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Hello Miners,
We’ve got a big one here! As you may (or may not) have heard, we went live last week for our On the Horizon dev stream. During the broadcast, we lifted the curtain on loads of juicy new details about Season 05 – as well as some news on our overall roadmap, and updates from our Ghost Ship Publishing titles. Thanks to everybody who tuned in, and for all the enthusiasm and great questions you brought to the stream.

In case you weren’t able to catch the broadcast live, we put together this post to run through all the highlights. We’ll take it in chronological order. Throughout the post, you'll find timestamps for the ... Read more

Hello Miners,
We’ll be broadcasting our On the Horizon stream in just a week! You can expect lots of new details on Season 05, updates from our Ghost Ship Publishing titles, and more on Rogue Core. We’ll be going live on Thursday, April 25th at 14:00 CEST (UTC +2). You’ll be able to tune in on Twitch[www.twitch.tv] and Youtube. If you’re not able to catch it live, don't worry! A recording will be available after.
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Hello Miners,
On the Horizon is coming back! That’s our big developer livestream where we share news from our Ghost Ship Publishing projects, as well as what we’ve been up to here at Ghost Ship Games. Among plenty of other goodies, it’ll include a lot more details about Season 05 for Deep Rock Galactic.

We’ll be going live on Twitch[www.twitch.tv] and ... Read more

Hello Miners,
As you may have seen in our post about the first details for Season 05, one of the new features we’re working on is giving everyone the ability to re-activate previous seasons and play through them at your leisure.

Implementing a system like this involves a few structural changes, and we’re here to share some details about that.

If you’re thinking, “Eek! Big changes!”... Read more

Hello Miners, We’re back with another installment in our 'Below Decks' series, to give you a peek behind the scenes at Ghost Ship Games. This time we’re following Arvid, an intern at GSG, to learn about his work as the company’s official Loot Bug Keeper. Enjoy!


Meet the loot bug It’s a cold gray Monday in March, and Arvid’s feeding the loot bug.

If you’ve played Deep Rock Galactic, you know the loot bug: It’s the passive critter that populates the caves of Hoxxes, rooting around for chunks of gold and Nitra to gobble up. In the six years since DRG launched, the loot bug has become something of an in-joke among players, dividing the pacifist loot bug preservationists from those who see the creature as an easy source of extra resources.

But what most people don’t know is that the in-game loot bug is directly inspired by... Read more

Hello Miners,
The Great Egg Hunt is officially live in Deep Rock Galactic! And it runs until Thursday, April 4th at 13:00 CET.

You can catch the full breakdown in the preview post – but in an eggshell, here’s what’s coming:

• Snag the new Basket Case seasonal cosmetic by completing a limited-time assignment.
  
• Expand your...

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Hello Miners,
I hope you are hungry for EGGS because it is almost EGG TIME

That’s right! The Great Egg Hunt returns for 2024, and the forecast calls for a 100 percent chance of eggs. But that’s not all! Deep Rock Galactic employees will also receive the unique opportunity to complete extra unpaid work on behalf of the company.

The eggstravaganza begins on Thursday, March 21st at 13:00 CET.

Let’s crack it open and see what’s inside:


A fresh hat (made with fresh eggs) They say you’ve got to break a few eggs to make an omelette. But what they don’t want you to know is that you don’t have to break any eggs to make a fun hat.

During the event, you’ll ha... Read more

Hello Miners,
In case you missed our anniversary stream yesterday, we revealed the first details of what’s coming in Season 05!

And we packaged those details into a lovely JPEG, just for you. Here it is:


Like it says on the picture, this isn’t an exhaustive list of every single thing that’s coming in Season 05. This is just the stuff that we’re ready to share right now. You can expect more news and further details in the months to come!

Development’s coming along well, and we’re still on track to launch Season 05 in June. We’re really excited, and we hope you are too.

Hope everybody’s doing well out there!

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

Hello Miners,
The 'Six Years in Orbit' Anniversary Celebration is now live in Deep Rock Galactic!

