Yearly Archives: 2009

Galaxy Online: Five Highlights

Galaxy Online is a fantastic strategy game developed by IGG set in the vast and endless universe, where players can develop their own galaxy, form fleets to invade other planets and much more. Now, let us introduce some of the highlights of the game briefly.

Mini Game Client
The size of the Galaxy Online client is about 20MB. It is very fast to download and begin your adventure. Despite the small file size, the game still features delicate graphics and amazing combat scenes, so this game is as convenient as if you were playing a web-based game with all the benefits of a downloaded client.

Six Available Factions Extremely Intense Competition
There are six factions available for players in the game. Each faction is allowed to attack hostile factions at will. In addition, there is one computer controlled faction – Galactic Pirates – which adds a random element to the intense faction competition. You may lead your allies to attack hostile factions, or you may be attacked by several hostile factions at the same time. Whatever the situation, the perfect faction design will give birth to never before seen intensity in an online game.

Strategy Overcome Controls
As a strategy game, Galaxy Online attaches importance to players’ strategy and tactics but not controls. Early when you begin to develop your first planet, you should consider carefully what should be done first, what should be done next, as well as every action you may take in the future. How should you gather resources the fastest? How can you develop a galaxy quickly? How can you form a strong fleet? Above all, you need careful planning and consideration. If you study the game again and again, only then can you become an expert Galaxy Online gamer.

Leisure Gameplay Not Wasting Time Meaninglessly
Once you have a perfect plan, you won’t need to spend much time in developing your planets. When you deploy your resources, you may even activate the Planet Trusteeship service and the server will help develop your planets even when you are not online. If you do not have much time to play the game, you can spend a few Mall Points to ensure you have a rich game experience, even if your time online is limited. So just make a plan to develop your planets and you will become strong in time.

Unique Plug-ins
There are some unique plug-ins available for players in the game. You may activate various plug-ins for convenience or introduce new mini-games through other plug-ins. You may even design your own plug-in! Want to make the game more fun? Well, it’s all up to you.

Tales of Pirates: Dark Swamp

Today the folks at Tales of Pirates want to tell you about the Dark Swamp instance. A ship of full of pirates was hit by a storm and they became accidentally trapped in a swamp full of strange creatures and bad smells. These pirates must now face their fear and the endless darkness. In order to survive, they need to fight monsters and eat unknown plants. Occasionally they may accidentally find some treasure. Encouraged by this and in an effort to obtain more treasure, they start their endless adventures.

The Dark Swamp is a special instance in Tales of Pirates as players can PK freely here. In addition, there are many senior bosses that range from level 40 to 50 in the 3 stories of the swamp. In the 1st story, you will meet the Swamp Bog (level 40), Master Swamp Bog (level 45) and so on. In the 2nd floor, you will meet the Swamp Watcher (level 45) and so on. And in the 3rd floor, you will meet the Huge Mud Monster (level 50), Swamp Man, and so on. You can also find treasure chests such as the Incantation Chests, Beautiful Chests, and Evanescence Chests.

Apart from the features mentioned above:

1. Clean Mud
You can obtain mud from monsters. If you clean it, you will have a chance to obtain a Mud Pearl and other items. You can use the Cleaner in Argent City to clean the mud.

2. Fire Seed
You may obtain Murky Oil, Fire Starter, or Cloth Strip after cleaning the mud. If you hand these items to the archaeologist in the Dark Swamp, you will obtain a fire seed which is necessary for exploring the more advanced mazes.

Conquer Online: Valentine Quest Coming on Feb 12th

According to Chinese legend, fox genies usually disguise themselves as pretty maidens, seducing men to absorb their spiritual energy and life. However, in some scenarios, some fox genies fall in love with their mortal prey, and may wish to give up their magic power for true love.

According to this tale, the TQ team has prepared a dramatic Valentine Quest, in which players will be able to help a virtuous fox genie fight prejudice and gain her true happy ending. Moreover, players can enter Fox Eden to make a Valentine wish and quiz.

Duration: Feb. 12th to Feb 14th
Requirement: Level 20 or above
Rewards: Fox Mask, Fox Gift Box, Red Rose, Exp Ball, Heaven Blessing

Enjoy this dramatic story and have a romantic Valentine’s Day!

EVE Online latest updates

The guys at EVE Online have issued the latest update for their popular sci-fi MMORPG:

EVE Online: Apocrypha
More and more details from our upcoming March 10th expansion are coming out every day in DevBlogs and news stories.

