In Dynastica, your mission is to build and upgrade a small village into a powerful and strong one till you gain the super power over others. Your characters could be equipped with magical skills and weapons to take in military affair, either to defend your nation or to expand the colony.

Form a powerful clan in cooperation with your friends, maximize your business by using trade system, unlock more achievements according to your ability.

Dynastica has a strong focus on interpersonal relationships. Players can form alliances, engage in advanced trade, plan collusive strategies using map markers and discuss in the in-game chat. Additionally, players can share victories and achievements online.

Accessibility is essential in an engrossing game with events taking place at all hours and so Dynastica provides players with a downloadable Windows client and a web client with full 3D visuals and audio running directly in a web browser. Dynastica sets the standards for the next generation of social games and will be available on Facebook and other social networks in 2010. Full featured 2D mobile versions for iPhone and Android are in development. In short: play anytime, anywhere!

The great potential of the browser game market shows by its daily growth in popularity. However, the games in this genre are all alike and rarely try to create something unique or take the excitement and realism further. Aloriah, on the other hand introduces many new concepts into this stagnated genre to take it to the next level.

By taking inspiration from real time strategy games and using the latest Web 2.0 technologies to merge these ideas on an online site, a complete and fresh gaming experience is presented to the user. The line between browser games and retail games is getting blurred, something that earlier was an illusion, has come alive.

As Devillusion is the only Swedish company developing games within this particular genre, we proudly present our strategy browser game Aloriah.

Main features of PlayOMG Texas Hold’em include its wide & clear table view, amazing achievement systems, and the exciting shootout tournaments. Unlike most poker games in the market now, PlayOMG Texas Hold’em boldly reduces the unnecessary functions and item mall, which allows the table view to be clearer and simpler. Such design enables users to enjoy the essence of Texas poker, without disturbance or fancy decorations.

Tournaments have always been the best places for poker experts to bet on their luck and skills. PlayOMG also adopted and integrated tournaments into exciting shootout rounds for players to compete. Other than the chips you could win from the top 3 places in each round, as long as you’re proficient enough, achievements are also there for you to grasp!

Exact release date of PlayOMG Texas Hold’em will soon be announced. Naturally, a series of official launch events will also be unfolded.

For all the poker fans out there, don’t forget to check out PlayOMG Texas Hold’em website for latest news: http://texas.playomg.com

This is why Business Tycoon Online has released the Help Bell Manual Donation activity. As well as contributing towards the upkeep of the Item Combination system, tycoons will be rewarded with some of the most valuable prizes ever rewarded on BTO. There are three levels of different Manuals: Junior, Intermediate and Advanced. Each brings different chances of gaining different rewards.

The most valuable vehicles and planes with amazing attributes are up for offer for those who donate. This includes both the Savarona Yacht and the luxurious Blessing Yacht, both worth 99,999 Gold! Valuable Liberty Medals are up for grabs, bringing a huge 50% revenue boost to all your stores, as well as Store Upgrade Coupons, of which surely everyone cannot get enough of. One of the most valuable prizes are a recent addition to the game: Store Expert Cards. Depending on their level, this card will instantly upgrade your chosen store to either First Class, Perfect or Superlative level. This in effect makes an Advanced Store Expert card worth up to 95 Store Upgrade Points!

For more details on this and other events and activities, make sure you check out the official Business Tycoon Online website at http://bto.dovogame.com

Exactly, Google is now attempting to pit itself against Facebook for the Big Cake – Social Networking Site. Some industry experts said Google’s efforts could yield a “Facebook killer”, dealing a heavy blow to Facebook.

Social Networking is more lucrative because the users in Social Networking site can be converted into real money. For example, if you create a free Facebook account and log yourself in, you most of the times find some applications or ads at your personal page. When you go to add or play some applications, Facebook will get revenue share. A friend of mine working for Gaming company told us they would have to spend $ 1. 5 – $2 to get a registered user from Facebook, and the costs are increasing day by day.