You can get the full details in the ... Read more

Hello Miners,
Deep Rock Galactic is turning six years old!

It seems like just yesterday that we watched our little game take its first steps. Just a blink of an eye, and the years whizz past... now, we’ll watch from the window with teary eyes, as our six-year-old game hops on the bus all by itself for its very first day at school.

Anyway, we’re throwing a party! The 'Six Years in Orbit' Anniversary Celebrations kick off on February 28th at 13:00 CET, and the event will run until March 14th at 13:00 CET.

Let's check out what the party’s packin’.

Introducing the MK6 Armor set
After six years of trials, R&D has officially cleared the new MK6 Armor Set for limited field testing. And as part of this Anniversary celebration, you’ll have the unique opportunity to... Read more

Hello Miners,
Happy February Maintenance Update day! For this one, we’ve focused on the bugs and issues that got the most community upvotes in our PleaseFix portal[drg.pleasefix.gg]. In case you haven’t heard of that, it’s the best way to report and document bugs you come across in the game.

Okay, enough chit-chat. Let’s dive into the patch notes.

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew



Introducing Hidden Dwarf beer
Fun stuff first: We’ve got a brand new brew up in the Abyss Bar!

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Hello Miners,
Holy Hoxxes, how the months fly by! It’s nearly time for the next maintenance update for Deep Rock Galactic.

When we published our roadmap update in October 2023, we scheduled this second maintenance update for March 2024. But it’s done early! So we’re launching it here in February instead. And in a stroke of unprecedented creative genius, we’re calling it the February Maintenance Update.

We’ve been monitoring the bug reports on our PleaseFix portal[drg.pleasefix.gg], and for this update we've prioritized the issues that had the most community upvotes in there. Just like last time, we’re looking to fix and improve some features in the game – but... Read more

Hello Miners,
We’re here with a quick cross-promotional spotlight: two new games are launching to Early Access this month via Ghost Ship Publishing!

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is coming out on February 14th, and SpellRogue is coming two days earlier on February 12th.

Granted, we’re a bit of a biased source here, but we think both games are super cool. We’ve got both trailers down below, plus links to each game’s Steam page. Check ‘em out!


Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Made by: Funday Games (Aarhus, Denmark)
For fans of: Vampire Survivors, Brotato, Soulstone Survivors

Welcome to Deep Rock Galactic’s roguelike auto-shooter spinoff! Like always, you’re going down to Hoxxess to mine minerals and blast bugs. But this time, you’re going solo. Become a one... Read more

Hello Miners,
The Lunar Festival is now live in Deep Rock Galactic! We're bringing it back for the Year of the Dragon. We look forward to a peaceful coexistence between dragons, dwarves, and caves full of gold.

You'll find some new assignments (and their fashionable rewards) now live in the Mission Terminal, and Management worked through the night to decorate the Space Rig for the occasion. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to get fresh persimmons in space?

All Deep Rock Galactic employees are encouraged to partake in this optional company event. Failure to attend will be noted in next year's salary negotiations.

Here's what's on the menu for the Festival:

• Earn the new Enter the Dragon hat! It's both draconic and iconic.
  
• Collect previous exclusive headgear with the Last Year's Blessings assignment!
  
• Rescue the lost Lunar Festival Dragons! We'll give you an XP ...

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Hello Miners,
Sorry this post comes a few days late -- we got caught up rewatching our favorite movie, Crouching Miner, Hidden Dragon. Also I had influenza.

Anyway, the Lunar Festival is coming back for 2024! We've freshened up this seasonal event to ring in the Year of the Dragon, and we're bringing you a fresh crop of collectibles, delightful decorations and fun hats.

This year’s Lunar Festival begins on Thursday, February 1st at 13:00 CET, and it runs until Thursday, February 15th at 13:00 CET.

Here’s what’s in store!


