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Playcomet today announced that their most popular browser-based Strategy game- TransForce rolled out its long anticipated integration of Facebook Connect ( http://apps.facebook.com/transforce/ ) at the name of “World of BotCraft, which is also the virgin social game published by the Playcomet team. The move allows Facebook users to sign in the facebook account to play TransForce directly while enabling current TransForce players to connect their account with the social network

TransForce is a free online browser strategy game where players choose the Decepticons and the Autobots and fight in the vast universe space. TransForce is closely bounded up with the Marvel comic book series and also the Film Transformers.

Once Facebook Connect has been activated, players will be able to publish their comments, and share game strategy. Players can also quickly invite their Facebook friends to play TransForce and earn the ingame items or Matrix, a virtual currency in TransForce.

“World of BotCraft is the newest version of TransForce, embodying our team’s strengths and knowledge.” Said Newing,the project manager,” the game is no longer the Traditional Application, but with much fun applied and being applied. For example, the newly added “The Wanted System”, “Bounty Hunt System” and the Legendary Heroes. We will continue developing the new features in 2010”

Apart from the traditional gaming features like PVP, PVE, Tribal War, the folks at the TransForce team bring World of Warcraft’s features possible in the World of BotCraft. In WOB,you can also challenge the Instances, Explore the wildlands around and beyond. What is matchless in the web browser gaming world is that WOB delivers hero levelup,equipment Upgrade and Enforcement,as well as assumes a new aspect by raising the Tactics into the role-playing level.

This is an important move for both companies. For Playcomet, it means a lot more exposure on Facebook, as their tens of thousands of existing users link their accounts and publish information to promote the game. For Facebook, it represents a big new partner for Facebook Connect, bring the Facebook users more choices to play the game.

For more about TransForce: World of BotCraft, please visit the official website http://tf.playcomet.com

THQ and THQ*ICE to Grant Lucky Dragonica Online Player a $10,000 Wish

The recent catastrophic quake that has caused devastating amounts of damage on the island nation of Haiti has touched lives in all corners of the globe, some nearly as deeply as those within the disaster area itself. Throughout this tragedy, people worldwide have displayed an enormous outpouring of generosity through their contributions to the relief effort.
 
As communities all over the world band together to assist in aiding the victims of this catastrophe, our community, whose past contributions have fed the homeless, provided education, and helped the environment, will also be doing our part.
 
For the next month we will be making available a “Help Haiti” bundle that will be available for 4 of our games; Fiesta, Secret of the Solstice, Wind Slayer, and Project Powder. All bundles will be available between January 15th until January 31st, each with a donation amount of $5. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of these bundles will be donated to Yele Haiti, a relief organization founded by Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean, whose mission is to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to Haiti.
 
Along with providing our community with an exclusive item release, know that you’ll also be helping the lives of real people who need your aid.
 
  You can locate each bundle in their respective stores through the links below:
 
Fiesta Help Haiti Bundle
Secret of the Solstice Help Haiti Bundle
Wind Slayer Help Haiti Bundle

http://solstice.outspark.com/news/view/?id=zbn.9887

Starting Tomorrow, February 2, Players Will Have Access to Tons of Special Events– With Bonus Items And Premium Items Available For Purchase at a Huge Discount!

G4BOX Inc. announced today an exciting line-up of events in honor of Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year for its popular action-MMORPG, Metin2. Players can participate in all the “sweet” fun by downloading the game for free at: http://metin2.z8games.com.

Event Line-up

Event 1: Lunar New Year (Feb. 2-15)

New Year Cakes are extremely potent and can fully restore HP, MP, or Stamina! Players will visit the “Old Lady” where she will give her secret recipe, so they can gather up ingredients and whip up their own love cake for that special someone. All of the needed materials can be acquired through monsters.

Event 2: Lunar Greeting (Feb. 6-8)

To mark the year of the Golden Tiger, Metin2 is giving all of its players Lucky Red Pockets to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Red Pockets are traditionally given out during celebrations such as the Chinese New Year. The color red is chosen for its lucky properties and the pocket usually contains money or gifts. Players can get their Red Pocket by talking to the Old Lady. All players need to do is right-click the Red Pocket given by the Old Lady and enjoy the Lunar New Year!

Event 3: 20% off on all Couple Items (Feb. 12-19)

There is nothing sweeter than dressing up and showing your love on Valentine’s Day. All items in the Couple’s Shop will be 20% off! Players shouldn’t miss this chance to acquire their favorite couple items at a discount price.

Event 4: Show Your Love! (Feb. 12-18)

What’s better than presenting chocolate or red roses to the person you love? Players can just simply kill monsters and they will drop Valentine’s Day chocolates or red roses full of love!

