Tactical all-out warfare: up to 100 players, three teams, one 256 km² battlefield. Hold the Control Zone, run the cash economy, win. Not a battle royale, not an extraction shooter, but a new take by BULKHEAD & Team17. We're building the organised home for it: squads that coordinate, comms that work, and a community run properly. This is the founding. Get in early.
EU and US are our regional squads, plus three 50/50 arenas for full-scale fifty-versus-fifty fights. Our community WARDOGS servers are live now: counts here update every minute straight from the cabinet, never faked. Full board and player leaderboard at ae-gaming.com/stats.
WARDOGS runs on proximity voice and teamplay. We use it, called targets, real tactics. 100 players on the map, but you move as a unit.
Get in a squad on comms from your first match. Solo-queue into chaos elsewhere; here you get a plan and people who show up.
Human review of every report. Cheats, slurs and grief are out. This is a community with a standard, and we hold it.
Weekly organised sessions with a briefing, objectives and an after-action review. Turn up, and there's always something on.
AE Gaming is the organised gaming floor. Behind it stands Absconditus Eminus, a brotherhood with its own ranks, structure and code. Play WARDOGS with a squad that coordinates; if it clicks, there's a way deeper in.
The AE Gaming Discord is live. The earliest operators shape what this becomes. Get in before launch and grab your tags.
Team17 & BULKHEAD ship WARDOGS at $39.99. No battle pass, no pay-to-win. We form up around it.
Pre-order unlocks the Closed Beta from Aug 21. Squad up with us and shake the game down before EA.
Weekly ladders and squad tournaments spin up once the servers are live, brackets seeded by your floor standings, results reported straight from the game. Get a squad together now and you're in the first one.
Get your squad in
WARDOGS is developed by BULKHEAD and published by Team17, a 100-player, three-team tactical FPS. Paid title, no battle pass, no pay-to-win. Early Access opens Sep 10 at $39.99; pre-order unlocks the Closed Beta from Aug 21. Our community is free to join. The base game is not included.
No. AE Gaming is the organised gaming floor, the front door to Absconditus Eminus, a brotherhood with its own ranks, structure and code. WARDOGS is our launch focus; the community is the point.
Join our Discord any time, free. To run with our crews you'll need WARDOGS on Steam once Early Access opens (Sep 10, $39.99). Pre-ordering unlocks the Closed Beta from Aug 21.
Not in WARDOGS. The devs confirm no battle pass and no pay-to-win. And nothing from us: our community is free, any supporter perks are cosmetic Discord roles only.
No. Jump in a squad on comms and follow the calls. WARDOGS has proximity voice and unlimited squad sizes, so you're an asset from your first match. No game knowledge needed, just listen.
Demand. Three 100-slot 50v50 KOTH arenas mean more room to drop straight into a full-scale fight without waiting for a slot. Same standard, same ruleset, three times the space. Open to anyone in Discord.
Open a ticket in Discord with a clip and a timestamp. Every report gets human review. Cheats, slurs and grief are out. No exceptions.
Built by Absconditus Eminus for the WARDOGS community — free for AE Gaming members and onboarded orgs. AE COMMS and the FOB Builder both wire straight into the TacMap.
