Yearly Archives: 2007

Jolt.co.uk partnership

Original player-driven online RPG re-hosted as game enters exciting beta stages

London – 23rd August 2007 – As part of its commitment to groundbreaking, independently developed massively multiplayer games, Jolt Online Gaming, Europe’s largest independent online gaming network, is pleased to announce a partnership with Eyes Out Entertainment that will help see the innovative MMO Tatsumaki: Land at War enter its next stage of development.

Shunning genre conventions such as races, classes, experience points and even monsters, Tatsumaki offers players a unique role-playing experience, where real-time PvP combat, detailed crafts and even idle pursuits take place against a backdrop of player-built towns set in feudal Japan. Striving for the perfect balance between realism and action, and featuring a novel system of family ties, the game allows players to be as notorious or as anonymous as they please. Furthermore the game will offer players an innovative and highly competitive pricing structure, including a limited free-to-play option.

Following an intensive testing and development period, Tasumaki has entered early beta stages, with the first of many towns along with several visual enhancements now in development. Jolt’s involvement sees the game hosted on its cutting-edge servers located at a state-of-the-art data centre facility, and with an overhauled website to keep the game’s growing community informed and up-to-date.

As part of the development team’s ongoing efforts to broaden and diversify its capability to provide the best gaming experience possible, openings have been made available for talented and passionate programmers, modellers, artists, animators and musicians.

For more information about the game, visit www.landatwar.com.

For a list of available positions, head to www.eyesoute.com/apply.

“We’re very excited to be working with Eyes Out Entertainment on a game that we’ve come to be as passionate about as they are,” said Jolt’s CEO, Dominic Silk. “With our world-class server technology and years of experience in the MMO community, we hope to see Tatsumaki go from strength to strength over the coming years.”

“Jolt’s proven track record and commitment to independently developed online games makes them the ideal partner to help bring our first MMO to a wider online audience,” said EOE’s founder Jonathan Rush. “Our relationship so far has been great and we look forward to working with them in the future.”

Tales of Pirates: The Eleventh Sever Up

After the second region released in Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com), IGG (http://www.igg.com) are pleased to announce that a new server named Red Sea will be launched in this region on September 5th in order to meet the need of number increasing as well as offering better services for our players.

Besides, to celebrate the launch of new server, we will release some interesting and exciting events as below:
Leveling Competition:
The event will commence at EST 04:00AM, September 5th and end at EST 04:00AM, September 12th. The 25 highest level players at EST 04:00AM, September 12th will be the final winners.
Prizes:
The First Prize (one in total): a Fortune set plus 5 million coins
The Second Prizes (three in total): a Fortune set plus 3 million coins
The Third Prizes (five in total): a Fortune set plus 1 million coins
Honorable Mentions: (ten in total): 500 thousand coins for each

Lucky Swift Feet
The lucky players who rank 100, 200, 300…1000 respectively will be rewarded 200,000 coins each.
For more detail about those events, please visit our official site: http://top.igg.com/index.php.

Zu Online: PK System Feature

IGG has announced a new PK system of Zu Online (http://zu.igg.com ) recently, let’s take a quick look.

PK is short for Player Kill which is usually used to name the fight between players. The player whose level is below 31 is protected from being killed; also he cannot PK others and cannot be PKed by others. Players can PK in all areas except the safe areas (such as all main cities, and all transfer points of scenes). No matter what their level, if there is a discrepancy of more than 90 between 2 players’ levels they may not attack each other. When your level is above 30, please pay attention to your PK Mode. There are Whole, Peace, Group, Guild and Camp Modes. After adjusting PK Mode, left click the target player and use the Spell to attack or restore.

In Zu Mountain training world, although there is no written commandment to standardize the behaviour of all trainers, when trainer violates the Good and wilfully injures the members of his own guild, he will bear Dishonor Points. However, in the disaster happening every sixty years, the only trainers who have satisfactory and enough merits and virtues and have no evil can challenge calamity and then be promoted to the rank of immortal. Of course, trainers themselves can’t see their own Dishonor Points. They can only know whether they have born the Dishonor Points from the color of their name. Such as White Name, Blue Name, Grey Name and Red Name. The player who is Pked by others first will not be punished when the opponents are killed no matter what colour of the name is. Dishonor Points will be gradually eliminated along with the online time. The Reputation Points that is gained by completing tasks can also dispel the Dishonor Points.

