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- Final Fantasy XIV
- Battle Dragons
- Battle Dragons Mobile Review
- Astro Empires Announces Major New Update, Astro Empires v1.5
- Silkroad Online Discovers the Genie in the Bottle
- Smashmuck Champions Design a Champ PAX Panel 2013 Annoucement
- Extraction
- Black Gold Online Offers First Race Reveal for Industrial Buvants
- Nexon America to Publish First Person Shooter Extraction
- Final Fantasy Online Experience is ‘Reborn’ Today
| Posted: 27 Aug 2013 04:19 PM PDT Welcome to Eorzea, a wonderous world filled with many of the species and creatures you’ve come to know over the years in the Final Fantasy series. Join up with others and embark on incredible adventures in a redesigned MMORPG!  Publisher: Square Enix Pros: +Wide range of classes and professions to choose from. +Massive world with tons to do. +High production value. Cons: -Subscription fee required. -Awkward controls. -Steep system requirements. Overview Final Fantasy XIV OverviewFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a subscription-based, pay-to-play MMORPG from Square Enix based on the Final Fantasy franchise. Taking heavy inspiration from its predecessor, Final Fantasy XI, FFXIV offers characters the ability to take on a massive world with deep storylines, monsterous progression, and multiple classes and professions that can be switched between on a single character. Quests, instances, crafting, mounts, and much more are all available in this big-budget title. Playable races: Hyur, Miqo’te, Elezen, Roeadyn, Lalafell Final Fantasy XIV Screenshots        Final Fantasy XIV Featured Video Full Review Final Fantasy XIV ReviewComing Soon … Screenshots Final Fantasy XIV ScreenshotsComing Soon … Videos Final Fantasy XIV VideosFinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Launch Trailer System Requirements Final Fantasy XIV System RequirementsPlayStation 3 Requirements Windows (PC) Minimum Requirements Windows (PC) Recommended Requirements |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2013 02:51 PM PDT Raise an empire, build an army, farm a mountain full of sheep, and unleash your inner dragon in Battle Dragons, the latest title from Spacetime Games!  Publisher: Spacetime Games Pros: +Large Dragon Variety. +Mobile w/ Touch Controls. +Easy to Learn but not Oversimplified. +Casual Format. Cons: -Slow Paced. -Too much downtime between battles. -Cash Shop Required to speed up Gameplay. Overview OverviewRaise an empire, build an army, farm a mountain full of sheep, and unleash your inner dragon in Battle Dragons, the latest title from Spacetime Games! Utilizing a variety of special dragon powers, you can build impenetrable fortresses, fortify them with friends in your tribe, chat with players from around the world, and declare war to raid resources and gold from your foes. All while on the game on Android and Iphone devices! Dragon Types: Healer, Spitter, Builder, Smasher, Flyer, Brawler, Crusher. Screenshots    Featured Video Full Review ReviewBy Remko Molenaar (Proxzor) Dragons are back in style! While a popular topic of campfire conversations for eons, lately it seems like every other game I review has dragons at the core. As such it was no surprise to me to see my next assigned review was Spacetime Games latest mobile allowing you to unleash your inner dragon while battling along thousands of other tribes. Battle Dragons is a strategy title for the Android that also launched to the iOS just last week! In Battle Dragons you will fight alongside the legendary flame spewing winged lizards. But beyond the typical red and fiery dragons, there are a wide variety of dragons carrying some pretty unique special attacks to further differentiate them. But before worrying about filling out your dragon pokedex, you'll need to learn the ins and outs of maintaining a tribe. You will start out with a simple Dragon Hall and some surrounding buildings to create sheep and money. You must be thinking, sheep? What is he talking about? Well your dragons need to eat right? And since god gave us sheep, they are a delicious snack for your troops. Your tribe is the keystone to your dragon empire as you'll need its help to establish a Fortress to protect the peaceful citizens working your gold mines and sheep ranches. These places can all be attacked by your rivals, so focus first and foremost on defending them with everything you have. You can really see Battle Dragons shine while attacking a fortress or tribe. Here is where the strategy elements come into play. The dragons you breed and train to join your troops can be deployed anywhere around the map. And thus your fortress needs the most optimal defenses. You do not want to leave a 'hole' in your defense, because a smart player will abuse that. Likewise when you are attacking, you