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CCR INC.(Rep. Yoon, Seok Ho), a online game company in Korea, said on Dec 19th that their own game, SF MMORPG ‘RF Online(www.playrf.com)’ progress Closed Beta Test for North American and Western Europe until December 31st.

Users of RF online can have an experience to raise the character to maximum 45lv during Closed Beta Test.

And, gifts will be given through lottery for the five users who have sent the bug reports or any problems.

Users can obtain the game introduction and test-related information through www.playrf.com, which is an official RF Online homepage of North America and Western Europe.

Commercial Service of RF Online(English-version) will be free-to-play with item-selling based cash shop, and will be opened around first quarter of 2009.

Yoon, Seok Ho, CEO of CCR, said that “This is the first step to occupy online game market of North America and Western Europe. We will try to lessen the technical problems as many as possible during the test so that we can get everything in readiness for commercial service which will be started next year.”

Wolfire has recently made the alpha version of Overgrowth’s map editor available to fans that have preordered.  Now players can load, save, translate, rotate and scale assets in engine to create scenes.  Because the latest build also includes many high-detail building materials, fans have begun creating their own structures.

Wolfire still plans to add add more polish to the Phoenix Engine’s terrain system, but it is exciting to see the abundance of assets that can now be used to decorate Overgrowth’s landscape.

For an example of the in-engine buildings that can now be constructed, please observe this scene quickly arranged by Wolfire’s lead artist, Aubrey Serr: http://blog.wolfire.com/2008/12/overgrowth-alpha-5-unleashed/

Paradox Interactive today released the second Elven Legacy developer diary entry. The entry, written by Max Bodrikov, lead game designer from Ino-Co, examines the use of banners in the upcoming PC title.

Max Bodrikov writes, “In our case, a banner is a symbol which looks like a real battle standard, but also displays useful information. First of all it indicates the color of the army. This is especially important in multiplayer, where similar units on opposing sides can fight on the same battlefield. The banner also displays the actions a unit can take during a turn. The units can move and attack in any order. On the banner these options are shown as a sword and a boot. If the unit moves then the boot disappears, but if the unit attacks then the sword disappears. The symbols are highly visible and the player can understand the potential of their army in no time.”

To read the complete developer diary entry for Elven Legacy, please visit: http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/2907/elven-legacy-developer-diary-2

New entries will be posted every two weeks.

Elven Legacy is a fantasy strategy game that sends players on an epic quest aimed to restore the former glory of the Elven race. With a thrilling, non-linear storyline and tools that allow players to create their own missions and campaigns and share them in multiplayer mode, Elven Legacy will provide hours of exciting gameplay for strategy fans.

Elven Legacy is scheduled for release in March, 2009 and will be published worldwide by Paradox Interactive. It will be available for digital download at GamersGate for a suggested retail price of $29.99

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