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Yearly Archives: 2012
End of Nations: Liberation Front Forces Spotlight
End of Nations demonstrates the power and diversity of the Liberation Front units.
Trickster Online: Techichi Volcano and Events Galore
Trickster Online: Techichi Volcano Release Accompanied by Special Events
In SG Interactive’s action MMORPG, Trickster Online, the updated Techichi Volcano map now offers entirely new quests and content for high-level players to test their skills. Players will find 28 new items to help them hunt new monsters and complete 37 new quests and storylines to unravel the mystery of Don Cavalier’s treasure.
Starting today, several new events are available to Trickster Online players:
Welcome Back Event: Through Wednesday, May 23, players who have not logged in this year will receive $70 worth of items when they return, including the Mature Compound item set and Gacha coins that unlock prizes at random.
TM & EXP Bonus Happy Hour: Through Wednesday, May 23, players will receive bonus 200 percent in TM and EXP from 4 to 7 p.m. PDT, and bonus 100 percent in TM and EXP all other hours.
Playtime and Time Attack Event: Players will unlock individual prizes by hitting playtime milestones between today and Wednesday, May 9. Hardcore players can reap the ultimate rewards during the Time Attack Event by being in game or logging on during these specific hours:
Friday April 27, 5 to 6 p.m. PDT
Saturday April 28, 1 to 2 p.m. PDT
Sunday April 29, 10 to 11 a.m. PDT
The new content is the next step in helping Trickster Online players find the hidden fortune of the bourgeois billionaire Don Cavalier, founder and former leader of the Megalo Company – the world’s biggest and best game company. Adventurers must dig for the lost treasure in the form of magical card in Caballa Island, a desert island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Spirit Tales Delays Open Beta to May
Spirit Tales Delays Open Beta to May
KoramGame Ltd., a leading developer and publisher of free-to-play online games, has announced that the launch of open beta for Spirit Tales, an upcoming cute 3D fantasy MMORPG, has been postponed to May 10, 2012. Open beta for Spirit Tales had previously been slated to start today, April 25.
“It was a hard decision to make since we take our release schedule very seriously,” says Yann Wang, General Manager. “But problems have occurred that have made it difficult to incorporate certain features that are vital to the release of the game. Unfortunately, because of this, the game will not be ready on the date we had originally promised. However, the Spirit Tales team, and myself included, are optimistic that this short, but necessary delay, will ensure that we produce a much more complete and polished game.“
With this delay comes the full launch of the Spirit Tales open beta to a worldwide audience, and will include new system and server upgrades, as well as all the previously announced in-game features. There will also be better content to help guide users and events exclusive to the Spirit Tales name.
Visit the official Spirit Tales website for more information: http://st.koramgame.com.
Grand Chase: Heroes Invites All Aboard a Hellish Ride
Grand Chase : Heroes Invites All Aboard a Hellish Ride
Grand Chase: Heroes is giving players a new challenge with the release of the much-anticipated Monster Train 301 dungeon. Check out their teaser trailer to get a taste of what awaits you once stepping on board! Every day they log in, players will receive three Monster Train 301 Passenger Tickets, which is the only way to access the new dungeon. The dungeon will come in four difficulty levels: Normal, Hard, Very Hard and Hell Mode. The ultra-challenging last level of difficulty, Hell Mode, will be introduced for play on May 9. With each increased level of difficulty come increased rewards. Clearing the Monster Train 301 dungeon will give players random loot which includes Monster Train Attendant Uniform Chests and the Pet Casey Bones Cards. The event ends on Tuesday, May 22.
Grand Chase: Heroes is a side-scrolling action MMORPG that allows up to six players to battle monsters in dungeons, or face off against other gamers in combat. Adventurers can engage in team battle and survival modes of gameplay, with each type supporting both tag and item matches.