Main features outlined already are: Wormholes and exploration, a new NPC race and revamped NPC AI, a reimagining of the New Player Experience, and the addition of a skill queue.

Furthermore, with the release of Apocrypha, we’ll be available in retail outlets all over the known universe through a distribution deal with Atari.

When was the last time you reviewed EVE? Before the Quantum Rise expansion? After 10 free expansions and 6 years of continuous growth the game has changed quite a lot.

EVE Online Alliance Tournament VI comes to a finale this weekend LIVE on TV.

Watch the top 32 alliances fight it out to see who will be crowned the PVP Champions of EVE! Tune in here: http://www.eveonline/evetv to catch the must-view matches on Saturday that will include the #1 ranked alliance R.U.R. fighting at 1500 GMT, defending champions Ev0ke at 1900 and a rematch of last weekend’s nail biter between Against ALL Authorities and HUN Reloaded at 1940. Along with the matches, we will have Developers on the couch with some sneak peeks on the upcoming expansion “EVE Online: Apocrypha”!

The action continues all weekend with live broadcasts starting at 1450 GMT each day, continuing until 2100 on Saturday and 2200 on Sunday. Previous matches are available on our YouTube channel along with a whole lot of other exciting things. It’s a popular event and vaulted us into the top 15 directors on YouTube for several days.

The Second CSM Meeting

The Council of Stellar Management (CSM) is a player-elected representative body responsible for bringing player issues to the developers and then reporting back on the discussions to the player base. Several issues have been pushed through production including the inclusion of a skill queue in the upcoming expansion. The CSM meets in Iceland once per six month term and the meetings are arbitrated by a professional moderator.

CCP CSM Project Lead Petur Oskarsson and the CSM members themselves are available for interview upon request.

Other things of interest:



There have been two major in-game, completely player driven events in EVE recently.

The dissolution of one of EVE’s longest standing and largest player alliances, Band of Brothers (BoB), without a shot fired. This IS metagaming intrigue and has proven quite popular in the media’s eyes.

        * While we refrain from commenting on player events?preferring the living history of our single-shard world to stay with the players?I am happy to put you in touch with the parties in question. They have given us the permission to do so.

An in-game assassination DURING last weekend’s Alliance Tournament elimination rounds.

        *The spirit of competition still has an undercurrent of political intrigue via a high profile vendetta

GoGoRacer

Put the pedal to the metal in GoGoRacer! Compete in engaging races for car parts, medals, and above all else, fame! Players can race in head to head challenges, participate in team races, or establish the fastest racing time to declare superiority. Easily and limitlessly customize characters and rides to tweak them into the ultimate performance cars to give them that extra boost in competition.

Unleash your road rage and show off your racing skill to become the champion in GoGoRacer!

Key Features:

– Real Physics: Karts react realistically to the surrounding environment as players collide, jump over ramps, ledges & banks.

– Jump Boosting: Gain an advantage over opponents with this special technique.
By performing a jump boost after jumping off a platform or ledge, players can gain a powerful burst of speed. This system rewards players for exploring the maps and trying to find key jumps .

– Crafting System: After winning a race, players may receive random car parts as a reward. These components can be used to create modification kits for their kart, allowing them to further tweak its performance.

– Car Clubs (Coming Soon!): Players can band together to form a club and compete with other clubs for game and prizes. Car Clubs receive their own private channel and can customize their karts with their Car Clubs’ logo.

– King of the Hill (Coming Soon!): The King of the Hill feature allows players to compete with others for in-game cash and prizes. Players pay a fee to challenge each other to a match in which all fees are pooled together as a grand prize and winner takes all.

– Time Attack: Players compete for top race times and public rankings on each track. Win medals based on successful times and they can be redeemed for exciting prizes!

Fallen Earth: enter the Closed Beta

Fallen Earth, LLC, developer of the self-titled post-Apocalyptic MMO Fallen Earth, is excited to announce that the game has now transitioned into closed beta testing. Interested testers can sign up for the opportunity to receive a closed beta key at www.fallenearth.com and join thousands of fellow Fallen Earth players each week as the online community expands to accommodate more closed beta testers.

“This is a critical milestone for our team and an opportunity to showcase updated content and features,” said Colin Dwan, project manager for Fallen Earth. “We are excited to see how players progress through all three sectors without any interference, and anxious to see where we can improve the overall experience.”



