Yearly Archives: 2009

Zu Online: New Version 1.9.02 Coming

The new version of Zu Online is coming very soon. With the release of the new version, a cool new pet–Aurora Tiger, a new minion–Hades Fire Beast for level 240+ Summoners, the Pumpkin-Q Head, weekly cards, monthly cards, and the daily regular rewards system will all be added to the game. In addition, many game features will be adjusted, all the known bugs will be fixed and the max level requirements for receiving quests will be cancelled.

For more information about the new version, pay attention to future press releases.

Myth War ?Online: ValentinesÂ’s Day Events

Since Valentine’s Day is coming around the corner, the air is thick with the sweet scent of roses and chocolates. Myth War team from IGG has prepared the wonderful event series for Myth War inhabitants to express their sentiments.


Event 1:


Love does not begin or end in one day. Since the day Cupid’s arrow penetrated the hearts of Kelina and Andrew, these two young men could never bear to part. But before we give them our blessing, their love must be tested. Team up with your beloved and complete our quest to find out the strength of love. Love Guru and take part in fights. Special prizes like Saint Pet are on offer.


Event 2:


A grand wedding ceremony will be held for 10 players with the most glorious deeds in PK battles. On Valentine’s Day, the GM will act as the Master of Ceremony to host the ceremony. Those heartfelt and touching wedding vows, beautiful flowers and the ringing of bells will be combined to give a most romantic feeling. Your wedding will be a splendid spectacle. February 14, for the whole day, let’s indulge ourselves in love.


Event 3:


We will hold a Valentine’s Day Screenshot Contest. You can take screenshots in the game or hand draw something game based, then submit them to us. Photoshop or other graphics programs can be use to process or edit images.

Tales of Pirates: Valentine’s Day Events

Valentine’s Day is coming… that special day when we stop and take the time to show our love and treasure our loved ones. Get together with the one who makes your life special and enjoy some fun games. On this romantic day, Tales of Pirates will be offering lots of fun games to play, fun prizes to win and sweet Valentine’s gifts to give!

Event I: Serendipity
Event Duration
At 9:00p.m.-10:00p.m. EST (GMT-5) February 9th to February 12th
Content:
After the event has started the GMs will give out lovers’ cards at 2 spots, for male players and female players, 2 different cards for each player. Male players can go find the GM at Outlaw Isle while female players can go find the GM at Icicle Castle to trade for the lovers’ cards. After obtaining the cards players should go to Cupid Isle to find an opposite gender player who is your prearranged lover and has the same cards as you. Exchange the cards with each other, so you both have 2 matching cards. Then you can redeem the 2 same cards for respective Valentine gifts with the GM at Cupid Isle.

Event II: Help Me Cupid
Event Duration
At 9:00p.m.-10:00p.m. EST (GMT-5) February 15th to February 18th
Content:
The romance god of love Cupid will appear at Thundoria Castle this time. Female players can go find Cupid to sign up and obtain a loving keepsake after registering successfully, entrants will be teleported to Skeletar Isle safe area which is guarded by Level 3 Sand Bag critters. Meanwhile, the male players can go to claim their loving keepsake B at Spring Town Inn. After obtaining the keepsake, male Entrants should immediately team up and hurry to Skeletar Isle to save their loving female players. If a male player is able to rescue a female player you can exchange keepsakes with each other. After the event ends Cupid will award prizes to couples according to their keepsakes.

Bring your significant other and join us in game for romantic fun with IGG and TOP!

Celebrate War RockÂ’s 2nd Anniversary

GamersFirst, a service of K2 Network and one of today’s most popular free-to-play online game destinations, Announces War Rock’s 2nd Anniversary by celebrating with the War Rock Olympics and Giveaways.

As a thank you to all players from February 6th – February 9th, War Rock will be celebrating its Anniversary by launching the War Rock Olympics. Prizes will range from Ultimate Wallet Points provided by Playspan, to Dinar (in game currency), and premiums and weapon leases from the War Rock team.

