Legendary Champions Now Doing Battle in Closed Beta Test
Aeria Games, a leading publisher of interactive entertainment, has initiated the Closed Beta Test (CBT) for Legendary Champions, the latest title to join its free-to-play catalogue. Players will be able to take an early look at Aeria’s new MMORPG, and get hands-on experience with some of history’s greatest heroes and villains, from King Arthur to Dracula.
Legendary Champions is a fantasy MMORPG which draws from many sources of culture to create a vast world filled with epic characters. Players will ally themselves with one of two factions and collect an army of heroes to aid them in solo quests and PvP battlefields, including DotA-style challenges with the game’s larger-than-life heroes. With over 60 iconic champions to choose, Legendary Champions allows players to decide, once and for all, who would win in a fight – Beowulf, Mulan, Alexander the Great, or Sinbad?
For more information about the game, and to get involved in the CBT, visit http://legendarychampions.aeriagames.com.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of The Lich King to Launch in Mainland China on August 31, 2010
Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase.com announced that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will launch in mainland China on August 31, 2010.
“We appreciate the continued passion and support that Chinese players have shown for World of Warcraft, and we’re working hard to ensure that they have a topnotch gaming experience when Wrath of the Lich King is released,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “This expansion contains some of the best content we’ve ever created for the game, and we’re excited that Chinese players will soon have a chance to explore everything it has to offer.”
“World of Warcraft is one of the most popular online games among Chinese players, and we believe that the new content in Wrath of the Lich King will generate even more excitement,” said William Ding, CEO of NetEase. “We are fully prepared on all fronts to provide great service and support to all of the new and returning players throughout China, and we look forward to welcoming them to Northrend.” Read more
Fairy Story Online
Get swept up in a romantic game setting like no other, thanks to Ngames anticipated upcoming MMORPG, Fairy Story Online.
Winner of 9 industry awards, including PC Editor Choice award (2009) and Gamespot China’s world’s most anticipated online games (2009), Fairy Story Online is exciting beta players with it’s unique mixture of romantic nostalgia and real-time combat.
Fairy Story Online, Ngames’ latest MMORPG, is set in a beautiful, warm, romantic world that instantly evokes memories of classic childhood fairytales. The game is filled with distinctive characters, hundreds of pets and dozens of fun mounts – it’s the type of wonderland Alice wishes she’d fallen into.
The delicate interface and interactive environments are complemented by ambient music and automatic path-finding, meaning you can sit back and drink in the setting while talking and interacting with your gaming friends.
Who knows, you might even find ‘the one’ for an in-game marriage along the way…
Ever played an MMORPG where you raid a giant clown house, packed with colourful but vicious jack-in-the-boxes, toy soldiers and a wicked witch to defeat?
Fairy Story Online takes raiding to a new, unexplored level, expertly mixing childhood sweetness with a robust real-time combat system. The aesthetics may be fairytale-sweet on the eye, but there are challenges waiting for even the most hardened MMORPG players.
Raid groups in Fairy Story Online are full of charismatic characters, each using their own items – personalised through a deep item enhancement system – to take on the fantastical bosses awaiting them.
You’ll even have fun simply riding to the raids, thanks to the game’s wonderful selection of mounts, including: giant Praying Mantises; friendly Tigers; and udder-ly brilliant big yellow Cows. Read more
King of Kings 3
gamigo will introduce one of the most important features of the upcoming clan warfare MMORPG King of Kings 3: town building. After all, is it not every guild’s dream to build a thriving metropolis and take advantage of everything such a town has to offer? But the path there isn’t easy. Once guilds have joined to form a legion, they can lease land to build a camp. Only after a kingdom is founded can players also found their own town, earning them not only prestige but also a number of special in-game advantages.
The construction site is nearly empty at first. Only the main building is there, and the high walls all around to protect the town. There are plenty of options for building to choose from. From the barracks and the alchemist’s hut all the way to trees, statues and fountains, the choices are nearly endless. Each object can be placed and its appearance changed to suit player’s preferences. If they have the right resources, that is.
Barracks are one of the most important buildings to have. Here one can hire up to three personal guards to protect players in PvE combat against monsters as well as during PvP combat against other players. Warriors, mages and rangers can be recruited, equipped and sent for training in the barracks.
Need for Speed World
Black Box, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio announced that Need for Speed World, the massively multiplayer online action racing game, is available for digital download on July 27 for the PC.
