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Yearly Archives: 2012
SmashMuck Champions
Smashmuck Champions is an online arena-style game, with fast-paced action and deep strategy elements. Players develop and manage their arena teams with various monsters, robots, and other creatures. The game features four distinct game modes, and each match will have up to 10 other players competing for a win. Expect a plethora of skills, weapons, and attacks to aid your team towards victory.
Features
Browser-Based: Using the Unity3D engine, Smashmuck Champions is free to play in your browser.
Different modes: Combat up to 10 players in four different game types, each with their own unique objectives. Utilize various weapons and attacks in a fast-paced combat system.
Unique characters: Robots, monsters, and more await your control. Assemble the perfect team to dominate your competition. Customize your team with different weapons, skins, and training programs.
Easy to learn: Smashmuch Champions promises to be friendly to newcomers. It is also poised to offer a challenge to veterans of arena combat games with its depth and strategies.
Grand Prix Racing Online
Grand Prix Racing Online challenges players to manage their Grand Prix team. The key to this revolves around building good cars, executing perfect race strategies, hiring the right people, and keeping your eye on the future. With time and budget concerns always looming, and competition always striving to be better than you are, coming out on top of the racing circuit will be the greatest obstacle.
Features
Live Races: Races run in real time, every Tuesday and Friday. Watch live to experience the thrill of victory, or the agony of defeat.
Drivers and crew: Sign on the next top racer, or train your rookies to climb the ranks. Hire on an amazing pit crew to maximize your winning potential.
Financial management: Budget for vehicle upgrades, staff salaries, training costs and more as you work to keep in the black.
Race analysis: Study your results carefully! Doing so allows you to change your race and pit strategies to turn last place into the victory lap.
Customization: Choose from over 100 car designs. If that’s not enough for you, design your own to show off to the world.
Heroes of Ruin Teaser Trailer
Heroes of Ruin looks to bring MMO elements to the Nintendo 3DS later this year.
Heroes of Ruin
Heroes of Ruin brings the MMO experience to hand-held devices in 3D. Take up arms as one of four mercenaries in your attempt to find a cure for a cursed king who promises riches beyond measure.
Features
Create a Fearsome Alliance: Join forces with other heroes locally or online in seamless drop in and out 4-player multiplayer.
Develop Your Own Mercenary: Choose from four diverse and powerful classes and enhance your character with new combat abilities, weapons, and armor.
Embark on a Personal Adventure: Explore and fight through dynamic environments that present a personalized experience each time you play.
Experience Something New Every Day: Test your combat skills and earn rewards by taking on new challenges downloaded daily to your 3DS with SpotPass.
Einherjar Announces Screenshot Contest and Events
Einherjar Announces Screenshot Contest and Events
From the 14th to the 21st of March, KBMJ – the producer of the turn-based tactical webgame
Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood will hold a photo contest on their facebook fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/eneinherjar?sk=app_79458893817.
To enter this contest, players need to upload their best screenshot of Einherjar. 3 players with the highest votes will receive the following gifts:
1st place: 600 Power
2nd place: 300 Power
3rd place: 100 Power
Other participants: 8000 Gold
The event period will end at weekly maintenance time on 21 March, 14:00 (SGT or GMT+8).
Winners will be announced on Einherjar’s website, forum and fanpage after the contest ends and will get their prizes shortly after that.
KBMJ is also launching a promotion to celebrate their partnership with Cherry Credits. From March 14th at 17:00 to March 21st at 14:00 (SGT or GMT+8), players will get 20% more Power when purchasing via Cherry Credits as well as PayPal. Moreover, Cherry Credits will be offering the following bonuses:
3000 Power: Irminsul Branch x 5 + Wootz Ore x 5
5000 Power: Irminsul Branch x 15 + Wootz Ore x 15 + Runic Proof x 1
10000 Power: Irminsul Branch x 40 + Wootz Ore x 40 + Valhalla Proof x 1
And if players’ overall Power purchase during the event is 5000 Power or more, they will get 1 Arrow Ring regardless of their payment via Cherry Credits or PayPal. This item will be given after the maintenance on Wednesday 21st March is completed.
Spirit Tales Preview: Cuteness Overload!
Spirit Tales Preview: Cuteness Overload!
By Michael Sagoe (Mikedot), OnRPG Journalist
X-LEGEND, the creators behind Grand Fantasia and Eden Eternal, are working with Koramgame on their cutest MMORPG yet: Sprit Tales (also known as Glory Destiny Online.)
I was completely on the fence about giving this game a try. The cuteness factor seemed to be the only thing going for it, but since I’m a complete sucker for cute things, I succumbed to my weakness and gave it a try.
From the character creation menu, players can select between a male or female character and two classes among different animal tribes: Gold Kirin, Maned Dragon and Lunar Fox. The character creation menu also displays the character’s spirit form. While males can transform into cute, but intimidating beasts, females on the other hand can transform into generic anime girls with animal ears & tails, which is kind of a safe, but fairly generic design choice.
I decided to go with a female assassin of the Lunar Fox tribe. Afterwards, more creation options were available. Several different eye, hair, ear, tail and color variations exist for each, allowing for some moderate personalization. Players can also try out different emotes for their characters and…
Umm…
HHHNNNGGG!!!
I had to turn away from my monitor for a brief moment because I thought I was about to puke a rainbow. That was just too cute for me! I decided to switch to a male assassin to see if I could make my character any less cute.
Nope. It was still pretty cute, but I did like the coy look on his face, so I decide to go with it.