“Being able to celebrate the 2nd anniversary for War Rock is very exciting for us.” Stated, Jon-Enee Merriex, Associate Producer –War Rock, GamersFirst.com. “And hosting such an exciting event for our gamers is a wonderful bonus.”

War Rock is a tactical, modern FPS (first-person shooter) exploding with intense, fast-paced combat. Armed with the world’s deadliest weapons and controlling the most lethal vehicles, players attack three story-driven, killer game play modes in the air, on the land and over the sea. The game is free to download and Free2Play so players can get right into “pwning” other players from around the world.

“We’re thrilled to sponsor the War Rock Winter Olympics,” said Eric Hartness, PlaySpan Marketplace Chief Marketing Officer. “We are proud to be associated with the War Rock community and pleased to provide valuable Ultimate Wallet Points that can be used to purchase War Rock items in PlaySpan Marketplace.”

OLYMPIC EVENT DESCRIPTIONS:

1- Event: Sink the Hamina
Map: Disturm
Structure: Battle Group, Deathmatch – 32 Players
Description: 4 players on one team will occupy the Hamina, and attempt to defend it from the other team. Defending team wins if they keep the Hamina from being destroyed all game (200 kills). Assaulting team wins if they destroy the Hamina.

2- Event: The Gauntlet
Map: Marien
Structure: Close Quarters Combat, Free-For-All – 16 Players
Description: In a game of 8+ people everyone takes turns being a sniper and picking off the other players as they run through the streets of Marien. No other weapons or method of killing is allowed. The sniper with the highest number of kills wins.

3- Event: Excited Bike Challenge
Map: Odyssey
Structure: Battle Group, Deathmatch – 8 players
Description: 4 man Motor Bike race around the track circling the map. The first 2 to cross the finish line will duke it out with fists inside the fighting ring.

4- Event: TAG
Map: Karaqum
Structure: Close Quarters Combat, Free-For-All – 16 Players
Description: Only the player designated as “it” is allowed to use guns. All other players can use slot 1 only. The only way to become “it” is to kill the player that is currently “it” with your fists. A GM will start as “it”, don’t let him win!

5- Event: Protect the GM / Kill the GM
Map: Cloud Forest
Structure: Urban Ops, Team Death match – 24 Players
Description: The GM is the target for both teams. The GM’s team is charged with protecting him at all costs and by any means necessary. If the attacking team successfully kills the GM 5 times, the game is over. If the defending team manages to protect the GM successfully, preventing 5 deaths, they will be declared the winner.

6- Event: Destruction Derby
Map: Odyssey
Structure: Urban Ops, Deathmatch – 8 Players
Description: Each team has two Humvees. The team who destroys the others team’s Hummvees by ramming first, wins. NO WEAPONS ARE ALLOWED.

7- Event: Capture The Nemico
Map: Bandar
Structure: Battle Group, Deathmatch – 32 Players
Description: One team will be defending the flag on the tanker “Nemico” the other team will capture all the other flags and then will fight to get on the tanker and capture the last remaining flag.

8- Event: I-Jump
Map: Bandar
Structure: Battle Group, Deathmatch – 32 Players
Description: Players will be jump off the highest point of the yellow Crane, players who successfully hit the small boat parked below the crane on the sea will win rewards. Each player will have 1 chance.

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.

Need For Speed MMO in the works?

EA has announced that they will be publishing different version of their popular Need For Speed brand in 2009 and one of them seems to be an MMO. Here’s the text they published for Need for Speed World Online:

This is a Play 4 Free racing game designed exclusively for the PC. The game will give Need for Speed fans the most licensed cars, parts and game modes ever in Need for Speed’s history. Players will prove their racing supremacy through the sophisticated online matchmaking features and the more flamboyant gamers will get the chance to show off their skills through customizable rides and user profiles.

