Halloween Bundle is Back!

Hey all!
Back for a limited time is the elusive Spooky bundle.. containing 3 unique halloween themed parts including the dreaded Ghost Ship! Available for a limited time only.

NOT Shutting Down

After internal discussions we have decided NOT to shutdown JW. We will be doing a fair amount of server architecture changes to try and reduce the hosting costs to keep it alive for you dedicated players. While this reduces the hosting costs, they still exist and we would appreciate any support through purchase of Oil bundles.

Thanks all and Happy Battling!

The End!

Dear Players,

Junk Wars will be closing its doors on November 14th for good. We are simply not able to keep the servers running with the current user base support. It has been a long and fun journey, and we are sad that we have to take this decision. We do encourage you to go check out our new game instead, called Platoonz, currently available on Kongregate.com.

Best Regards,

Antic Entertainment

Back.. from the dead!

Dear Junk Wars players.

Catastrophe struck our game. However, after 48 gruelling hours, we are back from the dead. The main database and our recent backups, which were all corrupt, have been reconstructed. Sadly not everyone made it. 33 players lost their accounts. But thankfully the rest of them (about 99.993% or so) were saved.

In the process we've cleaned up a lot of the database, reduced it's footprint; due to this we are reducing the nightly maintenance window from 2 hours to 20 minutes at 0400h EST.

And for those still reading, we sincerely apologize for this downtime, and want to give a gift to everyone who tolerated the outage one full premium box. They should be sitting in everyone's collection screens now. If you do not see it, please refresh your browser.

Thanks again and keep on playing!

Development Update!

Dear Junk Wars Players,

It is with a sad heart that today we have to inform you, our devoted fans and players, that due to several recent developments, Antic Entertainment has been forced to take the very hard decision to suspend all further development on Junk Wars at this time. We will continue to be available to lend support to any issues affecting currency or equipment transactions. We hope that in the near future we will have the ability and opportunity to renew our development work on Junk Wars, as we have numerous plans for how to further enhance this game (outside of fixing the bugs). We truly appreciate our fans' and players' continued support, and hope you will continue to enjoy Junk Wars in its current state until the opportunity for Antic to return to develop Junk Wars occurs.

Daily Server Maintenance

Until further notice, daily server maintenance has been scheduled for 4am to 6am (EST). Junk Wars will be unavailable for play during this period. We apologize to those of you affected by this maintenance window.

Thank you for playing Junk Wars!

Monday, February 7th Achievement!

Time to take out the trash! Clean up in 10 battles with the Dumpster Arms attachment and find yourself a prize at the local scrapper.

Got Junk?
Win 10 battles with Dumpster Arms attachment.

Also, just a reminder that this weekend is Free Tournament Weekend! We are waiving the entry fee for tournaments all weekend long! Go win yourself a trophy! :)

Mod Maker Contest Decided!

Congratulations to Arsenus who submitted the winning contest mod. He will be awarded the very first copy of "Baited". For the rest of you, the mod will become available this weekend to purchase from the Market (under the tournament tab) for 500 tourney bucks. If you missed the contest and want to know more, details can be found here:

http://www.anticentertainment.com/jbforum/viewforum.php?f=17

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Mod Maker contest. To celebrate, this coming weekend we will be offering FREE tournaments all weekend long! Starting at 6 pm Friday (EST) and running until midnight on Sunday, all tournament entry fees of oil and metal will be waived. So get out there, win some tourney bucks, and be one of the first people to get the new Baited mod. Keep on gunnin' Junkies!

Jeyo out

Monday, January 31st Achievement!

Get ready to pull the old Dodgy from the garagey and make it road worthy Junkies. This Monday, give 25 opponents five across the eyes shoe salesman style to earn yourself a little extra cheddar.

Dusted!
Win 25 QM battles using the Dodgy Contenda chassis.

Mod Maker Phase 3 - Finalist Submissions

Okay Junkies, I have created the final poll for the Mod Maker contest. Thanks to everyone who submitted their ideas. It was very tough to decide on a final three, but I made an effort to select three ideas that would feel different in their application, and that would affect the game in different ways. At this point, the voice of the community will decide on the final mod to be created and inserted into the game. The creator of the winning mod will be announced on Monday, January 31st and will become the first player to receive it. It will become available for purchase in the tournament store shortly thereafter. I will personally abstain from voting, unless there is a tie in the poll. In that case, I will submit the final vote. The poll will close on Sunday, January 30'th, so make sure to get your vote in . Here is the link:

http://www.anticentertainment.com/jbforum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5704&p=7457#p7457

Happy voting!

New Achievement(s) Added!

This Monday we have a new achievement rolling out. In fact, you may have noticed a new one that already has...
On Monday, January 24th get your Defender weapons armed and ready. Protect the locals from pillaging riff-raff and earn yourself a cool reward.

Reminder: Submission Deadline Friday 21st

Hey Junkies, this is a reminder that your chance to submit your mod ideas for the Mod Maker contest is closing on Friday, January 21st at 6:00 pm (EST). Some great concepts have already been presented, but if you want a chance to voice your ideas before our 3 finalists are determined, your window of opportunity is closing fast. You can find contest details and post your submissions by going here:

http://www.anticentertainment.com/jbforum/viewforum.php?f=17

Achievements Showing Zero Progress

Hey Junkies,

We will be turning off battle achievements temporarily today to do some performance testing. You will not lose any achievements, even though progress will be showing as 0. Battles won during this time will still be calculated towards the appropriate achievements and will be rewarded once achievements are turned back on. We are hoping that this will address some lag issues, and help us pin down some possible fixes. Cheers!

Mod Maker Phase 2 is Here!

Alright Junkies, get those creative wheels turning. Phase 2 of the Mod Maker contest has arrived. This will be the real meat and potatoes of the contest where you will get to step into the role of a designer and offer up your own juicy morsels for consideration. Details on the contest can be found in threads posted here:

http://www.anticentertainment.com/jbforum/viewforum.php?f=17

Check out the phase 1 thread if you missed it to get up to date, then head on over to phase 2 and get your submissions ready!

New Year, New Contest!

Happy New Year Junkies!
I hope that everyone has had a fantastic start to the new year. We'd like to get 2011 started with a Mod Maker contest. I have started a new forum thread:
http://www.anticentertainment.com/jbforum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5690

This will be a community driven project that will culminate in new mod being created by you, the players. Once the new mod is complete, one will be awarded out (to be determined in the final phase of the contest) and will also become available to players through the tournament store. So get your ideas ready and start posting!
** X-Mas package will soon be gone!! This limited time package is only available until Tuesday, January, 4th! Look for it in the Junk Store under the Bundles tab! **