will be looking for this weak spot. Since you are able to let your troops attack from any direction, you can really trick the enemy's defenses and find his vulnerable spot. You cannot simply place defenses around your whole town; this results in being vulnerable to a focused direct attack at one section. Ideally you want to set up a trap that makes your foe think you're weak in one segment, only to spring on them when they force their primary forces into said section. These mind games really help flesh out the gameplay. Sometimes before going into battle I spent several minutes planning and looking for the most vulnerable place to attack. And since every unit in your troop has different abilities and specialties, you can spend plenty of time playing around with your own formations and army set-ups prior to the actual attack. But war costs a lot of money. A bit too much as you may find yourself hesitant to even declare war unless it's a sure fire win. If you take serious losses, it can be quite a while before you've saved up enough money and troops to attack again. And since this game is made for the mobile phone, don't go into it expecting to find a title meant to be played multiple hours a day. Both your sheep corral and gold mine will eventually acquire resources over time. And it is up to you to collect these resources before both buildings are full and cannot store more. Buildings can be upgraded however, and with the sheep that you breed, and the money you dig up in your gold mine, you can use these to purchase upgrades. As you can see, the game is made to play while you are travelling or simply something you do while at work. You'll quickly burn yourself out watching estimated resource acquisition times if you try to play it for hours each day. Though if you do have this type of addictive behavior, you can speed up the entire process via the cash shop. As in many other strategy games, if you do not have the patience you can throw around real money. Pearls can be purchased primarily to speed up building upgrades or rush the training of troops. If you like to socialize, the game also offers you to join or make tribes. Tribes are basically player made guilds where you can play together and help each other out. It is also a great way to socialize with other players. You can contact your fellow tribe mates or even discuss the game with other players from around the world. With as wide of an audience as mobile games tend to bring in, you can usually expect some pretty diverse people from around the world to be there to chat with. It never is fun to play alone, and it is always a lot more fun to play under a banner, and the tribes really enables that within Battle Dragons. Conclusion: Good I have always said it. Mobile phone games show a lot of potential and focus heavily on the fun factor since they don't have the spare client space for bells and whistles. From what I've experienced so far, Battle Dragons matches up against any browser strategy games designed for the PC. Dragons are creatures we have seen before, yet Battle Dragons brings them to life as unique tools of war. It's a simple touch and some might say a gimmick, but the purpose they serve for a tactician is enough to keep us strategy gamers interested in the siege combat. Bringing down a fortress is seriously a difficult task to do, and it requires some great planning. The payoff of finally managing it is worth the wait and frustration of all your prior losses. If you are a strategy fan just like me, you should give this game a look if you have an Android or iOS phone. Screenshots Screenshots Videos VideosOfficial Trailer System Requirements System Requirements
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| Posted: 27 Aug 2013 02:24 PM PDT By Remko Molenaar (Proxzor) Dragons are back in style! While a popular topic of campfire conversations for eons, lately it seems like every other game I review has dragons at the core. As such it was no surprise to me to see my next assigned review was Spacetime Games latest mobile allowing you to unleash your inner dragon while battling along thousands of other tribes. Battle Dragons is a strategy title for the Android that also launched to the iOS just last week! In Battle Dragons you will fight alongside the legendary flame spewing winged lizards. But beyond the typical red and fiery dragons, there are a wide variety of dragons carrying some pretty unique special attacks to further differentiate them. But before worrying about filling out your dragon pokedex, you'll need to learn the ins and outs of maintaining a tribe. You will start out with a simple Dragon Hall and some surrounding buildings to create sheep and money. You must be thinking, sheep? What is he talking about? Well your dragons need to eat right? And since god gave us sheep, they