Yearly Archives: 2007

Guild Wars: Eye of the North Manual and Map Now Available

In celebration of the upcoming Sneak Peek Weekend for Guild Wars: Eye of the North, ArenaNet has made a beautifully illustrated game manual and a detailed map of the new regions available early for fans of the game. These items are now available at www.guildwars.com.

Gamers who pre-order the expansion and receive the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Prerelease Bonus Pack will be able to immerse themselves in exclusive, action-packed content for three whole days — an entire week before the game is released. From August 24 to August 26, 2007, players will have access to the Far Shiverpeaks region, home of the fiercely independent Norn as well as the legendary landmark known as the Eye of the North.

Everything players acquire during the Sneak Peek Weekend, including items, experience points, Heroes, and loot will be available to them when the game is released on August 31, 2007. For more information on the Sneak Peek Weekend, visit http://www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/gwen-sneakpeek/.

The Guild Wars: Eye of the North Prerelease Bonus Pack is available for pre-order at the Guild Wars In-Game Store, the PlayNC store (https://store.plaync.com), and at many retail locations. For more information, please visit www.guildwars.com.

Imagination Unchained

Great news for the transformers fans, Age of Armor is ready for its 2nd Close Beta Test, as to make the wait less boring; we organize the activity “Imagination Unchained”. Show off your imagination now! We have prepared special prizes for the winners.

Instructions:
Waste material recycling: If you are a DIYer, why not making transformable armor with some waste material, such as beer cans or paper wrappings. Look at this paper made Bumblebee. Challenge it now!

Are you good at PhotoShop? Are you good at Firework? How about your drawing technique? Come to design your own transformable armors, and show them to every transformer fans. Perhaps, some day you will drive the armor designed by yourself in Age of Armor. Hey buddies, are you ready for your own armors?

I am the master of imagination; I am the master of Armors!
Imagination Unchained; Originality Infinity!

How to take part in our activities:
1. You can visit our official forum, register and upload your works there. http://bbs.aoaus.com/thread.php?fid=49.
Please make the title of the thread start with [IU]

2. You can send Email to dongcy@snailgame.net with attachments.

Cautions:
Don’t post your accounts or passwords on the forum. However, one needs to register for the forum.

If your works obtains others’ favor, we will provide you with special rewards in the Age of Armor.

Activity Time:
From August 27 to the End of the 2nd Closed Beta.

Every week we will elect some excellent works to post on the official website. And the Author will get a gift in our Game.

RAN Online: RAN Battle Royale Malaysia 2007 Coming SOON!

Greetings RAN Players!

myRosso is bringing you the cool and exciting RAN Battle Royale Malaysia 2007 Tournament soon!
This is open to all RAN gamers and 2 nationwide tournaments will be running in this coming September. Get ready to show your PK skill and stayed tune for more information!

Who could be the RAN Online Malaysia Ultimate Gamer? Could you be the one?

For more details, please visit to : http://ran.myrosso.com/br/index.asp or http://ran.myrosso.com/.

Ultra Transforming armor – T.Rex Is Coming

Age of Armor is a robot-themed MMO RPG, based on the wars between Earth Union and the Republic of Aesir. The game is designed for thousands of players, from decisive war to player VS player, from corps war to bloc war.

As we have already set some transformable armor in the Alpha test, and we find that it indeed makes the battle of more confrontainment, and bring more tactics into the competing, and we find that we need a heroic armor to be the leader of the battle. So we design the T-Rex transformable armor system. As the T-Rex is the most powerful animal of the dinosaurs, so we make the T-Rex armor the most powerful armor in the Age of Armor, as for the ultra armor, the T-Rex has a very heavy armor and a powerful energy shield. These protections can make the T-Rex armor endure much more damage than any other armor does. The T-Rex is also good at both melee and ranged combat. It can easily tear up an armor of medium rank of reconfiguration with its sharp crawls, it can also sniping the enemies from a very far distance, one shoot, one kill. Besides those terrible heavy weapons, the T-Rex also has some special skills which can decrease enemies’ attacking power and firing range. With these advantages, the T-Rex is nearly invincible in the battlefield. If a T-rex appears in the battlefield, the scale of victory is leaning to its side.

For the T-Rex transformable armor is so strong; we make it for those high level players, anyone who wants to get a T-Rex transform module will surely endure many hard tests. The T-Rex belongs to those true heroes. There is no time to waste, come and choose your transformable armor, join the transformers war.

For more news please visit the official site:

www.aoaus.com

To get an account for the 2nd Close Beta Test, please follow this link:

http://www.aoaus.com/news/up_news/getcode.html

GodsWar Soundtrack Samples #2

There is a variety of background music in Gods War online (http://gw.igg.com). Soft, classical, romantic and passionate…… Each melody features its own unique charms, with the background music changing automatically to match the gameplay in the scenes.

You may still remember the Soundtrack Samples #1 which were released one month ago. Here you have the second release of soundtrack samples, which contains another four music tracks for you to savor:

The_Commercial_City.mp3

The_Goddess_Artemis.mp3

The_Snow-covered_Mountain.mp3

To_Give_Praise_To_Forest.mp3

Release of DOFUS Episode 11: Moon Watch

The MMORPG DOFUS is releasing today Episode 11 on server Shika: MoonWatch

Our story starts at sea… a perilous voyage to an unknown land… a shipwreck. The vessel is dashed to pieces and all the helpless souls within her drowned. All saved one… Not for you a watery end… but a new life beginning on stranger shores.