End of Nations Reveals Liberation Front Faction
End of Nations Reveals Liberation Front Faction
Trion Worlds today released the latest gameplay trailer for massive real-time strategy game, End of Nations, the upcoming high-octane online free-to-play PC title slated to enter closed beta soon. The new trailer highlights the heroic Liberation Front, one of two playable factions in the fast-paced strategy title.
The Liberation Front, whose core values are truth, freedom, and justice is comprised of two distinct classes that help players shape their role in the massive battle for global domination. The first is the heavy-hitting Spartan Class, which specializes in weighty vehicles such as tanks and other infantry units with high defenses and high damage output. The second is the Patriot Class whose specialty is multi-role support units with excellent support mechanics and recovery powers.
The Liberation Front preview trailer highlights some of the key units players can select and customize when building their company before joining the battle.
E-Sports @ OnRPG: April 25th Report – Swedish Strength
E-Sports @ OnRPG: April 25th Report – Swedish Strength
By Umar Farooq (Kluey), OnRPG Journalist
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these and honestly, it’s nice to be back. There were so many extremely awesome things that occurred this week plus a couple of days and it’s going to be hard to fit them all in this one short column. Anyhow, we’re going to cover the following: Dreamhack Stockholm Starcraft II, GSL Code S focusing on ‘The King in the North’ Naniwa and DotA 2 going F2P.
Dreamhack Stockholm
(All VODs can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/SpoilerFreeSC/comments/sn7b7/completed_event_dreamhack_open_stockholm_2012/)
Going into Dreamhack Day 1, I had no intention whatsoever of waking up a bit early to watch. And no offense to Dreamhack, the early parts of Day 1 kind of sucked. The tournament was supposed to be a 128 player open format but only around 80 people actually showed up. Furthermore, there was no group that had two favourites killing each other. That being said, MaNa from Team Mousesports did drop 0-2 to an unknown player who goes by the alias of ‘ProxyPanda’. Moving forward, we had some interesting games. Group stage #2 consists of groups with 4 players with the top 2 moving on. Because of that, there was no group with 3 top players so not many upsets were witnessed. One player, aTnCloud, did fall but he was not a favourite to win the tournament. Before the day ended, we had sort of a ‘showmatch’ series. It would be Morrow vs. elfi, Hyun vs. Naniwa and Genius vs. PuMa. Oddly enough, Naniwa dropped 0-2 to Hyun in some very disappointing games. Naniwa played some of the worst PvZ that we’ve seen from him in Game 1 and did a sloppy 4-gateway attack in Game 2. To his defense, in an interview later on he explained how because of his GSL groups he hasn’t practiced PvZ in a month. To me, this is a legitimate reason to play so bad. Hyun is an extremely good opponent and anything but a 4-gate coin flip would’ve lost.
Going onwards into Day 2, Group Stage #3 had begun. This is where Hyun, SaSe and PuMa were in the same group, Naniwa, Genius and Nerchio in another group. So without further ado, let the upsets begin? TLO falls in Group E to some Finnish player named Protosser. MaNa falls to Monster and elfi. PuMa falls to Swedish player named Forsen. Naniwa falls to Nerchio, sLviko and Genius. And with that done, we’re left with our Ro16.
Not too many upsets happen at this point. Nerchio has extremely good ZvZ and thus takes out Hyun. Shortly after, he falls to Monster in a series he should’ve won. Both games that Monster won were because of Nerchio making mistakes rather than Monster playing well. Ret takes out Genius 2-1. The one game that Genius did win was a huge blunder from Ret. He left his Broodlord’s exposed and they all got sniped. This left us with ThorZaIN vs Monster and Polt vs Ret semifinals. ThorZaIN, our hometown hero at this point as he is the last Swede, tore through Socke and was looking strong. He then went on to beat Monster in a close 2-1 series. Ret unfortunately fell to the TvZ sniper, Polt.
