Rumbleverse Website Domains Have been Renewed

The Rumbleverse.com domain forwards to the Iron Galaxy home page, which has been the case for many months at this point. The domain name was recently set to expire though, which (if it happened), would allow anyone else to buy the rights to use the site URL and direct it to any content they wanted to. Iron Galaxy still owns the rights to Rumbleverse, so they don't want just anyone in charge of the URL used for their game... even if it's not active right now.

It's is common practice for Companies to maintain URLs even if they don't intend to use it in the foreseeable future, but renewing it now can be considered a good sign still. If they didn't even care to save the URL from potential Squaaaaters, that'd be a sure sign the game will not be coming back. They also renewed it for 2 years instead of the minimum of 1 year at a time, so there's a little something more to be hopeful about.

In addition to the main site, it looks like the following Rumbleverse related URLs are up for renewal very soon:

Rumbleverses.com

rumble-verse.com

rumbleverse.app

rumbleverse.biz

rumbleverse.info

rumbleverse.net

rumbleverse.org

Many of these are up for renewal this month (April, 2024), but some are set for later this year still. In many cases, companies will set them to auto renew just a couple of days before they are set to expire. We will probably see them updated too in the coming weeks if they want to maintain all of their options still.

Keeping the hope alive!

Maybe they can find a company other than GoDaddy to register the rest of their sites at though, as they do not support an open internet...

Rumbleverse... The Most Unique Battle Royale You Missed Out On

Check out this fun documentary/reflection video on Rumbleverse by phattyK on YouTube! The documentary style intro is fantastic and the rest of it will have you laughing along with him as you take a trip down memory lane. He and his friends have an infectious laughter while playing, and they've got jokes too.

Note: Contains swearing and a few very loud sections.

ProjectKO - the Rumbleverse Fan Project is Shut Down

It was announced tonight that ProjectKO has received notice that they must discontinue their efforts to revive Rumbleverse with private servers immediately and remove any promotional materials for the project. By tomorrow, they will have to take down all downloads for the archives of the game, the server source code and the videos posted on YouTube used to garner attention for the fan lead revival.

Here is the official comment from Aeyth on their discord server:

It may be a tad harsh, as I'd be willing to bet many of the people at Iron Galaxy would love to see their hard work back up and running for players to enjoy... but the lawyers have got to protect the IP. Lawyers ruin all the fun. It's an understandable response though when losing something so close to you (again), especially having put work into yourself at this point.

UPDATE: In an unfortunate coincidence, it was brought to our attention that the announcement that ProjectKO is shutting down was posted exactly one year to the day after the announcement that Rumbleverse itself was being shut down.

To end on a positive note, we can only hope Iron Galaxy is protecting the IP because they intend to do something with it in the future. I'm sure the people working on ProjectKO would be more than happy to stop work on the project if it meant that the real deal is coming back.

For now, the lucky few who knew of the project must bid farewell to Rumbleverse again... as the last way to play is itself sunsetting before it's time.

Thanks to Aeyth and the rest of the ProjectKO team for trying. They got quite far into it and put it way more effort than anyone can expect of a fan of a shuttered game.