Yearly Archives: 2014

EverQuest: Darkened Sea Expansion Now Available

EverQuest

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today released the 21st expansion for EverQuest, The Darkened Sea. Continuing the “Year of EverQuest” celebration in honor of EverQuest‘s 15th anniversary, the latest expansion returns players to the lands of the Buried Sea. In The Darkened Sea, players will revisit familiar storylines and characters, and tread through both re-imagined areas and all new locales as they fight to return peace to Norrath.

On a mission to restore balance to Norrath, heroine Firiona Vie travels to Katta Castrum, a city in the Buried Sea, to heal the Combine Emperor, Tsaph Katta. However, a corrupt splinter faction of the Combine, along with the treacherous Lanys T’vyl, attacks the city and kidnaps the Combine ruler. It is up to the heroes of Norrath to track down Lanys and her compatriots, rescue the Emperor and put an end to whatever designs Lanys has planned for Norrath.

  • Eight unique zones available at launch, featuring six completely new zones and two re-imagined zones including:
    • Arx Mentis – Residing on a tiny island deep within the Buried Sea hidden from view by fog and magic, this fortress serves as a base of operations for the followers of Seru.
    • Brother Island – Home to an assorted group of pirates, merchants and other travelers, this safe haven keeps those who wish to cross the Buried Sea free from the lure of the sirens that plague its water… for a price.
    • Caverns of Endless Song – Colorful caverns in an underwater cave system filled with dangling kelp, coral, shells and glittering sandstone. Its beauty is alluring, but many who venture in never make it back out.
    • Combine Dredge – Once used to harvest resources from the depths of the sea floor, these mining platforms are now being used to raise sections of the seabed to find something… or someone.
    • Degmar, The Lost Castle – A translocated dwarven castle lies at the bottom of the Buried Sea. While old in age, it sits in pristine condition protected by magical barriers that keep out vile sea creatures and keep in its many secrets.
    • Katta Castrum – With its protective dome cracked and millions of gallons of seawater flooding the lower levels, the city finds itself under attack and its many treasures in peril from the Shissar.
    • Tempest Temple – Ravaged by endless storms and wild magic, pieces of the island lay suspended in the air after the summoning of the ultimate storm. The entire ecology hangs in ruin, with the dangers of an unstable volcano at the center of the chaos.
    • Thuliasaur Island – A remote jungle island to the south of the Buried Sea that is known for many more dangers besides its colossal dinosaur inhabitants.
  • Mount Key Ring
    • Conveniently places all mounts in one central location
    • Increases inventory space for players
    • Separates mount appearances from stats
  • Level increase to 105
  • New spells, AAs, items, quests, missions and raids!

“With The Darkened Sea, we wanted to revisit some of the classic stories that EverQuest has created over the past 15 years. By returning to the Buried Sea, not only can we revisit timeless areas in the world of Norrath, but also deliver the epitome of a classic ‘Good vs. Evil’ story to our fans, by bringing back two iconic EverQuest characters in Firiona Vie and Lanys T’vyl.” – Thom Terrazas, Senior Producer, EverQuest.

For more info, visit https://www.everquest.com/home

Space Hulk: Ascension Edition Available Now

Space Hulk

Form ranks, draw steel and stand fast brothers! Today independent studio Full Control revealed that Space Hulk: Ascension Edition is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux on Steam. Space Hulk: Ascension Edition is a completely new experience that takes the game to a whole new level. With reworked mechanics and a host of new features, including RPG progression mechanics, new Genestealer variations, new rules, and mission structures, Space Hulk: Ascension Edition has 10 times the content of the original game, with 50-100 hours of gameplay, and is now available on Steam at http://store.steampowered.com/app/317620/

“Being massive fans of the Space Hulk tabletop game and Warhammer 40,000 universe, we are excited to launch Space Hulk Ascension Edition, said Thomas Hentschel Lund, CEO of Full Control. “We’ve taken player feedback and added new content and features, which take the game to a whole new level. With 103 missions, new mechanics and deep customisation, Space Hulk: Ascension Edition will provide players with endless nerve shredding fun, as they lead a fearless team of Space Marine Terminators into battle, in the claustrophobic corridors of a Space Hulk”.