This new episode will contain:
– A new area: the Moon Island
– A new dungeon: the Moon Dungeon
– New monsters including Canon Dorf, Kanniboul Sarbak and Tikokoko.
– New weapons, armors and sets including the Turtle set
– A new spell: the Moon Hammer Spell
– A new pet: the Nomoon

In order to celebrate the release of Episode 11: MoonWatch, a prerelease event – The four fantastic swords– was organized on Wednesday in the afternoon.

Nostale goes live in Europe

As of August 21, 2007, Nostale was released in Europe under a company called GameForge who will host Nostale for not only Europe, but outside countries as well. They began their client under Closed Beta and will go Open Beta in about 1 week. During the time they go Open Beta all accounts made will have a character wipe so that all players will start out together with the new features they plan to add later.

All existing accounts registered as of August 21 or later will be locked in their systems forever, so no player will have to worry about ever losing their account.

On another note, GameForge is planning to release their Nosmall system sometime in the near future. For those who dont know what a Nosmall is, it is a system that allows you to buy Nosmall cash using real money to buy special items for your Nostale characters and even Nostale Partners.

For those waiting to play, you can go to the Europe Nostale site and regisiter as well as download the client. The site link is alredy listed above under Game site. Once done you may log into the game and start your Nostale Adventure.

Mix Master News

Following the success of the Siege Affair, SeedC Pacific will further evolve MixMaster with several new features set to release by 11th September. The features will not only expand the game but will also make it convenient for the users to play the game.

Update 1: New Log In-System
MixMaster has implemented a stylish log in system interface, which also will have the convenience of added news and events section. User will be informed of new updates while they log into the game.
Update 2: New items
There will be in total, 31 new items implemented in the game, some paid items but mainly in game items. The most anticipated of all are the elegant avatar suits and dresses. By user request, they are set to last forever, opposed to other avatar items which all expire after sometime.
SeedC will also organise a Dance Party event with the release of this suit. Users are to form couples (strictly with opposite gender) and enter a dance party. With many rewards to be won, this is promised to be a great unique experience for users.
Update 3: GM (Game Master) Blog
SeedC Pacific GMs will create their own blogs to get closer to the users. The blogs will be focused to talk about everything BUT MixMaster. User can talk to GMs regarding the game in the website forums, and get to know them more by reading the blogs. This was also organised because of requests from users who wish to get to know the GMs. SeedC hope users will get to know the GMs better, as well as each other.
Update 4: Bpay Payment System
MixMall has become even more convenient by the addition of Bpay as a payment gateway. Bpay being the most reliable payment system in Australia, users’ safety is guaranteed by using Bpay.

With constant updates, MixMaster already looks like a different game to the one released 3months ago. SeedC Pacific is looking to have more major updates to the game on a frequent basis until the end of 2007.

NCsoftÂ’s Guild Wars Breaks Four Million

Bellevue, WA. Aug. 21, 2007—The Guild Wars® franchise of online roleplaying games has broken the four million units sold mark in just over two years. Published by NCsoft® and developed by ArenaNet®, the Guild Wars series (consisting of Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions™, and Guild Wars Nightfall™) has set the standard for online co-operative and competitive play with award-winning content and a subscription-free business model. Since the first campaign launched in 2005, Guild Wars has developed legions of loyal fans who are hotly anticipating the August 31 release of the game’s first true expansion, Guild Wars: Eye of the North™.

“ArenaNet’s fantastic work on Guild Wars has helped make NCsoft the leading online gaming publisher in the world,” said Robert Garriott, CEO of NCsoft North America. “Guild Wars players continue to join in droves and stay loyal to the franchise thanks to a business model that makes for a very accessible product. We are all excited about the future of Guild Wars with the expansion ready to be released and Guild Wars 2™ on the horizon.”

“Four million units sold is an impressive number and demonstrates that Guild Wars is a proven franchise,” said Bob McKenzie, Senior Vice President of Merchandising, GameStop Corporation. “The Guild Wars franchise delivers an outstanding gaming experience and is clearly an important part of our PC games offerings.”

In advance of the release of Guild Wars: Eye of the North, ArenaNet is hosting the Sneak Peek Weekend from August 24 to August 26, during which players can explore the frigid climes and encounter the wild beasts of the Far Shiverpeaks region. To participate in the preview weekend, players must purchase the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Prerelease Bonus Pack, on sale at retailers in North America and Europe, in the Guild Wars in-game store, and at PlayNC.com.

Any loot, items, XP, and Heroes earned by players during the Sneak Peek Weekend will be available when Guild Wars: Eye of the North goes live on August 31. Additional information about the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Sneak Peek Weekend can be found at www.guildwars.com/events/ingame/gwen-sneakpeek.

Guild Wars: Eye of the North is the first expansion to the subscription-free Guild Wars franchise of fantasy online roleplaying games. It features new characters, Heroes, items, and story content accessible to players who own any existing Guild Wars campaign.

For more information on the Guild Wars franchise, visit the Guild Wars website at www.guildwars.com. The award-winning Guild Wars series of games, as well as the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Prerelease Bonus Pack, can be purchased from retailers or downloaded from the PlayNC store at secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl.