Free download update Towering Dungeons Imperial Rewards to Fantasy MMORPG Florensia Update Brings 100-Floor Dungeons to Every Major Island in Florens

Burda:ic, a publisher of online games worldwide, today released a major update for free-to-play MMORPG Florensia. Players are now able to venture into the mysterious towers that appeared last month, an imposing set of 100-floor dungeons that will challenge even the toughest adventurers.

Access to the towers is granted by Tower Masters who stand in the center of each town. These strange individuals have a number of quest scrolls on hand that reward players handsomely for taking risks, and they are quite happy to trade Imperial Gifts for the Military Crosses earned within the new dungeons.



On the sillier side of things, every player will receive one of six new headmounts as a gift to celebrate the upcoming launch of Florensia’s Gacha system. The goofy headgear ranges small black cats to steaming bowls of noodles, all available for one week of adventuring. After that, you’ll have to take a chance and spin the Gacha wheel if you want to look ridiculous!

Florensia is a free-to-play, maritime MMORPG that blends vibrant, colorful graphics with classically accessible gameplay. Choosing one of four starting classes, from the sword-wielding Mercenary to the spell casting Noble, players will do battle with a huge variety of weapons and magical abilities as they explore expansive, underground dungeons and sail uncharted seas. Thousands of players have already signed up and headed out in search of adventure, and there has never a better time to join them in the wild and wonderful world of Florensia.

Dungeon Party - New Images of Our (Almost) Fearless and Blameless Heroes

While Dungeon Party's currently closed Beta is moving forward and will soon open to everyone, Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive are pleased to share these new images of their free team-based game to celebrate the opening of the official English website.

Dungeon Party is a free PC online game developed by Cyanide and based on team play. Plunge into a wild heroic-fantasy universe and play against each other in teams of heroes across dungeons filled with deadly traps and monsters to try and collect the treasures they hold.





In Dungeon Party you can create and customize your character with different costumes and objects. A holiday-making sorcerer, a thief straight out of a night club, or a gothic hangman…all styles are possible! Each player can equip his character with different objects and weapons before the battle against opponent teams starts.

You'll have to develop your character through the matches and carefully choose which spells and skills could help the best your team. In order to spice up the game, deadly traps and hunted creatures are scattered throughout the dungeons. These creatures won't make any difference between the teams and protect their treasures with a lot of zeal. Kill monsters will give you more experience points which allow you to buy faster new spells. Bosses and mini-bosses will be harder to beat but will also give you a greater amount of points and, most of all, will help you to seduce the Chest.

Star Ocean - First Departure PSP video game review

The game begins on the planet Roak, a relatively primitive world where the inhabitants appear mostly human, except for the tails and pointy ears.

Roak seems peaceful - one of the game's young heroes, Roddick, laments the boredom to be had even as a member of the defense force for the town of Kratus.

Roddick and his friends Millie and Dorne find more excitement than they bargained for when they encounter two strange beings who appear in a flash of light. These beings turn out to be Ronyx Kenny and Ilia Silvestri, humans from Earth who belong to a "Star Trek" Federation-like alliance that has a policy of noninterference with undeveloped worlds.

But Ronyx and Ilia are bending the rules because a petrifying contagion sweeping through Roak was introduced by a rival faction of humans.

They offer to help, and the group soon learns the origins of this disease and its cure lie in Roak's past, and so they head to an ancient time gate to travel back and wrest the cure from the body of a legendary evil. But they have to leave behind their advanced equipment, and then something goes awry in the time trip.

Other Star Ocean games have had a similar mix of futuristic high technology with common fantasy tropes, such as monsters and magic (called symbology here). It's a combination that has served the series well.

Battles are played out in real time. The player can have up to four characters in the party and can switch control among them at will.

When controlling a character, the player can hammer on the X button to keep up a series of combo attacks, use the shoulder buttons to execute pre-selected special attacks or pause the action to choose items and magic. The fighting is fast-paced and can be pretty tough.

PLOT: A time-traveling, role-playing favorite hits these shores.
PLATFORM: Sony PSP
COST: $40
BOTTOM LINE: The graphics are the most obvious improvement.
RATING: T for Teen

Source: Newsday

iMafia Free social game for iPhone with new virtual goods model

Social games have taken off on networks like Facebook, and now mobile platforms like the iPhone. One of the newest examples is the iMafia game from PlayMesh, which has found a clever way to integrate virtual goods — a challenge for most iPhone apps.

