Archive for January 14th, 2009

2029 from IGG.com is live

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

IGG has scored a big hit with its brand new MMO game-2029 Online. With an epic storyline broken into exquisitely plotted quests and snaking through your playing hours, this game is set to enjoy great success and even greater market dominance. Get your game time groove on and become the Savior of war-torn Helen Continent. Will the inspired and cunning Humans outsmart the awakened Dryad and take over the universe? Or will the sneaky Electronic Elves step in and successfully bring down the Humans’ plans to build their leadership and save this sinful land? The war has just begun!

Game Intro
2029 Online (http://forum.2029.igg.com/) is the first MMOG with a good amount of three Corridors, RTS and RPG elements all thrown into the mix. It mimics and allows the virtual equivalent of real combat experiences. Players explore a realistic and colorful world rendered in real time 3D. The smooth 3D character animation, the delicate Avatar System design and various interesting scenario’s with a real-world-like game environment help the game break into a market overrun with competitors that too often look alike. The beautiful scenery and stunning computer graphics will leave you awestruck. The game has many convenient designs, including Quick Locate, Auto Attack and Mercenary, which keep the challenges in the game and off the keyboard. Quests in the game will not only bring you expand quality gear but the fun and the feeling of belonging to a team. The instanced dungeons await heroes to venture in and meet the darkness head on. You can create a dungeon scene anywhere to get hooked for hours during your adventure. This game is poised for huge success and to win peoples’ hearts with its DIY fun kits to create all sorts of interesting things, including unique fighting vehicles, the quality time spent producing gorgeous gear, and intense battles over territory and brutal competition among guilds. Five classes stemming from the three races help increase the mystique of the game. This year you’ll be checking your calendar over and over again to make sure it’s not really 2029.

The game is a skill-based sci-fi MMORPG. As the first game launched with a customized Fighting Vehicle leveling system, this game has many advantages that put it above the rest of the global competition.

Aurora Blade: Express System

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

The first and only Express Company has already been created in Aurora Blade (http://ab.igg.om) – players can find the company in the Daks of cities and towns. It has been very popular with many players because of its perfect service and, today, the Aurora Blade team from IGG is giving a brief introduction to the Express system for all players.

Except for bound equipment, players can mail items, equipment, food and others to their friends via the Express Company. The Express Company service in Aurora Blade covers 34 in-game maps and areas. No matter where you are, you can receive a letter from the company and then you can claim your package from any nearby Daks.

It’s really convenient to mail items in Aurora Blade. You just need to talk to the appointed NPC and choose “Send a package”. Then fill out the package list including the consignee, the content, items and money you would like to mail. No matter what you would like to mail, it only costs you 10 Copper Coins. After finishing the package list, press “OK” to send the letter. After 10 minutes, your friends can pick-up the package.

Aurora Blade (http://ab.igg.com) is the first browser-based 2D RPG brought to you by IGG (http://www.igg.com) and distinguishes itself as a simple yet exciting game with immersive storylines for players of all ages and skill levels.

For more information about Aurora Blade can visit: http://ab.igg.com.

MindFuse Games Hires Former LucasArts Producer for Gatheryn

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Star Wars: The Force Unleased Producer, Isa Anne Stamos Joins MindFuse as Game Studio Director

MindFuse Games, a leading developer of online virtual worlds, today announced that veteran game industry professional, Isa Anne Stamos will take on the role of Game Studio Director. In this role, Stamos will oversee the production and design of the studio’s upcoming advanced-casual MMOG Gatheryn, along with all future MindFuse titles.

“Isa will be instrumental in the creation of the epic world of Gatheryn,” said Joseph Walters, Chief Executive Officer and Lead Designer of MindFuse Games. “Isa’s outstanding track record as a producer is self-evident when you look at games like the The Force Unleashed, andGatheryn players will appreciate all she is contributing to the game.”

Stamos has worked in the interactive entertainment space for more than 14 years, producing titles based on the multi-million dollar Star Wars franchise, including Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith andStar Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.

“The team at MindFuse is filled with passionate, creative professionals, and it’s exactly the kind of environment I feel I can thrive in,” said Stamos. “Gatheryn is an amazing world that is shaping up to be an engaging, all-inclusive experience that can be enjoyed by everyone, and I look forward to generating new ideas and features that will help make the game the best it can be.”

For more information on MindFuse Games along with a list of open positions, please visit www.mindfusegames.com.

