Yearly Archives: 2008

Free Realms: trading card game announced

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) and The Topps Company announced an exclusive long-term licensing agreement allowing Topps to create a physical trading card game based on SOE’s upcoming and highly-anticipated online game Free Realms(tm).

The physical trading card game complements the digital trading card game playable within Free Realms, allowing players to enjoy the game in front of their computer and around the world.
“Our online trading card games have been hugely successful, and the chance to take our digital trading cards into the physical world with an industry leader like Topps is a fantastic opportunity for us as a company,” said John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment.

In October 2007, Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company and Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC. acquired The Topps Company, Inc, a leading creator and marketer of distinctive confectionery items and sports and entertainment cards for well over 50 years.

“As Topps continues to evolve into an entertainment media company, building bridges between offline and online experiences, we are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with Sony Online Entertainment on Free Realms, a company that understands the relevance of cross-platform entertainment and is always on the cutting edge of online and digital media development,” said Michael Eisner.

The digital version of the Free Realms Trading Card Game launches simultaneously with the launch of the Free Realms online game, while the Topps products will be available in Spring 2009. Topps will offer an exclusive Passport to Free Realms Starter Pack jam-packed with Free Realms physical and digital loot (price TBD), as well as 11-card booster packs ($3.99 SRP each), featuring a loot card in every pack, wherever Topps entertainment products are sold.

Developed at Sony Online Entertainment’s Denver studio, the Free Realms Trading Card Game integrates the trading card game format with the exciting world of the Free Realms online game. Players can buy cards, build decks, collect, trade and battle with friends and even quest through Free Realms virtual matches in the online game or by purchasing physical packs of game cards!

The Free Realms Trading Card Game features:

Exciting Gameplay: The Free Realms Trading Card Game brings the rich and exciting world of Free Realms to the familiar trading card game format.

Physical and Digital Cards: Explore the world of Free Realms with beautifully-illustrated cards that add a whole new level of wonder! Over 200 cards are expected to be available by the time the physical game launches in the spring, with more planned in successive releases.

Online or Offline Gameplay: With both a digital and physical version of the Free Realms Trading Card Game, players may participate in whatever way suits them, making it possible to adventure and enjoy Free Realms anywhere, anytime!

Loot In Every Pack: Every Free Realms Trading Card Game pack features a loot card that is redeemable for fantastic Free Realms virtual items like exclusive pets, clothing, race car enhancements, wands, house items, special character effects, and more!

Tales of Pirates: CrusaderÂ’s Skills

Tales of Pirates attaches a lot of importance to group cooperation and grants high EXP for killing monsters when different classes coordinate well in a team. Crusader is an excellent class featuring quick movement, strong damage dealing, and magic spells to aid in assassin-like kills. They play a very important role in group cooperation especially in group PVP, target detection and BOSS quests because they have gorgeous skills and satisfactory damage-dealing.

Crusader’s Skill Description:

Concentration?Increase hit rate of character.
Sword Mastery?Increase attack when using sword.
Illusion Slash?Use energy of sword to damage enemy at a distance.
Berserk?Increase hit rate and attack speed for short duration
Deftness?Increase dodge rate of character.
Shadow Slash?Continuous melee attack and knock out a single target.
Poison Dart: Shoot a dart and put enemy in poison status.
Blood Frenzy: Reduce attack time cooldown using dual weapon.
Dual Sword Mastery: Increase attack when using two weapons.
Stealth: Make character invisible to other unit.

From among all skills the Illusion Slash is a distance skill which grants Crusader’s their highest killing power. Its damage will be maxed when Attack speed goes up to 210.

Swordsmen planning on advancing to Crusaders better improve their Concentration to Rank 2, Swordsmanship to Rank 3, Berserk to Rank 5 and max out Illusion Slash before Level 40. Also, reserve about 10 skill points for future use.

After finishing the advancement quest, Swordsman will move up to Crusader when they use the remaining skill points to pump up their Dual Sword Mastery. This will increase their attack power greatly. Then, as they progress in level, all additional skill points should be distributed to their senior spells and abilities, like immediately pumping Blood Frenzy to Rank 5, and Shadow Slash to Rank 1, then gradually filling Blood Frenzy and learning Level 1 Stealth.

Crusaders should know their stats well and better distribute the skill points, so they will reap the benefits in the PVP. They not only know themselves, but also know about other classes, including their attacks, defenses, skills and cooldown times. They can choose different strategies for different challengers, thus they deserve the honor as “The King of PVP”.

Angels Online: Lost Atlantis Scene Overview- Coral Reefs

Today, the Angels Online team is giving a brief introduction to the amazing Colorful Coral Reefs.