Fresh ferocious finery
First thing’s first: the cool new hat. We’re welcoming the Year of the Dragon with this dashing new headgear, which features a movable jaw, wiggly whiskers and googly eyes to distract your foes. It’s called Enter the Dragon, because your head... Read more

Hello Miners (and statisticians),
We hope your new year is off to a delightful start. We also hope that one of your 2024 resolutions was "consume more infographics," because that's exactly what we're here to share!

2023 was a terrific year for Deep Rock Galactic, and for the crew at Ghost Ship Games too. We decided to recap the year (as usual) by digging deep in the data mines, and pulling up the most exciting, interesting, exciting, and silly statistics we could find, to understand Deep Rock Galactic by the numbers.

If you've ever wondered about:

• The leading cause of death for dwarves on Hoxxes
  
• Where Deep Rock Galactic sits on the list of best-reviewed games on Steam
  
• How many times the average dwarf passes out drunk at the Abyss Bar per year

We've got all that below, plus bucketfuls of more fun facts and data! Give it a look.

Hope everybody's doing well, and thanks for such a fun yea... Read more

Hello Miners,
Great news: we fixed the hat!

To celebrate our nomination for the Steam Awards last month, we announced a sweet new hat: the Jagged Bugbasher! It was supposed to come out shortly after the initial blog post, but something about the hat made the whole game crash for anyone running older Ryzen CPUs.

After a bit of tinkering, we got the hat working now. We're not really sure why, or how, but it works.
So now you can grab it!

Pictured: An ancient helmet imbued with a strange and powerful aura. Legends say it contains the power to tear apart the very fabric of the world. Or at least to overheat a few CPUs.

All you've got to do is log in to Deep Rock Galactic before January 29th at 13:00 CET to claim it. It's not available for consoles quite yet, but we expect to have it out with the next patch, l... Read more

Hello Miners,
Holy smokes – we made the finals!

We’ve officially been nominated for the 2023 Steam Awards in the ‘Labor of Love’ category.


We’d like to say a big huge thank you to everyone who nominated us. But whether you nominated or not, we’d just like to say thanks for playing Deep Rock Galactic, and for making it such a fun and welcoming experience to share together. Nobody here at Ghost Ship Games ever imagined our silly space dwarf game would grow to where it is today.

It’s your enthusiasm and support that pushes us to keep working on Deep Rock Galactic; both by developing this game and expanding the DRG universe with other projects. We’ve still got a big huge pile of ideas for this game, so you can trust we'll updating it for a long time to come.

A special hat celebration
To celebrate our nomination, we've decided to... Read more

To be read in the voice of Mission Control:
‘Twas the night before Yuletide, and on the Rig on that eve,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a Steeve.

The Oily Oafs were poured at the bar with care,
In hopes that Karl soon would be there.

The dwarves were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of Bittergems danced in their heads.

I put down my headset, reclined at my desk,
Grateful – at last! – for a moment of rest.

When out near the Drop Pod arose such a clatter,
I switched on the cameras, to see what was the matter.

What I saw made my warmhearted mood disappear:
The dwarves were awake, and they’d drunk all the beers.

Those inebriate miners were wild and at play,
They cheered and kicked foreign objects in the launch bay.

The jukebox blared while the... Read more

Hello Miners,
Holiday season is upon us!

Management would like to clarify that the use of the word “holiday” here does not imply any paid time off. Instead, this holiday season, Deep Rock Galactic will be celebrating with some holly-jolly hard labor!

This time of year is about cherishing those you hold dear, and there’s nothing dearer to the Deep Rock Galactic corporation than the quarterly revenue report. If you feel that close colleagues, family members, or a general sense of holiday merriment are distracting you from sharing this priority, please report to the Medical Bay for a painless chemical readjustment.

The Yuletide 2023 event begins on Thursday, December 14th at 13:00 CET.

Here’s your first look at what’s coming:

Yearly performance bonus In recognition of the significant contributions of the DRG workforce, Management has approved a significant end-of-year bonus for all employees! Provided you’re willing to work for ... Read more