Yearly Archives: 2007

VIVOX® POWERS VOICE CHAT FOR WIZARDS OF THE COASTÂ’S

Framingham, Mass. – August 21, 2007 – Vivox, the leading provider of integrated voice services for online games and virtual worlds, today announced that it will be the voice chat provider for Wizards of the Coast’s new digital Dungeons & Dragons® experience – Dungeons & Dragons Insider™ (D&D Insider™). Vivox will provide Wizards of the Coast with hosted and managed voice communication services that are customized for and integrated into D&D Insider.

With Vivox voice, Dungeon Masters (DMs) and D&D Insider players will be able to speak with each other around the Dungeons & Dragons Gaming Table, create one-to-one channels for private conversations, and start, leave or rejoin voice conversations during game play without impacting game performance. The DM will have full moderator controls to mute, kick and ban players during the game for enhanced security and control. On-screen indicators will show players what voice channels are active and which players within a channel are speaking.

“Voice is an essential component of the D&D Insider player experience,” said Bill Slavicsek, R&D Director of Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. “The roots of classic Dungeons & Dragons lie in the ability to play interactively with your friends, communicating openly around a table, developing characters, building the scene, laying out the adventure and communicating actions and dialog. To recreate this experience online, we needed a voice partner with the ability to deliver a consistently high quality and reliable voice experience for our players. We also needed a company with the resources to support us during and after the integration, with a proven ability to scale to a very large online community. Vivox is well positioned to deliver on these elements and we look forward to a successful relationship.”

“D&D is the original tabletop roleplaying game, and we are thrilled to be a part of bringing it online,” said Vivox CEO, Rob Seaver. “Adding real-time voice to D&D Insider will make for an unprecedented online experience that only Wizards of the Coast can create. High quality voice will grab users and immerse them in game play that is challenging and entertaining, as well as create a sense of community and camaraderie. It’s this kind of technology and game innovation that is going to keep new and old gamers alike heavily-invested and excited about the future of online games and communities.”

Zu Online: New Systems Added

The development of Zu Online is continuing smoothly and merrily. During this period, the developer has been busy enriching the quest system and adding new contents such as novice guides, pet, mansions and Faction System into the game. In order to provide all Alpha testers with a most smooth game environment and better in-game experience, the official decided to push back Alpha Test to late September or early October.

Please head over to the website for more details on Mansion System, Pet System and Faction System:

http://zu.igg.com/news/newscon.php?aid=143

Voyage Century: 50% Off Sale in the Item Mall

With school days approaching, Voyage Century (http://vc.igg.com) is pleased to announce that we will host a 15 day “Back to School Sale” with offers up to 50% off all items in the VCO item mall, except for compound materials.

This sale is for a limited time only from AUG 21st to Sep 5th. Do not miss this chance to grab the items you have been eyeing for a long time but thought you couldn’t afford. Come and take a look at our ridiculously low prices in the Voyage Century item mall, more exciting items are waiting for you.

For more details, please visit official site: http://vc.igg.com

Master the Transformable Armor; Master the Battle!

As in the siege war, thousands of people fighting together, a good-performing armor becomes very important. The normal tactics will cause too many casualties in one time that shall make a war of less fun and less confrontaition, to add more fun and more tactics in the siege war of AoA, We introduced Transform system for the armor, the transform system can enable the armor transform into different kinds of fighting status. From cars to air fighter, even dinosaur or space ship, each transform status provides the armor with different fighting skills.

For the car status, the armor will speed up, and gain special skills to reduce enemy locking rate as well as their weapon’s power, which insure the armor can survive the war. Still the high speed cars are like the knight of the medieval century. With a fast horse and sharp spears, they charge into the enemies’ battlefield, cut through enemy’s armor, and carry off enemy’s life.
For the air fighters, with high speed and precision-guided weapons, and being unlimited by the terrain, they can do the exact strike at enemy’s important commanders. This kind of missions can always turn over the war situation. However, the air fighter status is armorless, so they might be knocked down by the AA guns. For this reason, an Ace is required to execute this decapitation strike.

In the front line of the battlefield, armors can also transform into kinds of robotized animals, for example hound, dinosaurs and some other animals. For those fighting status, the armor is enforced with heavy armor which enables the armor endure more damage and keep alive in the battlefield. Besides the heavy armor, the transformed armor also gains more specified melee skill, which can cause more damage to the enemies, some special skill may destroy the enemy in one round.

There are also some special transform modules which enable the armor transform into some special status, such as stronghold, or a medic center, provide the soldiers with armory and medic care.
Both sides have the same transforming system, however, to win a battle, or win the war, it requires some outstanding commanders and many good drivers of the armors. The one who masters the transform armor, masters the war.

