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Aeria Games to offer Battlefield Heroes

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Aeria Games and Electronic Arts have announced a distribution agreement, in which Aeria Games will publish EA’s Play4Free titles through its own portal.

The first game that will be made available through this agreement is Battlefield Heroes, EA’s third-person shooter based on the Battlefield series, but featuring colorful cartoon graphics and more open, casual gameplay. Further games will also be availble, including Need for Speed World, through Aeria at a later date.

Aeria Games, which publishes dozens of online games including Shaiya and Grand Fantasia, recently announced that they currently serve over 23 million gamers worldwide. The company has also recently created a new mobile gaming division.

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Battlefield Heroes Gameplay Screenshot

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EA AND AERIA GAMES TEAM UP TO LAUNCH BATTLEFIELD HEROES ON Aeria GAMES NETWORK

Agreement will Bring EA's Arcade Shooter and other Free-to-Play Titles to Millions of New Players Worldwide

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – September 21, 2011 – The free-to-play market continues to boom as Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that it has signed a strategic distribution agreement with Aeria Games, a global leader of free-to-play online games, to bring its top Play4Free titles to the multi-million person community at Aeria Games. EA's first game to launch on the popular Aeria Games network is the arcade shooter Battlefield Heroes™, currently available, with other EA titles to follow; including Need for SpeedWorld.

"We are thrilled to add EA titles to our portfolio of games, and what better game to launch with to celebrate this partnership than Battlefield Heroes," said Lan Hoang, Chief Executive Officer, Aeria Games. "EA continues to champion the free-to-play space and their Play4Free games deliver quality, diversity and fun from recognizable IPs so we look forward to supporting their titles through our network resulting in access to millions of additional new power gamers."

"Distribution of Battlefield Heroes on Aeria Games' Network is a natural next step as we expand the Play4Free brand," said Sean Decker, Vice President of Play4Free. "Aeria Games is a frontrunner in the free-to-play games business and our titles will benefit tremendously as they reach the ever-growing global market."

Since 2006, Aeria Games has been a global leader in publishing high quality online free-to-play games in North America, Europe, and Latin America. The company is committed to supporting titles that cater to players looking for a more deep and immersive multiplayer experience with robust and active community support. Aeria Games hosts a diversified and growing portfolio of critically-acclaimed titles from multiple genres including action, MMO, and shooters, to name a few. For more information, please visit www.aeriagames.com.

This agreement with Aeria Games complements EA's own Play4Free portal, http://play4free.com/, which is home to Battlefield Heroes™, Need for Speed™ World, Lord of Ultima™, Dragon Age™ Journeys, Mirror's Edge™ 2D, BattleForge™, FIFA Online, and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® Online.

Battlefield Heroes is a hit third-person arcade shooter that brings classic Battlefield gameplay to a mass audience. The game features fun, cartoon-style graphics and gameplay that caters to players of all skill levels. Battlefield Heroes is easy to pick up and play but has robust character customization and sticky online features so gamers can spend hours building up their characters and conquering the world. For more information, please visit www.battlefieldheroes.com.

Immortal King open beta starting soon

Posted: 20 Sep 2011 06:54 PM PDT

Immortal King’s open beta will begin on September 22, at 7pm CST.

The Greek-themed MMO will feature several open beta events, including:

* Newbie card codes available on the website which will grant extra money in-game.

* “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” rewarding the top ten players who defeat Legion quests with free gold.

* Extra gold for the Leagues who capture the first three farmlands during Farmland Battle.

* Extra gold for the top 20 Prestige ranked players.

* Gold for players who post game-related articles in the forums, and for players who post screenshots with matching “lucky numbers.”

Immortal King is published by NGames (Game321) which also publishes Pockie Ninja.

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Immortal King Gameplay Screenshot

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Immortal King open beta incoming!

Everyone invited to test Greek mythology-based MMORTS from September 22nd

Immortal King, the anticipated Greek mythology inspired MMORTS, is entering its open beta testing phase on September 22nd. To celebrate, publisher NGames have confirmed a plethora of exciting beta activities.

Immortal King’s open beta is arriving. After more than 10 days of thorough closed beta testing, the new Greek Mythology inspired MMORTS is readying its open beta test for September 22nd, 19:00 (CST).

Immortal King plunges you into a world steeped in Greek mythology, challenging you to command a powerful army of troops, govern an empire, become a legendary figure, and even conquer the infamous Greek gods themselves: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, who have divided the world between them. The game boasts a technically proficient browser-based experience, drawing on the latest scripting technologies to immerse players in highly visual, epic-scale battles.

Features include: a unique combat system; magnificent league battles; varied ways to nurture your empire’s growing economy; a huge world to explore through story battles and quests; and much, much more.

To prepare you for the upcoming open beta, publisher NGames have released some tips on how to obtain high-quality equipment through the Arena.

Getting the best loot!

Immortal King uses different colours to indicate the quality of equipment. From low to high, these are: white, blue, green, yellow, red and purple. The higher the grade of item, the more difficult it is to obtain.

High quality equipment increases your attack and defence power attributes when the items are forged.

Purple items are extremely rare and hard to find. However, remembering this tip could help you massively:

If you win in the Arena, you can earn dark gold chests, which have a high probability of containing high quality equipment. Opening dark chests means you have a great opportunity to obtain Red and Purple equipment for your character if you’re lucky you could even get tons of items in a short period of time, like these in-game examples:

Open beta event activities

There will be ten major in-game activities to help players get involved with the Immortal King open beta, with free items and goodies up for grabs.

Events and prizes include:

Newbie Card Starts with open beta (Sept 22th)

Remember to login at the official website (http://ik.game321.com/) after joining Immortal King and click “Newbie Card” to reveal a Newbie Card code, which you can cash in for extra gold and silver.

Raiders of the Lost Ark – Sept 22nd – Oct 1st

The top 10 players who defeat the Legion quests – such as obtaining Argonauts Spear from the Golden Fleece – and get the drop items will be rewarded with free in-game gold. Similarly, defeating the special heroes of the Legion challenges could also reward you with gold. The top 3 players defeating Pelias, Perseus, Thesus and Adrastus will win bags of gold for their account.

Farmland Battle Event Sept 22nd – Sept 24th

On the final day of the event, after the farmland seizing battles, the Leagues (alliances) who succeed in capturing the first three farmlands will win a bounty of extra in-game gold.

Faction Prestige Event – Sept 22nd-Oct 5th

Make sure you stand out in your faction players with the top 20 prestige rank in their faction will win tons of gold on Oct 5th!

Sharing Strategy – Sept 22nd – Sept 29th

You can post any game related articles in the IK forum’s General Discussion section. NGames will pick out the ten articles that have the most followers, and both the authors and the followers can get the gold as a reward.

Lucky Numbers Event – Sept 22nd – Sept 25th

Post a screenshot of your silver, gold, prestige, and honor in the specific thread post set up by the GM during the event. You earn 50 gold for each number (silver, gold, prestige or honor) ending with number 1.

With all of these events and more, Immortal King promises a fun, community-building open beta period. Be sure to register and play the game when the open beta launches on September 22nd.

For more details, please visit Immortal King official website: http://ik.game321.com/

To learn more about the game and the upcoming beta test, be sure to follow Immortal King on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Immortal-King/228055803906961

There will also be a dedicated Facebook app for the game, available here: http://apps.facebook.com/iking-game/

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