Monthly Archives: January 2014

Aura Kingdom Defenders of Azuria OB Pack Giveaway

OnRPG has partnered with Aeria Games to celebrate the long awaited open beta launch of Aura Kingdom with Defenders of Azuria packs sure to get you ahead of the pack.

Aura Kingdom is a free-to-play, anime-style fantasy MMORPG. Featuring eight classes that each have expansive skill trees, with the ability to multi-class, the game returns to the roots of fun fantasy RPGs. At your side will be a faithful companion, a non-traditional pet that can join you in special attack combos, bond with you, and even share memories of past events.

The Defenders of Azuria Pack Includes:
Shadow Wolf (7 Day Duration): This mount provides you with +60% move speed when mounted!
[5] Megaphone (NT): Use to broadcast a message to all players on the same server!
[5] Lucky Card (NT): Increases loot drop rate by 10% for 30 mins. Using an additional card will add another 30 mins to the timer!
[5] Warp Portal Card (NT): Use to open a Warp Portal!
[5] Auction Card (NT): Use to open the Auction House interface even if you are not in town!
[5] Feather of Revival (NT): Use to be brought back to life where you fell!

To Redeem your Key:

  • Visit the Aura Kingdom redemption page.
  • Login to your Aeria account.
  • Enter your key in the box and click ‘Redeem.’
  • Download the client and start playing!

Guild Wars 2: The Big Finale Approches

NCSOFT and ArenaNet has released a video trailer today that highlights the sprawling storyline for Guild Wars 2, setting the stage for a grand finale to a narrative that began more than a year ago and introduced supervillain Scarlet Briar. Known as “Our Story So Far”, players are reminded of the increasingly pivotal, insidious role that the evil Scarlet played in the game’s living world storyline in 2013.

As Guild Wars 2’s game director Colin Johanson suggests, all the events that players have experienced in 2013 will be leading up to a ominous end this year. “As we announced back in December, we’re down to just four releases to go in the current storyline of living world”, writes Johanson. “The first of those four releases is nearly upon us, and we wanted to help take a moment and look back at the key moments that have brought us up to this point as a refresher before we dive head-first into countdown to the big finale”.

As the video shows us, Scarlet’s plot began quietly during last Winter’s “Flame and Frost” releases, as she manipulated the mole-like dredge and charr Flame Legion into wreaking havoc in the Shiverpeaks. Her scheme continued in June’s “Sky Pirates of Tyria” and the” Cutthroat Politics” release in July, which introduced the new Aetherblade pirates, who pulled off a cunning assassination plot in Lion’s Arch.

Scarlet stepped out of the shadows during August’s “Clockwork Chaos” release, when she disrupted Queen Jennah’s jubilee celebration with her clockwork horrors. Next, players discovered Scarlet’s newest plans in October’s “Twilight Assault” release, when the renegade sylvari took over the Twilight Arbor dungeon as a new base to consolidate power and amass her forces.

In October’s “Tower of Nightmare”s and November’s “The Nightmares Within” releases, players took on a new Toxic Alliance between the reptilian krait and the evil sylvari of the Nightmare Court, which erected a massive biological tower of evil at Scarlet’s bidding.

What is Scarlet Briar’s ultimate plan, and how can the heroes of Tyria stop it? The video promises that ’the worst -IS- yet to come and hints at the fateful culmination of the Scarlet storyline in 2014.

For more information on Guild Wars 2 and the Living World releases, visit the Guild Wars 2 website at: www.guildwars2.com

Ring in the New Year With Aura Kingdom’s Open Beta

Aura Kingdom_Grand Entrance

The doors to the world of Azuria are now wide open to everyone! Aeria Games, a leading global publisher of free-to-play online games, has announced the start of Open Beta testing for Aura Kingdom, a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with a gorgeous anime art style.

 

Open Beta comes hot on the heels of several closed testing periods in which thousands of players got their first taste of Aura Kingdom’s rich world and dynamic gameplay. During the course of Founder’s Beta, Closed Beta, and Stress Test, players collectively created over 170,000 characters and logged nearly 1,000,000 hours in the game.

Aura Kingdom_Bard

“We’ve seen an incredibly positive response and outpouring of enthusiasm from our community after Aura Kingdom’s Closed Beta,” said Tom Nichols, Vice President of PC Games, Aeria Games. “Now we’re happy to finally announce that players all over the world can experience for themselves this great game from our fan-favorite developer X-Legend.”