are a delicious snack for your troops. Your tribe is the keystone to your dragon empire as you'll need its help to establish a Fortress to protect the peaceful citizens working your gold mines and sheep ranches. These places can all be attacked by your rivals, so focus first and foremost on defending them with everything you have. You can really see Battle Dragons shine while attacking a fortress or tribe. Here is where the strategy elements come into play. The dragons you breed and train to join your troops can be deployed anywhere around the map. And thus your fortress needs the most optimal defenses. You do not want to leave a 'hole' in your defense, because a smart player will abuse that. Likewise when you are attacking, you will be looking for this weak spot. Since you are able to let your troops attack from any direction, you can really trick the enemy's defenses and find his vulnerable spot. You cannot simply place defenses around your whole town; this results in being vulnerable to a focused direct attack at one section. Ideally you want to set up a trap that makes your foe think you're weak in one segment, only to spring on them when they force their primary forces into said section. These mind games really help flesh out the gameplay. Sometimes before going into battle I spent several minutes planning and looking for the most vulnerable place to attack. And since every unit in your troop has different abilities and specialties, you can spend plenty of time playing around with your own formations and army set-ups prior to the actual attack. But war costs a lot of money. A bit too much as you may find yourself hesitant to even declare war unless it's a sure fire win. If you take serious losses, it can be quite a while before you've saved up enough money and troops to attack again. And since this game is made for the mobile phone, don't go into it expecting to find a title meant to be played multiple hours a day. Both your sheep corral and gold mine will eventually acquire resources over time. And it is up to you to collect these resources before both buildings are full and cannot store more. Buildings can be upgraded however, and with the sheep that you breed, and the money you dig up in your gold mine, you can use these to purchase upgrades. As you can see, the game is made to play while you are travelling or simply something you do while at work. You'll quickly burn yourself out watching estimated resource acquisition times if you try to play it for hours each day. Though if you do have this type of addictive behavior, you can speed up the entire process via the cash shop. As in many other strategy games, if you do not have the patience you can throw around real money. Pearls can be purchased primarily to speed up building upgrades or rush the training of troops. If you like to socialize, the game also offers you to join or make tribes. Tribes are basically player made guilds where you can play together and help each other out. It is also a great way to socialize with other players. You can contact your fellow tribe mates or even discuss the game with other players from around the world. With as wide of an audience as mobile games tend to bring in, you can usually expect some pretty diverse people from around the world to be there to chat with. It never is fun to play alone, and it is always a lot more fun to play under a banner, and the tribes really enables that within Battle Dragons. Conclusion: Good I have always said it. Mobile phone games show a lot of potential and focus heavily on the fun factor since they don't have the spare client space for bells and whistles. From what I've experienced so far, Battle Dragons matches up against any browser strategy games designed for the PC. Dragons are creatures we have seen before, yet Battle Dragons brings them to life as unique tools of war. It's a simple touch and some might say a gimmick, but the purpose they serve for a tactician is enough to keep us strategy gamers interested in the siege combat. Bringing down a fortress is seriously a difficult task to do, and it requires some great planning. The payoff of finally managing it is worth the wait and frustration of all your prior losses. If you are a strategy fan just like me, you should give this game a look if you have an Android or iOS phone. |
| Astro Empires Announces Major New Update, Astro Empires v1.5 Posted: 27 Aug 2013 01:31 PM PDT The space strategy browser game Astro Empires is preparing the largest update in its history. Recently Cybertopia, the company behind Astro Empires, released full details of the upcoming new features and changes. The update brings a fresh interface, better tutorial, lots of new media graphics, a new ingame technology, improvements to the game interactive map and several tweaks on the game mechanics.
