Yearly Archives: 2008

Shadow of Legend 2.5D Version Announced

Irvine, CA – August 10, 2008- SmartCell is pleased to announce Shadow of Legend 2.5D version. Shadow of Legend(SOL) is a 2D free to play fantasy MMORPG that brings out most the best aspects of games of this style while adding to it exciting twists of its own. The 2.5D version scheduled to release around end of September this year is expected to bring the ultimate SOL experience with a quantum leap.

As a 2D MMORPG, Shadow of Legend stands out based on its high quality graphics and a very rich user experience with a wide array of features. In creating Shadow of Legend, the developers leveraged features similar to those from hit games in the past and recent years, with an innovative approach. Many important emerging trends are present in the game’s design. Character advance is one example, for the game provides a high degree of flexibility for the absence of pointless grinding, plentiful job choices, and the ability to change career path without starting from scratch. While the casual players can have plenty of fun, the game encourages cooperative and competitive playing through various facets including dungeons, instances, in-game events and a multitude of PVP options.

The upcoming 2.5D SOL is expected to enhance the SOL experience by an order of magnitude.
The difference lies in drastically reduced client size, much detailed graphics and better animation, and new gameplay focused on endgame content. The latter includes guild siege, team based arena PVP, set based crafting, skill combo, and many more. More details will be announced as the development progresses.

About SmartCell
SmartCell Technology, LLC, is a leading developer of mobile platform technology, mobile applications, and mobile online gaming solutions. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, with a research and development center in Shanghai, China; SmartCell Technology is currently working on Shadow of Legend, the world’s first 2.5D MMORPG that can realize game play on both PC and mobile devices. More information about SmartCell Technology, LLC and its products can be found at http://www.smartcell.com/. More information about Shadow of Legend can be found at http://www.shadowoflegend.com/.

Voyage Century Online: New Treasure Hunt System Feeds Your Anticipation of Expedition

The Voyage Century Online team from IGG wants to teach you a little about the newly-developed sea treasure hunting system in the game. So, what is the difference between the sea treasure hunt system and the land treasure hunt system? Let’s take a look.

Since the sea treasure hunt system was added to the game to assist players’ in hunting treasure, and it has won praise from among players. Let’s take a close look at the difference between the sea treasure hunt system and land treasure hunt system below.

Treasure hunting?
The sea treasure hunting system was developed in the style of land treasure hunt system. The land treasure hunt system is much more fully developed and widely used in game than the sea treasure hunt system.
To be more specific, the land treasure hunt system is related to a character’s reputation, high level materials and special items. Players need this system to speed their characters’ progression. The sea treasure hunt system gets a jump on the convenience provided to players to make them discover and obtain high level gear without taking their time to collect materials. It can be said that the sea treasure hunt system is developed based on and used to complement the land treasure hunt system to facilitate players’ exploring and discovering.

How to open the Treasure Chest
The treasure chest in the land treasure hunt system can be directly opened without a key. While the treasure chest from the sea treasure hunt system must be opened with a key which can be got with score cards.

Items in the Treasure Chest
Treasure in the sea treasure hunt system falls into 8 different levels and are named after pirates, like Babarosa II’s Precious Deposits or William Kidd’s Precious Deposits. Players can get useful items that are sold in the mall and high level gear from treasure at each level.
According to the survey IGG conducted, the top 5 items players dream to get from the treasure buried under the sea are as follows: Black Skeleton Jewelry, Sea Wolf Jewelry, Instant Jewelry, Future Fighter Charm and Black Dragon Equipment . These items are in large quantity and will be accordingly easy to get.
It takes players no effort to get Treasure Map Pieces in the Open Sea. Besides it is sold at a low price in the Mall. Therefore, both starters and veteran players can have a go seeking their luck and treasure with the sea treasure hunt system.
Now it is the time to set sail for adventure and buried treasure,

For more details visit the official site http://vc.igg.com
Voyage Century (http://vc.igg.com/), a 3D MMORPG from IGG (www.igg.com), prides itself on its real world geography, historical design, and eye-catching graphics, and continues to impress its extraordinarily loyal players and fans.

Press Release: Rappelz Epic V

Rappelz Epic V:  Dragonic Age live August 12th, 2008

Sunnyvale, CA- August 6, 2008- “Rappelz Epic V: The Dragonic Age”, is a free-to-play MMORPG published through the gPotato portal.  The upcoming expansion of Rappelz will be available on the US servers on August 12th, 2008 – (www.gpotato.com). Epic V will not only introduce users to new territories to explore, but also many other updates that Rappelz users have been awaiting for. 

