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Shrapnel releases early access gameplay demo on Epic Games Store

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Shrapnel, a high-profile Web3 extraction shooter game, is launching a demo for early access on the PC on the Epic Games Store today.

Seattle-based Neon Machine (known as Shrapnel) has unveiled its early demo of its first-person extraction shooter. The demo is called Shrapnel Training Exercises One (STX1), marking a departure from traditional game development approaches.

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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.