Mad Machines
The competitive multiplayer online game will debut on Discord’s new storefront later this year. The competitive browser game Mad Machines sounds a lot like hockey—if hockey was played by “panzer-plated robot gladiators” using a giant, magnetic ball made of spikes instead of a slab of frozen rubber. Developed by Danish studio Hero Blocks, it features 3v3 action with a heavy emphasis on teamwork, and no small amount of bloodlust. (Yup, that’s hockey.) Three models of gladiator will be playable in Mad Machines—the quick, agile Chopper, the massive, hard-hitting Viking, and the balanced, adaptable Ship—each of them protected by armor that can be damaged or destroyed during matches. As the individual armor plates fall off, the “puny stickman”…