Monthly Archives: January 2014

New World Interactive Unleashes INSURGENCY On Steam Today

Insurgency Screen

Indie developer New World Interactive (NWI) is proud to announce the launch of its tactical, team-based first-person shooter INSURGENCY available on Steam. The intense online FPS, that PC Gamer calls “a ridiculously good time,” aims to distill one of the most popular gaming genres to its essence. INSURGENCY is available now for PC and Mac OS X, now at the sale price of $13.49 for a limited time from today, January 22, until Tuesday, January 28, a 10% discount from the SRP of $14.99. INSURGENCY will launch on Linux later this year. NWI has issued a statement to their community regarding their pricing, seen here.

Insurgency Screen 2

“We’re very excited about the progress we’ve made over the past nine months,” said Jeremy Blum, founder and game director of New World Interactive, who was instrumental in the success of the award-winning mods Red Orchestra and Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat. “Early Access allowed us to build a community and actualize the full potential of our game, that otherwise would not be possible to reach this moment. We are very grateful for our dedicated fans that have remained loyal through this process.”

Insurgency Snipe

“This milestone release marks the end of the Early Access phase, since we have discovered the right direction and created a foundation for the game from months of experimentation, years of experience, and a decade envisioning what this gameplay experience should be,” said Andrew Spearin, designer and community manager of Insurgency and the co-founder of Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat. “Today, we look forward to unveiling what we have to the world, allowing more players to join our rapidly growing community and help evolve the game as we polish, refine, and build on top of the framework we have established.” NWI continues to update the game and has DLC plans included in the full price.

The Repopulation reveals new features and stretch goals

The Repoulation-Travel

New to the upcoming sandbox MMO, The Repoplutation, comes a handful of new goodies and features.

Getting Around in The Repopulation

“Travel comes in many forms in The Repopulation. Travel is important in most MMOs as it can add ease of movement, but making it to easy can make the world feel much smaller. We have a variety of travel options for players to choose from, including Quick Travel, Instant Travel, Vehicles, Pets or On-foot.”

Evening Star – Epilogue

The final portion of the Evening Star story has been posted, with the story weighing in at a whopping 40,660 words.

More stretch goals reached

Lastly, the Kickstarter campaign has reached another stretch goal, and traveling Vendors will become a reality. The development team is now looking ahead to their next stretch goal: Unique Renaming of Items. This is a crafter centric goal.

For more information, visit https://www.therepopulation.com
Travel Option Feature: https://www.therepopulation.com/index.php/news/150-getting-around-in-the-repulation
Evening Star – Epilogue: https://www.therepopulation.com/index.php/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/151-evening-star-epilogue
Next Stretch Goal Details: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therepopulation/the-repopulation-a-sandbox-mmorpg/posts

Heroes of the Storm Hosts Second Developer Q&A

HotS Dev Q A

Blizzard’s development team for Heroes of the Storm has hosted a second Q&A session on Twitch. Live on stream were Dustin Browder (Game Director), Kaeo Milker (Senior Game Producer), and Kevin Johnson (Senior Manager, Community Development).

The team discussed map design, state of the game development, team strategies, the talent system, and more. You can watch the recorded stream here.

Mobile MMORTS Casters of Kalderon Now Available on Google Play

 

Kalderon Herseki

The Finnish indie game studio Helmeni Ltd. has successfully launched the open beta for their MMO real-time strategy game Casters of Kalderon. The free-to-play MMO is available on Google Play in the USA, UK, Ireland, and Canada, as well as Finland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

The game world of Kalderon is being rebuilt after a destructive magical war. Players take on the role of a caster who commands dragon magic and must attempt to rebuild the realm and restore it to its former glory. Players have an extensive coalition system to help them protect their territory and its heart, the Dragonium tower, and to defeat seemingly overwhelming enemies. With up to 20 players, a coalition can devise strategies against its enemies via in-game live chat and lead armies into battle together. In addition to PvP, there are also lots of missions and campaigns to choose from, and completing them will unlock valuable rewards and resources. Thanks to the in-game economics and trade system, players can exercise their mercantile talents to increase their income and enlarge their troops.

Glory of Gods

Glory of Gods is a MMORPG, which will throw your into the deep end of a struggle between gods and demons.

Features:

Arena: Fight other players, demonstrate your mighty power, and earn unique items in the Arena.

Soul system: Improve your hero’s battle characteristics, create an unique battle style and skills to make yourself un-defeatable.

Bosses: Call your friends and launch a military campaign against a mighty opponent. The winners will be richly rewarded.

Guilds: Surround yourself with like-minded associates and demonstrate your talent for leadership!

Kingdom Under Fire II Announces English Beta

KoF II

Blueside has announced the upcoming start of an English experience beta test for Kingdom Under Fire II.

The date has been set for a closed beta test in Singapore and Malaysia through MMOG.Asia, and will run from January 23 through January 26 (with a pre-beta character creation event running currently).

Blueside has also confirmed that a closed beta test will be coming shortly for North America and Europe, so be on the lookout for more KoFII beta news soon.

Age of Wushu offers Details of World of Contenders PvP Update

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Snail Game offers a teaser of the upcoming PvP focused February update for their unique sandbox wuxia MMORPG, Age of Wushu. Those looking to further test their skills against their fellow players in balanced combat and be rewarded for it will be most interested in what’s to come in World of Contenders.

 

Fourth Internal Skill Unlock

Players will be able to acquire and cultivate the next tier of internal school skills up to level 36 (30 for other school cultivations). And you’ll need it in the new tournament.

 

Age of Wushu Dragon and Tiger Contender2

Dragon and Tiger Tournament

The tournament is an all new One on One duel – featured in a spectacular ring of arenas. In order to ensure fair contest, Ancient Manuals, Helianthus Codex, Star Vortex and Hidden Weapon Skills are prohibited. The winners will be awarded with random School Introductory novice manuals, Jianghu Skills, Pure Chi Pills, Yanwu Pills and Cultivation Speed up!

 

Age of Wushu Treasure Assassin

Treasure Assassin

Think you can cultivate the secrets of Peerless Skills? Your fellow players will put that shameless ego to the test in a brutal assassination barrage. The winner(s) will walk away handsomely rewarded.

School Lessons

Experience a three times daily event in which School Grandmasters and Sifus organize large scale training sessions. It’s an excellent new way to bolster your cultivation and speed up progress so don’t miss out!

 

Keep up-to-date on further developments on the official news page.