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Red 5 Studios Continues Support Of eSports

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Red 5 Studios announced today that $1 million in prize money is up for grabs throughout 2013 in Firefall eSports tournaments. Red 5 has already taken competitive gaming a step further with the recent launch of the eSports Toolkit, combat refinements to create higher skill ceilings for all battleframes and the Firefall Mobile Gaming Unit tour rolling out in the United States this fall.

Wargaming Takes Home Two Honors From European Games Award 2012

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Wargaming is proud to announce that it has received two prestigious honors from the European Games Award 2012. The company was named the Best European Publisher, and its flight combat action MMO World of Warplanes was chosen Europe’s Most Wanted Online Game of 2012. “We are excited to be honored by the European Games Award for the second year in a row,” said Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi. “These awards celebrate the creative and commercial progress the company has made over the last year, and demonstrate the recognition and popularity our projects have earned all around Europe.”

New Event Launches As Conquer Online 3 Expectations Grow Higher

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With the development of Conquer Online 3 (CO3) steadily progressing, and additional information surrounding CO3 being revealed all the time, players who adventure and fight alongside their comrades in the Conquer land have grown fonder and fonder of this epic fresh in-the-making game. The expectations for CO3 have grown much higher than previously imagined.

Command and Conquer Free to Play

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Gamescom, if nothing else, commands a lot of headlines during its few days in the limelight. And of course today is no different. EA announced that its upcoming real-time strategy game, Command & Conquer Generals 2, will be free-to-play. The game will be a part of EA?s new online platform it is simply calling Command & Conquer. The platform and the game will launch sometime next year for the PC. C & C Generals 2 is the first of what EA said will be many free Command & Conquer games.

Knight Age Open Beta Pre-Registration

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Joymax today launches the start of their exciting Open Beta Contests for the upcoming free-to-play MMORPG, Knight Age. Players now have only fourteen days before the fantasy MMORPG enters open beta on August 28th! With more than a dozen contests planned, now’s the best time to be a Joymax player. To pre-register for the open beta, players simply need to have a Joymax account. There are several pre-open beta contests open today, with a total of 17 different events planned between now and the as-of-yet unannounced end of open beta.

Team Fortress 2 Man vs. Machine Mode Live

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Team Fortress 2’s Red and Blue teams now have a new enemy they both share, the machines! The update that has been in the making for nearly 2 years has launched on Steam today. Valve is excited to announced their new Man vs. Machine content patch which brings a new computer controlled ?faction? and a new co-op mode to TF2. Six players are pitted versus waves of robots, some of which are built to look like machine versions of the iconic TF2 classes.

DC Universe Online Announces New Content

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The producers over at Sony Online Entertainment have just enlightened us on their next DLC Pack entitled Hand of Fate. Hand of Fate marks the fifth DLC pack for the popular free to play superhero MMORGP DC Universe Online. Hand of Fate will bring a whole new type of gameplay which was designed from the ground up to draw players out into their iconic open-world cities, Gotham City and Metropolis. The DLC Pack will feature loads of side missions and a brand new type of group mission that they are calling Operations.

Elsword Introduces New Dungeons and Ninja Costumes

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What I hate about games is when they become stale. When developer’s neglect the game, let it sit around and hope players will keep playing. Well fortunately that’s not the case for Kill3rCombo and their free to play action MMORPG Elsword. This week, Kill3rCombo will launch three new dungeons, increase the level cap and debut ninja costumes in Elsword.

War Thunder Beta Goes Global

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Gaijin Entertainment, the developer and publisher of the upcoming free to play, massive online universe of War Thunder is pleased to announce the launch of the global closed beta test. From the publisher, “Today we start the Global beta of our combat MMO game ? a massive testing program that will give players from Europe, America and Africa the opportunity to join the never-ending battles in the skies of War Thunder.”

Shooter MMO Game, Grimlands, Making Great Progress In Beta

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Gamigo’s post-apocalyptic shooter MMO, Grimlands, has been in the closed beta phase since April 2012. In the meantime the game has done a lot. To the biggest expansions belong the eight new dungeons including an array of quests, over 70 new quests, and four completely new regions (Reville, Greenville, Hartfield, and Mutant Valley) which have been introduced into the game.

eSports Toolkit Announced for Red 5 Studios Firefall

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Red 5 Studios? today announced the eSports Toolkit for its upcoming free-to-play online action shooter, Firefall. The eSports Toolkit brings competitive gaming to the next level with unique spectator modes and streamlined shoutcaster controls. Enthusiasts can easily access in-depth details of tournament play while dynamically following the action throughout the match ? ensuring they never miss a frag. More information on the eSports Toolkit is available through this short video clip.