Social games like Mob Wars are already hugely popular online. But Charles Ju, co-founder of PlayMesh in San Francisco, believes the time is right to migrate the concept to the iPhone, which is capable of supporting the same features that draw audiences on the web. The result, iMafia, was released on Friday and already ranks No. 88 in the Apple AppStore.

The object of the free game is to climb the ranks of a crime family by pulling small jobs and shaking down the neighborhood. You can compete with other players (even if you aren’t playing at the same time), and buy virtual goods that will help you along the way. The graphics are pretty basic, with two-dimensional artwork and text-based instructions giving users a variety of options.

On the game’s homescreen, you see a neighborhood, and can use your finger to navigate through the map. You tap on the iPhone’s screen to enter a building. For instance, you can stop into a bar and buy something or get in a fight (and if you fight someone, you’re fighting against another real player). The idea is to succeed at quests to gain experience and earn promotions.

Ju says the game is groundbreaking because it successfully relies on virtual goods to monetize a social network in the context of a free game.

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Top Seven video game Villains of all time? Nemesis, Ganon, Psycho Mantis, Shodan, Sephiroth, Mother Brain and Kefka

Stop your whining! I know you love it as much as I do. As indicated by all the recent articles, it’s top list fever this week! But I promise, this is the last list you’ll be seeing… this week. From me. Maybe.

Villains come in all shapes and sizes, but the greatest ones aren’t necessarily the most badass of them all. It’s the antagonists who somehow found their ways into our memories that stand out among the rest.

Like it or not, here’s my top 7 villains of video games.

It’s spoilerific!

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The sexy girls of Command and Conquer - Red Alert 3 - Uprising

Epic Campaign Expansion for Award-Winning Real-Time Strategy Favorite Hits PCs in March 2009

Electronic Arts announced that the third iteration of the Command & Conquer franchise’s beloved Red Alert series is returning with Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 - Uprising exclusively for the PC.

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3-year-olds can Wii get our own games console? Yes, the Smile Motion...

Vtech, a Hong Kong-based toy company, has started selling the Smile Motion console in Britain – a games machine that has motion sensitive gear sticks using similar technology to the Nintendo Wii.

The £60 machine is aimed at three- to seven-year-olds, and claims to be an educational gadget, allowing toddlers to learn about colours, numbers and spelling.

It is the latest sign that the video games market has gone truly mainstream, and become the most popular form of entertainment for many families.

Last week, figures showed there are now 5 million Nintendo Wiis in Britain – a games console that has transformed the gaming market over the last two years, helping to attract ever younger players.

Now VTech has jumped on the bandwagon with the Smile Motion, which allows children to play Thomas the Tank engine, Dora the Explorer and other games. When they move the gear stick in their hand, the characters on the screen move too.
The company insisted it was not introducing gaming to children at too young an age. "There is a time and a place for all aspects of play, but this is very educational and something mums can buy knowing their children will learn from it," said Clive Richardson, the company's marketing director.

The company entered the gaming market five years ago and there are already 1m VTech consoles in the UK. But the latest model is the most sophisticated yet: the first to use motion-sensitive technology and the first to connect the gear stick wirelessly to the machine.

Guy Cocker, a gaming expert at the website GameSpot, said: "I think it's great. Serious gamers like me find the motion sensitive technology on the Wii not quite good enough. But for children it is perfect.

"I am not surprised other companies have looked at Nintendo, seen their success with the Wii and decided to get in on the market."

Source: Telegraph

Trivial Pursuit video game on PlayStation 2, mobile and online

Gather up your pies and wedges, round up friends and family and join in the fun Electronic Arts Inc. as it celebrates the 25th year of Trivial Pursuit by offering new ways and places to play one of America’s favorite board games. Trivial Pursuit will be released on multiple digital platforms including online at Pogo.com, across several consoles and on mobile phones.

Since the official introduction of Trivial Pursuit in 1982, the phenomenally successful board game has been testing millions of game players’ wits with versions ranging from the original Trivial Pursuit to Trivial Pursuit Family, Trivial Pursuit Junior, and Trivial Pursuit 25th Anniversary Edition. The popular board game also got its own television game show in 2008 called Trivial Pursuit America Plays.



