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Phoenix Labs is spinning out Sea's Garena.

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Phoenix Labs is laying off majority of employees, 2 years after Forte deal

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 27, 2025
1 min

Phoenix Labs, the maker of Dauntless and Fae Farm, has laid off a majority of its staff two years after it was quietly acquired...

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Fae Farm is the next title from Phoenix Labs.

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Dauntless creator Phoenix Labs spins out of Sea/Garena

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 2, 2023
2 min

Garena is spinning out Phoenix Labs as a result of an investor-backed management buyout, GamesBeat has learned. Unlock premium content and VIP community perks...

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Dauntless studio Phoenix Labs adds new studios, ramps up work on new games

Posted byby Mike Minotti
December 2, 2020
1 min

Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs keeps growing, as it announced today the establishment of new studios in Montreal, Quebec and Los Angeles, California. Phoenix Labs...

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Dauntless’s Call of the Void adds a new monster and world-shaping intrigue

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 6, 2020
2 min

Dauntless will be releasing its next major update, Call of the Void, on June 11. It will bring new activities, a new monster, and...

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For Dauntless, crossplay launch was a months-long ‘trust-building’ exercise

Posted byby Jason Wilson
April 29, 2020
2 min

When Phoenix Labs set out to develop Dauntless back in 2015, it wanted players to be able to play together no matter what platform...

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Dauntless is already at 16 million downloads.

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Sea’s Garena acquires Dauntless game maker Phoenix Labs

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2020
3 min

Singapore-based Sea said that its Garena game division has acquired Phoenix Labs, maker of the Dauntless free-to-play video game. Dauntless launched last year, and...

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Dauntless is available now on Nintendo Switch with cross-platform support

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 10, 2019
3 min

Phoenix Labs has launched its monster-hunting multiplayer game Dauntless on the Nintendo Switch today. It is part of a number of new indie titles...

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Dauntless review — exciting combat hamstrung by repetition

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 14, 2019
6 min

Between borrowing the core gameplay loop of Monster Hunter and the free-to-play business model popularized by Fortnite, developer Phoenix Labs makes no secret of...