Yearly Archives: 2011

Tribes Ascend

Tribes Ascend is the undisputed fastest shooter on the free to play market. Ski over beautiful landscapes you won’t have time to marvel at as rockets and bullets whiz around you in an adrenaline fueled heyday of raw action. Loadout your favorite class to customize your playstyle before testing your skill in the ultimate test of twitch in a variety of game modes.

Features:

Jetpacks: This shooter isn’t all about hiding behind corners or camping from hard to reach places. With jetpacks, the sky is the limit, as you speed across vast expanses before your enemy knows what hit them.

Game Modes: Tribes Ascend features a variety of modes to keep things entertaining. Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Capture the Flag Blitz (the flag locations move randomly!), Arena, and Rabbit (holding onto a flag as long as you can in a wild free for all!).

Spectator Mode: Experience the freedom to watch matches exactly as you want to with the unparalleled freedom of Spectator Mode.

Customize: Choose from three armor types and a wild range of weapons to build out your ultimate shooter, while still being within a predictive realm to maintain game balance.

Vehicles: Jetpacks and skiing just not doing it for you? How about a tank, two person super cycle, or variety of other vehicles to liven up the experience?!

Heroes of Newerth Midas Patch Released

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.8 – Midas

 

 

The newest hero to join the ranks of Heroes of Newerth’s Legion was released today, King Midas. Just as in the popular fairy tale, in HoN Midas specializes in using alchemy and golden magic to battle his foes. Midas specializes in ranged dps and is a strength centric hero, despite his caster-like skill set.

 

 

Skills

Golden Salvo: Midas throws five flasks in a straight line, each exploding with a rather large aoe blast. Each flask deals additional magic damage and slows an opponent by 10% for each flask that makes contact. This skill is exceptionally useful for stopping a fleeing enemy.

 

Lion’s Pride: This acts as Midas’ support skill, sending a golden lion roaring to a target location while healing all allies in comes in contact with. At the destination the Lion will explode, dealing aoe magic damage to all foes nearby, with more magic damage being dealt based on how many units the Lion healed on the way to its destination.

 

Elemental Warp: Midas teleports up to 700 distance away from his current location, dealing magic damage to enemies near the starting and landing location. During teleportation he is invulnerable for 0.5s, making this an exceptional defensive ability.

 

Transmute: Midas passively gains ability cooldown for each level of Transmute learned. When activated, Midas mixes Reagents into his spells. Should 2 spells hit the same target within 3 seconds of each other, the Reagents mix, sealing the opponent in solid gold for 2 seconds and dealing bonus magic damage.

 

 

Midas appears to be an excellent addition to the game, offering players immense utility between ranged damage, high utility, and powerful CC. Numerous bug fixes were also addressed in the patch resolving issues with Dampeer, Geomancer, Magmus, and the Monkey King.

 

Heroes of Newerth is now a free to play game available for windows, Mac, and Linux. If you are looking for a MOBA with teeth and immense rewards for those dedicated to mastering it, look no further than Heroes of Newerth.

Scarlet Legacy Prepares First Major Update

Scarlet Legacy Prepares for First Big Update

 

 

Published by Games Campus, last month Scarlet Legacy hit North American shores bringing its unique Asian art style and story driven quests into the F2P market. On the 20th they are prepared to launch their first major update, and PvP focused players couldn’t be happier!

 

The first major update begins with the level cap being increased to 50. This means 67 new skills and 40 new stances will become available to players who reach max level. And to give players the required challenge to test these skills, three new maps will be released including the Demon Lair, Faery Lake, and Secret Altar. A total of 82 new quests and 56 new items will be available from NPCs in these regions to support players in their grind to max level.

 

In terms of crafting and pet selection, this patch will cover a lot of ground as well. 131 new crafting recipes will be introduced into the game, with a heavy focus on new armor and weapon sets (463 new pieces total!). 4 new pets have been introduced to the game as well, and all pets will not be able to be talented up to lvl 50.

 

Within the new lands, 4 new dungeons have been set up to challenge players like never before. Within the realm of the ‘Desperate Lands’ and ‘Treasure Island’ you will further the quest to discover the mysteries behind the Scarlet Princess. Ron’s Mansion and Celestial Mausoleum on the other hand are epic dungeons requiring 10 players to combine their strength to overcome them.