Key features

Console – Trivial Pursuit

• With dynamic visuals, new questions and question types, Trivial Pursuit on console brings the party to the living room TV allowing players to customize the experience with several ways to play.
• What do you know? – Challenge your friends with the original fun Trivial Pursuit game.
• Who do you know? – Earn extra points by guessing whether your friends know the answer in the all-new quickly playing Facts & Friends mode.
• Do you know yourself? – Track your best categories over time with your custom Trivial Pursuit profile.
• Players can hone their knowledge with the Clear the Board single player mode.
• Trivial Pursuit will release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii in March 2009

Online – Trivial Pursuit Daily 20

• Players will enjoy showcasing their knowledge and skills with a daily dose of interactive online trivia. Answering the questions correctly will earn the player points toward acquiring wedges in pursuit of collecting all the pie pieces by the end of the week.
• Play now for free at Pogo.com.

Mobile

• Trivial Pursuit for mobile lets fans learn fun facts, discover odd answers and experience hours of thrills right on a phone.
• Players can collect wedges and fill your pie in classic mode, or choose to race to the finish line in pursuit mode.
• Play with friends with Pass ‘n Play for up to 4 players in both modes.
• Players will be dazzled by rich visuals, animations and sound effects.

Littlest Pet Shop Spring video game for the Nintendo DS

Latest Nintendo DS Game for Girls Set to Expand Critically-Acclaimed Littlest Pet Shop Digital Collection

Electronic Arts announced that spring fever has arrived early with work underway to launch Littlest Pet Shop Spring for the Nintendo DS in March 2009. Targeting 6-10 year old girls, the game will be the sixth offering in the Littlest Pet Shop interactive gaming lineup following the highly successful Nintendo Wii, PC and three Nintendo DS (Winter, Garden, Jungle) releases in 2008.

Inspired by the Hasbro, blockbuster toy line, Littlest Pet Shop Spring for the Nintendo DS will feature a festive and colorful spring environment for girls to explore alongside their favorite sidekicks, including six new, exclusive pets. The fun also gets turned up with all-new playsets as well as four new mini-games for a total of 20 including those from previous Nintendo DS versions. Accessory choices will also expand allowing pets to step into spring in high style. With the addition of 20 new accessories, girls will be able to select from well over 100 hats, glasses, scarves and other fun items.

“The response to our Littlest Pet Shop video games has been overwhelmingly positive and shown that girls want quality games, too,” said Chip Lange, Vice President and General Manager of EA Hasbro. “The team has been barraged with fan mail and girls are already clamoring for the next version so they can keep expanding their Littlest Pet Shop digital collection. We think they’ll be really excited about the Spring theme and it is scheduled to land at retail just in time to hop into Easter baskets.”

“EA has done a tremendous job of taking one of the most popular toy brands among young girls and bringing it to life on digital platforms,” said Mark Blecher, General Manager of Digital Media and Gaming at Hasbro. “The performance of the first wave of Littlest Pet Shop games launched in 2008 was amazing and we don’t expect the momentum behind this property to slow down anytime soon.”

Henry Hatsworth Puzzle Adventure on Nintendo DS

Love puzzle games, but also love an adventure? 

Now you can have both in one game with Henry Hatsworth (name may change), an exclusive Nintendo DS adventure-puzzle game that adds a new element of fun by combining the action of an adventure game with the challenge of a puzzle game with all in one.

Meet Henry Hatsworth, a quirky, light-hearted character who players will guide on their journey through a new style of gaming adventure on their DS. In this two-in-one adventure, players will explore five exotic worlds, fight a variety of opponents, and venture through more than 30 levels, including nearly a dozen hidden levels while taking on outrageous world-ending bosses.

The separate worlds on the two DS screens have a cause and effect inter-relationship, and players choose when to switch between conquering the action-platform realm and mastering the increasingly challenging puzzle world. A wide variety of power-ups will help Hatsworth in both the action game and the puzzle world. Players will complete puzzle combinations and defeat puzzle enemies in order to gain power ups, health, and energy to supercharge Hatsworth in his adventure.

Key features

• Two games in one – Keep on your toes! Make quick switches between the intense action-adventure gameplay and an increasingly challenging puzzle world.

• Non-stop action - Jump, fight, and shoot your way through more than 30 levels, including nearly a dozen of hidden levels and take on outrageous world-ending bosses.

• Everyone needs an adventure! - Explore 5 exotic worlds in a mad hunt for artifacts, each of which grants new abilities for Hatsworth and ultimately unlocks a massively powerful golden mech suit.

• Puzzles galore – Solve challenging combo-puzzles in order to gain more health and energy. The more puzzle combos you complete, the more you can enhance your melee and ranged weapons and transform Hatsworth into multiple powerful forms.

• Power up! –  Activate puzzle power-ups to help Hatsworth in the puzzle world and the action game.

• Collect along the way – Keep an eye out for gems and treasure to purchase your favorite weapons and abilities along your way.