As of today, Storm Blade Games is officially closing down. We have had an excellent run for the past 4 years or so, but it's now time to put it to rest.

The SBG site will remain online for a little over a month from today, so ask that all customers, please login and download the latest GSUE and download all the latest updates. After the site closes down, our update server will be unavailable.

After the site closes down, our support email will remain active ( support@stormbladegames.com ) . So we may be able to send you a copy of GSUE if you were unable to download it before the servers go down.

If you have questions/comments/etc, feel free to contact us - support@stormbladegames.com

From now, until June 25th, the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition is on sale for 50% off! For only $14.99, you will recieve a digital account along with a boxed copy (only in US and Canada). Hurry to get your copy now! Boxed copies are limited!

Or you can get the collection for FREE via TrialPay! Either way you will get both a digital and boxed copy.

The Gem Sword Unlimited Edition includes all the Gem Sword games (5 games in total). If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!

So the Dragon's Myth servers are officially offline until the game gets into beta stages. We appreciate all the feedback and suggestions! You can view the news on the Dragon's Myth blog for more information regarding that. We have no estimate date as to when the game will be in beta. But we can say that when we find that it's good enough, then it will be done.

Is this an easy way of saying your tossing out Dragon's Myth? Just throwing in the towel? No of course not! The development will still continue! When can we expect to see a new release from you guys? What a very good question indeed! Allow us to explain ...

For those of you who have lingered around our SBG chat system, you may have noticed talk about a First Person Shooter. Say what?! Merely hints at a FPS, nothing more than that. Alas here is some official news! We are not giving you details at this time, but rather a general overview. Continue reading to find out more ...

For the past 6 months or so we have been secretly crafting a small, yet deep first person shooter. Or rather a 5 player cooperative first person shooter. Roughly 3 hours in length (campaign mode), with a ton of gamemodes (such as - Coop , Classic Coop, Competitive Coop, Deathmatch, Team Death Match, Capture The Flag, and more!). This game is shipping on Windows PC's aswell as the Xbox 360! Yes you read that correctly! This is our very first console title! It has tons of achivements aswell! Does that mean I need an Xbox Live Gold membership to play online? Well on the Xbox 360, you will for sure need one. On the PC however, you will only need a Xbox Live Silver Membership to play against other PC players. Though if you want to play cross platform multiplayer, you will need an Xbox Live Gold membership on the PC.

So when is this game coming out?! All we are going to say is soon. Keep your eyes open. What's the game called? Okay enough questions! We will announce more information about this game in the near future!

We have recieved a number of requests to port over our games to the Linux platform. Rather surprising, but hey why not! We already porting over the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition, and we have plans to port over Dragon's Myth also. As it stands you can probably run the games using emulators and such, but it would run much smoother if it was specificly compiled for linux. We do not have any specific dates set, but it shouldn't take to terribly long for it to be finished.

We will be compiling them under a few different linux distro's, though if you have a specific linux distribution that you would like the game to run under, feel free to let us know!

The Gallery has been updated with roughly 20 new screenshots of Dragon's Myth! These have also been put on the Dragon's Myth site, so you can find them in either place.

For the latest in Dragon's Myth news, feel free to visit the Dragon's Myth site at - http://dragonsmyth.stormbladegames.com .

We have fixed a bug that was preventing auto-generated emails from going out. For example, if you would attempt to reset your password on the members page, you probably didn't get your new password!

Everything should be good to go! So if you forgot your password, you should get an email!

Well before you start reading this massive post, we strongly suggest you grab yourself a beverage, or a bag of chips. There is a lot of news below.

First off, Gem Sword: Elder's Tree has officially moved into release stage! The game is completely finished! The GSUE game patcher will automatically download the game. For those that have been participating in the beta, you can continue using your save files. If you haven't yet experienced the latest Gem Sword, then go ahead and start now! Gem Sword: Elder's Tree includes a new battle system, aswell continues on with the story.

