Another week has passed and it is Wednesday again. Snow has been pouring down here in Stockholm so it seems the winter is here to stay this year as well.

As mentioned in last week’s update we’re releasing a variation of an old favorite today: Scent eliminator mini. The reason for this is that we saw that there’s a need for this feature to be more accessible, price-wise, and this smaller, and cheaper, container means that you can get it by earning em$. So more players can take advantage of this helpful equipment.

We’ve gotten a lot of questions for when the new bow is out and we can tell you that it’ll be soon, but not this week. Sorry. We want to release it at the same time as the new archery range and we’re still making the final amends to that. We can however tell you that the new bow will be more silent, than its predecessors, and is equipped with a three pin sight.  And on top of that, it looks awesome!

In our work to improve theHunter we need your help. So we would greatly appreciate if you can help us fill out a survey. The survey contains questions about your computer setup and also some questions about you, as a community. Go to the survey

This weekend we’ll have another multi-species competition and the winner will get a pretty great prize on top of the usual prize. So prepare yourself for this 😉

We’d also like to remind you of the new video competition, this time we want you to create a bear tutorial.

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Hello Hunters,

So it’s Wednesday again and we’re all finally back at the office. All of us have had a nice, well-deserved, long break and we’re now working hard on upcoming features.

So what are we actually working on? Some of you have been digging around in our image files and seen the new bow. The bow is being tested right now and we’re aiming at having it in store later this month. Later today we’ll release a new lure: Moose urine. We’re also about to release a variation of an old favorite item fairly soon.

We’re, at this very moment, finalizing a 3D Archery Range. Peter has created it together with our art intern, Tomas, and it’s looking, to say the least, pretty great. We’re hoping to have it deployed within the coming 4 weeks. It just has to be properly tested and potentially adjusted.

Robert and Herman is continuing the work with re-vamping the web framework. As mentioned before, this isn’t something you’ll notice for a while but their work will improve your experience on the web site a lot in the future.

As many of you might know, the translations in theHunter is made by some of our fantastic community members. These guys are doing an incredible job and we just adore them for helping us out with this. A big thanks to all you translators out there, we hope you guys know how much we appreciate your help! We do however need more help. So if you’re interested in helping out, and know you’re good at keeping secrets (as a translator you will, every now and then, have to translate information not revealed to the public yet) feel free to contact David via email. We especially need help with the following languages: Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Croatian and Estonian. We would, of course, love if we could add other languages than we have today, so if your language isn’t supported today you can help to make theHunter accessible to your fellow countrymen.

We’d also like to thank the participants in our Mule Deer video competition. You all did a fantastic job and we’re going through the entries. If we can all agree on a single winner soon we might declare the winner before Monday. We’ll also kick of a new video tutorial competition this week. We haven’t decided for what animal yet though. What would you suggest?

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Howdy hunters,

Most of us are still not back at the office yet, but we thought it would be good to drop you a note wishing all of you a happy new year! We all hope you’ve had a fab x-mas and new years.

2012 was a great year for us at Expansive Worlds, and we are truly grateful that so many people, from all over the world, are enjoying the game we love so much. We have many new and exciting things cooking for 2013 and more info on these features will come later on.

We would like to remind you of the video competition. So far we have one contribution so it would be great to see some more. Deadline is 7th of January. You’ll find all the details here.

A more proper status update will come next week when we are all back up to speed at the office.

Happy hunting!

Christmas is getting closer and most of us are about to go on a well deserved Christmas break. Peter’s already taken off, but he manged to complete the new bow, and some other stuff, that he’s been working on. So there will be new stuff coming early next year!

Last Friday we were all invited to our BFF’s, Avalanche Studios, Christmas party. Food was amazing and we all had a fantastic time.

The team ready to party

We’d like to thank you awesome people who helped us by writing reviews and rating theHunter Chrome app. We got loads of new players through that channel. So thank you! It would be great if more of you can help out with this. Link to the app in Chrome Web Store

If you’re a good hunter/player don’t miss out on helping others by entering our video tutorial competition. You can read more about it here.

It’s been a great year for theHunter and we hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. We’re aiming to make the game even better next year but we can’t do it without you!

Merry x-mas to all of you and Happy Holiday Hunting!

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Howdy hunters,

Due to the technical problems we experienced during the night we’ve decided to extend all memberships by two days. We want to stress that these problems did not occur because we were out having a few beers and we couldn’t have fixed things faster even if we hadn’t done that. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We’ve also gotten a lot of positive feedback on the tracer arrows, and a lot of you seems to want to buy them, so they will be back in store again, but this time for both types of bows. The arrows will have a 20% discount until 25th of December. There are also arrow bundles available in the store – 50 arrows at 40% discount!

Happy hunting!

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