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It started on August 21, Sword of the New World expanded their FREE2PLAY experience, removing all level restrictions so that their players can enjoy Sword of New World without limitation for FREE! There’s supposed to be no level caps, no trade restrictions and to time limits. As if that weren’t enough, K2, the Taiwanese maker of the game are doubling all experience earned from August 21 to August 28. If you’re not acquianted with Sword of the New World, there’s no better time to play and try it out.

All current subscribers will receive 1,000 Gold per unused paid month plus three Unique Player Characters (UPCs): Adelina Esperanza, Lisa Lynway, and M’boma!

K2 Network prides itself, according to their own words, on being the first and leading MMO service company in the Western Hemisphere for proven, successful online game titles from Asia. Climbing rapidly, they are supposed to be one of the fastest growing companies in the fastest growing segment of the video game industry. K2 Network has an operational presence in the United States, Korea, and India.

K2 apparently wants to grow and expand its player database but somehow we feel, despite the beauty of the characters and astounding graphic play, the ‘Hentai’ is not where most western players would want to go. K2 Network itself seems to speak whimsically of its ‘Killer Work of Art’; some players will agree that the game is all about ‘Art’ as Numero Uno and ‘Kill’ as Numero Dos or the other way around. We’ve heard like statements from those players dedicated to a more gentle fantasy MMORP that sounds much like - rather than choosing a story-driven quest, players at Sword of the New World are more interested in hours of bashing and killing each other than to waste time playing out a story line.

Further, having gotten rid of the Premium Bundle for the time being, K2 is promising to bring the most exciting new costumes, new cash shop items, UPCs and consumable items. That sounds like we’re in for a real artsy treat, even if the existing one is damned good; no Hentai is satisfied unless there is constant creation in (beautiful) art and in the magic of creating items - all of them (we assume) would beat back anything brought in other games not concentrating on perfection and beauty as only the Asian game can master.

Pros:

• Sword of the New World offers multi-character control (MCC), players are able to command up to three characters simultaneously. Players can instantly switch between their favorite character classes or control them all at once.
• Astounding graphics
• exceptionally beautiful characters,
• breathtaking places and magnificent cities
• swift game play
• supports a variety of systems
• even more beautiful characters and costumes coming up soon
• the game has been ‘westernized’ with more story line - enhanced storyline,
• a more robust character creation process,
• better pacing,
• AI optimization,
• a more intuitive control system,
• hundreds of new quests and many other game enrichments

K2 Network Delivers MMORPG New World Paradise Setting.
Set on a mysterious, dangerous continent with a story inspired by Europe’s exploration and conquest of America.

Art Direction: Sword of the New World features a bold, original art direction inspired by the supremacy of Europe’s Baroque period. Striking graphics, handsome and beautiful character models, eerie and fantastic dungeons, breathtaking landscapes and magnificent cities.

Music: Evocative music completes each unique area of the game world and makes Sword of the New World nothing less than a masterpiece of adventure.

Design Features, Game play & Graphics:
Groundbreaking design features, fast-paced gameplay and amazing graphics.

Character Classes: musketeer, wizard, fighter, scout, elementalist, and the unique player characters (UPCs).

Combat Possibilities: player vs. environment (PvE) and player vs. player (PvP) combat; the latter lets you combat family versus family and even city versus city.

Awards: Best Graphics (Korea); 2006 Presidential Award for Game of the Year

Developer: Granado Espada was developed by Hakkyu Kim, CEO of imcGAMES and creator of Ragnarok Online.

K2 promises that players will finally get to experience the sort of MMORPG gameplay they have been craving for years but the real question is, can the players craving the type of experiences K2 has to offer battle it out in numbers on a world platform very much westernized in nature and can they win over the quantity of gamers that World of Warcraft attracts. If they find their niche and their own large appreciating crowd, it can only be a beautiful thing indeed.

The makers of Sword of the New World Granado Espada are hoping that the game is destined to dominate the world of MMORPGs by virtue of its groundbreaking design features, fast-paced gameplay and amazing graphics.

You can download the game here

According to Nina Fefferman of Princeton University in a telephone interview, who worked on the report with her (then) student Eric Lofgren, “It really looked quite a bit like a real disease,”.The virus outbreak  ‘Corrupted Blood’ was an accidental consequence of a software challenge added to the World of Warcraft game in 2005 and was introduced by maker Blizzard Entertainment Inc. as an extra challenge to high-level players. But, just as a real virus might spread, it was accidentally carried out of its virtual containment area.

“Soon, the disease had spread to the densely populated capital cities of the fantasy world, causing high rates of mortality and, much more importantly, the social chaos that comes from a large-scale outbreak of deadly disease,” Ms Fefferman and Mr Lofgren wrote.

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“No one have ever looked at what would happen when people who are not in a quarantine zone get in and then leave.”

Fefferman will now incorporate such behaviour into her scenarios, and is working with Blizzard to model disease outbreaks in other popular games.

“With very large numbers of players (currently 6.5 million for World of Warcraft), these games provide a population where controlled outbreak simulations may be done seamlessly within the player experience,” she wrote.

Ms Fefferman noted that Ran Balicer of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel came to a similar conclusion in a paper published in the journal Epidemiology in March.

