Sony Free Realms MMORPG Signs Up a Million Players in 17 days

Sony's new family friendly MMORPG game Free Realms has signed up 1 million users into the 17 days since the game launched on April 28th. To celebrate the occasion Sony has announced that it will be giving all Free Realms players a limited edition in-game shirt with special graphics.

The one-millionth player will also get a special prize pack including a lifetime game membership, in game astronaut suit and 10,000 Station Cash. SOE also says that 999,999 players will get a matching shirt for their in game pets and 200 Station Cash.

The game is aimed at kids and is rated E10 and up by the ESRB. Players get to customize their characters and explore, quest, battle monsters, and play mini games in a safe environment. The game is also complemented by a trading card game as well.

Source: http://www.i4u.com/ by Shane McGlaun

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Forget World of Warcraft, Here's World of Fight

World of Warcraft is one of the most popular games in the world, boasting over 11,5 million paying subscribers each month. The extremely successful MMORPG has captured the imagination of players across the world and has brought its parent company, Activision Blizzard, a big amount of money.



One of the biggest user bases for the online game is in China, so the right to distribute and operate the network in the big Asian country is a very sought after thing. Now, after a long partnership with The9, Activision Blizzard announced a few days ago that it had signed a contract with NetEase and that the company would handle everything WoW related starting from June, when the previous deal with The9 would expire.

Of course, the old company can't be very happy with this, and has now released a new site, called WoFChina, similar to the official WoWChina, in which it teases about a new game that it will release soon. The similarities with WoW can be easily observed, from the font to the whole layout. What differs though is the background image, which, as some fans have noticed, seems very similar to the Chaos Gate from Mythic's Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning MMORPG.

After a bit of digging, you can see that the publisher of Warhammer Online, Electornic Arts, also has quite a few shares in the Chinese company, making the possibility of The9 announcing the fact that it has gained control of Mythic's MMORPG very interesting. Even though the company is quite big, it certainly doesn't have the resources to create another title just like WoW, so in an effort to make fans migrate from Blizzard's game to Mythic's, a rebranding wasn't out of the question.

Sadly The9 hasn't replied to any request for comment, leaving a lot of WoW and Warhammer Online fans wondering just what the Chinese company is preparing for MMORPG enthusiasts. Stay tuned for more details about this new World of Fight.

By Andrei Dobra, Games Editor at : http://news.softpedia.com

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Soldner: Secret Wars

Söldner Marine Corps is the most realistic military shooter available today. With its unique features, intense online play, and goal-based strategy SMC will let you experience combat like no other game before!






ADS - Advanced Destruction System. In Söldner - Marine Corps you can destroy everything! With ADS you can deploy an endless variation of true to life tactics. Tear down whole forests to deprive enemy snipers of their cover. Bombard the enemy base into rubble and devastate their morale. Or blow holes in the ground to hamper enemy movement, and use the wreckage to hide your advancing troops.


SWS - Söldner Weapons System. With SWS you can choose from more than a 100 weapons, all faithfully reproduced with the help from expert military advisor's. No other game will offer you the same authentic feel in weapons handling!

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EVE Online Exceeds 300,000 Subscribers on 6th Anniversary

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EVE Online Exceeds 300,000 Subscribers on 6th Anniversary

EVE Online turned six years old on Wednesday, a long life for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Publisher CCP Games also announced that more than 300,000 subscribers now guide their characters through EVE's persistent futuristic universe, where all players participate on a single server, as opposed to other MMORPGs, such as World of Warcraft, that host multiple copies of the same game world.




The news comes on the heels of the release of EVE Online's latest free expansion pack, Apocrypha, in March. CCP says three times this year it has also passed another milestone: the largest number of concurrent users, which is now 53,850.

CCP says that it defines subscribers thus: "Individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active electronic time code (ETC) to play EVE Online, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions and expired ETCs."

by Brad Cook at : http://www.macobserver.com/

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Ancient Legion MMORPG marches out onto the iPhone

Ancient_Legion_0DigitalFun has been working hard to bring its popular Italian mobile MMORPG Ancient Legion to the iPhone, and the English translation has just gone live. Check out the details right here on iPhone Otaku.




Ancient Legion is a best selling online WAP and SMS multiplayer, which boasts an impressive 15 million monthly visitors dabbling in the shallow end of the fantasy sword and sorcery online world. To get the game out to the iPhone world, DigitalFun evidently realized it needed and English translation (although it's still available in its native Italian, too), and after much work, the game is now ready and live on the App Store.

It's no small game, so we'll hand straight over to the developer to tell you all about it:

appstorelinkAncient Legion, already a best seller on WAP (more than 15 million visited pages monthly supplied) and SMS platforms, allows players to immerse themselves in a fantasy world, carrying out missions, evolving own hero, acquiring magic powers, magic spells, weapons and armours to compete against each other during challenges, battles and tournaments. It is possible, moreover, attending the chat of the game, mustering in clan and guilds and it is possible to communicate with all players by means of carrier pigeons.

The iPhone version of Ancient Legion is characterized by:

* the eye-catching layout, completely renewed for making the most of the graphic chip capability and wide display
* the introduction in a motion-picture format, preparing the user to the game background
* the chances to downloading and filing all Ancient Legion episodes
* the weekly updates to make infinite the game experience

Only the video production required months' work and the mobilization of tens of movie professionals, getting to be de facto the most complex video introduction created on a wireless platform. Once more the key-word is multi-platform. The iPhone users will have the opportunity to play and communicate with the current Ancient Legion WAP, i-mode and SMS users.

"Even now we have added an important wedge of a project that month after month expands continuously. I am convinced that this project is one of the most relevant goals that our artistic and development team achieved," declares Fabio Sarracino, DigitalFun Co-Founder and Project Manager.

"Ancient Legion is the first set of applications issued within summer. We are proud of being among the first companies to launch a massive multiplayer game on App Store, also confirming our leadership role in the italian mobile game sector," declares Fabio Viola, DigitalFun Co-Founder and Vice-President.

Written by Hattori Hanzo

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