Need for Speed World combines the rush of illicit street racing, deep RPG style progression and vehicle customization into an immersive, socially-connected Need for Speed experience.
Players can compete against any one of their friends, family or pick from thousands of top ranked players to challenge in intense online battles and police pursuits across 150 miles of sprawling open world.
Players can pre-order the Need for Speed World Starter Pack* today to gain early access to the game on July 20. Gamers will also unlock exclusive cars, earn double XP, reserve their driver names and have VIP status permanently displayed in their driver profile before the game officially launches.
On July 20, the Need for Speed World Starter Pack will be available for £14.99. Read more
King of Kings 3, the ultimate guild warfare MMORPG, to start in closed beta testing
Declare your own kingdom in the one-of-a-kind free-to-play MMORPG King of Kings 3. With the start of the game’s closed beta testing phase this coming Monday, gamigo will be opening up the world of King of Kings 3 to players from North America and Europe, who can discover the incredible depth of the game and the many types of warfare available against other players and guilds. Players can register via the official website.
King of Kings 3 redefines the idea of guilds in an online RPG, expanding upon it greatly. Players first join together to form a guild, later they can band together with other guilds to form a legion and complete an epic quest to create their own kingdom. Every guild, legion, and kingdom is leveled up by the players, earning it more access to features of the game.
At the start of their adventuring career, players can choose from three basic classes. More specializations become available during the course of the game, with a total of 27 classes available to choose from. The hunters and gatherers among the players will be especially excited about the wealth of equipment available for their characters. An added appeal is the ability to build cities with a wealth of buildings and other objects available. Houses can also be built and decorated to suit each player’s taste.
The features of King of Kings 3 at a glance:
- Brilliantly designed fantasy world full of variety
- Comprehensive PvE content with loads of quests and minigames
- Epic RvR warfare between kingdoms and intense PvP combat
- Multi-leveled guild system with guilds, legions, and kingdoms
- Unique housing and town building system
Lords Online: Assaulting a Kingstown
Recently IGG has released the featured Kingstown Battlefields in version 1.5 of their Lords Online browser-based fantasy game. At present the Battlefield function is only available at World_1, and will be released at other servers soon. With rich resources and Legendary Equipment hanging in the balance, conquering a Kingstown provides economic and military benefits to an alliance.
There are a few basics alliances should know before setting their sights on a Kingstown. A total of 49 majestic Kingstowns are scattered throughout the land. These are separated according to race, and alliances can only attack Kingstowns that match their race. An alliance may conquer as many Kingstowns as it can handle. Lords who don’t belong to an alliance cannot attack a Kingstown. Alliances can increase their Combat Bond during Kingstown Wars to improve their alliance technologies.
Benefits of Holding a Kingstown
Upon conquering a Kingstown, the victorious alliance begins to receive all the tax income generated by the castles within the Kingstown’s territory. Each race’s Kingstowns also hold a different piece of Legendary Equipment, which the conquering alliance’s leader can assign to one member of the alliance. The leader can also retract Legendary Equipment assigned to any member. Players can use Legendary Equipment to greatly increase a hero’s abilities.
Reinforcing a Kingstown
Alliance members can send troops and resources to any Kingstown they occupy. However, those troops and resources then become permanently attached to the Kingstown and cannot be recalled. A Kingstown cannot reinforce other castles and will not contribute any resources to any player.
Attacking with a Kingstown
A Kingstown can only be used to attack another Kingstown. An alliance leader can send the troops of a Kingstown on an expedition to assault another Kingstown. However, during the war, players will not have any control over these troops.
Kingstowns are both key status symbols and valuable strongholds. Rally your alliance and get ready to claim your own Kingstowns for fun, profit and power.
Closed Beta Test of Land of Chaos Online
Key Activation Site Now Open, Closed Beta Test to Start May 27
burda:ic, a leading publisher of online games worldwide, launched the key activation site for the Closed Beta Test of action MMO LOCO – Land of Chaos Online. Players who have already received their CBT key can register it at the following link: http://loco.en.alaplaya.net/closedbeta
The Closed Beta Test for Land of Chaos Online is set to go live on Thursday, May 27. It will feature over 10 playable characters, Annihilation and Battle Modes, three maps to wreak havoc on, and LOCO’s Guild and Enchantment systems.