The Fallen Earth team has been working very hard to improve and polish all aspects of the game. Recent updates include the creation of a comprehensive user tutorial and continued enhancements to balance the in-game crafting system. With the move to closed beta, players will have the opportunity to piece together aspects of the storyline, play freely through all three sectors, and gain a better understanding of how the game will look and feel at launch. Closed beta testing also allows the development team to better observe overall game play, perform system stress tests, and ultimately perfect the Fallen Earth game experience.

Set in the Grand Canyon in 2156 after a lethal disease destroyed most of mankind, the game features a classless advancement system, six factions and a unique crafting feature in which players can make 95 percent of game items. With 70 towns, real-time settings and interesting character modifications, all taking place within a post-Apocalyptic plot, Fallen Earth provides the ultimate player experience.

Fallen Earth will be released in Q2 2009. An exact launch date is forthcoming.

GamersFirst announces GoGoRacer

GamersFirst, a service of K2 Network and one of today’s most popular free-to-play online game destinations, announces GoGoRacer to debut on GamersFirst.

Put the pedal to the metal in GoGoRacer! Compete in engaging races for car parts, medals, and above all else, fame! Players can race in head to head challenges, participate in team races, or establish the fastest racing time to declare superiority. Easily and limitlessly customize characters and rides to tweak them into the ultimate performance cars to give them that extra boost in competition. Unleash your road rage and show off your racing skill to become the champion in GoGoRacer!


“Adding GoGoRacer to GamersFirst is the first step towards bringing a lighter more casual aspect to our line up of games,”
stated Joe Rush, Director of Game Operations, GamersFirst.com. “The ultimate goal is to create a site that will cater to many different gamers without undercutting the quality of the game experience.”

In GoGoRacer karts react realistically to the surrounding environment as players collide, jump over ramps, ledges & banks. After winning a race, players may receive random car parts as a reward. These components can be used to create modification kits for their kart, allowing them to further tweak its performance. Players can also compete in individual and team modes against other players for game cash and prizes. By participating in races, players can collect components that can then be used to craft new parts for their cars, allowing them to continually improve their rides.

Radiance Digital Entertainment is a Shanghai-based company that strives to develop and operate high quality online games for the global market. Radiance seeks to balance innovation with value creation and to produce IPs that will transcend culture and language barriers. By combining software development and online game operations, Radiance is committed to providing its customers, both players and partners, local and international, with the best possible product and service.



Closed beta for GoGoRacer will start soon.

Wonderland Online: ValentineÂ’s Apparels Collection

Valentine’s Day is approaching. As it is a romantic festival, our warriors can take the chance to pull off their heavy gear and enjoy time with their lovers. The Wonderland Online team offers many kinds of sweet romantic clothing for our players. Go have a look, and choose a set that you want!

Lordliness:
Recommended: [head] Honor Crown [body] King’s Grown [hand] Deity Bracers [shoes] Lotus Boots
Comment: Standard dress of the Royals.

Banquet Style:
Recommended: [head] Leather Cap [body] Night Wear [hand] Cotton Gloves [shoes] White Net Boots
Comment: Better choices for Ladies and Gentlemen

Oriental Charm:
Recommended: [head] Grown [body] Satin Qi Pao [hand] Demon Gloves [shoes] Feather Boots
Comment: Special elegant oriental charm

Wildness Charm:
Recommended: [head] Gold Ears [body] Great Coat [hand]Tiger Fur Bracers [shoes]Silver Loops
Comment: Wild style for wild people!

Want one of the sets of clothes above? In addition to the ones we recommend players can also choose their own sets, so get the Valentines’ dress you want! Wishing you a happy Valentine’s Day!

Roto X Review: Amazing Game and Community

By Joshua Temblett, Onrpg writer

This is one of the best text based MMORPGs out there. Now before you turn away from this article and say, “Oh it’s a text based MMO, I wanna play something with graphics”, let me tell you this, Roto-X has one of the best communities ever seen in a game, it has enough core gameplay to last you years but above all else, is one of the most unique video gaming experiences you’ll ever come across in your life. Intrigued? Read on my friend.