There is a mysterious sea area called the Colorful Coral Reefs at the headstream of the Atlantic Ocean. It is located to the southeast of Puqi Island. Players will arrive at the Colorful Coral Reefs first after they learn the diving skill from the NPC “Surfer Veifu” at Puqi Island.

Because of its favorable geographical position, a warm ocean current passes through here each summer bringing a sense of vitality everywhere. Underwater materials are in abundance here. Locals from Puqi Island always fish here because the best fish gather here each year. That is one of the most important sources of income for them.

Due to the natural form of the land, coral stretches far out under the water. The water here is not very deep because the Colorful Coral Reefs are the entry to the sea and keep the sandy bottom from eroding. Under the sunshine at noon, the coral shimmers with a beauty that’s breath-taking. Players who are skilled at diving can feast their eyes on the beautiful shifting coral.
Apart from the abundant fish, there are affluent plants as well. Players can collect Spot Alas, Lycosa Den, Primrose and others. Players who like digging mines should come here.

Explore the coral and players can find a lonely girl called “Mermaid Alice” to the southwest. It is said that she is good at manufacturing Music Boxes. If players can help her collect enough materials, they may obtain a beautiful Music Box from her.

“Cupid” always waits for players near Mermaid Alice. Players can set a place for the revival here.
The four factions’ totems are on the way to the Blue Sea. Players can have a rest here if they are tired of killing monsters.

Lords of Evil New Server Goes Live

Rey Flame Entertainment Inc. announced that their Browser based Strategy Game Lords of Evil secured 120,000 registered users in the first month since open beta test. Meanwhile, the second server of the game – Najja, goes live today. Amazing promotions is ongoing now!

About Lords of Evil
Lords of Evil is a free to play browser based flash web game published by Ray Flame Entertainment.

The game does not require high end or expensive hardware, better yet it does not even require tedious download which occupies your hard drive spaces. All you need are just a fair computer and Internet access. You are invited to take this astounding journey to strategically build your own territory. Within this game, you could be whoever you want to be and pass on the legend of your own.

The game has the following features.

Guild: Lords of Evil has a very strong guild system that allow players to team up and battle with players from other guild. You better make sure that the person you are going to attack does not belong to a strong guild, otherwise his/her friends are very likely to hunt you down.

Stronghold Battle: Guild members are entitled to certain resource bonuses when their guilds occupied a stronghold. That is why guilds are often battle against each other to gain control over strongholds. This is another unique way that provides gamers with great social interactions within Lords of Evil.

Sophisticated Development Trees: The game has buildings, skills, units, and defense developments that you can master. Depending on your play style, you will have to mater different development over time.

Events & Competitions: Ray Flame Entertainment continuously hosts events and competition for players to participate and interact with each other. This is something that not many web game developers or publishers are currently doing. Within Lords of Evil, you will always be able to see events and competitions that you would love to participate.

Atlantica Online: post launch review

By Rick Charbs, Onrpg writer

Updates and events!
Atlantica Online has sure been through a lot since their first beta announcement! First, their closed beta was a huge success on the 18th of July, and it was then followed by round 2 of the closed beta on the 7th of August as well as the final round (round 3) later that month. Then, the open beta phase was announced on the 24th of September, and afterwards, the official launch was held the 30th of October, which came with a new array of updates. This beta has provided us with five servers to choose from, and it’s still growing, and the cash shop is now functioning as planned. So far, they have come up with quite a few major updates, and many small adjustments and add-ons. This review should purpose your intrigue in all of these updates, hopefully offering some tidbits of info here and there! That is… if you aren’t already into the game!

Onrpg has gladly posted a review, and even a pretty interesting Atlantica Online interview prior to this publishing, but this one will be a little different, posted for the newcomers of the game. I will also cover the end-game content for the curious loyal gamers of Atlantica Online.

Firstly, the updates! The Item Mall is one of the newest additions to the game. The items offered for sale do make the game much easier to play for one; however they do not necessarily overpower the user. They just allow for faster levelling? as if that was an issue? and allow their characters to have a change at a more distinctive growth by chance. Items such as resurrection scrolls, freezing scrolls, mounts, blessings, and many others are sold in the mall as well. There are also many licences for sale. They are very popular add-ons to the game, for example an auto battle licence (which basically speaks for itself). Licences lasts up to 90 days, with a minimal purchase of a 30 day licence. I wouldn’t be too discouraged though, as these purchases only ease gameplay as I’ve already stated, they do not affect the turnout of PVP or of events. However, these items can be at times quite expensive. Some items are valued at around 3 dollars while others are over 20 dollars. Other updates include bug fixes and system changes. Planned updates in the near future will include higher class mercenaries and high level content, as well as new areas to explore!