This leads us to our next point. With that said, we are also changing some things up. All the Gem Sword/DarkStone games are no longer available for individual purchase. But don't worry, all the games will continue to recieve free updates! The GSUE will still remain available. If you have purchased one of our individual games, you will have recieved an email with some information. Current GSUE owners are not affected by this at all. Beginning today only the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition is available for purchase.

Next up, today we are announcing a new way to purchase our products! What makes this new way so special? It doesn't cost you anything! That's right it's completely FREE! Now you can get the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition for FREE via TrialPay! When you order via TrialPay, you will recieve a digital account aswell as a boxed copy that will be shipped to you.

Lastly we are proud to announce that Dragon's Myth has recieved a new home! It now has it's very own website! You can check it out here -> http://dragonsmyth.stormbladegames.com/ . There you will be able to find all the latest Dragon's Myth specific news, public development blog, game lore, and Dragon's Myth media! You can also find out some details about the upcoming update there! The next Dragon's Myth patch will be out on May 5, 2010.

We have uploaded a new Dragon's Myth setup file (DragonsMyth_1.0.exe). Please uninstall the old version, and reinstall the new version.

It seems that sometime yesterday afternoon, our patch servers corrupted, causing clients to download broken files. This new build has been tested and should work now. The game servers are back online at 1 PM sharp (roughly 1 hour from this post).

A new update will be released in roughly 4 weeks.

In exactly 1 hour from now the Dragon's Myth servers are going LIVE! In exactly 40 minutes from now the patch servers are going LIVE! So get ready for some fun!

Some quick FAQ's.

Is this game done? - No not yet
I hate this OR Please add/remove this feature OR Give me a cookie - We want to shape this game based on the communities suggestions. So PLEASE feel free to post suggestions you may have on the chat (misc page at the top).
When is this game 'done' - Whenever we and YOU feel like it's done. We want it the best it can be. Of course we will continue to update it as usuall.
Why is the patch server going up 20 minutes early? - Our current patch system is very slow, so we want to allow everyone to update before the servers go LIVE!
Are the servers going to be up 24/7? - Generally yes, but the servers will go down for maintenance here and there.
This game sucks! Gimmie my money back! - Sorry to hear that. If you dislike or like features please suggest them in the chat. We will add/remove features based on what the community wants. The games free, what can you lose?
I can't connect! - Best bet would be that the servers are overloaded. Check for news on the Dragon's Myth Launcher. If the servers go down it will say "OFFLINE" in the server status, and we will post news also.

UPDATE - 7:40 PM - Patch servers are LIVE
UPDATE - 8:00 PM - Dragon's Myth server is now LIVE! See you in-game!

On April 5, we will be turning on the patch servers 20 minutes before the actual game server goes LIVE. We noticed that our current patching system takes a good 10 - 15 minutes to download the needed files. We are doing this so everyone can play exactly at 8 PM sharp.

We will also make an announcement at 7 PM (1 hour before the servers go live). Just incase the timer doesn't show the latest time. See the post below for the countdown!

Happy April 1! Here is a simple timer that displays when the Dragon's Myth servers will go LIVE! Make sure your system settings are set to (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) . Then it will show the correct time. If your settings are any different, it will show the incorrect time.

This is not the exact time, but more or less a rough estimate. Give or take 5 minutes or so. We will be launching according to our computers time.

We are pushing back the launch date of Dragon's Myth slighty. Instead of launching tomorrow, we are opening up the game on April 5, 2010 at 8 PM GMT -06:00 Central time. This will allow a bit more people to download the client, and it will also allow us to prepare for the launch.

We apoligize for the troubles. We hope you will enjoy the game!

Today we are announcing a brand new game called Dragon's Myth! We are doing things a bit differently this time around. Dragon's Myth is still very early in development, but is in a playable state. There are still things to do, people to talk to, enemies to battle, vehicles to drive, etc.

So right now you can download the Dragon's Myth setup file. You can find the download link on the games page. That setup file will pre-load all the games assets on to your computer. On April 1, 2010 at 8 PM GMT -06:00 Central Time, the servers will be going live! Wait what did we just say?!? Server? Explain please!