 

 

The Guild Battle System will also be included in the upcoming expansion! Level 3 Guilds across the server will be able to place bids to be one of 6 guilds featured in the weekly guild battle. Those that win the bid will be able to select their most elite 20 members to participate against the other 5 guilds. They will then be forced to battle against each other to break through Castle Structures, destroy enemy crystals, and acquire glory points for themselves and their guild. The concluding scores will offer rewards for the guilds involved and individual rewards for players as well.

 

 

A large number of new items have also been introduced this month such as the Moon Bear Mount and Demon Horns. This game is changing quickly so definitely keep an eye on it in the coming months.

Cross Fire Releases Free Undead Update

Cross Fire Releases Free Undead Update Including Zombie Mode

 

G4BOX Inc., a North American publisher, released today the “Undead Update” to players of its free-to-play military shooter, Cross Fire.

In Cross Fire’s new Zombie Mode, up to 4 players can team up to fend off waves of Undead Zombies, Mutants and Monsters across two new maps: the cursed burial ground of Unearth and the underground biochemical testing facility, Biohazard. Make it to the final wave and players will face off against fearsome boss monsters, including the hulking Goliath, and the winged predator, Nightmare. Beating the boss will earn players exclusive Zombie Mode items and equipment.

 

The Undead Update also delivers new weapons and equipment for use in regular modes, like the DSR1-Camo, a powerful assault rifle with a slick digital camouflage finish, the Bizon PP-19 SMG, and the Ruger MINI-14 lightweight semi-automatic. Players can also purchase the new L.A. SWAT character, a female version of the popular SWAT character, from the Cross Fire Item Mall. The Undead Update also introduces Hypomeds and Revival Tokens, health items that will help players stay alive longer in Zombie Mode.

To celebrate the release of this long-anticipated update, players can also earn two new achievement ribbons and free cash items, just for playing Zombie Mode upon release.

 

 

“The Undead Update is among the biggest updates Cross Fire has ever received,” said Jason Yang, CEO of G4BOX Inc., “Zombie Mode introduces a fresh new co-operative dynamic to Cross Fire’s gameplay that is both challenging and unique.”

Cross Fire is a free online military first-person shooter for the PC platform. It includes a military ranking system, in-game friends lists, an integrated clan system, deep character customization options and social media integration via the Cross Fire website. For more information check out the Trailer Release for Zombie Mode.

Crystal Saga – A Diamond in the Internets

Crystal Saga – A Diamond in the Internets

By Remko Molenaar (Proxzor), OnRPG Journalist

 

 

Crystal Saga is a 2D MMORPG browser game published by R2Games Entertainment and is full of surprises! Not only does it offer a detailed storyline but it also offers a wide variety of features which make the game a lot more fun. Explore and discover a wide variety of pets, mounts, weapons and items. And if you don’t feel like playing alone you can find a group to quest together or farm monsters. Crystal Saga recently went into the beta testing and I gave this game a shot.

 

 

Gameplay

The game offers a wide variety of features, far more than I’m used to seeing in a browser-game! You only download the maps you are accessing and therefore you can play it on almost every computer with an Internet connection. You start off by choosing one of the following classes:

 

Knight

The Knight is the tank class in Crystal Saga, the knight has a sturdy physique, and it has the ability to equip the heaviest armor you can get in the game. They have no qualms about standing on the front lines to protect their allies with Melee DPS.

 

Rogue

The Rogue deals deadly Melee DPS from a close range, before the blink of an eye they are gone and might be in your back planning for a deadly attack. They take advantage of stealth and devastating close-range attacks to bring down their enemies.

 

 

Priest

The Priest is the supporting class in Crystal Saga, the priest is known for valuing the wellbeing of allies over their own lives. The Priest uses spiritual energies to protect and heal their companions they travel with.

 

Ranger

The Ranger is a class equipped with bow and arrow to keep their enemies at a distance. These skilled archers fire arrows with their bows and use traps to maintain distance from the opposition.

 

Mage

The Mage uses spells to snare their enemies at a distance. Once held in place, they can unleash the full fury of fire and ice to destroy large groups of foes at once.