Features for Space Hulk: Ascension Edition include:

  • Huge amounts of content – 103 unique missions spread out across 3 campaign chapters
  • New enemies – new Genestealer variations for you to face in the depths of the Space Hulk.
  • New mechanics – a complete reworking of the board game rules and mechanics. It’s still the Space Hulk game you love, re-imagined for a new experience.
  • Customisation – RPG-style skill progression and player squad management allow you to create your own tailor-made team of hardened veterans.
  • New weapons, more complex maps, combi-weapons and flash missions.
  • 10 times the amount of content of the original game, with 50 – 100 hours of game time.

Space Hulk: Ascension Edition is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which builds upon the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, additional weapons, enemy types, an all-new chapter and loads of other new features. Set in the isolated corridors and tomb-like chambers of ancient vessels lost in the graveyard of space, players lead a small force of fearless Space Marine Terminators in a ferocious fight for survival against hordes of predatory, alien Genestealers.

Space Hulk: Ascension Edition is rated PEGI 16 and is available for $29.99, €27.99, £22.99 across all platforms. Players who own the original Space Hulk will receive a 15% discount off the RRP.

You can find more information about Space Hulk: Ascension Edition at: www.spacehulk-ascension.com

Sentinel Heroes Remake’s New Update Goes Live Today

Sentinel

Sentinel Heroes Studios announced the release of a new update for its strategic RPG game Sentinel Heroes today. The update includes a new ranking system, big changes in Auction House, and a new daily event.

The new ranking system covers Level Rankings, Arena Rankings, Checkpoint Conquerors Rankings, Dungeon Conquerors Rankings and so on. It not only lists top players in the game but also shows your own rank. Players can fight against each other to get a better rank.

To boost trade in Auction House, Sentinel Heroes introduced consignment fee refund mechanism. Before, once you consigned an item, one diamond will be deducted from your account whether the item’s sold or not. But now if the trade is not completed, the one diamond will be refunded. So, free players can use Auction House, too. Another good news for free players is that diamonds can be got by completing certain quests now which can only be bought with real money before this update.

Sentinel Heroes also opened a new daily event “Life Tree’s Blessing”. Players can join the event twice a day to get some free stamina. There are other changes waiting for your exploration.

For info, visit (http://www.sentinelheroes.com/ )

Iruna Online: Full-scale mobile MMO gets a new raid

Iruna

“Iruna Online” is a free to play Full Scale 3D Online RPG played by more than 3.6 million users in Japan. “Iruna Online” features 3D graphics, cooperative play, and chatting just as in PC online RPGs. We’ve started the official service for Android on March, 2013. And for iOS on August, 2013. So, the official service currently supports two platforms.

ASOBIMO released a new raid for 3D MMORPG “Iruna Online” in the latest update. You candownload “Iruna Online” from GooglePlay or AppStore for free and the event is open forany players.

You can fight against boss monsters with 100 players at max in a raid. To participatein a raid, please talk to the NPC “Entrata” in “Capital city Sofya”.In the latest update, we added the third raid “Intruding Iruna”.
You will find thatthe boss monsters in the raid are much stronger than in other raids! But if you survive the raid, you will gain a lot of EXP, and of course, you have the chance to get rare items!

Moreover, “Boss Defeating Event” is held along with the new raid. In this event, the total number of the boss monsters defeated in “Raid: Intruding Iruna” will be counted.
As you defeat more and more bosses, you will get more days to open a Costume Box one time free per day. The number of the defeated boss monsters in all the servers will be added up, so invite other players to a party to get more rewards!

For more info, visit http://iruna-online.com/index

Mu Online Season 9 Update Pack Giveaway

To celebrate the latest update of full 3D MMORPG MU Online, Season 9, we have teamed up with WBEZEN to give away free item keys for our community.

MU-Online_Season-9-Update

Developed by WEBZEN Inc., MU is a full 3D MMORPG which is one of the leading online games developed in Korea. MU is a highly involved fantasy RPG based on the legendary Continent of MU. MU established a basic frame of various online games and is regarded as a pioneer of 3D MMORPGs.