For more news please visit our official website:
www.aoaus.com

Myth War Summer Holiday Carnival & New Payment Method Release

With summer passing along merrily, the official Myth War team has collaborated with the game developer to prepare a wonderful “fun-feast” to serve all players—a series of special contests including a Quiz Contest, Vision Contest, Bitter Choice and PVP which will lead to the completion of an awesome mission handed down from thousands of years ago.
For those who have always dreamed of being a hero, please pluck up your courage and take the challenge. To be the hero, to realize your dreams! We wish you good luck and great fun!
Time: From August 24th to September 15th
Afternoon Event: 3:00 PM—-5:00 PM
Evening Event: 8:00 PM—-10:00 PM
Steps:
Woodlingor: you can accept the quest from the corresponding NPC in Woodlingor and be teleported to the 1st layer of the Eternal Dungeon.
The First Layer(Ruined Gateway): Quiz Contest
The Second Layer(Foggy Jail): Vision Contest
The Third Layer(Sealed Jail): Search for the key
The Fourth Layer(Eternal Well): the Bitter Choice
The Fifth Layer(Decisive Room): PVP
The Sixth Layer(Rotten Pool): Challenge the Elder Dragonkin
For more details about the quest background, contest guidelines, rules and rewards, please head over to the following URL:

http://mw.igg.com/modules/news/displaynews.php?parent_id=2&url=/uploadfile/text/20070820/1187589067.htm

Another piece of good news for all Myth War fans is:

A new payment method is now available, called ClickandBuy, it is now available for you to choose when buying Point Cards. For more details please look here:

http://mw.igg.com/modules/news/displaynews.php?parent_id=1&url=/uploadfile/text/20070817/1187343422.htm

Fiesta Closed Beta 2 Trial Ends & Announcement of Open Beta

Hello players,

The second Fiesta Closed Beta ends today at 11:59 PST (-0700 GMT).

As previously mentioned, this means all game data will be reset. All character information including quest progression, inventories, skills, etc. will be deleted. Members who participated in the name preservation event throughout Closed Beta (1 & 2) will have the names of qualified characters automatically assigned to new ones of the same gender and class.

The database will not be reset again. Fiesta will enter open beta this Friday, August 24 at 3pm Pacific Standard Time.

– The Outspark Team
Thanks for participating in the Fiesta Closed Beta and helping us make the game even better!

Transformers Need a Leader Now

The war between transformable armors is coming in Age of Armor; many brand new armors will appear in the near future. Do you dream of being a transformer? Do you want to be Optimus Prime or Megatron? Now you can join us and make your dream come true.

Which side would you like to take, Earth United Government or Republic of Aesir? Be friendly or just smash everything. All depend on you! The parallel world in Age of Armor can be destroyed, that is to say, the in-game world can be smashed by legion war between players but not in charge of game company. After the world is destroyed, all the game data of players will be saved, and players will go to another new server to start their new life. Winners will get Medal of Honor while losers can revenge in the new world. AoA successfully quotes the theory of Parallel World to create specific shuttle between each server and provides an in-game legion system to supply an efficient command place.
Obviously, members of guilds can enjoy a lot of fun in the game!

Why are you still waiting there? Come and join us. Start your engine, be ready for transforming, and become a good soldier or a supreme leader in Age of Armor!

Cosmos, Earth, Iceberg and Transformable Armors!
More news at:
www.aoaus.com

Official Site of Zu Online Released

With the Zu Online alpha test right around the corner, we are pleased to announce that the official site of Zu Online has been released. This site will be a resource for the testers and all players in the future, as well as serve the community as a place to follow what’s happening in the game.

Detailed game information and forums are currently available for viewing. We encourage you all to stop by often to learn more about Zu Online. Pay close attention to the website: http://zu.igg.com

Tales of Pirates: Fun PK Weekend

IGG (http://www.igg.com) has announced that a PK weekend has been added to the weekly activity schedule for Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com). Guild War and Lucky Survivor will be involved in the PK activities.
Click here (http://top.igg.com/weekly4/index.html) to check the weekly activity schedule.

Details for PK Weekend:
 Guild War
The honor of the guild stimulates you; faith in the supreme power supports you. Want to be the best in the guild? Want your guild to be the Triton of the minnows? Then draw your cutlass, fight for your guild, and devote yourself to this heroic war.

Rule: Before EST 12:00AM each Friday, each guild can go to Guildmaster-Forlan(831,3249) in Shaitan City to bid for their right to fight against the Defending champion. Guilds with the winning bid will be allowed to challenge the Defending champion at EST 12:00AM each Saturday. The winning side will be given the title Champion Guild and will be rewarded generously. Click here for details about the guild war.

Lucky Survivor
It’s the warrior’s destiny to be tested. You have no choice, all you can do is to become stronger and stronger, push on and defeat whatever lies ahead.

Rule:
Est 22:00~23:00PM every Sunday, GMs will make an arena in which Players are free to PK without any restriction. To apply to join, Players can go to find our GM near the PUB in Argent City (To apply, Players have to be included in the friends list of our GMs). There will be 40 Players in a group. When the battle begins, the GM will ask 20 Players to go into the arena first. Once a character has died, our GM will ask the next Player to go into the arena to join the fight. The last man standing will be the champion. There are no restrictions in the arena, you can use any item and even team up with other Players to form temporary alliances. However, there will be only one survivor and only the last Player standing can get the reward.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

The Endless Forest Phase Three open beta

Join us in the open beta testing of Phase Three of The Endless Forest!


http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/download.html

The Endless Forest is a continuously evolving peaceful multiplayer game in which everybody plays a deer. There’s no missions or chat. It’s all about playing with other people in a perfectly harmonious and beautiful world.

Phase Three doubles the size of the game world with the addition of a completely new type of forest, adds more things to play with and, best of all, allows you to play as a Fawn!

Join us in the game, as well as on the lively forums where the authors of the game discuss ideas and suggestions on the further evolution of the project.