 

 

I chose the Mage because I always prefer classes that fight at the edge of battle. In Crystal Saga you can visit dungeons with friends and other people to clear them out and collect loot. Battlegrounds are also implemented to pacify your PvP hunger. This is the main reason I selected the Mage class because their heavy CC gives you an advantage in most engagements. Just be sure to end the battle quickly or things can get ugly.

 

You can also trap your own unique Pets that fight alongside you and help you out in the game. These Pets have all unique statistics and skills to help you out in the battle. There are all sorts of pets you can trap and you can have multiple, so trap a bunch and experiment to see which fits your gaming personality! If you are tired of walking or just simply want to travel faster you can obtain Mounts that can be the ultimate travel companion in this game, the mounts felt nearly as varied as the pets!

 

If you don’t feel like playing for a while or just tired of farming and clicking monsters by yourself, the game has a really weird feature. The AFK mode lets you grind while away; you can select which skills to use and other options. Now I am not sure whether this is a really good feature or this is bot supportive, I have seen many games die because of this so I hope it gets taken out. But if you are a lazy game just like me you can obtain extra levels while you’re doing other stuff in real life!

 

 

Conclusion

Crystal Saga is a really nice browser game with up to date graphics. Since it is played in your browser the system requirements aren’t that high so everyone is able to play this game without a problem. Crystal Saga provides a wide variety of features in the game that make this game really one of the best Browser Games out there. You can do dungeons with friends or do Battlegrounds to test your skills. I had a lot of fun playing this game and I would recommend everyone to try this out.

Allods Online Prepares Major October Update

Allods Online Prepares Huge Update in October

 

The next update for gPotato’s Allods Online will arrive this fall in both North America and Europe at the same time. Set to launch in October, the update will smooth out the leveling curve for new players and unravel further mysteries of the Allods universe.

 

The new content delves into the machinations of the Great Mage Tep, whose twisted experiments into immortality transformed a once vibrant and noble people into the withered mechanical constructs known as the Arisen. Now Tep’s oldest stronghold, long hidden in the vast expanse of the Astral, will be dragged into the light for the bravest heroes to explore.

 

 

Players hoping to conquer Tep’s mysteries can train for the challenge in the Kingdom of Elements, a new zone filled with aggressive elemental spirits that are more dangerous than anything the warriors of Sarnaut have ever faced. Additionally, they can sharpen their skills at the Arena of Death, now open for PvP battles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and upgraded with a new matchmaking system. Those who have mastered the Astral can now plunge their loot into customizing the interior of their own Astral ship, which can be decorated with everything from paintings to full suites of furniture.

 

 

The battle for the world’s future has intensified and Sarnaut needs more warriors to join the fight. New players will find Allods Online a more engaging experience thanks to extensive re-balancing of the content for levels 1-25. The fatigue system has been removed and bonus EXP has been added for killing monsters, making battles no less dangerous but much more rewarding. The addition of 2 new classes also gives players up to 30 character types to choose from as their journey into Sarnaut begins.

 

Be sure to check out this Preview Video of the upcoming Crypt Dungeon.

Crystal Saga

Crystal Saga is among a new wave of browser-based games pushing the envelope of what we knew browsers are capable of. Just as MMOs are moving into the next generation, so to are browser games.

Features

Classes: Crystal Saga features 5 classes including the Knight, Rogue, Priest, Ranger, and Mage. Knights act as tanks with a specialization in melee ranged AOE strikes. Rogues offer stealth and heavy single target melee dps. Priests specialize in healing, buffing, and reviving. On offense they use crowd control and DOT attacks to slowly weaken opponents. Rangers have strong resistance to the elements and utilize traps and long distance dps to destroy other ranged foes that dare challenge them. Mages are similar to priests but utilize much sharper damaging spells in addition to AOE crowd control.

Pets: Pets play an integral part of the game, growing up alongside your character and allowing deep customization to their skills.

Soul System: Separate from your skills and talents progression, the Soul System allows you to build your character’s inherent traits based on achievements and items you gain possession of. This not only gives your character a unique looking aura, it also gain bonuses that separate you from others of the same class.

Wings: Characters can obtain wings at lvl 20. These can be upgraded to give your character a look look and unique stats as well.

Daily Quests: 7 very unique daily quests exist including escort missions, item delivery, a teamwork survival gauntlet, and more.