“The changes are definitely the largest since Astro Empires was launched and the player’s initial feedback has been very positive. We hope they will enjoy the final product as much as we did developing it.” – Colin Palin, Community Manager at Astro Empires. Astro Empires v1.5 updates are due to be released in October. |
| Silkroad Online Discovers the Genie in the Bottle Posted: 27 Aug 2013 01:23 PM PDT Leading online game developer and publisher, Joymax, today begins a new celebration for their new daily Genie's Lamp quest in their MMORPGs, Silkroad Online. Your wish can only be granted if you find the missing Genie's Lamp, so it's time to get hunting! A Genie has appeared in Silkroad Online, however the Genie can't grant the players' wishes because he has lost his lamp – wandering around the land of Silkroad homeless, the daily quest manager heard about the Genie's pitiful circumstance and requested that Silkroad adventurers help him find the lamp; great rewards and surprises await the lucky players who find the lamp.
Visit the Daily Quest Manager located in any town to take the Genie's Lamp quest. Then hunt monsters of the same level bracket and discover the spotted lamp. Then bring it back to Daily Quest Manager to have him polish it up; return the refurbished lamp to the Genie for your reward! This quest can be started by any character level 71 and over, in any city (Jangan, Donwhang, Constantinople, Samarkand and Hotan). Need more lamps? Additional Genie's Lamps can be purchased in the cash shop beginning now. Today also marks the start of the fifth wave of Limitless Avatars! Eleven new Avatars become permanent costumes beginning today, including the 2012's New Arabia, 2012's New Devil, 2012's New Saint Warrior, Angel Powers Dress, Blue Soul Knight, Day Death Assassin, Ghost Captain, Noblesse, Phoenix Dress, Saytan Dress, and Viking avatars. |
| Smashmuck Champions Design a Champ PAX Panel 2013 Annoucement Posted: 27 Aug 2013 01:02 PM PDT Smashmuck Champions is coming to PAX Prime in Seattle this weekend to host another live design event for the next champion to be added into the game.
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| Posted: 27 Aug 2013 12:55 PM PDT London has been evacuated, leaving behind rogue squads of mercenaries to gather valuable information left behind. Prepare for intense competition, teamwork, and more in this team-focused shooter from Splash Damage.  Publisher: Nexon Pros: +Team focus. +Promises balanced playing field. +Well-known developer. Cons: -Limited information available. Overview Extraction OverviewExtraction is a free-to-play multiplayer online first-person shooter (FPS), developed by Splash Damage, the studio behind Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Brink. Designed with a cooperative, team-focus in mind, players will be able to choose from dozens of unique roles and defend or attack key objectives. The game also boasts ECHO, an analytics and telemetry system, which will offer a fair playing field. Extraction Screenshots          Extraction Featured VideoComing Soon… Full Review Extraction ReviewComing Soon … Screenshots Extraction ScreenshotsComing Soon … Videos Extraction VideosComing Soon… System Requirements Extraction System RequirementsComing Soon… |
| Black Gold Online Offers First Race Reveal for Industrial Buvants Posted: 27 Aug 2013 11:01 AM PDT Following last week's sudden reveal of Black Gold Online's unique F2P business model, it seems Snail Games is ready to start getting serious about revealing information about their upcoming steampunk versus nature faction focused action MMORPG. And sure enough today it begins with the reveal of the Buvants, the race most akin to humans and primarily responsible for the beginning of the Isenhorst faction's industrial revolution. The Buvants represent an incredibly open-minded faction that sided quickly with the dwarves after being cast out from the Eastern lands of Eriandir for defying nature as their leader, Hoka, crushed it to make way for his Black Gold-powered steam machinations. Now well established with powerful machines of war in hand, the Buvants are recognized as the rulers of Isenhorst and greatest threat to the old ways. The Duvant race will allow players access to the Inquisitor, Mystic, and Tech Adept classes. They typically stand between 5'7" and 6'6", resemble humans, and typically dress in Neo-Victorian Era fashion akin to what you might run into at a steampunk booth at Comic Con. For more information on the Duvants, check out the official Snail Games post here! |
| Nexon America to Publish First Person Shooter Extraction Posted: 27 Aug 2013 10:58 AM PDT Nexon America, the North American subsidiary of Tokyo-based NEXON Co., LTD., a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced its latest PC title, Extraction. Developed by award-winning multiplayer studio, Splash Damage, and published by Nexon America, Extraction is a Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter (MOFPS) which will be available in North America and Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand. Extraction combines tactical gameplay, fast-paced action and an ever-expanding roster of playable characters to create a highly competitive team-oriented shooter. Players can choose from dozens of unique roles with different playing styles and abilities, and fight in teams to defeat their opponents by defending or attacking key objectives. Set in evacuated London following a mysterious radiological attack, elite squads of mercenaries secretly unite in the city's abandoned streets to extract the valuable information left behind. Extraction offers a fair and balanced playing field, achieved through ECHO, a powerful analytics and telemetry system.
