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Gamania Announces First Ever Gamania Game Show

Gamania First Game Show Event Begins Next Week!

 

 

Gamania Digital Entertainment is holding the first ever Gamania Game Show (GGS) in Taipei, Taiwan on September 8th and 9th, where it will be highlighting four upcoming self-developed titles slated for completion in 2012. Today, Gamania is giving fans a sneak peak of the show highlights with a new Teaser Trailer.

 

 

The four games being featured at GGS include: Core Blaze, an epic 3D Eastern Fantasy Action MMORPG, utilizing the next generation Unreal Engine 3 and boasting a wide range of innovative customization features; Langrisser Schwarz, the latest MMORPG remake of the classic tactical RPG, Langrisser, featuring “Three Forces” — Light, Empire, or Dark — for branching gameplay; Tiara Concerto, a musical MMO adventure in the skies; and Dream Drops, the twisted un-fairy tale MMORPG.

 


These four titles will be shown in their own media exclusive game display hubs during the Gamania Game Show, in addition to other mobile and social games, and a variety of original animation. Journalists from countries around the world including the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, and Hong Kong will attend to witness the unveiling of Gamania’s best gaming line-up to date.

 

 

OnRPG will be sending DizzyPW as well to give quick updates on all the features and promises these games have in store.

Langrisser Schwarz

Langrisser Schwarz is based on a popular early 90s RPG series, reimagined for the 21st century in full blazing MMO glory. Join the forces of Light, Dark, or Force and march against your enemies in an epic story driven game full of action combat and betrayal.

 

Features:

 

Mercenary System: Select various types of soldiers and give out general commands. The AI follows your general battle formations and assists you in combat.

 

Endless Class Selection: Experience 6 different class trees making up 72 total jobs.

 

Faction vs Faction vs Faction: After being quizzed by the goddess, take up arms as the alliance of good, evil or force to do battle through PvE and PvP.

 

Action Combat System: Aim your most powerful skills to strike down your foes in style. Point and Click players need not apply.

 

Card System: Create a deck and utilize the power of buff, trap, and damage cards to further increase your arsenal of abilities.

Dream Drops

The world of After Dreams is a mystical world in which fairy tale creatures from Peter Pan to the Big Bad Wolf have come to life and live together acting out the fairy tales told around the world to comfort children before bed. However a fiend has stolen these characters ‘Time,’ resulting in chaos and fairy tales ending in confusing unhappy ways.

 

As the Sleepwalker, it is your job to investigate the disappearance of Time and stand as a soldier to fight against those that seek to destroy After Dreams.

 

Features:

 

4 Unique Playable Classes: Play as a pasrty chef, indian warrior, dream painter, or nutcracker, each bringing a crazy spin to classic MMO roles.

 

Intricate Storyline: Follow a deep and twisted political conflict as the fairy tales you know are thrown on their heads and not everything is as it seems.

 

Vibrant Cel-Shaded World: Every instance and map is care takingly crafted to make a colorful world in which your tale unfolds.

 

Challenging Boss Battles: Take on the fantasy characters of legend such as Snow White, Captain Hook, and the Queen of Hearts in larger than life form. Only united and coordinated teams will survive to become legends themselves.

PAX Day 3: Dungeon Overlord

PAX Day 3: Dungeon Overlord

 By Darren Henderson (DizzyPW), OnRPG Editor-In-Chief

 

 

It’s certainly been a busy week in coverage at OnRPG. Thinks are finally winding down though and I can begin writing about the more niche games I came across at the show during my free time on Day 3.

 

Certainly the biggest surprise of PAX came from my visit to a small booth stationed just outside the Press Room beyond the reaches of the show room floor. Here stood a 2 man booth called Night Owl gaming, featuring a board game and related MMO called Dungeon Overlord.

 

Dungeon Overlord is actually a hardcore empire building MMO built within the Facebook world! I had no idea until told this because the game looks far more advanced than any Facebook game I had come across in my short time dealing with this casual sphere of gaming. Forget the days of raising fish and farming stagnant corn, Dungeon Overlord has a full blown dungeon builder that allows you to customize everything from the minions on patrol to the marvelous contraptions powering your mystics’ research endeavors.

 

 

The concept of the game is nothing particularly new, at least on the surface. Players start up a small dungeon and begin hiring minions to work mines to collect raw materials. From there they can sell the materials on the black market or try their hand at crafting to make new useful tools and other wonderful goodies. Still pretty standard fair. But now you need more mines to collect materials faster. And Sorcerers to research the latest and greatest in overlording technology to expand your Realm.

 

 

Then rival overlords begin to raid your dungeon and loot you, forcing you to invest in defenses and guards to protect your secrets. As your wealth expands, you gain a surplus of minions and begin raiding local villages and sending off particularly heroic minions on quests to acquire more wealth. Eventually you may find yourself in a powerful enough position that you can challenge the maniacal traps and ogres lurking in rival overlord’s lairs. Well developed strategy, not cash shopping and mass Facebook friends is what leads to victory in Dungeon Overlord. A quick look at their PAX Trailer should sum all of this up quite nicely.

 

Let me elaborate on that since it’s a unique idea in this realm of gaming. Friends (and foes) you make inside Dungeon Overlord are independent from your real world Facebook friends. You can deal with, trade with, and party with people in this game without ever having to reveal your identity to them. No longer will the man with 10,000 friends have an unbeatable advantage over players that are willing to play the game hardcore and put in the effort to be stronger.

 

 

Of course if you do want to play with your friends, Dungeon Overlord has fully developed alliance systems in which you can team up and build the most powerful guild of overlords the world has ever known. I think I might have to dust off my outdated Facebook page and give this game a try. And unlike the majority of the games we have covered at PAX, Dungeon Overlord is in open beta right now.

Dungeon Overlord

Dungeon Overlord is a multiplayer competitive strategy game where players assume the role of an evil overlord with intentions of conquering the world. This involves using a detailed dungeon builder to build your inner sanctums, forge an army, and embark on a quest to conquer and enslave all in your path. Dungeon Overlord looks to set a new standard for hardcore Facebook gaming.

Features:

Forge Your Realms: Overlords will be able to build their dungeon from scratch. Dungeons must have means of gathering resources, housing for your minions, and enough defensive mechanisms to protect your treasures from rival overlords. Keep a strategic mind about you when forming your realm.

Build Your Forces: Not every overlord builds their empire on might alone. Proper research is also vital in overcoming your enemies. With new technologies comes more efficient ways to utilize your resources, new dungeon expansions, and more powerful monster summons.

Expand Your Empire: After building an army, you can test them out pillaging weak villages and monster lairs for resources. Once you are confident in your abilities, you may even launch full out raids against other overlords in the ultimate PvP showdown.