A new trailer for the funky F2P RPG Hello Hero from Fincon.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Shotgun News 8/30: Tactical Intervention and Champions Online
Tactical Intervention Launches Open Beta
After huge demand for closed beta keys and huge success at Gamescom 1337 Games has launched Tactical Intervention into the land of open beta. In addition to opening the servers up two new maps have been added. Tactical Intervention can be accessed via Steam.
Champions Online Celebrating Anniversary
CO is bringing back some fan favorite events this year to mark the 4th anniversary. There will be double XP all weekend, a giant cake, concerts, new perks and much more. The event has already started and will continue until September 13th.
School of Dragons 1 Month Premium Membership Raffle
OnRPG has teamed up JumpStart and Dreamworks to bring you a chance to win a one month premium membership to School of Dragons, a new MMO experience based in the universe of “How to Train your Dragon!”
This game is an epic dragon training adventure unlike any other. The journey begins the moment players choose a dragon to train as their own. With hours of exciting, dynamic and educational content, School of Dragons prepares players to become fierce Viking adventurers and skilled dragon trainers. Not only do players get to forge a lasting and meaningful bond with their dragon, but they will also learn basic scientific method concepts through engaging activities such as farming, fishing, and more. Vivid and interactive gameplay — coupled with the wildly popular How To Train Your Dragon franchise — makes School of Dragons a game you will not want to miss out on.
To get your key you have to follow these instructions:
- If you are not yet a member of OnRPG please sign up here.
- Enter your OnRPG username and password below to get your key.
- The key will appear at the bottom of the page. Copy & paste it to a safe place as you may not be able to retrieve it once closing your browser!
To Redeem your Key:
- Visit SchoolofDragons.com to create an account
- Once you’ve confirmed your account’s email, visit our entry form HERE.
- Fill out your first and last name as well as the email account connected to your School of Dragon’s Account
- Winners will be contacted by JumpStart with instructions to claim their prize!
Simraceway
Simraceway is a realistic, free-to-play online racing simulator. Developed by a team of racing professionals and drivers, the game has over 25 real and fantasy tracks plus dozens of real race cars from big names such as BMW and McLaren. Simraceway also features regular events and competitions (many with a real-cash entry fee) in which players can race against each other and professionals for a chance at winning the pot.
Features:
Prove Your Racing Pedigree: Challenge up to 15 other drivers in multi-player contests, or race against the clock in Hot Lap and Challenge events.
Race for Pride (and Prizes): Coming first might be reward enough for you. If not, Simraceway also offers regular paid-entry events that award immediately cash prizes to the victor.
Big Brand Cars: Simraceway’s fleet includes well-known manufacturers including Bentley, Jaguar, McLaren, and Renault.
Realistic Simulation: Real-world tracks and simulation-grade driving physics power the game, and with enough realism to boast the game’s use as a training program at the Simraceway Performance Driving Center at Infineon Raceway.
Ignite Game Technologies
Ignite Game Technologies
Summer Festival Begins in Neverwinter
A humorous look at the Summer Festival going on now in Neverwinter.
Digimon Masters Review: Strap Up Your Digivice!
By Jerrico Tan (JetSet)

Digimon Masters is a free-to-play MMORPG by Aeria Games and Joymax based on the hit franchise Digimon. Loosely based on the fifth anime’s storyline (Digital Data Squad), this game lets players experience the life of being a Digimon Tamer. With a vast list of Digimons to hatch and evolve as their main selling point, we’ll take a closer look as to whether this game from its long running franchise would still be able to hit both avid fans and newcomers alike.
Gameplay: Game Mechanics and Combat
The game starts off by giving players a choice to pick an avatar based on the four protagonists from the fifth anime, together with one of the four starter Digimons. As an avid fan of the first generation anime, I was initially eyeing on picking the famous spiky haired kid with goggles (Taichi), until I later found out that the first gen tamer avatars were only playable if you purchased them in the cash shop. And Taichi was worth $10! That was a total bummer for my part but at least the all-time favorite Agumon can become one of your first digi-buddies for free!

After the character creation sequence, a set of tutorial quests are setup as soon as the town hall loads up for the first time. Like always, the tutorial quests are there to get players a chance to familiarize the game’s mechanics. The learning process is easy and young gamers wouldn’t have a hard time adapting to its environment. As for the controls, character movements are only maneuverable by mouse and WASD movements are not applicable (commanding your Digimon is just one smooth mouse click or hotkey away). The map and NPC search features are also there just in case you get lost in the Digiworld. Enabling the Search features pops up an arrow that’ll guide you to your destination but unfortunately, the map system doesn’t have an auto-find feature so you’d still have to walk it out manually. So generally speaking, playing Digimon Masters feels very similar to a lot of well-crafted titles around the market in terms of interface.