Read the Full Report HERE 

Talk about asocial? Well, WoW gamers can certainly teach real life people a thing or two! WoW player “Dredd GaRayn” (Level 60 Human Paladin), diagnosed with a rare cancer, had to turn to his fellow guild members who lent a helping hand when his family letters to his congressman and President Bush went unanswered.

According to Dredd GaRayn:

“Last December, before Christmas, I was diagnosed with a very rare and very lethal form of cancer known as Burkitts Lymphoma.

When the state, charities, governor, news agencies, senators and even the president of the united states did not respond to my familys pleas for help to keep a roof over our head, help to keep the power company from shutting us off from a $1,500 power bill and keep food on the table for my kids while we incurred expenses of me missing work, my Guild stepped up.”

Take that, those who think that gamers are losers and have no real life; Dredd would have died if his WoW gamer friends didn’t step in!

BEIJING, Aug 15, 2007

Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. has confirmed on August 15th in Beijing, China, that they have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on World of Warcraft (WOW) in the China mainland, against the game’s US game developer Blizzard Entertainment. Founder Electronics is a well-known Beijing-based provider of across-media information transmission technologies, products, and services and is the largest provider of Chinese fonts in China.

Almost 90% of the press offices, publishing houses and printing plants in the People’s Republic of China use Founder Electronics fonts to typeset and print enormous quantities of newspapers, books, magazines, textbooks, documents and packages and 60% of the oversea Chinese-language newspapers and magazines are printed with the database.

Claims for compensation are as much as CNY 100 million, Founder Electronics has confirmed. Blizzard Entertainment has been accused of using five Founder fonts from the Founder Font Database, which Founder Electronics have patented. The use of the fonts by Blizzard Entertainment without permission also violates the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China.

The copyright infringement brings a loss of more than CNY 1 billion to Founder Electronics, according to its preliminary estimate. The case has been accepted and heard in a Beijing court.

Blizzard Entertainment has apparently run into a series of copyright protection accusations in China. In recent years, the US government has often criticized the Chinese government for incapably protecting intellectual properties in China, resulting a lot of US companies suffer from losses.

This new development is certain to have an impact on the release of the more troubled simplified Chinese-language Burning Crusade, the first expansion version of WOW in the mainland.

The9, Blizzard Entertainment’s Chinese Partner, is said not to have gotten approval for the version’s commercial operation in the mainland from Chinese regulators. This was disclosed by persons close to the company, who chose not to be identified. The9 is therefore unable to commercially operate the expansion version this year and has attempted to cover up the news in front of millions of Chinese WOW gamers who are already furious about their service.

Chinese WoW gamers have been enraged at the repeatedly delayed release of the version in the Chinese mainland steered by The9 who have accused by players as ‘arrogant’ and many have called for boycotting all the games operated by The9, including WOW.

As a result, Blizzard Entertainment’s finances may be seriously affected due to these latest developments in China.

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According to a recent study entitled “Social Interactions in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Gamers” done by Nottingham Trent University and reported by GamesIndustry.biz, MMORPG players are not socially introverted. The report, which was published in the US journal CyberPsychology and Behavior, dispels the myth that online gamers are asocial.

Nottingham Trent University professor Mark Griffiths has stated “This study has revealed many aspects of MMORPGs that were not known before … Previous research has suggested that gamers are socially inactive, but MMORPGs are actually extremely social games, with high percentages of gamers making life-long friends and even partners.”

The study took in nearly 1,000 MMORPG online gamers from around the world, researchers found that three quarters of gamers make good friends with the people they meet online. Almost half have met in real-life situations, and one in ten went on to develop physical relationships.

According to the study, gamers played an average of 22.85 hours per week. The most popular MMORPG in the study was World of Warcraft.

Other finds of the study were:

• 30 per cent of gamers found themselves attracted to another player,
• 40 per cent chose to discuss sensitive issues with online friends rather than real-life friends.
• 81 per cent of gamers play with real-life friends and family as well as make good friends online

In the final analysis, the study reported that - “The virtual world that these games offer, allows players to express themselves in ways they may not feel comfortable doing in real life because of their appearance, gender, sexuality, age, or other factors. They also offer a place where teamwork, encouragement and fun can all be experienced.”

Wayi International Digital Entertainment, a developer and operator of online games in the Taiwan market announced on August 14th that it will launch Granado Espada Online (GE Online), a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) introduced from South Korea, in the Taiwan market at the end of the month.

The closed beta test of GE Online available to a limited 50,000 registered players began on August 8 and has reached a concurrence level of 17,000 simultaneous players. Wayi indicated that it would operate GE Online by charging a monthly fee, which includes a free combination of virtual items for the game chosen from several available by the user.

In addition to the free items, users can purchase additional items at a designated online item mall, Wayi noted. Wayi announced that GE Online is expected to eventually reach 80,000 simultaneous players.

WarCry is giving away free beta test keys to get in on the Fury 24/7 Beta test. This PvP MMO has weekend Open Betas, but only through WarCry can you get you chance to fight it out all week long. They’re giving away 400 more keys to the Beta test.

Fury is a PvP driven MMORPG in development by Auran and published by Gamecock. The game features extremely flexible characters that players can tailor to any group or situation based on their needs or preference. For more information on Fury, you can visit Fury on WarCry or their official website.

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