Season 9 Features Include:

  • 4Lv Seed Sphere (Tetra)
  • New Map – Urk Mountain
  • Upgraded Muun System – Normal / Mount type of Muun
  • Game and Class Setting change / UI & Control Change / Wide Screen Mode

 

The Mu Online Season 9 Pack offers different items depending on if you’re a new or returning player.

Return Player Pack Includes:

  • 4th Generation MUUN
  • 2nd Lucky Armor Set
  • Rage Fighter Character Card
  • Summoner Character Card
  • Excellent Scroll Package (15days)
  • Gold Channel Ticket [15 Days]
  • AG Boost Aura[15 Days]
  • SD Boost Aura[15 Days]
  • Seal of Healing [15 days]
  • Master Seal of Wealth[15 days]
  • Skeleton Pet [15 days]
  • Bless of Light X 5

New Player Pack Includes:
• 4th Generation MUUN
• 1st Lucky Armor set
• Rage Fighter Character Card
• Summoner Character Card
• Excellent Scroll Package [15 days]
• Gold Channel Ticket [15 Days]
• AG Boost Aura[15 Days]
• SD Boost Aura[15 Days]
• Seal of Healing [15 days]
• Seal of Wealth [15 days]
• Panda Pet [15 Days]
• Robot Knight Transformation Ring [15 days]
• Sapphire Necklace 15 Days
• Sapphire Ring 15 Days
• Divine Wing 15 days
• Bless of Light X 5

 

To Redeem your Key:

  • Visit here to create a new account. (Please skip step 1, if you are already a returned MU player.)
  • Visit here and input your item code.
  • Click “Enter” and get free in-game items!

DC Universe Online War of the Light Part II Press Preview

By Eric Kandel (Misanthropologist)

DCUO War of the Light Part II

With early access beginning today, and full release coming on the 18th of this month (19th for the EU), DC Universe Online (DCUO) takes the next step in its “War of the Light” trilogy. The studio marks this down as uncharted territory, being that it’s the first time they’ve taken that second step into the trilogy projects they’ve begun. Why trilogies, you ask? The team explained that it was their goal to deliver longer, more impactful story arcs through their content updates. Feeling that one-shot stories took too little time to build, and didn’t run long enough to properly draw players in, the trilogy model was determined to be a better storytelling device. As I learned by attending the press reveal, the DCUO team takes the matter of story and plot very, very seriously.

DCUO Spark of Parallax

Well, maybe “seriously” isn’t the right word. Creative Director Jens “Spytle” Andersen was all but frothing at the mouth (you can’t help but wonder how he came by that nickname) in his eagerness to tell us more about the project. This eagerness, this love for the product, is apparently a team-wide thing. To put it in perspective: at a press event for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the devs will tell you that they’re a bunch of Star Wars fans and you have no reason to doubt them. At a press event for Lord of the Rings Online, the devs will tell you that they’re a bunch of Tolkien fans and they’ll have plenty of exposition prepared to show it. At a press event for DC Universe Online, the devs will regale with a madcap tale of winding plot twists so elaborate and esoteric, so thoroughly entrenched within the DC halls of canon antiquities, that the journalists will have to pause them, more than once, just to ask how to spell the name of that thing they’re talking about. This revelry will be kept up at a breakneck pace, pausing not for breath but for a quick back-and-forth about their favorite new DC-themed TV shows, and related with bright eyes and jubilant tones.

DCUO Spark of Ion

 

If there is any player, potential player, or former player out there who doubts the devotion of the DCUO creative team to the intellectual property from which they draw their name. . . you may safely put those doubts to bed.

 

I, unfortunately, am merely a hired journalist and, for all that I am awed by the studio’s masterful command of the source material, I do not share it. Like many others in attendance, I simply did my best to take the most thorough notes I could without stopping the ride too much. What follows, then, is an overview of DLC 12’s content as filtered through the eyes of a DC noob who did their best to research the matter prior to writing this article.

DCUO Avarice Impurity

To best explain what the War of the Light trilogy entails to those who don’t already know, we should begin with the character Green Lantern. The Green Lantern, as most of us know him, is a fellow who likes to wear a lot of green and has a power of some kind that has to do with the manipulation of green light. We’re going to skip over six decades of comic book history here and jump to this one point: the Green Lantern’s power is drawn, ultimately, from a unique cosmic energy source which is powered by the emotions of all sentient beings. This energy most commonly manifests as one or many colors of light, with each light representing a specific emotion. Green is the color of wilfulness, willpower, etc. It was taken as a sort of patron energy by an ancient group of aliens that wanted to bring order to the universe and fight evil.