This left us with our epic finals. Korea vs. Sweden, the two strongest countries in Starcraft II were about to clash. Game one was a heart breaker. Polt straight up outplayed ThorZaIN and it looked like an easy 3-0 victory for Polt. But, ThorZaIN went on to win the next 3 games decisively! He held off Polt’s timing’s and had brilliant strategic counter attacks. The final game, ThorZaIN pulled out the spoon. He contained Polt on two bases until he had four. Polt, slowly dying to the spoon, tried to retaliate but failed and had to tap out. ThorZaIN is our Dreamhack Stockholm champion!
GSL Code S Season 2
After many months of no foreigners in Code S, hope was lost. Anyone who thought a foreigner would win the GSL would be crazy. This season, that’s changed. One of the reasons is definitely the new format. A monthly GSL requires you to be in Korea and practicing for the GSL at all times. With the seasonal approach, there’s no reason you can’t do the GSL and foreign events. Furthermore, IdrA and Sen both failed to even win a single game last season.
This season, NaNiwa from team Quantic was given a seed into Code S. What did he make of it? He placed first in his group, dropping only one set to Puzzle in the Ro32, against players like IMMVP and Ryung. In the Ro16, he placed first again dropping not even a single set. Naniwa will be facing MVP in the Ro8 and everyone’s eyes will be on him. If he wins, he will match Jinro’s semifinal appearance way back when. It will be even more amazing now then it was for Jinro as the game was much less developed as it is now. The real task will be breaking the barrier and making it to the finals. If he does that, Naniwa will be the first foreigner ever to make it to the finals of a GSL.
More surprising news from GSL; HerO makes it to the Ro8 in his first appearance. It’s good to see that Hero has overcome his nerves and can show his best form in tournament play. Even more surprising, there are no more Zergs this season! Leenock and July were both knocked out in Group B leaving no Zergs left.
DotA 2 will be F2P! What does this mean for E-Sports?
So it was recently announced that DotA 2 will be free to play with a ‘twist’. What the twist may be is not known for sure but a famous ‘data miner’ known as CybordMatt has dug up indications of an in-game shop selling cosmetic changes similar to ‘skins’ in games like League of Legends and HoN.
What does that mean in an E-Sports stand point? It’s a double edged sword. The two games that we’ll use to compare are League of Legends and Starcraft II. LoL is a F2P with available cosmetic changes that charge money. Starcraft II on the other hand is a strictly P2P game that offers nothing to a player with real life money.
The League of Legends E-Sports scene runs off of ad revenue. The number of concurrent viewers in that game is astounding. What they suffer from is the fact that the community generally sucks. The majority of people who play that game aren’t exactly extremely active or passionate about the game. Because of this, sponsors will think twice before going into League of Legends. Will someone who doesn’t really care about this team buy my product just because they see it on a stream? Probably not. The sponsorship value per person is quite different from a game like…
Starcraft II. Blizzard used a B2P business model where you pay a large sum of money (for a gamer) once and never have to pay again until the expansion comes out which is pretty much a new game. This is also a double edged sword. Anyone who buys the game is passionate about it and will spend a good amount of time in it. A sponsor also acknowledges the fact that players will buy a product just because his/her favourite player uses it. That being said, the numbers should be low. Starcraft II is a good spectator game so it does have fans that don’t actually play the game but even so, the numbers are less than League of Legends.
So which is better? It’s hard to say. Valve is usually really good at figuring out how to balance these types of things and it’ll be interesting to see what they end up doing. Regardless of what they chose, DotA 2’s E-Sport scene will be successful. It’s a solid competitive game that is fun to watch and that’s what a good E-Sport requires.
LOTRO Dev Diary: 5th Anniversary
LOTRO‘s dev team gives a detailed look at the path they’ve walked leading up to their 5th anniversary!
Eudemons Official Trailer 2012
A lot has changed in Eudemons over the last year. Check out their new trailer detailing the changes one by one!
Tribes Ascend Dev Diary: Raid and Pillage
Tribes Ascend‘s Dev team goes over the mercenary and griever in this content preview.









