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
Shattered Horizon Premium Edition
Shattered Horizon will release as a Premium Edition in the UK on 27th August in an exclusive retail boxed format.
EXCLUSIVELY IN THE BOXED EDTION
1. The full Shattered Horizon game plus Moonrise Maps and Firepower Weapons expansion packs with printed game manual
2. Handy Keyboard and Mouse Controls guide card: Save time and lives – colour coded for instant access and rapid command find
3. 16 piece character and debris sticker-set with ISS panorama scene card booklet: Create your own zero gravity space battles
We’re celebrating the August release of Shattered Horizon in a special premium boxed edition with exclusive goodies in the box. It ‘s called Shattered Horizon Premium Edition. Have a bit of fun with the sticker set, which you can reuse again and again. Plus give yourself an extra little advantage with the controls guide by your side at all times. 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
SAGA Online: Manage, Trade, Fight
The free-to-play real-time strategy game SAGA Online from Silverlode Interactive is set in a continuous online world with a traditional fantasy setting populated by characters such as elves, orcs, dragons, dwarfs, and giants. Players get to create their own realms and do battle or trade with one another. Two main aspects dominate gameplay in SAGA Online.
The first is the management of one or several nations. When managing nations, players can examine the situation of their people, determine activities for peasants and workers, and trade resources, troops, and spells at the market. Players of SAGA Online also get to organize in guilds in order to support each other and take part in guild wars that yield many new resources for the victors.
The second great aspect of SAGA Online is found on the battlefield. Here, players send their units to take part in massive online combat, as seen in LAN games or the online battles of most RTS games.
Every SAGA Online user can create up to five nations with his or her account. However, collector’s cards, which hold troops or spells, are assigned to the player’s nations individually. Thus, a card assigned to nation A is not available for any of the player’s other nations. This means commanders have to disband an active army before they can use this particular card for any of their other nations. As the game progresses, troops gain experience. Battles make them stronger, improve their skills and lead to new armor and weapons. Players can purchase booster packs in order to add to their forces. These packs remain the user’s property, but can be exchanged with other SAGA Online players for troops or resources. Moreover, armies can be adjusted to suit a particular nation type, which is determined individually at the start of the game. Players choose from among various available troops and spells compatible with their nations to find the ideal combination.
For more information on SAGA Online, or to sign up for the current Open Beta, visit the official website www.playsaga.eu.
FIFA Online: Free online footy available to play now
FIFA Online Available to all Football Fans World Wide
Electronic Arts announced that EA SPORTS FIFA Online , the first downloadable FIFA football game designed for PC ^, is available to football fans everywhere around the world to play for free*.
Register at http://fifa-online.easports.com and compete in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa tournament mode and score the goal that lifts your nation to FIFA World Cup glory. Compete by yourself or online with friends in an authentic re-creation or a fantasy version of the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.
“Football fans have helped drive the game’s evolution and development through our testing period and now we are ready to share the game with a much larger audience,” said Kaz Makita, Executive Producer of the EA SPORTS FIFA franchise. “The FIFA World Cup attracts casual football fans all over the world and we are inviting them to try a free football game they can play at work or home and win the FIFA World Cup virtually.”
EA SPORTS has also partnered with FIFA.com to give their Club members exclusive content. Any gamers and football fans who register at FIFA.com will receive an exclusive unlimited match pass to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaTM mode. Register now on www.FIFA.com/club.
Since February 3, more than 20,000 football fans across Europe have participated in the Closed Beta development and testing of FIFA Online and that number is expected to grow to hundreds of thousands of fans. Additional content will be designed for the game based on feedback by fans.
FIFA Online features 28 licensed leagues, 500 clubs and more than 15,000 players in a League Mode that enables fans to manage and compete as their favorite football club, and the ability to play online in challenge or cooperative matches. FIFA Online will enable football fans to build their favorite club into their fantasy team by developing or acquiring players, upgrading skills, and getting unique apparel by earning in-game currency to acquire items or through micro-transactions.
EA SPORTS FIFA Online will be released around the world in stages. The UK English language Beta version is available now with plans over the next 12 to 24 months for FIFA Online to launch in other languages across Europe and then in North America.
EA SPORTS FIFA Online is developed by EA Canada and EA Singapore. The game is rated PEGI 3.
- Internet connection required. See website for details
^ A broadband internet connection and an average spec laptop computer or desk-top personal computer required
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