"We are inspired by the passion of the developers at Splash Damage and have immense respect for their expertise in multiplayer game development," said Min Kim, CEO of Nexon America. "Extraction's refreshing blend of action and team-oriented strategy provides the depth PC shooter fans have been looking for. Through our partnership with Splash Damage, we hope to plant a massive win for online gamers." Based in London, Splash Damage began its rich history in independent game development as a mod team in the PC first person shooter genre before creating its breakout hit Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. After being called upon to create the multiplayer maps for Doom 3, the team used that game's technology and design tools as building blocks for the acclaimed Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and its first multi-platform title, Brink, which further established Splash Damage as a Triple-A game developer.
"We spent a long time finding the right partner for us on Extraction. Nexon America's vast experience and the fact that they're a true trailblazer in the F2P PC game arena ultimately made the decision super easy for us," said Paul Wedgwood, CEO of Splash Damage. "Extraction is a title we love making and playing, and hope that the collaborative nature of the game delivers a dynamic and fun experience for players."
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| Final Fantasy Online Experience is ‘Reborn’ Today Posted: 27 Aug 2013 10:45 AM PDT Square Enix Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX interactive entertainment products in the Americas, today announced that FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn is now available in North America. Now, players on Windows PC and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system can adventure together in the first FINAL FANTASY title that introduces hallmarks from the entire franchise. The highly anticipated online role playing game takes place five years after the realm of Eorzea was ravaged by the unleashing of Bahamut, the most powerful of the god-like Primals. As players explore the world and learn more details in the epic storyline, they can hone their skills with the Armoury System. This unique gameplay feature allows characters to change their role, abilities, and skills on-the-fly, without having the need to create multiple characters.
"We are extremely proud of all the work and effort spent creating FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn, and I hope that both new and old players enjoy this FINAL FANTASY experience," said Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn. "We look forward to supporting this title for many years to come, always listening to the community and delivering rich content updates and new stories that our fans deserve." Key Features - All the hallmarks of the FINAL FANTASY franchise, including genre-leading graphics and real-time cut scenes, beautiful music, and an immersive story experience - Band together with your friends to create guild-like "Free Companies" to take on the game's story-driven adventures - High level detail and quality of graphics on both the PlayStation®3 system and Windows PC through the new graphics engine - Flexible class system that allows players to change to any of the 19 different classes on the fly by simply changing their equipped weapon or tool. Players can also unlock 9 different jobs as they advance in level. - New takes on classic FINAL FANTASY elements like the "Materia" and "Limit Break" systems that originally appeared in FINAL FANTASY VII - Varied options available for leveling and growing the player's character − including class quests, main story quests, quick-action "Guildleves and Guildhests" that act as events players can tackle alone or with friends, and exciting "Instanced Dungeons” to raid in search of vast treasures - Full Active Time Events (FATEs) − unique events that allow for dynamic open world battles and adventures with other players - Personal companion chocobos for players to ride and fight alongside in battle |
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