Event 5: Share Your Love with GMs (Feb. 22-24)

Once Valentine’s Day is over — and players are left with roses and chocolates in their inventory — for a little added fun they can give GM’s the extra roses and chocolates as gifts! Time and gifts will be announced. Each country can get only 50 gifts per day.

10 Roses/Chocolates= gift #1

20 Roses/Chocolates= gift #2

Event 6: Purifier of souls Sage Basil (Feb.26-Mar.12)

Only those purified souls are able to come back to Metin2. Sage Basil will only bless souls that passed between August 1st and December 31st, 2009. With his powers slowly returning to him, he will begin his purification soon. Players won’t want to miss this opportunity to find out if their lost soul will be among the ones to receive his blessing!

“Our extensive series of New Year and Valentine’s events brings Metin2 to another level of fun,” said Howard He, Chief Executive Officer of G4BOX. “2010 has started off as a great new year for the Metin community and now we are kicking off a full month of events, specials and fun for an action-packed February.”

Visit http://metin2.z8games.com for full details and rules.

Metin2 is a Free To Play massively multi -player role-playing game for the PC. Metin2 features amazing 3D graphics, a unique dynamic fighting system a strong story line and a King mode where players can be elected king (giving their nation bonuses on the battle field) and much, much more.

‘Metin’ are unknown meteors that started falling from the sky many years ago, changing the lives, land, wildlife and the people on the planet. Players of Metin2 assume the role of a brave hero and band together with other players to find out the secret of ‘Metin’ and use it to rule or defend their Kingdom. But players be warned! Players are not the only heroes seeking the power of ‘Metin’; enemy Kingdom’s seek out this power as well. There are four classes of characters for players to choose from, with each class containing two specializations that are unlocked as players’ level up.

To follow all the latest Metin2 news, please visit

http://www.facebook.com/metin2.us, http://www.youtube.com/metin2,

http://twitter.com/metin2_us and http://www.myspace.com/metin2_us.

Now part of the Z8Games library of free MMOs. http://www.z8games.com

For more information about G4Box visit www.G4BOX.com. For more information about the Z8Games lineup of games please visit www.z8games.com.

Find More Delicious Candy for Your Brain at the official website www.bittos.com

MACHINE and Unconditional Studios announced today that bittos+, the flagship edition of the bittos innovative arcade-style puzzle game, has launched for WiiWare™ and is available today through the Wii™ Shop Channel for 1,000 Points ($10.00).

Developed by Unconditional Studios and rated “E” for everyone by the ESRB, bittos+ is a fun puzzle game for the whole family that challenges players to guide, rotate and slide the shapes into just the right arrangement to construct vibrant, shiny squares. Yes, squares! Make squares, and squares within squares, to advance through the levels which become progressively quicker and more challenging. Loaded with multiple modes to unlock, collectable in-game awards, local leaderboards for both you and your household, and unique game styles to suit your every mood, bittos+ sweeps you away, delivering a brand new gameplay experience that everyone can enjoy.

The PC version, bittose is also available exclusively through machinearcade.com for $14.99. To access the central resource for the growing bittos community, players can point their cursor at bittos.com, where fans and newcomers alike can download the PC version of the game, study bittos anatomy, download gameplay footage, vividly detailed screenshots, and find information on every detail about the game with the latest news and updates.

To learn more about bittos, please visit bittos.com, become a fan of bittos on Facebook at the official Unconditional Studios page: facebook.com, or subscribe to the official bittos YouTube channel at youtube.com.

Not slowing down after an exciting week of announcements at the Paradox Interactive Convention, today Paradox Interactive reveals the first trailer for Majesty 2: Kingmaker. Offering fans a preview of what to expect from the first expansion to Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, witness the goblin invasion as the green menaces of the night terrorize the lands of Ardania.

To view the action, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNpYX3KrKOQ

Featuring the brand new “Return of Grum-Gog” campaign, Majesty 2: Kingmaker will be available in Q1 2010 on all major digital distribution portals.

Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is available in retail and for digital download on all leading digital distribution platforms. For more information about Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, please visit http://www.majesty2.com and follow @pdxinteractive on Twitter.

For all the latest Majesty 2 news and beyond, visit the recently redesigned www.paradoxplaza.com

The Gauntlet, IGG’s brand new Freesky Online (http://fo.igg.com) server, will soon be up with tons of new content at the end of the month. The Gauntlet will offer FO players a much fairer battlefield to explore and challenge them while narrowing the gap between advanced players and those lagging behind.

