Citadel: Forged With Fire

Blue Isle Studios launches Citadel: Forged With Fire on consoles and PC on October 11

Blue Isle Studios is announcing today it will launch Citadel: Forged With Fire, a sandbox survival role-playing game where you play a wizard seeking to survival a dangerous land, on the consoles and PC on October 11. It’s already in Early Access on Steam.

The game from the Toronto, Canada-based has interesting potential, and it also has an interesting backer: Jack Tretton, former head of Sony’s PlayStation business in North America. Tretton is a venture capitalist now at Interactive Gaming Ventures, a fund that he launched last year. But he invested in Blue Isle Studios three years ago through his earlier investment firm, OceanIQ Partners.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.