Storyline

As with most MMOs the storyline is used to set the scene of the title, and this game doesn’t break that convention. Roto-X abandons the medieval knights versus wizards setting for a futuristic and mildly realistic background. It’s set just after Earth has undergone a nuclear holocaust in the year 2058. Only 10% of the population now remains. What survivors were left constructed the “RObotic Tactical Operations eXoskeletons” which are mobile war machines used to not only fend off other survivors but also the environment.

It’s pretty deep stuff, however this storyline never gets expanded upon which is unfortunate to those who want a deep fulfilling storyline, but then again if you’re playing an MMORPG for an awesome storyline then something must be wrong with you. The game does however have something very unique which not a lot of MMORPGs have, and that is deep player lore. Stories about what players have done, and events that players have sculptured themselves, fill the land. Be it about an alliance which dominates or a rebellion which fights back, there is so much user history in this game that it will blow you away with how many stories you hear about the legendary players. Never before have I come across a game with so much history, even if the storyline of the game never gets expanded on, there is enough narrative and history from the players alone to fulfil your scratch for a great tale, if you have one.

Graphics

Roto-X is a text based RPG and thus doesn’t feature a lot of images or graphical features. That’s not to say it’s bland though. When you log in the first page you will see is your “House” whereby you will be greeted by your “Character Image” which will originally be a robot, however you can change it by just going into “Settings” and choosing what image to display on your front page. This will also be the image players will see whenever they visit your “House” to look at your stats (such as forum posts, how long you’ve been playing the game for, clan, etc). You can also add text below your house image, meaning that you can effectively turn your front page into a colourful wall representing your personality, or the exact opposite.

The use of multicoloured text, images, and even short paragraphing is simply astonishing as it’ll make sure you’ll never get bored. You can even customise your forum and battle signatures. What graphics the game does use, work for the area they’re supposed to represent, even though they may look a bit outdated. This text based MMO is by no means dull and is easy to get a hold of with its incredibly simple layout.

Gameplay

There is so much to do in this game (and there is certainly something for everyone), so where do I start? Don’t want to level up and battle other players? Then why not train in one of the eight careers and help build weapons, droids or items by either searching for the material needed to make them or help construct them. If you want to become almighty and powerful fighter, then why not buy some weapons, go to the Arena and fight other players, or if Player Versus Player isn’t your thing, practice against the trainers.

No matter what you do, you’ll want to join one of the many clans or become a part of an alliance so that the other players can help you achieve your goals. All of Roto-X is player based. This game is certainly focused on PvP, you’ll fight against other players (unless you’re hunting for items then you’ll sometimes fight creatures), fight against clans for dominance on the Noir VR or wage war against other alliances in an attempt to destroy them. As harsh as it may sound though, this game isn’t a “hardcore” game, anyone can approach it, and you don’t have to get involved in a certain aspect of it you don’t want to be.

Be warned though this title is incredibly political, for those who want to dip their feet into it, you’ll find yourself making deals with other clans about who attacks who and who makes weapons, who defends who on the VR. If you like video games with a sense of politics and communication, then this game is a goldmine for you.

Despite the huge variety of features there are in this title there are some minor problems, for example you can’t view the Hall of Fame (however you can ask the many active and friendly admins to give you the details contained in it). The game bugs won’t really disrupt your gameplay, however just be wary that there are some bugs in this otherwise totally polished package.

Community

A lot of players have kept playing this title due to its incredible strong community that binds them all together, and this is definitely Roto-X’s strong point. You will come across a huge variety of players of different ages, backgrounds and personalities, all of whom will be happy to greet you into the game with open arms. With an active forum, a nice chat room (called the “Coffee House”), clans and alliance support and of course a private messaging system, this game is based around meeting people and talking to them.

If you choose to embrace the community then you will no doubt find a group of friends you can rely on and thus get the most out of Roto-X, however if you choose to just play the game and not interact with other players then you are missing out on an incredible experience. You will meet people you hate and like, you will learn how to deal with both sides of the spectrum, but the things you’ll gain from them will be more than you could ever expect.

Conclusion

Whilst this title is flawed, its core gameplay is more than enough to make up for the minor bugs that it has. That’s not the reason why you should play Roto-X though. You should play it because it’s an experience that may well change your life, that will give you some good friends and that’ll give you a sense of belonging in an otherwise crippling world (if you have not already found your place). You would be insane not to play this game, and you owe it to yourself as a gamer to try it out. You may think it’s not your thing, but it could well be … so what have you got to lose? A must play.