Need for Speed World Online will begin in Asia Summer 2009. The game is being co-developed with Black Box and EA Singapore.

Angels Online: A Wolf in SheepÂ’s Clothing

Last winter, the evil wolves suffered greatly from the extreme cold and lack of food. Hungry and desperate, so the wolves have dropped their usually sneaky and crafty nature and have planned to attack the Angel Lyceum to sate their appetite.

The Angels Online team will be holding the “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” event from 10:00am to 10:30am EST (GMT-5) on Feb 7th in the Angel Lyceum. All participating players have a chance to obtain abundant rewards such as Purple Circus Elephant, Skill Crystal, Common Exp Stone, kinds of teleportation scrolls and various fireworks for the approaching Valentine’s Day.

The Most, The Best!
Event Content

GMs in each server will summon a group of Howling Wolves in the Angel Lyceum. Little Angels here should try their best to kill these monsters fast. The top 3 servers which kill the most Howling Wolves within half an hour will be the winners of this event.

Rewards!
Event Content

The monster-killing will last half an hour. After that, GMs will announce the top three servers as winners and then randomly present those players with a gift.

Pirate Galaxy – Closed beta officially launched!

Leading European Publisher gamigo AG is happy to announce the start of the closed beta testing phase of the revolutionary browser game “Pirate Galaxy”. From now on up to 5000 players who register on www.pirategalaxy.com get gradually unlocked, allowing early access to the game. The Revolution of Browser-MMOGs With Pirate Galaxy publisher gamigo and developer Splitscreen Studios, will push the boundaries of what is possible in a web browser. The game uses a new, unique technology which allows advanced 3D graphics without the need to install client software to the computer.

Besides that, the game offers exciting gameplay and a huge Galaxy to explore. Players are able to travel to hundreds of different planets, visit space stations in orbit and fight
the dangers of their hazardous surfaces. In addition to a compelling story-line, there will be an unlimited amount of automatically generated quests, so space pilots will always
have some exciting adventures waiting for them.

Players won’t only have to watch out for other Space Pirates in the game, but for an evil alien race called MANTIS. This technological highly developed race attacked many of
mankind’s colonies and outposts. Only experienced squads of players will be able to fight the strong MANTIS-battleships and save the galaxy from these hideous aliens.

Servers are now open!
From today on, the first servers are commencing operation and a couple of hundred players are already unlocked, with more able to play every day. Everyone who wants to
join the beta-phase should register at www.pirategalaxy.com. Of course, Pirate Galaxy is completely free of charge and requires no monthly fee to play. “We are very happy about how the players responded to our Pirate Galaxy announcement”, says Elmar Kofler, Product Manager of Pirate Galaxy. “The game quickly became one of the most anticipated titles in the next g lineup. Now we are looking forward to the feeback of the players, which will help us to give the final touch to every aspect of the game and make decisions for upcoming features.” gamigo will use this testing phase to find and remove remaining bugs. Beyond that, gamigo will watch player’s comments and suggestions in the forum closely and consider
their opinions in the further development of the Pirate Galaxy.

Lineage II: Valentine event

Lineage II is going to have the cutest Valentine event from February 10-17. Players make their cakes, eat them and will be rewarded awesomely too. Please help us share the news with your readers so they can enjoy it!


“The Goddess Aphrodite has sent her faithful servant, Valentine Messenger Queen of Hearts, to foster love, loyalty and affection across the world of Aden. But Alas! As love and generosity are abhorred by them, some greedy monsters are bent on thwarting the spread of this infectious and debilitating disease. Having raided the warehouses where the ingredients were kept, the Queen of Hearts is now unable to create the Valentine Cakes she’d planned to make for everyone. Without the cakes, she fears that she will fail Aphrodite.

Can you help? Track down the cake ingredients and help the Queen of Hearts make special Valentine’s Cakes for all. The better the cake you make, the better the reward you will receive. But most important of all, your efforts will help to ensure that Aphrodite’s message is felt the world over.”