DCUO Zamaron

Bear with me, because this is where things really start to get weird. There are other colors, with their own followers, not all of them nice. These groups have all been aware of each other for eons, with their own history of triumph and defeat, politics and infighting. Recently, however, there’s been a terrible upset caused in the balance of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum (that colored light of emotional energy we’ve been talking about) resulting from a mad experiment by Brainiac (yes, Brainiac), and this cosmic force has gone awry in a tremendously bad way. Light, in the form of mists, has begun to descend on the world and possess heroes and villains alike. The role of the players in this story is to unravel the mystery of what’s really going on at the center of it all, to restore some order to the world (even the villains, as the spectrum’s craziness is hurting them as much as anyone else), and to put a stop to the conflicts that have broken out in deep space as a result.

DCUO Avarice Impurity 2

This adventure will prominently feature the factions representing the various colors of the spectrum, their leaders, many famous (and infamous) heroes and villains who have been possessed by the mists, and a number of exotic environments and locales up to and including the home world of the original Lantern Corps. It will come with new PvE content for solo players, small groups and large groups, and zones specifically designed to encourage what the devs called “emergent PvP”. I imagine a disgruntled crowd of heroes and villains, already annoyed at working in such close proximity to one another, erupting into a costumed saloon brawl after one stray remark about someone else’s mother.

 

I’ve done my best. If you want the story in any greater detail than that, you’ll just have to play the game.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack Available Today

BL2 Presequel Handsome Jack Doppleganger Pack

2K and Gearbox Software announced today that the first add-on content pack for Borderlands®: The Pre-Sequel™, Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack*, is now available** for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC. The Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack features a fifth playable character for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, adding hours of shoot ‘n’ loot action to Pandora’s moon. Fans will become the maniacal tyrant from Borderlands 2, or at least his trusted body double, also known as Jack the Doppelganger. For the first time, players will take advantage of Handsome Jack’s charming good looks to distract and fight enemies or cut them down with witty banter.

“With Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, we’re continuing the Borderlands franchise’s tradition of delivering high quality add-on content and supporting the game well after it launches,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “The Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack adds hours of gravity-defying mayhem and is just the first of four upcoming add-on content packs.”

BL2 Presequel Handsome Jack Doppleganger Action

The Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack is the first of four add-on content packs for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and is included in the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass* – a $39.96 value for only $29.99. Each add-on content pack will also be available individually for $9.99. The Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass grants access to download all four of the planned add-on content packs as they become commercially available on the PlayStation®Network, Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft, Windows PC, Mac and Linux.

“It’s been amazing finally seeing fans’ responses to Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel,” said Tony Lawrence, studio head at 2K Australia. “Borderlands’ fans continue to be so loyal to the franchise, and the team couldn’t wait to give them more opportunities to experience and explore what makes Handsome Jack such an iconic villain.”

Ed: There are also codes available for 5 Golden Keys! Use these codes to unlock them based on your platform:

PC / Mac / Linux: 5K53J-J9FJ3-BT3JB-3BTT3-9JF5J
Xbox 360: 5K53J-J9FR6-CW6JF-5FTT3-9JF3W
PlayStation 3: 5K53J-J9FJ5-HX3KB-9BWT3-9JFK6

Elvenar

Elvenar is a fantasy, strategy, city-building MMORPG created by Innogames. The main focus of the game lies on building and upgrading a city, but players also trade, explore the world map or have strategic turn-based fights on a 3D battlefield.

Features:

Fantastic realms: Take care of the construction of your village and guide elves or humans through the dazzling realms.

Residences, workshops & more: Pick up the reigns and lead your people into a new era by laying the foundation and building your city just the way you like it.

Explore and battle: There is a myriad of areas surrounding your city just waiting for your scouts to explore and relics to uncover. Get your hands on these relics by either trading some with the province owners or fighting over them against savage creatures.

Friendly neighborhood: You are not alone in Elvenar. Numerous other tribes of elves and humans have made their home. You can visit them and take a good look at their city building progress.