Rappelz is a fantasy MMORPG with an exclusive feature: the pet system.  In this medieval world, the pets adventure alongside the players to help aid players in battle. Pets even have many of the properties of the player’s characteristics, such as learning different skills and gaining levels alongside its owner.  Epic V, Part I emphasizes the Renewal of the Pet Skills, in which Salamanders, Angels, Centaurs and Hawkmen all get their own skills, and pets will gain extra stats each level.  The expansion also focuses on the demands of the Rappelz community, while adding new content for the low-level and high-level characters.  Apart from the new creatures and dungeon, another territory has been refurbished and changed to challenge players with new quests.  New monsters such as the Twisted Succubus, the Blood Fairies, the White Wolf, and Betrayal, the last monster in the new dungeon, will join in this epic.

The expansion of Epic V also strives to ensure the best gaming experience for all Rappelz players.  “We have been working hard behind the scenes to bring Epic V to our users.  We are especially ecstatic to present The Dragonic Age, Part I featuring a vast selection of rich new content,” says Senior Producer Michael Powers.   “Users will have a great time exploring new pets, weapons, features and dungeons!  And that’s not all!  Later this year, look for Part II of The Dragonic Age for much more features and additions to this grand epic.”

Olympic Athlete Pose Competition Site

OAPC Event Webpage Coming Online  
 
Finally, the Event webpage for the Olympic Athlete Pose Competition has been released online today. We apologize for the long wait. Let’s look at some of the pages’ features:

Click here to enter OAPC page

 

1. Uploading area:

Please click here here to access the picture uploading requirement page.

 

2. Cheer on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

You can place your comments for the Olympic Games or Conquer Online. Please click here to enter the wish page, then click “I want to make a wish”, leave your server name, character name and your wishes and submit. Your wishes for the Olympic Games will appear on the screen. You can also move the small wish note to wherever you would like it to be.

 

3. Live Support:
Click on it and talk to a customer service representative if you have any questions about the event or our game.

 

4. OAPC Q&A

This function will include all the issues you may ask. We provide frequently asked questions and answers for you to choose from. Try out this Q&A, it will clear up anything you may be wondering about this competition.

 

5. Flash Game:

Feel bored sometimes after school/work? Come try out this Flash game and enjoy yourselves.

 

6. CO Event in August

All of our events in August will be listed in this calendar for you to keep up to date. Click on the date and see the relative event information.

 

We hope you will enjoy this up and coming Olympic Athlete Pose Competition Event page and please also contact nd.tqgames@gmail.com if you have any questions about the event.

Celebrate the Olympics in DOMO

Celebrate the Olympics in DOMO

Dream of Mirror Online (DOMO), the Free-to-Play social MMORPG has today announced the details for its first August update which includes The Quest for the 5 Rings, in celebration of this month’s Olympic Games.


The Quest for the 5 Rings is a huge new quest chain involving Olympia and 3 of the ancient Greek gods, Apollo, Athena and Artemis where players can earn special rewards and items.


Also in this update comes 3 new items for the Item Mall including a new Bullfighters costume and a Double XP Booster Badge. 


The new update will be available to players after the weekly Wednesday maintenance window.


DOMO is a Free-to-Play social MMORPG based on ancient Chinese mythology.   Join with thousands of other gamers in an amazing anime-inspired world where you can socialize, form friendships, craft and master a variety of jobs, all within the underlying quest of trying to solve the riddles of the ancient myth of the Kunlun Mirror.


DOMO is operated in Europe by Gametribe.com, the premier destination for Free-to-Play games.


To download and play DOMO visit the game’s official website through www.gametribe.com.

Magic World Online

With several months of adventures in Magic World Online, players have been able to understand, and master the game’s innovative systems (the cozy video chat, the convenient botting system, and the vigorous growing weapon, etc.). Once again on August 15, a unique function so named as the Trivial System will open for Magic World adventurers!


I just won 1 Million in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire last week; could that help me in “Magic World Online”? I am an educated Yale graduated with a PHD, and a master’s degree from Cambridge, but how is that going to help me? No need to worry or fret, because the magic power of knowledge is also MWO’s values!


In a couple of days, the Magic World Online Boy Genius will appear in Uptown to challenge you to his Trivia Test. If you can manage to burst his bubble by answering his questions in the shortest possible time, you will gain a considerable amount of experience points. It’s a prize for leveling up. (Prize size will be tailored to character level.)


The road to level 60 was fraught with bloody battles and grind! Now the road to level 60 can be made in a non-bloody way! Knowledge comes from experience and will finally serves for experience! Wefll see if you can own or even pone the Boy Genius?!