 

Game Masters will be on hand to run in-game events every day throughout Open Beta. These events range from massive monster and boss spawns to contests to snap a screenshot of a GM running at superhuman speed. The events offer valuable in-game items and currency as prizes. For new players, there will be welcome sessions during which GMs focus on answering player questions, as well as live tutorials on Twitch.tv.

 

Astro Lords: MMO strategy game launches Kickstarter campaign

A new kind of strategy game by Ukraine-based developer studio “Aratog LLC” is slowly on the horizon and just about every gaming platform known is man is invited to play. Astro Lords is a cross-platform massive multiplayer online 3D space strategy game that takes place in the Oort Cloud – a huge formation of scattered asteroids lying beyond the borders of the Solar System. Each player begins the game as an Astro Lord controlling a single asteroid stronghold. As the game progresses, more asteroids can be seized through battles with other players.

Astro Lords: Oort Cloud is currently a beta, and on December 12, Aratog LLC launched a Kickstarter campaign to help speed up the release of the game.

astrolords

Astro Lords: Oort Cloud puts emphasis on several key components: real-time space battles against AI or other Astro Lords, enhancing asteroids by building factories, mines, defenses and space ships, and exploration of the Oort Cloud to find resource-abundant places and to trade and communicate with other players. Combined together, the components assemble into balanced and captivating gameplay with serious strategic and tactical depth.

The Game Connection Europe has also nominated Astro Lords for European Selected Projects Awards 2013 in the “Social, Casual & Online”, along with excellent graphics and immersive gameplay in a category among 184 games reviewed.

For more information on the game, check out the Astro Lords Kickstart page here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2143058810/astro-lords-oort-cloud

Mabinogi II: Arena Development Cancelled

MB2 Arena

News from across the Pacific – NSquare (the joint team between Nexon and NCSoft) has ended development of Mabinogi II: Arena, apparently due to concerns with the title’s feasibility and player interest.

NSquare will still be working on the recently announced MapleStory 2, and revisiting a Mabinogi sequel sometime in the future, according to MMOCulture.

Sony Online Discusses Subscription Model Changes

SOE

Over the New Year’s holiday, Sony Online Entertainment announced some changes for its game subscribers: starting on February 3, subscribers will receive one free item (of their choice) valued at 2000 Station Cash or less per month, instead of the regular monthly 500 SC stipend.

This stirred up more than a little confusion and discussion with SOE regulars, so today, John Smedley hit Reddit with an impactful statement that not only explained the rationale of this change, but also hinted at the possibility of a network-wide subscription model.

Smedley explained that the goal of the change allows players to pick up larger items on the marketplace, reduce SC accruals, and reduce the disparity between PC titles and console titles (the latter of which can’t use Station Cash).

Smedley went on to sum up the cross-title subscription plan thusly:

We are considering (and are likely going to move forward with) a plan that means if you subscribe to one of our games you are a subscriber to all our games (this applies to PC titles only btw).. all for the current $14.99 a month. That’s a benefit most companies simply can’t offer because they don’t have our portfolio of games. The goal would be to let you pick an item in each game you play. Some of you might say “well who cares..I only play Planetside 2. How is that a benefit to me?” My answer is simple – we’ve got a great lineup of games, some of which aren’t announced yet that cater to a lot of players. We have EQN and EQNL coming along with other….. games… that PS2 players might just like 🙂

Read more of what Smedley has said on Reddit, including the possibility of changes to boosts, Player Studio items, and more!

World Tour Fishing

World Tour Fishing (WTF) is an exciting Online Multiplayer Fishing Game (OMFG) by GamesCampus. With more than 1000 scientifically accurate species of fish to catch, World Tour Fishing allows anglers and sports fishers alike to experience the most famous fishing spots in Asia, Europe and North America.

Features:

Fast-paced action: Reel in fish while maintaining tension, distance in a fast-pace fisher and fisherman battle.

Record your fishing history: Monthly, Seasonal and World Records for every fish available.

Save and Show off your catch: With the WTF Aquarium, you can save your record breaking fish and collect prizes and experience from them daily.

Travel the World: Spanning 5 Continents, Visit More than 70 of the most famous and exclusive fishing spots.