Warp Legion

Dopo tre anni di alterne for­tune, Code­ma­sters annun­cia che a par­tire da Otto­bre chiu­de­ranno i ser­vizi euro­pei e nor­da­me­ri­cani di Archlord.
A giorni sarebbe infatti sca­duta la licenza di distri­bu­zione con­cessa da NHN (gli svi­lup­pa­tori coreani del gioco) e, nono­stante i ten­ta­tivi fatti da Code­ma­sters nelle ultime set­ti­mane, que­sti hanno deciso di pun­tare su Web­zen per i futuri svi­luppi cosa che pur­troppo implica la can­cel­la­zione dei ser­ver Occi­den­tali (e quindi anche del mio pg, sul quale ho circa 33 milioni di gold acci­denti a loro).
Que­sto dun­que è l’ultimo mese di vita di Archlord: i ser­ver chiu­de­ranno la mat­tina del 2 Otto­bre.
Ovvia­mente, vista la sca­denza immi­nente, non saranno per­messi nuovi acqui­sti di cre­diti né crea­zione di nuovi personaggi.

Di seguito il comu­ni­cato stampa (in fran­cese) appena dira­mato da Codemasters:

Nous avons aujourd’hui le regret de vous annon­cer la fer­me­ture pro­chaine des ser­veurs euro­péens et nord-américains d’Archlord opé­rés par Code­ma­sters Online.
En rai­son de l’expiration immi­nente de notre licence Archlord, le ser­vice sera tran­sféré vers Web­zen. Après plu­sieurs semai­nes de négo­cia­tion avec NHN (les déve­lop­peurs coréens du jeu), nous ne som­mes malheu­reu­se­ment pas par­ve­nus à obte­nir un renou­vel­le­ment du con­trat.
Par con­sé­quent, Code­ma­sters ne sera plus en droit d’opérer ses ser­vi­ces sur les ter­ri­toi­res occi­den­taux et sera con­traint de fer­mer tous les ser­vi­ces asso­ciés au jeu avant l’expiration de la licence.
Le der­nier jour de ser­vice sera le 1er octo­bre 2009et tous les ser­veurs d’Archlord seront fer­més à par­tir du ven­dredi 2 octo­breau matin, heure fra­nçaise. Plus de détails rela­tifs au trans­fert du ser­vice seront dispo­ni­bles à l’approche de la date de trans­fert.
Afin de nous assu­rer que tous les joueurs et joueu­ses aient suf­fi­sam­ment de temps pour dépen­ser leurs der­niers cré­dits Chan­tra et uti­li­ser leurs der­niers objets Chan­tra dans le jeu, le ser­vice d’achat de nou­veaux cré­dits ne sera plus dispo­ni­ble. Il en est de même pour la créa­tion de nou­veaux comp­tes ou d’abonnements Archlord. Pour en savoir plus, consultez la FAQ rela­tive au trans­fert du ser­vice Archlord: http://cmail.codemasters.com/a/tBKnTXKB7bZSEB7uyyb$5qS6SUq/faq sur nos forums.
Nous som­mes fiers d’avoir pu assi­ster au déve­lop­pe­ment et au suc­cès d’Archlord, le pre­mier MMO gra­tuit de Code­ma­sters Online. Pen­dant ses trois années d’existence, le ser­vice du jeu n’a cessé de se ren­for­cer et a réuni une com­mu­nauté fasci­nante.
Nous sou­hai­tons en pro­fi­ter pour remer­cier tous ceux qui ont sou­tenu Archlord et tous ceux qui non seu­le­ment y ont joué mais y ont égale­ment levé une armée et dirigé le monde de Chan­tra.
L’équipe Code­ma­sters Online

È avvolto un po’ nel mistero il nuovo gioco di S2 Games, Heroes of Newerth.
Le poche noti­zie che tra­pe­lano par­lano di un gioco che appare come il seguito ideale di DotA All­stars (Defense of the Ancients) in cui ele­menti di stra­te­gia tipici di gio­chi come Star­craft si mesco­lano ai clas­sici RPG. L’idea pare inte­res­sante ed il gioco dovrebbe essere gra­tuito ed alla por­tata di tutti (1Gb di RAM, Pen­tium 4 2.2 Ghz, scheda video con 256Mb di memo­ria e DX9)…
Per rice­vere una beta key biso­gna iscri­versi alla pagina Face­book di HoN e aspet­tare che rag­giun­gano i 10.000 fan (ad oggi siamo a 6500 circa, ma cre­scono in fretta).
I pochi video che si tro­vano su You­Tube sono quasi tutti qui.

E infine eccovi uno screen­shot:

La prima espan­sione del MMORPG gra­tuito Runes of Magic è pros­sima alla release e si comin­ciano a deli­neare quali saranno i nuovi con­te­nuti del gioco.
Ecco in ante­prima la descri­zione delle due nuove classi che ver­ranno intro­dotte con l’espansione: il War­den e il Druido.