Applications for the Closed Beta Test are currently open and will run until Monday, May 17. Players who would like to participate and be among the first to explore LOCO can find more details about the registration process at www.loco.alaplaya.net/closedbeta
Aeria Games to reveal new high-level Grand Fantasia content before Live audience
Aeria Games, a leading publisher of interactive entertainment, announced that a major update with expansive new features and content will be added to Grand Fantasia, one of Aeria’s most celebrated free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG). The new features will debut in a live sneak-preview event on April 16 via Xfire, allowing all players to catch a glimpse of the new game content prior to its release.
Grand Fantasia, an anime-style fantasy MMORPG with intense PvP combat and a deep virtual pet system, will be adding several new features intended for high-level players in a free update scheduled for mid-April. The new features include:
• An increase in the level cap to 70, complete with new zones, monsters, armor and weapons;
• Upgraded job classes to level 66;
• New guild-based gameplay options, including a Guild Zone and a Guild Wars arena for massive 75 versus 75 battles.
A Grand Fantasia Game Master (GM) will demonstrate the new features live via an Xfire broadcast, giving the game’s fervent players the chance to learn about the updates before they are officially implemented into the game. Those attending the demonstration will have a unique opportunity to learn about the new content and become better prepared to tackle new challenges in the world of Saphael – as well get a peek behind the scenes of one of Aeria’s hottest games.
The live broadcast will occur on Friday, April 16, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. PDT via Xfire, a free online community tool that supports instant messaging, friend lists, profiles and more. Xfire is available for download at www.xfire.com/ and sign up is free. Details on how to join the Grand Fantasia preview broadcast are available at http://www.xfire.com/stream_series/.
Karos Online launches Friday April 9th with new zone and updated features
The wait is nearly over: NHN Corporation’s free-to-play MMORPG Karos Online launches commercially this Friday, April 9th, and the new game client is available now at www.karosgame.com! Featuring a brand new item shop, additional server and many fixes and feature updates, starting on Friday Karos will offer both new and experienced players a greater depth of play than ever before.
Gameplay for guilds has been enhanced with a new guild levelling system, and guilds reaching level 3 will be eligible to purchase powerful guild skill scrolls that give combat buffs to all members for a limited duration. Mine Takeover PvP has also been improved, with unlimited mining rights and extra income for victorious guilds.
There’s also a new high-level zone to discover at launch: scenic Seron Island in southern Asmara has a lot more in store for intrepid adventurers than just great views – it’s teeming with goblins, undead and a whole host of previously undiscovered creatures including raging Hellbiests and fearsome Magma Giants!
Don’t forget, all the action kicks off this Friday, April 9th! Bbecome a fan of Karos Online on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Karos-Online/78475753869, and/or follow @KarosOnline on Twitter.
Karos Online – Stunning 3D Action Fantasy MMORPG
Karos Online is a brand new free-to-play fantasy MMORPG developed by Galaxy Gate (lead developers of Laghaim and Last Chaos), to be published in Europe and North America by NHN Corporation. The English and Turkish versions are scheduled to launch in Q2 2010, with a German version to follow later in the year.
In Karos Online, players take the role of a hero determined to defeat the curse of darkness falling over the world of Asmara and ascend to ultimate glory by becoming the mythical Karos warrior. Through questing, guild clashes and mass PvP, they enter the fight for domination over the world’s vital energy source, Fletta. Fletta provides the basis for the game’s unique and complex alternate progression system; alongside traditional leveling within the game, Fletta energy can be used to increase stats, give buffs, buy resources and enchant items.
With a strong RPG component, wide range of class skills and fantastic visual combat effects, Karos Online offers a rich player experience and an exciting end-game for guilds, including castle sieges and resource control points. There are a variety of dynamic dungeons to explore, with shifting paths and surprises to challenge players as they progress in level. The economy is well-developed, with mining, fishing and crafting elements, and a consignment system for storage.
Karos Online offers rare graphical quality for its small client size, has low minimum requirements, and will be accessible to a vast range of computers. Videos demonstrating graphics and gameplay, in addition to detailed game information, are available on the official website at www.karosgame.com.
Karos Online features
- Free-to-play MMORPG
- Stunning 3D Graphics
- Massive guild-based PvP & castle sieges
- Shifting, unpredictable dungeons
- Fishing, mining and item crafting
- Majestic mounts