The newly updated world of The Gauntlet is filled with magic and excitement. Players who never purchase items in the Item Mall will find it easier to compete than previously. The number of advanced items sold in the Item Mall will be extremely limited, so the gap between the most powerful and weakest players won’t be as wide. To survive in PVP, players will need to rely on ability and teamwork more than ever. With more competitive PVP, more players can enjoy that side of the game, even if they never thought they could keep up in the past.

The Gauntlet retains the classical gameplay features of other servers, but also adds a brand new operation model to the game that helps weaker players advance. On the new server, the number of times Treasure Boxes open for free has been increased, and the limited number of items sold in the Item Mall will cost much less than the ones on other servers. In addition, players can choose from 2 stunning architecture types. These changes enable FO players to pay less while leveling rapidly, making The Gauntlet a more balanced battlefield that will attract non-consumer players who want to join in the fun.

Please visit http://fo.igg.com for more information about The Gauntlet.

Running since Friday morning (01/22/2010), GOG.com started a countdown to the biggest announcement in GOG.com’s history!

The countdown will reach it’s end on Thursday, January 28 at noon CET (6:00 a.m. EDT). That is when they will reveal the secret!

GOG.com users are already guessing what is the secret announcement on the forums: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/the_countdown_has_started/
“There are some great expectations about our this and we promise we won’t let classic games fans down. In the next days we’ll give some hints that should give our users a clue what the announcement is all about. ” (From the press release)

Check it out, the clues are there, and they promise it will be exciting. Classic gamers take notice! We’ll keep up on it and let you know what the big news is all about, in the meantime, visit the forums and see if you can guess for yourself!

G4BOX Inc., announced that it will launch a brand new website for its military shooter, Cross Fire. The completely redesigned site includes a new blog-style news section and RSS feed, YouTube video integration, a new weapons guide, and a cool new community and contests section. The site re-launch also brings with it the unveiling of the long-teased “Rival Factions” event and an exciting new trailer. To check out the new site features and to download the game for free, visit http://crossfire.z8games.com.

Today, the Cross Fire website will be re-launched in order to better serve the growing Cross Fire community. The new site will offer numerous new and exciting features and benefits including, a blog-style news section with an RSS feed, YouTube video integration featuring community and fan-made videos, an extensive weapons catalogue and stats guide, and an all-new community contests section where players can quickly and easily submit and view screenshots and videos for future contests. All this, in addition to the launch of the highly-anticipated “Rival Factions” event.

“We have been waiting a long time to reveal the completely redesigned Cross Fire website to our community and fans. There are so many great new features that players can use to enhance their game,” said Howard He, Chief Executive Officer of G4BOX. “We’re also quite excited to launch the ongoing “Rival Factions” event, a unique event unlike any other in the free-to-play space.”

At the heart of Cross Fire is the conflict between Black List terrorists and Global Risk mercenaries. Now, as part of the new “Rival Factions” event starting January 22nd 2010, a winner can finally be declared. Upon visiting the “Rival Factions” event page, players will be forced to make an important choice: Black List or Global Risk? Once players choose a side, they will be entered into a game-wide clan for each faction, competing together as one team to influence the outcome of monthly missions that promise to finally tell the real story behind Cross Fire. Competing in missions can also earn players special in-game rewards.

Cross Fire is a free online military first-person shooter for Windows PCs supporting Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Players assume the role of either a Black List or Global Risk operative and compete in various modes of play including Free-for-All, Team Death Match and the exclusive stealth-action Ghost Mode. Cross Fire includes a military ranking system, in-game friends lists, an integrated clan system, and deep character customization options. Cross Fire is part of the Z8Games platform of free-to-play games.

Cross Fire is free-to-download-and-play. Visit the Cross Fire homepage at: http://crossfire.z8games.com

For more information about G4BOX visit www.g4box.com. For more information about the Z8Games lineup of games please visit www.z8games.com.

NecroVisioN: Lost Company, the sequel to the old-school first-person shooter NecroVisioN, launched a new website with overview, key features, latest news and much more about the title. The website is available at http://www.necrovision-game.com

NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to the old-school horror FPS and covers the events that happened before the NecroVisioN story began. The game contains several unique levels, characters and weapons, as well as a new main hero that tells the original game story from an opposing perspective.

Player now acts as one of the WWI German soldiers that discovers the evil forces unleashed by the war and starts to fight against them. Eventually he leads soldiers from all the nations gathered on the front through massive battles against zombies and demons. Finally the player becomes the first Necromancer that was defeated by Simon Bukner in NecroVisioN.

NecroVisioN: Lost Company is scheduled for release in February 2010.