WARDEN:
The War­dens serve as guar­dians of nature. In times of peace it is their respon­si­bi­lity to ensure that the rules are abi­ded to which in turn pre­serve the forests of Tabo­rea, the Elves’ natu­ral habi­tat. Over time the war­dens have lear­ned to com­mu­ni­cate with the plants in their sur­roun­dings and have ente­red into a kind of sym­bio­sis with them. While they pro­tect the plants and teach them how to spe­cia­lise, the plants make their powers and abi­li­ties avai­la­ble to them. The inti­mate rela­tion­ship with nature allows the war­dens to sum­mon nature spi­rits, which then accom­pany them on their way through the forests and pro­tect them in com­bat. In the course of their lives war­dens receive dif­fe­rent com­pa­nions, their appea­rance and abi­li­ties are depen­dent on the warden’s expe­rience and competence.

The war­dens have a fur­ther duty upon them which is to defend the Elven folk from any dan­ger which may threa­ten them. For this rea­son every war­den pas­ses through an excel­lent schoo­ling in the use of various close com­bat wea­pons. In addi­tion, war­dens also have powers which streng­then both them and their comrades-in-arms and form a use­ful sup­port in com­bi­ned battles.

It is not uncom­mon that the tide of com­bat has been tur­ned to the Elves’ advan­tage by the war­dens and when in large num­bers, there’s been barely an enemy which has not been put to flight as a con­se­quence of the com­bat skill of the war­dens and the natu­ral force of their companions.

DRUIDO:
Druids take on the func­tion of priests in Elven society. They are the custo­dians of the kno­w­ledge which the Elves have gathe­red about the for­ces of nature. By means of this kno­w­ledge druids have abi­li­ties which resem­ble those of the mage. Among female druids, those who are most com­plete in their kno­w­ledge of the for­ces of nature rise up to join the cir­cle of pos­si­ble wives of the king. Only the queen her­self can be appoin­ted as the high priestess.

In order to apply their abi­li­ties, druids use the dor­mant powers within them and use these to build up ‘Nature’s Power’. They can then use this to increase the action of their abi­li­ties, or to add effects to them. The amount of ‘Nature’s Power’ that the druid builds up is depen­dent upon which abi­lity they use. They also have to con­si­der most exac­tly the sequence in which they use their abi­li­ties in order to achieve the best pos­si­ble effects.

In the use of their power, the druids can choose whe­ther or not they wish to con­cen­trate on sup­por­ting and hea­ling their allies, or on direc­ting the deva­sta­ting force of nature at their enemy. And so in the course of their life-long edu­ca­tion, they decide whe­ther they wish to dedi­cate their powers more stron­gly toward hea­ling and sup­por­tive func­tions, or more towards the destruc­tive. Whe­reas the hea­ling powers of the druids often achieve rapid effects, the damage that they can cause works over a lon­ger period. As in nature the druid’s power unfolds slo­wly but enduringly.

Runes of Magic si con­ferma come uno dei più inte­res­santi MMO gra­tuiti del momento.

Ini­zia l’evento estivo di Runes of Magic, il MMORPG gra­tuito di Runewa­ker e Frog­ster. In palio un com­pu­ter desk­top per­so­na­liz­zato RoM, un gaming lap­top e peri­fe­ri­che per PC.

Di seguito il comu­ni­cato ufficiale:

“Ger­filda! These crea­tu­res from you know when are back again!” yel­led a red-faced and enra­ged peon while he sma­shed down his tru­sted spade onto the beast below his feet.

There was a short but loud “RRRRIBBIT!” right after the spade was brought up again, revea­ling a quite flat­te­ned frog. One less…dozens to go.

“I know, I know! I’ve got no clue where they came from! But I’ve infor­med that guy at Saci­lia Step­pes. He said he would offer young adven­tu­rers a deal they could not resist!” Ano­ther frog fell vic­tim to the car­pet bea­ter a slightly chubby woman was wied­ling as a wea­pon against the ongoing plague.

“Great! I can only hope there will be help on its way soon…disgusting frog crea­tu­res are eating us out of our house and home!”…”…or are right on it!” yel­led the woman and raced after a horde of frogs that just made their way through their front door.

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The Catch-the-frog sum­mer event!

The summer’s here and the tem­pe­ra­ture is rising!

We have announ­ced the intro­duc­tion of an awe­some new zone and the release of the “Chap­ter II: The Elven Pro­phecy” in September.

And while the days are get­ting hot­ter that’s exac­tly the right time for a cool new com­pe­ti­tion with red-hot prizes!

Catch as many frogs as you can and win a high-end Runes of Magic bran­ded Ultra­force PC, a MSI GT 725 Gaming Note­book or cool ROCCAT gaming peripherals!

Fol­low this link to find the Terms & Con­di­tions as well as all the infor­ma­tion you need to win one of our cool prices!

Happy hun­ting!