The combat system in this game is somewhat altered if you’ll compare it to usual MMORPGs. Digimon Masters focuses on your Digimon’s development instead of the tamer so it may also look like the tamer is just a mere pack mule picking up scraps dropped by each defeated wild Digimon. As for leveling up, the only way to progress in this game is through grinding and questing. These quests also let players learn more about the storyline and farming is plain easy for there are LOTS of digital monsters roaming around the world just waiting to spar against your partner.
Digimon Development and Digi-egg Hatching
Getting your Digimons to reach a certain level would also let them learn how to Digi-volve to their next forms. The skillsets change on each evolution and its lethal potency becomes stronger in each evolution stage. The DATS center could help enchant your Digimon with more attributes as long as you have the needed materials for the enchanting procedure and additionally, there exists a Digimental system, which is basically a system to unlock ten elemental crests that will determine your Digimon’s elemental attribute.
There are only two ways to acquire additional Digimon mercenaries in game. The hard way is to tediously farm up monsters until you get a Digi-egg of a certain basic Digimon after which you’d want to say a prayer to the gods that your egg could successfully complete at least three of five DATA injection phases. The other method (and easier one) is to pay up real money and buy a special Digi-egg with a 100% rate of hatching. For gamers aiming to play this game without coughing out a single cent, hatching Digi-eggs is the cruelest part in the game. I guess this is the only portion where spending cash matters and where normal players would really feel a huge gap between them and cash-spending players.
Social Features
Training Digimons with more players is the best way to enjoy the game. If you’re seeking help to achieve your Digimon’s training, there is a party and guild system that’ll add more spice during monster farming and when taking quests. There’s also a PvP arena where players could duke it out and see which one’s got a better partner. Furthermore, fellow players run the game’s economy and everyone can put up a shop that’ll stay up and running even when they’re away from their keyboards. These key social features offer gamers a chance to interact with each other. Unfortunately though, the game seems to focus more heavily on collecting Digimons, and as a result the developers appear to have not given much attention to the game’s competitive aspect.
Graphics
Despite being a game already released for almost half a decade from its original country, the cel-shaded aesthetic presentation of the game never made it look old and out of date. At the same time, if you’ll compare this to its former online game called Digimon Battles Online, the art style used in Digimon Masters sticks to its original presentation, which in my opinion is how a Digimon game should really look like.
And as I’ve said earlier, the game has been around for almost 5 years so if your PC was made in 2010 then you shouldn’t worry about getting a single framerate drop at max settings.
Conlusion: Good
The game isn’t that perfect and the drag of breaking Digi-eggs could be a major turnoff but Digimon Masters is surely able to serve players with a good dose of fun. Just the mere idea of seeing your first Digimon partner evolve to its radical form could excite you enough to keep you at it for countless more hours of training. If you’re looking for competitive or objective-based combat, I guess this game wouldn’t serve as your cup of tea, but if you’re more into collecting and raising your very own little pets then click on this Digi-link to play Digimon Masters today for free!
Graphics: 4.0/5
Controls: 3.5/5
Features: 3.5/5
Customization: 3.0/5
Community: 3.5/5
Shotgun News 8/29: Wargaming, SOE, Studio 38, and much more!
By Shannon (Leliah) Doyle, European News Editor
Wargaming Unified Premium Accounts Goes Live
Starting today there is a new option for Wargaming accounts to be unified under one premium account. It is now live for World of Tanks and Warplanes with plans to include all future Wargaming titles as well. The new account will allow players to pay once to receive premium status in Wargaming’s games.
Merc Elite Reveals Details on Recon
The first of five playable classes has been revealed for Bigpoint’s upcoming browser based MOBA Merc Elite. Recon comes equipped with ninja swords, and light weight automatic weapons which go along with his speedy and hit-and-run attacks. Recon relies on stealth to get the element of surprise to get the job done. Find out more by watching the trailer below.
Layoffs at SOE Confirmed
John Smedley has taken to twitter and reddit to discuss layoffs which have taken place at SOE. Throughout both he assures that production won’t be affected any any of SOE’s current or future projects. The layoffs are part of cost cutting efforts.
Stronghold Crusader 2 Crowd Funding Launched
Firefly Studios has introduced a new crowd funding project for the sequel to Stronghold Crusader. The studio is hoping to raise €100,000 in the next 30 days for the new RTS. Reward tiers for the project on Gambitious include everything from a digital copy of the game to access to the multiplayer beta as well as art books, soundtracks and much more. It is expected to release on PC in March of 2014.
Rhode Island Suit Against Curt Schilling Can Proceed
A judge has ruled that Rhode Island can sue Curt Schilling and other former 38 Studios executives for the studio going under, leaving the state with $75 Million in loan guarantees. The charges will include fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, racketeering, conspiracy, as well as others.
Dragon’s Prophet #SuperMetal Music Video
Get ready to get #SuperMetal with Dragon’s Prophet this September when the Frontier System arrives at last!
Lego Minfigures Online Reveal Trailer
A reveal trailer for the upcoming LEGO Minifigures MMO from Funcom.