After creating a character, the game opens with a brief cinematic, detailing the game’s backstory. Starting off in a place called Autumnal Grove; I was taken in by the game’s bright and colorful visuals. The world of Spirit Tales also had a “rolling ball” effect only seen in games like Animal Crossing, and it makes the game feel distinct.
The tutorial quest will set players off quickly by letting them right click on target enemies, items and NPCs in their quest log to set an auto-route to their next destination, making it literally impossible to get lost. The quests themselves, however, are typical of what you would expect from an MMORPG: Kill X/Bring Y/Go-to Z/etc. I was hoping quests would become more varied later on, but the game doesn’t even try to deviate from this boring old design.
Three kill & fetch quests later: I received another kill quest where I could earn a pet egg as a reward. Quickly after finishing the quest up, I hatched the egg and out came a tiny purple bird that was mine to train.
The pet system in this game was very interesting: Unlike most MMOs where pets only exist as vanity items or stat boosters, pets in Sprit Tales can act as stat boosters and as fighting companions. You can either merge with your pets to gain stats and passive abilities or have it fight alongside you with its own special attacks. Pets also level up with your character and can equip its own set of armor and accessories. It’s almost like having a second character.
Heading out from the Autumnal Grove and into the Jade Forest, I gained a key quest that would unlock my character’s spirit form. Quest requirements: head up to a special altar, activate my moonshade item and defeat a field boss.
Once completed, the power of the ninja fox was at my fingertips. Strangely enough, though, my fox spirit form didn’t look anything like the one from the character creation menu or during the brief transformation during the quest.
Getting a better feel for the combat, I was rather surprised by how fast paced it was. Perhaps maybe it was because I was playing the fastest melee DPS class available, but battling enemies was very quick and engaging. Instead of pressing a hotkey (1 through 9) to perform a skill, pressing a hotkey sets your skill to your right mouse button, which you can perform with your right mouse button once it has been set, so using skills did take a bit of getting used to. After level 15 or so, I was zipping around, stunning enemies and laying waste one after another in the blink of an eye.
One thing for sure is that Spirit Tales is at least trying not to waste a player’s time before they can get to the more enjoyable content like dungeons and instances. MP Skills are quick with very little cooldown time, and my assassin’s MP could regenerate almost as fast as I could churn them out. Attacks from enemies are also very quick with animation frames that are almost unnoticeable, making mob fights a bit stressful.
I spent some time searching around to find any signs of any non-cuteness…
Uhh…
Uhrgh…
…but I couldn’t! Just about everything in this game is made for cuteness. Even the manliest NPC I could find looked adorable.
A few more levels later: extra tutorial dialog opened up, informing me that along with receiving pet eggs as quests rewards, players can earn pets by catching common monsters that are under level 25. I spanned the last few areas looking for pets that I’d like to catch, and then I remembered the bug warriors back in the Jade Forest. I wanted to catch one of them, but the game wouldn’t let me. I guess human-like enemies aren’t considered monsters. Bummer.
No bug women slaves for you!
After that bit of disappointment: I decided to catch a wild boar instead. The pet system further reveals that players can further customize their experience by merging with one pet and fighting with another, allowing for some neat combinations.
I managed to hit level 20, which was halfway from the game’s level cap of 40. I decided that I wanted to try out a dungeon before calling it quits. There was already a dungeon quest on my list, and everything was a cakewalk up to that point, so I thought it would have been a breeze.
That was a big mistake.The first wave off monsters hit twice as hard as any field monsters would. Plus: they were using skills to stun me in place. I couldn’t help but watch my HP plummet. Unfortunately this was during the press preview event so I had no one to call for help in defeating the dungeon.
Overall: Despite the lack of innovation, my experience playing Sprit Tales turned out to be quite enjoyable. The combat is fast and engaging, while the cute visuals are so sweet and saccharine that it gave me diabetes.
Closed beta for Spirit Tales is set to begin March 15th. OnRPG has plenty of keys to get you and your friends into beta so be sure to drop by our Events Page to snag one!
Meanwhile, I’ll be taking my insulin medication.
HHHNNNGGG!!!
Blacklight Retribution Release Date Announced
Blacklight Retribution Release Date Announced
Perfect World Entertainment is pleased to announce today that its highly anticipated free-to-play first person shooter, Blacklight Retribution, is set to launch on April 3, 2012 in North America and Europe.
“After five successive months of closed and open beta testing, Blacklight Retribution has recruited a strong community of dedicated players that have provided valuable feedback for our development team to create a tight and polished free-to-play game with innovative and exciting features,” said Andrew Brown, Executive Producer for Perfect World Entertainment. “Our team has been working really hard to prepare the game for its release, including additional content like new game modes, supporting maps, and a variety of new weapons and related gameplay enhancers.”
Blacklight Retribution is one of the most graphically stunning online games featuring cutting edge visuals and expansive customization. The adrenaline pumping FPS offers a multiplayer experience with action-packed battles, futuristic maps, and a wide variety of weapons and gear. With endless customization options, players can customize everything about a weapon, from its barrel, to ammo types, stocks, muzzles, optics, colors and even weapon tags. Unique tools like the Hyper Reality Visor (HRV) allow gamers to see enemy locations, team movements, and primary objectives to jump right into the fight.
Also check out their latest trailer showcasing the Vertigo Map.
Blacklight Retribution Vertigo Map Trailer
Blacklight Retribution has announced it will be entering commercial release on April 3rd!
TERA Dungeon Series: Akasha’s Hideout
TERA offers us a sneak peak at upcoming content as we bide our time until closed beta test 4.


