Dragon's Myth is our first next-gen 3D Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game! The game is planned to be a twitch based MMO, rather than the traditional turn based. Right now the game is available free of charge, but we are accepting donations to fund the development of Dragon's Myth. People who donate will get extra goodies in-game, along with extra goodies when the game is actually released. When the game is released, we will be selling it for a one-time fee. Monthly fees, if any, have not been decided at this time.

You can find a simple gameplay video in the media gallery, and you can find the client on the games page! We have also added some new wallpaper, so go ahead and check that out. Enjoy and please send us suggestions you may have!

Well we promised a remake didn't we? So here are some juicy details for you! Today we are announcing a new game titled Gem Sword Reborn. A game that has been in the works for quite some time. GSR is a complete remake of the original Gem Sword, but in a complete, interactive 3D world. Along with that, the game contains a singleplayer campaign along with multiplayer functionality. You can play cooperatively with a number of friends, or draw swords and fight among yourselves! GSR's story will the same as Gem Sword's, much more detailed, a lot more clear and more interactive than before! You will be able to fully customize your character with different clothing, armor, etc.

The game will be released with roughly 1 hours worth of gameplay, but as always, we promise we will release updates free of charge! The game will recieve many more hours worth of content so don't freak out! So when can I get my hands on this game anyways? Well we don't have a specific date set quite yet, but we are hoping (key word is hoping) that you guys can experience the game by the end of the month!

So how much are you guys selling this for? The planned price will be $9.99. Of course all GSUE owners will get it for free!

So when is this promised update for the original Gem Sword coming out? We hope to have the new update out within 1 weeks time! GS:ET just recieved an update yesterday, so the next update will be for Gem Sword. When this GS update comes out, we are also going to be lowering the prices of all the individual games. The GSUE will stay the same (20$ + 10$ shipping = 30$).

We have also fixed a bug in our RSS Feed that would always say the date was 1999. Now it displays the correct date! We have also put a link at the top of this page so you can add the feed by clicking that. We recommened that you use Feedreader. It's a free program that works very nicely for viewing rss feeds! Though any rss reader will work also!

We have now re-added the shoutbox back to our website! It has been requested a number of times, so here it is! You can find it on the "Misc" page by clicking on the button at the top of the page! Just no spamming, or cursing of any sort. If you do, you will swiftly be banned.

We are also planning a large update for GS:ET and the GSUE Launcher within 1 weeks time. GS:ET will have a large content update that will expand the game a couple hours. The GSUE Launcher will be updated with some extra 'goodies'!

There have been a slight change of plans in regards to the Gem Sword remake. Instead of completely remaking the game right now, we are going to give it a slight update that will enhance the graphics and fix a number of bugs. We still have plans to remake Gem Sword, but when we do that, we will make it from the ground up. Which will be in 3D! Of course none of this is 100% final, but it's definitely on our to-do list. We have a number of projects in the works at the moment, so doing remake right now is out of the question. So the update that was expected to come out tomorrow will most likely not happen. Expect the Gem Sword update to be out by the end of the month.

All we are going to say right now, is keep your eyes open on this site. GSUE owners will also get some nifty goodys in the near future along with access to some unannounced projects.

We have just become aware of an issue with the new GSUE patcher. Upon running the latest version of the GSUE, it will promptly give you an error saying it cannot find a specific file. This issue is caused by a faulty setup file. We have addressed the issue, and a new setup file will be uploaded later today.

For those getting this message, you can either download the new setup version later today, or you can simply delete the shortcut on desktop, then go to the directory where you installed GSUE, and then right click "GSUE.exe" and click Send To - Desktop (Create Shortcut). That should fix that error.

UPDATE - The new setup file has been uploaded. You can download the latest setup from your accounts.

We are pleased to announce that a new Gem Sword remake is in the works! The game will be built completely from the ground up using the same engine as before! The remake will be slightly longer than the original, and all the maps will be re-designed! Everyone who owns Gem Sword or the GSUE will get this update for free!

