One year ago, after a near shut-down of BattleCity, the Looble Network and Codemallet officially joined forces in attempt to bring a more stable and successful future to the game. Last week, Codemallet decided to drop out of this partnership in order to focus on other game development projects, leaving the Looble Network with full-rights to the game.

We plan to keep on hosting and developing BattleCity Classic and would like to apologize to all the players who were forced to endure a week of down-time when the server was closed unexpectedly! We’re also still waiting for Codemallet to fulfill it’s end of the partnership agreement and send us the latest version of the game as well as our share of profits raised over the last year so that we can invest this money into a new server!

If you’re having trouble getting online to play BattleCity Classic right now please download the latest version! The game is back up and running!

After much feedback from the BattleCity Classic community, a slightly new website design has been released today!

The overall look and theme of the website remains the same, however the main page has received a huge makeover in order to give a better initial impression to first time visitors and make sure they immediately understand the website is for a free action and strategy multiplayer game! The main page now shows a screen shot and big download button as well as links to all of the resources available on the site. The majority of the community felt that this type of landing page would be received much better than displaying the most recent news articles!

Much thanks to everyone who shared input which led to the new look!

BattleCity Classic has just received some significant updates today! Players who own different tank designs no longer need an administrator to make the switch for them. Players can now easily switch between their tanks themselves, even in the middle of battle! While this may be the change having brought the most joy to the players, there are a few other big changes in this update.

Player who have purchased a membership from the BattleCity Store can now send private messages to any other player! Yes, the ability to whisper has finally been added! Another huge change is the fact that once a city become orbable, it is now permanently orbable! This fixes the problem of players destroying their own base to prevent their attackers from gaining points destroying them!

If you haven’t already done so, start playing BattleCity Classic!

Today some very good news has been announced for the BattleCity Community!

After 2 weeks of down-time, BattleCity will relaunch as BattleCity Classic! You can visit the new BattleCity Classic website for the full details!

The relaunch of BattleCity also brings some very big news to the Looble Network! Initially there were talks about shutting down the game or possibly putting it up for sale. After receiving much feedback from the community, it became apparent that there was much support for the continued development of BattleCity; so instead talks shifted towards the possibility of a relaunch.

In order for the relaunch to take place, both parties running BattleCity decided to sit down and work out any remaining issues in order to ensure the success and longevity of the game in the future.

The new terms and agreements officially create a co-ownership of BattleCity. Should the game ever become profitable, there would be a 50/50 split between Weebo & ReMoTe. Furthermore, should either Weebo or ReMoTe ever leave the project, both will have full rights to the last version of code created while in partnership. This ensure that the game will never be shut down unless both partners wish for such. Lastly, this agreement will carry over to the JAVA version of BattleCity so long as it be released while both partners are still working together.

In a nutshell, this means BattleCity still has a bright future ahead and Looble will continue to be a part of it! Be sure to update our bookmarks to the new official website at http://battlecity.org!