Ask Outspark: Q&A on Fiesta’s plans for 2009

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Outspark has lots of exciting features coming to their free MMORPG Fiesta in 2009. Looking to the Fiesta community for their questions, the Fiesta team posted their first Ask Outspark Q&A today, highlighting some of the biggest features coming to the game in the first quarter of 2009.

From Fiesta’s first instance dungeon – the Dragon’s Tomb – to permanent mounts, player housing, and the upcoming free Level 105 expansion, there are many great new features coming to Fiesta in the coming months.

Check out the Outspark blog now and get all the details on Fiesta in 2009.

Fiesta 2009 Content Preview: http://fiesta.outspark.com/news/view/?id=zbn.3677
Ask Outspark – Fiesta Q&A: http://blog.outspark.com/2009/01/13/ask-outspark-fiesta-qa/

Wii gets the Rock Band Music Store

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Initial Music Launch Gives Rock Band Wii Players Access to 50 Downloadable Tracks; Additional Tracks to be Released Weekly Until Entire Back Catalog of More Than 500 Songs is Available  
 
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced the online Rock BandMusic Store is now live for the Wii home videogame console from Nintendo.   

 
Starting today there are 50 Rock Band Wii tracks available for download in the Rock Band Music Store, including the 20 free Rock Band 2 DLC tracks and 30 additional songs for purchase already released as downloadable content for other console versions.  Each purchasable track will be available for 200 Wii Points.  

 
The 30 downloadable tracks for purchase include:  

ARTIST TITLE
30 Seconds to Mars The Kill
All-American Rejects Move Along
Avenged Sevenfold Afterlife
Black Tide Shockwave
Blink-182 All the Small Things
Blondie Call Me
Boston More Than a Feeling
Boston Rock & Roll Band
Disturbed Inside the Fire
Fall Out Boy This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race
Jimmy Buffett Cheeseburger in Paradise
Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man
Metallica And Justice For All
Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles
Muse Hysteria
Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug
Oasis Wonderwall
Papa Roach Time is Running Out
Paramore Crushcrushcrush
Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (( Hey Oh ))
Rush Working Man (vault edition)
Serj Tankian Beethoven’s C***
Smashing Pumpkins Zero
Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots Sex Type Thing
The Offspring Hammerhead
The Police Message in a Bottle
The Who Baba O’Riley
Weezer Buddy Holly
Weezer El Scorcho

 

 
The 20 free Rock Band 2 tracks include:

ARTIST TITLE
The 88 Sons & Daughters
Authority Zero No Regrets
Between the Buried & Me Prequel to the Sequel
Cab, The Bounce
Chevelles The, Get It On
The Cocktail Slippers Give it to Me
Dealership Database Corrupted
Endeverafter I Wanna Be Your Man
Ghost Hounds Ashes to Fire
Hollywood Undead Young
Kutless The Feeling
The Len Price 3 If I Ain’t Got You
Lesley Roy I’m Gone I’m Going
Opiate for the Masses Burn You Down
Semi-Precious Weapons Magnetic Baby
Shaimus Like a Fool
thenewno2 Crazy Tuesday
Tickle Me Pink The Time is Wrong
Underoath Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
X Japan I.V.

 

 
Wii fans can expect a rollout of the previously released downloadable content every week until the entire back catalogue of more than 500 songs is available.  In addition, the regularly scheduled future DLC releases for other consoles will also be available for Rock Band 2 Wii owners starting in February. Weekly Rock Band downloadable content releases are already available for the Xbox 360 and PS3.   

 
Rock Band downloadable content is playable and integrated into setlists in all game modes.  In order to play downloadable content for head-to-head matches or multiplayer online, all players must own the same downloadable track. 

 
Rock Band downloadable content for Wii is available for purchase through the in-game Rock Band Music Store using Wii Points that must be purchased outside the game through the Wii™ Shop Channel.  In addition to the storage space on the Wii hard drive, players can use an SD card to store additional tracks which then will stream directly to the game for seamless play.  As previously announced, SanDisk will release an official 2GB Rock Band 2 SD card that will allow players to store more than 75 downloadable tracks. The official 2GB SanDisk Rock Band 2 SD card will be available this Spring. For more information please visit: www.sandisk.com.  

 
There are more than 500 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/music). Rock Band continues to satisfy music fans’ and gamers’ voracious appetite for rock with more than 30 million paid downloads since its launch on November 20, 2007.  The Rock Band Music Store allows players to preview and purchase downloadable individual music tracks and packs from the vast selection of offerings available to date without ever leaving the game as they build their own custom Rock Band library.

 
For more information on Rock Band 2 and Harmonix Music Systems please visit www.rockband.com.