Today, Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a leading publisher of widely-acclaimed free-to-play MMORPGs, announced the availability of Royal Quest on Arc – the platform for publishing and accessing high-quality, free online games. Developed by Katauri Interactive, Royal Quest’s fantastical style and expansive gameplay are available now with a free Greennoise pet, Necrok mount and Adventure Lust character decoration until May 20, 2015.

Royal Quest offers players the chance to seize their destiny in a battle against the deadly Black Alchemists. Those courageous souls who answer the King’s call for aid will be immersed in a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game brimming with chances for loot, glory, and adventure. Arc players may wield elemental powers to combat the Black Alchemists, exploiting enemy weaknesses with strategic use of weapons and skills. Royal Quest incorporates both group and solo quests to gives all players a diverse offering of content from adversarial to cooperative.

More information for Royal Quest can be found here: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/Royal_Quest

Digital Extremes’ Warframe® today launched Den of Kubrow Bonus Weeks for the Warframe community. The special Den of Kubrow Bonus Weeks are for all Warframe players (called Tenno, in-game) across the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation®4 System and will involve a variety of activities running from May 14 through 26.

Over the next two weeks, Tenno can login and play the cooperative third-person shooter to receive a free Kubrow Starter Kit, which allows them to raise their very own furry companion. The Kubrow are a canine-like egg-laying species that first served as companions and pets to the Orokin, and later as fiercely loyal guard animals for Orokin elite.  Players who participate in the Den of Kubrow Bonus Weeks also receive a Kubrow gene mixing kit for breeding and can play a special 4-day Tactical Alert with a prized Wraith weapon as reward (highly coveted among Tenno).

Players should also keep an eye out for additional surprises, including a community event involving the newly reared Kubrow, character-building Double Resource, Affinity and Drop Chance days, plus a lucrative Platinum sale and BOGO deals.

The official www.Warframe.com website contains more information on Den of Kubrow Bonus Weeks, including exact start and stop times for various components of the special.

Earlier this week Warframe also launched a major content update on PC. The new Tubemen of Regor Update for PC includes a new tileset, weapons and customizations along with expansions to the PvP-focused Conclaves area and the Co-op encouraging play found in the Trials.

To celebrate the Tubemen of Regor, we’ve launched a special Dragon Mod + giveaway, and we’ve just set a new batch of keys live alongside this news announcement! Get your key now!!

To learn more about Warframe, download the game and join the community, please visit the official website at www.warframe.com.

Today ArenaNet revealed the Reaper, the elite specialization for Necromancers, and the third of nine elite specializations debuting in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.

One of the Reaper’s biggest game changers for Necromancers is related to how the profession is a hands-off damage dealer. Necromancers utilize a host of health-zapping skills and minions to do their dirty work for them. The Reaper elite specialization changes that by giving them the option to arm themselves with powerful greatswords that can annihilate close-knit enemy groups in just a few swipes. The Necromancer’s destructive ethereal form known as the ‘The Death Shroud’ also gets an upgrade with a host of new melee-focused skills using a new, spooky scythe.

ArenaNet is showing the new elite specialization in action with a new video and screenshots accompanying a blog post from Game Designer Robert Gee. You can see the blog post here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-reaper-necromancers-elite-specialization/.

ArenaNet will demo world-first live gameplay of this specialization on Points of Interest airing at 12 p.m. PDT tomorrow, May 15 on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel (http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2). You can download the video and new screenshots associated with the Reaper specialization here: http://bit.ly/1KGLfrl. The video can be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D76uEgrxDM.

For more information about Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and to have an eye on future updates, be sure to visit: https://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en/.

The universe of space strategy games just got a lot bigger with today’s launch of Galactic Civilizations III on PC. The landmark title from Stardock builds on the studio’s 20+ years of experience, the franchise’s history as one of the highest-rated strategy series of all time, and modern 64-bit computing to deliver an unprecedented 4X experience.

Stardock is giving away exclusive launch weekend ship parts to anyone who purchases Galactic Civilizations III through Sunday, May 17. These unique pieces will only be available to this first wave of customers, as well as all pre-order and Early Access purchasers, who will be able to customize their fleets further than ever in the incredible ship designer.

As an absolute ruler in Galactic Civilizations III, the choices you make shape your empire as it inevitably enters into cultural, trade, diplomatic, ideological, and military conflicts with your neighbors. Every empire has multiple paths of victory to pursue. Forging an empire so culturally influential that rival worlds defect to your cause is perfectly viable, so long as you can keep their dropships from landing on your core worlds through literal defenses or soft-power diplomatic maneuvers.

Galactic Civilizations III is the largest and most diverse strategy sandbox to date. Players have dozens of tools at their disposal from diplomatic treaties to resource exchanges, United Planets resolutions to the hundreds of research directions their scientists can pursue, and an effectively infinite number of ways to design and deploy starfleets. Every area of the game – planetary development, starbase construction, inter-faction negotiations, ideology, and much more – presents players with choices that shape their galaxy.

Galactic Civilizations III brings major improvements to the franchise and the genre aside from its triple-A presentation and the sheer size and variety that its 64-bit engine enables. The game is extremely mod-friendly, allowing ambitious modders to add an effectively unlimited amount of content from races to ships to entirely new technology and ideology branches or whatever else they think of. The in-game ship designer puts incredibly powerful tools in every player’s hands to create the starships of their dreams – some of the most impressive ships in the game were created by the winners of the Early Access beta ship design contest. Finally, Internet multiplayer makes its first appearance in the franchise, along with detailed leaderboards and metadata powered by Stardock’s innovative cross-title metagaming infrastructure.

Galactic Civilizations III is available now via Steam at http://store.steampowered.com/app/226860/ for $49.99. To learn more, please visit http://www.galciv3.com.