Next, the events of Atlantica Online are now loaded with participants, growing in popularity day by day. I won’t go into detail, but they currently have many ongoing events. The newest one available is the “Get Fat this Thanksgiving” event, in which players will receive free items! Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. The only catch is that you have to play for an hour during the day to get the prize that is listed for that given day. This special event runs from the 24th to the 30th of November. For more info, just visit their website! Another ongoing event is the “Weekend Warrior” event. Just as the name implies, this one is only available on the weekend. During the weekend, players earn 150% exp, and also earn special items if they are on at a given hour. There will also be random monster invasion events and other interesting happenings.

High-End Content
This is the section of the review that should cater to the already existing audience of Atlantica online! The endgame content may not seem like much right now (and if it does, you must love PVP), but there are many updates to come. Ndoors Games plans on releasing these updates periodically but often to incite a longer lasting player base. So far, it is working quite nicely. I find the already-released content fun to explore, myself, as I can run to Egypt, Korea, and other places, to sight-see! There are also loads of quests for players to enjoy, whether you are a casual or hardcore gamer. If you plan to play this game on a regular basis though, you’ll probably enjoy immersing yourself into the PVP aspect of the game, as it is very popular and highly elaborate.

The Free Leagues is a popular arena event that runs every three hours, daily, in the game. Players sign up and then join in at their scheduled times and fight other players for an hour. There is also a challenge system, in which players can issue challenges for anyone in the game to accept. The player who issues the challenge must also offer a wager to the challenger, to make things more interesting!

As for PVE, there are still many end-game, consistent quests and mission for strong players. For the ones who pursue the storyline, and wish to find Atlantis, they must fight in every dungeon in order to piece together the mystery. One of the dungeons even holds the Minotaur, a very large mythological boss, in the Cretan Labyrinth of Greece. The storyline should keep one going for quite some time, as the game updates with new additions to it once in a while.

Final Note
Atlantica was given such high expectations ever since it was first in closed beta. I believe it has lived up to them, seeing as the game keeps growing and growing, with five playable servers so far. The MMO market needed a consistent tactical MMORPG, and this game fulfilled that need and even much more. Personally, the game still has that one major issue that it is hardly playable on low-end computers, regardless of the settings. If your computer can run the game smoothly though, I’m sure you’ll be able to enjoy the game to its fullest. As you can see, there are tons of ongoing events, giving out free items to players, there is a new and developing Item Mall for players who wish to contribute to the game, and there are many updates to come! Enjoy!

Voyage Century: Thanksgiving Events Preview

With Thanksgiving almost here, Voyage Century will be holding some captivating events with big rewards!

Event 1: Turkey Mobilization
During the event, Players can buy pet food to tame a pheasant, improve it to Level 5, and then exchange it for a pumpkin and turkey from the other Thanksgiving envoy. By clicking on them, players will be pleasantly surprised by what they get.
In addition, the GM will ask for some pheasants. Every level 5 pheasant whistle can be exchanged for 1 candy. There are 30 pieces of candy in total. If all the 30 pieces of candy in a server are exchanged for, then all of the players on that sever will enjoy double Exp and triple drop rates for 1 day.

Event 2: Treasures of the Lost Crusaders
During the event, there will be a large group of Lost Crusaders at the suburbs of Alexandria. Players can obtain a “Treasures from the Heaven” box from them. This box contains many precious items. To open the box, players need a key which can be bought from a GM at the Alexandria dock. Players will have a chance to obtain Thalassocrat, Oceanic Fairy, Certificate of overlord, Commander-in-Chief Certificate, Flawless Black Diamond, Special Refining Items and so on. Every single item is precious!

Last Chaos Introduces New Killer Pets

The land of Iris has been introduced to its newest generation of pets. The pets, a cat and mouse-like creature dubbed Scra-Chi and Ichi respectively, have been long in development, and long awaited by the Last Chaos community.

These exciting pets will add a brand new dimension to character customization, and of course combat. Making Last Chaos U.S.A an even more deep and enjoyable play experience.

About the new pets:

  • Use their own set of unique items to manage their health, hunger, loyalty and mana.
  • Are completely customizable, boasting their own character screen, and statistics, allowing players to fully customize their creatures to whatever ends they wish.
  • Come complete with their own sets of armors and weapons. Each armor set and weapon has a unique set of special statistics, adding to your pets hit points, critical rate, damage and magic power.
  • Have their own set of unique skills that help bolster the player character or the pets themselves. As the pets level new battle skills can be learned. Skills can also be reset, and skill points re-slotted, giving the new pets a wide range of potential abilities.
  • Can participate in PvP Combat, fully armed and armored wreaking havoc on your enemies.
  • A new level cap of 100 for the pets ensures hours of fun helping them grow more powerful.