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Reveal and ARG History
April 25, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Initial content (2026-04-26)
The reveal of Fragmentary Order was not a single press event. It unfolded over roughly three months as a layered alternate-reality game, beginning with a quiet website drop in January 2026 and culminating on April 12, 2026 with a seven-minute CGI lore trailer and the launch of fragmentaryorder.com. The slow rollout was deliberate. The team built anticipation through riddles and an in-fiction corporate portal at cor3.gg before any title, studio, or staff list was publicly attached to the project.
Date | Milestone | Description |
|---|---|---|
January 2026 | cor3.gg goes live | A mysterious website appears with an old-computer-interface aesthetic, fictional corporate branding for an entity called Cor3, and a series of ARG riddles. No game name or studio is attached. |
February 1, 2026 | First COR3 video | The Cor3Corp YouTube channel uploads its first short teaser, framed as in-fiction corporate communication from Cor3. |
Feb to early Apr 2026 | Sustained ARG phase | Additional puzzles and corporate ephemera roll out on cor3.gg. Communities document each update and theorize about the underlying project. |
April 12, 2026 | Official announcement | A seven-minute CGI lore trailer drops, identifying the project as Fragmentary Order. fragmentaryorder.com launches, and cor3.gg is formalized as the Prime Batch ARG portal. |
From January through early April 2026, the only public surface of the project was the cor3.gg website. The site presents itself as a portal for an in-fiction megacorporation called Core, styled with deliberately retro computer-interface visuals: monochrome terminals, blinking cursors, sparse navigation, and corporate boilerplate written in-character.
The riddles rewarded patient reading. Players assembled clues from the layout, hidden links, and the in-character language used by Cor3's fictional employees, then compared findings on community forums. The Cor3Corp YouTube channel reinforced the fiction with its February 1, 2026 video, presented as a corporate communique rather than a game trailer. Throughout this phase the developer, the publisher, and even the genre were withheld. Only the in-fiction world of Core and its CORIE framework were on display.
On April 12, 2026 the project broke cover. The seven-minute CGI lore trailer introduced the Core Era setting: a 22nd-century world where Core has rescued humanity from a 21st-century collapse, but its monopoly is now fracturing as rival factions emerge. The trailer named the title and tied the prior ARG to the game's universe.
Coordinated with the trailer, fragmentaryorder.com went live as the official website. The same day, developer Rant Gaming was identified, along with creator and ideologue Nikita Buyanov. Publisher Cor3 was confirmed as a real corporate entity, sharing branding with the ARG site. The announcement also clarified the in-fiction premise: players are Core Era citizens who pilot disposable clones called Replicated Entities from secure bunkers, in contested zones across the Solar System in the year 2251.
Channel | URL or Handle | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
Official website | fragmentaryorder.com | Primary public site. Hosts trailers, studio messaging, and links to other channels. |
ARG portal | cor3.gg | In-fiction portal for Core. Home of the Prime Batch ARG and the entry point for founders program enrollment. |
X account | @fragorder | Short-form announcements, devlog snippets, and community responses from the development team. |
YouTube channel | Cor3Corp | Source of the February 1, 2026 teaser. Continues to host trailers and in-fiction corporate communications. |
The April 12, 2026 reveal also opened enrollment for the Prime Batch Founders Program, the early access path for the game. Sign-ups are routed through cor3.gg, preserving the in-fiction framing established by the ARG. Rather than offering pre-orders, the program uses ARG progression and an internal rank system to gate access to closed alpha testing, which the studio has targeted for late 2026. The ARG has not ended; additional in-fiction updates continue to publish through cor3.gg and the Cor3Corp channel as development proceeds.