Additionally, high level players will see the opening of their long-anticipated new maps!
a) Dark Fortress: Deep in the remote untouched Magocean, there lies a lost fortress, where the howls and moans of unknown monsters conquer. Since the day it fell into the control of the dark power, the fortress land had been completely isolated and untouched. The only way to check out what’s behind the horrible howling is to make an unprecedented daring expedition into this devastating area!


b) Benthal Vestige: In the innermost of the sleepy Magocean abyss, there lies a beautiful Benthal Vestige, a happiness club for the noble Devils. But good heavens such a holy wonderland will finally get ruined by those sin makers some day! And we Magic World heroes shall never allow this!

Video Gamers Immortalized in Space by NCsoft

Sending digital time capsule with human DNA on Richard Garriott’s journey to International Space Station


AUSTIN, Texas, July 30, 2008—Could you be the savior of humankind?  NCsoft®, the world’s leading publisher and developer of online computer games, has announced it will launch the “Immortality Drive” – a time capsule with the digitized DNA of select video game players and space aficionados – into orbit when famed game designer Richard Garriott travels to the International Space Station in October 2008.
As part of NCsoft’s “Operation Immortality,” Richard Garriott – the man who created Tabula Rasa, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) PC game that explores the destruction of Earth – is now venturing into space to save humanity.

During the campaign, Tabula Rasa players have a chance to have their DNA sequenced, digitized and sent into space on the Immortality Drive. In addition, all players with active accounts on September 2, 2008 will have their Tabula Rasa characters uploaded to the device, giving them the opportunity to go to space virtually.  In order to make this unique opportunity accessible to as many people as possible, free trials of the game are available at http://www.rgtr.com/trial.  Garriott will place the Immortality Drive on the International Space Station when he travels there this fall.
“I’ve been able to do some very exciting things in the games business, but nothing of this magnitude,” said Garriott, executive producer for Tabula Rasa at NCsoft. “I’m thrilled we can offer the once in a lifetime chance to millions of gamers to virtually go to space with me. A select few will have their DNA digitized and sent. And, theoretically, if anything happens to the human race, it could be their DNA that is used to resurrect humanity.”
Starting today and lasting through August 31, 2008, anyone with a PC and an Internet connection can go to http://www.OperationImmortality.com and participate in weekly polls on humanity’s greatest achievements which will be included on the Immortality Drive, such as “What is the greatest song of all time?” and “What is the greatest technological breakthrough of all time?” Current Tabula Rasa players, or those who download and play the free trial, will also be able to enter a personal message for inclusion on the Drive.

“This is your chance to leave your mark,” says Garriott. “While everyone can participate in the polls at OperationImmortality.com, Tabula Rasa players will be the only gamers in the universe who can say that a piece of them is in space, since we’re sending their in-game alter-egos, and for some, their DNA, to space with me.”
Tabula Rasa, which launched November 2007, is an intense, fast-paced, sci-fi MMO PC game that puts you in the middle of the never-ending intergalactic fight for freedom against a hostile alien race called the Bane.  Players use high-tech weaponry, alien powers, and the help of other Allied Free Sentients (AFS) soldiers to rid the universe of the Bane threat. 

With frequent free updates to players, the game world of Tabula Rasa has grown significantly since launch. Upcoming features to the game include clan-owned Control Points, new missions, and Personal Armor Units.
 No purchase is necessary to participate in Operation Immortality, with free trials of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa available at http://www.rgtr.com/trial.  The game is currently available at most major retailers and at the PlayNC® store. The retail box includes the first month of online game play. After the first month, players will be charged a monthly subscription fee of US$14.99. The game is rated Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.

For information about Operation Immortality, including full terms and conditions, go to http://www.OperationImmortality.com. For information on Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa go to http://www.rgtr.com.

Wonderland Online: European Server Q&A

Wonderland Online (http://wl.igg.com/) will be launching a new European Server called “Virgo” on August 26th. The following is the Q&A about this server:

Q: Is the European game edition the same with the US one?
A: Yes. Our aim of releasing a European Server is to relieve the network delay when European players play the game. We will add a new option of European Server into the servers list. Thus, players can choose a server according to their needs.

Q: If I am American, can I log into the European Server?
A: We welcome players throughout the world to play Wonderland Online. All players are able to choose any server without any limitation. American players can choose an European Server and European players can choose an US server. However, we suggest that players choose the server which is close to their country avoiding the network delay.

Q: If I choose the European Server, does my former character in the US Server still exist?
A: Certainly. When you log into the US server again, you can use your former character.

Q: Can I transfer my character in the US Server to the European Server?
A: Currently, we don’t provide this service. If you want to play in the European Server, you should create a new character and play the game from the beginning.

Q: If I play in the European Server, are my Mall points in the US Server still available?
A: Your Mall points are connected with your IGG account. As long as you play the game with the same account, your points are available, no matter which server you are in.

Wonderland Online (http://wl.igg.com/), a new MMORPG from IGG (http://www.igg.com ), prides itself on its creative storylines and cute characters, and is set to take the industry by storm.