For more information, visit the Zu Online website at http://zu.igg.com

Voyage Century LaborÂ’s Day Activity

With the Labor’s Day just around the corner, Voyage Century (http://vc.igg.com) is offering a big surprise to all the players. In the city of Athens, the official purchases the goods that players collect in high price. Furthermore, if all players’ goods sold to the official reach 100,000pcs, some rare items will be sold on the official’s booth.

Time:
1st SEP to 3rd SEP

The booth will be closed everyday when the rare items are sold out. (The items may be empire ares, land tiger, tibetan bracelet of baptized jade, dragon equipment or other top rare items. This is a good chance to get the rare items).

For more about it, please visit our forum (http://vc.igg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19178) or official site: http://vc.igg.com.

GodsWar Headwear Show

GodsWar Online provides players with special headwear to use, such as the Laurel, Gem Hand, Cap, headgear, Mask and Great Guard. They are a combination of fashion, classical style, luxuriance and practicality. Please read the below descriptions to know more.

Helm:
It is a defensive weapon made of bronze.

Full Helm:
It is made of bronze with Spartan technology and is used for protecting the head.

Great Helm:
It is a magic helm that fills the wearer with a sense of bravery.

Great Guard:
It is a huge helm with very good protective ability. Wearing it represents the highest honor of warriors.

Cap:
It is a rough cap made of common flax.

Mask:
It has certain protective abilities.

Headgear:
It makes female characters more attractive and is favored by many female players.

Crown:
It demonstrates the wearer’s identity, status and dignity.

Elder’s Cap:
Only the most outstanding and recognized scholars in Greece can wear it.

Olive:
It is a circlet made of olives. It is said the wearer will be protected by Athena.

Laurel: It is a circlet made of laurels. It is said the wearer will be protected by Apollo.

Corolla:
It is a circlet made of flowers. It is said the wearer will be protected by Aphrodite.

Head Hand:
It is a gift from the Gods; enhancing the character’s balance ability.

Gem Hand:
It is a gem-studded circlet with magical powers and is dreamed of by many people

To see the pictures of these helms and other headwear, please head over to:

http://www.godswaronline.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=749&extra=page%3D1

Major event on DOFUS: the Amakna Odyssey

The MMORPG DOFUS is launching major event: the Amakna Odyssey on the Shika server!

The Town-Crier shouts: “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons of Amakna living under the reign of the Honorable, the Supreme King Allister, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for work has been bestowed upon them!

This event will offer the players the opportunity to have Episode 12 released earlier if they can achieve the task they have been given: The King’s hunters have calculated that 50,000 Cracklers and 90,000 Treechnids must die.

Whenever they manage to reach that goal, the new Episode should be released, with whole new regions for them to discover.

Feel free to email us back with any question you want to ask: we will provide you with any information needed.

Age of Armor Got Its First Big Hit

Tens of thousands of players fighting together in Age of Armor at the same time, as the Age of Armor start its 2nd Close Beta Test on August 31st!
The Age of Armor now comes to its 2nd Close Beta Test, after the Close Beta started; the number of the players soon reached 10,000, and even went higher than that, the 2nd Close Beta Test of Age is welcome by not only the North American player, but also the European players and many Asian players.
The August 31st is the birthday of Age of Armor in North America, and thanks for those Age of Armor fans, give us the biggest birthday present. We promise the Steady server and splendid game.
You could know more details by visiting: www.aoaus.com
Gewben

Tales of Pirates: September Official Activities Prevue

IGG (http://www.igg.com) is pleased to announce a series of new activities have been added to Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com) to meet our Players’ needs below:

Treasure Hunter
GMs will drop some treasure somewhere in the world! Useful hints will be provided, and only the first lucky finder can get the treasure!

Top Top Octopus
Want to challenge GMs? Want to get big money and sweet gifts? Okay! GMs will play Rock, Paper, Scissors (which we call Top Top Octopus) with you, 5 straight victories will get a big prize.