The Gem Sword remake will be released on March 4, 2010!

The long awaited GSUE patcher update has arrived! With this update comes the ability to fully use the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition without an active internet connection. Previously, GSUE required an internet connection in order to launch the game. Now if you don't have internet or our update server is down, you can still launch the game!

In order to recieve this patch, you will be required to download a new setup of the GSUE. You can find the latest setup version by logging into your account via the member area. Though, this patch is not neccessary, as you will still recieve the latest game specific updates with the old patcher. So if you have a decent internet connection, you don't necessarily have to download the new setup file. This new setup file contains all the latest game updates, so there should be no game updates if you download the setup today.

If you have questions feel free to contact us!

You may of noticed our site was down yesterday. That was simply because we were moving over our website to a new webhost. Again. This time as you can tell, everything has transferred successfully! All pages should be accessable, and all download links should work. With that said, you will find your browsing experience to be much better! Pages will load quicker, and downloads will go way faster! From here on, the site should be up 24/7!

Also, because of all the hosting changes the past couple of days, our email system was down a good portion of the week. If you have sent any emails to us within the past couple days we recommend you send it again just to be sure!

As always, if you have questions feel free to contact us!

Our website has now been moved over to a new webhost! This means much faster download speeds and browsing speeds! You can also expect the website to be up 24/7 with virtually no downtime! We are still in the process though of moving over many files. So you may experience dead links during this period. You will also be unable to log into the members area. We would of had everything moved over today, but there is an issue with the webhost that is preventing us from transfering the rest of the files. We are hoping to have this issue resolved soon.

If you have any questions feel free to contact us!

UPDATE - Due to some problems with our new webhost we are back to running off our backup server. Once we clear the problems, we will put our files back onto their servers. All links are fully functioning, and download speed are back to slow.

We have sent out an email to all customers that have purchased the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition. In that email contains a code that will give you a 10$ discount off any product. Now because you would already own the GSUE, you will own all of our current products. So you can use that code for any future products we release, or you can give it to a friend! Either way the choice is yours!

WIth that said, we thought we may as well throw out a code for all those who do not own one or more of our products! Upon ordering you will have the opportunity to enter this code in, and 20$ will be taken off the total price! Yes that's right, 20$ bucks! And the code is ...

CODE => f5e4tfg54r9

This code can only be used a limited amount of times, so you better hurry it up! Enjoy!

We are proud to announce our upcoming title Gem Sword: Elder's Tree. The game will come with a host of new features including over 100 never before seen enemies and a completely redesigned battle system! It is a 2D RPG similar to the rest of the Gem Sword games. It will be an open world experience that provide hours of fun! You will even see the return of some old familiar characters!

GS:ET is available to play right now if you own the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition! The launcher will automatically download the alpha version of the game, so you can see for yourself! The game is not available for individual purchase yet, but when the game is complete it will be!

With that said, as of today, due to a variety of different reasons, we cancelling "Gem Sword Online". We know many people who purchased the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition were anxiously anticipating the release of Gem Sword Online. Over the past couple years we have released a number of playable builds to the public, and we have appreciated all the support and suggestions from everyone. But ultimately the game was not even close to completion. We have 2 projects that are in the works currently. That includes Gem Sword: Elder's Tree along with an unannounced title. So because the Gem Sword Unlimited Edition originally said it would include Gem Sword Online, all customers who purchased GSUE before today will all receive a 10$ USD credit on their account. This can be used to buy any upcoming titles or it can be used to purchase an existing game for a friend! Either way! The credit will be issued in 1 - 2 weeks. You will receive an email once the credit has been added to your account.

Also, in 1 - 2 weeks we will be releasing a demo for Dark Stone. Many people have been requesting a demo and it is a bit surprising that we haven't released one yet! So for all those who want to try the game out, your chance is coming!

If we ever in the future decide to bring back Gem Sword Online, all GSUE owners will get it for free. If you have any questions feel free to contact us.