continuously inflicts damage. She also possesses powerful Dark Magic skills such as ‘Dark Sphere’ and ‘ Law of Gravity’.
In addition, ASTRA: Knights of Veda provides a level achievement event ‘Footsteps for the Mission’ which allows users to obtain Crystals of Fate and Starstones after completing each mission, along with an attendance event in which users can achieve 13 ‘Crystals of Destiny’ items.
More details about ASTRA: Knights of Veda can be found on the official community and YouTube.
ASTRA: Knights of Veda Official Accounts
- Google Play Download (link)
- Apple App Store Download (link)
- Steam Download (link)
- Discord (link)
- Facebook (link)
- Twitter (link)
About HYBE
HYBE, rebranded from Big Hit Entertainment in March 2021, is a global entertainment lifestyle platform company that seeks boundless expansion to innovate the music industry. Ever since, HYBE has been expanding its multi-label system, including BIGHIT MUSIC, BELIFT LAB, SOURCE MUSIC, PLEDIS Entertainment, KOZ ENTERTAINMENT, ADOR, HYBE LABELS JAPAN, NAECO, while HYBE AMERICA also manages its affiliate labels including Big Machine Label Group. In addition to the label business, HYBE established an integrated structure with its solution business that creates concert, video content, games, original stories, retail, and Weverse, a global fandom platform. Composed of its three headquarters based in Korea, Japan, and the US, the company works towards bringing innovative change throughout the global music industry.
About HYBE IM
HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is expanding the boundaries of HYBE’s entertainment spectrum by developing games and conducting publishing operations to interact with users worldwide. Through the combination of cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment elements, HYBE IM presents a variety of content and services that offer new perspectives and experiences.
About FLINT
Flint is a game developer that strives to impress everyone who loves games. Their previous title, “Dragon Blaze,” received immense devotion over the years, thanks to its vast fantasy storyline and distinctive characters. With over 20 million downloads, it has left a remarkable presence in the Korean mobile collectible RPG game industry. To reward the devoted fans eagerly anticipating a sequel, Flint invested six years in crafting “ASTRA: Knights of Veda,” a dark fantasy action RPG that reimagines the captivating universe of its predecessor. Flint aims to create “ASTRA: Knights of Veda” as an epic work of global 2D, expressing a vast universe and story with over 200 full voice cutscenes. They strive to achieve a flawless game that is fun for everyone and plan to launch it simultaneously worldwide across multiple platforms, including PC and mobile.