Streaking racing
You think you are tough enough, if you are self-confidence enough, take off your armor…
Let’s do a streaking marathon with the GMs together! Everyone who successfully finishes the marathon will get a big reward!

May Day Card exchange
There will be two more times only to exchange May Day Cards, if you got a lot of May Day Cards, come for nice exchange!! Do not miss it!!

Guild War
Who is the Strongest Guild? Who will build a new empire? Who will conquer the world? Show the strength of your guild! Let the world hear your voice! The top three Guilds will be awarded with a mysterious chest. Remember unity is strength!

Lucky Survivor
GMs have set up an arena in a mysterious place. A PK admin will wait out side the bar of Argent city. Groups of pirates will be sent into the PK site, after a furious battle—the only survivor will get the mysterious award from the GM.

Besides, there will be another surprise for you guys: In September, we will open double EXP every weekend! Do not miss the chance to level up quicker!!

For more about ToP activities, please visit the official site: http://top.igg.com.

NCsoft Releases First Update To Its Free Download and Play Game, Dungeon Runners

Austin, Texas, August 29, 2007 – NCsoft® announced today the release of Dungeon Runners’first feature expansion, Chunk #1, an ambitious content update that includes player-versus-player (PvP) worlds, support for multiple characters, item linking over its chat system, a new high level dungeon, and a variety of new skills and quests. Most of the features in Chunk #1 are available to all active Dungeon Runners players except for a new set of exclusive member-only servers that will come online with the new expansion release.
Dungeon Runners is a free to download and play online multiplayer role playing game in a fast-paced sword-and-shield setting, where defeating monsters and evil enemies results in piles of loot and treasure.
Topping the features of Chunk #1 is PvP action. The Dungeon Runners PvP worlds eliminate all player-versus-environment tasks, focusing solely on player-versus-player combat in a variety of maps and settings. Chunk #1 provides two PvP session types including group practice PvP, which focuses on small PvP free-for-all maps where players can hone their battle skills without a time limit; and group-versus-group death match PvP, which automatically pits similarly powered groups in seven-minute matches.  
“The introduction of PvP combat to Dungeon Runners rounds out the features that MMO players expect to see in their RPG games,” said Stephen Nichols, NCsoft’s producer and lead programmer for Dungeon Runners. “Even though we provide most of our game for free, we are still able to regularly deliver large blocks of feature content and this is just the first of many additions to the game our players will see. Chunk #1, which includes PvP, will add a whole bunch of new content that will give every one of our players new challenges and new opportunities to have fun.”    
            Chunk #1 will also give players up to three characters for each account created so they can play multiple characters in a variety of shapes, sizes and sexes. “It is common in MMOs for boys to be girls and vise-versa,” said Nichols. “With multiple character slots, our players can take on whatever roles they like, depending on their mood.”
Additionally, Chunk #1 includes 70 new quests, several new armor sets and many new skills, including teleport, heal self and a skill that improves a weapon’s slashing ability, called “awesome cleavage.” A new, tough dungeon for level 75-100 players has been added where new quests, monsters and an all-new boss can be found. Chunk #1 will also allow players to trade items over their chat windows, which gives other players the ability to see the name and attributes of the items up for trade.  
This content update also includes improvement to player controls which reduce movement activation delays.
Dungeon Runners can be downloaded for free at http://www.dungeonrunners.com/join.html. Players can play for free or subscribe to the members version at any point for $4.99 a month. Members have access to more benefits including log-in queue priority, members-only servers, and access to the most powerful items, weapons and armor. Membership status also includes bank storage for hundreds of loot items and the ability to stack potions in one inventory slot to save room for even more loot.
To find out more please visit the Dungeon Runners web site at: www.dungeonrunners.com
The game is rated Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

Client is Available Now!

Dear players,
You can download the client by the following link now:
http://www.aoaus.com/downloads/downloads.html

Besides the link above, you can also download it from File Front:
http://files.filefront.com/AOAEngBetaTest2ndexe/;8436461;;/fileinfo.html

Now you still can get an account of AoA by the following link:
http://www.aoaus.com/news/up_news/getcode.html

Thanks for your support.

AoA OP Team