Everybody knows Google has social-networking services like Orkut, BUZZ, Wave, but these services did not yield an ideal results, but will be doomed to fail. Google did realize this, so they have dicided to acquire both Slide and SocialDeck to bring some fresh air and even more competitive advantages. In a word, Google is now hitting Social Networking Site area and developing social games.

A similar phenomenon can be seen elsewhere. Have you ever tried to signup a Friendster’s account? If so, then you will find a Game Tab on your personal profile page. Click on it, you will be redirected to the Game Page where there are a great number of social applications, or social browser games such as Kingory, Three Kingdoms, BoomZ, WW2 WarFare and Lady Popular. You are knowledgeable now. Friendster is also hitting the social browser game martket with some games integrated into its site at the moment.

Learn More about Friendster:

With more than 115 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Friendster is one of the best sites that allow people to meaningfully participate with others in exciting and fun ways. Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world via www.friendster.com or m.friendster.com from any Internet-ready mobile device. Friendster was acquired in December 2009 by MOL Global Pte. Ltd. (“MOL Global”), an affiliate of leading online payment solutions provider MOL AccessPortal Berhad (“MOL”). Friendster and MOL have been combined to create Asia’s largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network, pairing MOL’s offline retail channel partners and payment platform with Friendster’s large online footprint, social network and user community in Asia.

Now it is Kongregate’s turn. Kongregate is mainly focused on Social games and flash games that can be played through your web browser. Kongregate has been working with thousands of developers to publish  thousands and thousands of the best free games, and the site features a social networting comminuty where you can earn badges, level up, and gain the respect of your friends by playing games. Multiplayer games help Kongregate gain a great momentum, games like Caesary Online, Heroes of Gaia, Heroes of Kung Fu, Dragon’s Call and many more.

The last browser social gaming portal we cover is Bigpoint thanks to its productive browser games in the past 3 years.  As we just checked, Bigpoint’s portal has 139.248.910 registered users. In 2010, Bigpoint rolled out a new features for its current portal, that is, a third party platform called DevLounge that allows game developers to integrate their social browser games to Bigpoint’s portal. Now the game developers are encouraged to gain free registered players in this way. Another competitor to Facebook?

Terra Militaris will combine historical MMORTS gameplay with high-end Flash graphics and will be fully playable on both PC and Mac formats. Ready to set a new standard for browser games, Terra Militaris will bring a new gaming experience to European players without any downloads or a subscription fee.

In the persistant online world of Terra Militaris, players will start the game by choosing one of the four great ancient civilisations; Rome, Egypt, Persia and China and create a hero in order to build their own empire. Players will have to evolve their empire through five different eras by further developing their knowledge in the fields of technology, construction, military and economics. To achieve the ultimate victory, players will need to build powerful armies by levelling up their heroes and combat units, upgrading their weaponry and by learning effective battle tactics.

Players can conquer their rival’s territories by laying siege to their strongholds, taking over and controlling important cities, forging alliances and uniting military forces with other players to lead massive combined armies in epic real-time battles, which can be against NPCs, individual human players and even entire guilds. Players can also increase their political influence by spreading religion, exploring uncharted territories and building trading routes on the vast world map. They must be ready to master all these strategic tools and finally unite all the ancient civilisations under their banner to rule the world.

Terra Militaris will be available by the end of 2010 through the gPotato.eu games portal with no download or subscription fee required. To play the game, users will only have to login to the official website using their favourite PC or Mac web-browser, and jump into the game in seconds. More information about the game will soon be available on http://terra-militaris.gpotato.eu.

The game developer SocialDeck was founded in 2008 and focused on developing the word game “Shake & Spell” and “Pet Hero” that can be played over the iPhone, BlackBerry and Facebook.

Friends can play against each over their mobile devices. The SocialDeck games can also be played between a mobile device and a PC if the player is logged on in Facebook.

SocialDeck becomes the fifth acquisition of Google in August. Earlier, the search engine giant also acquired social games developer Slide, online payment platform developer Jambool, visual shopping engine Like.com, and Noteworthy News developer Angstro.

Below is the offiicial text letter for SocialDeck:

SocialDeck is joining Google!

Big news! We’re super excited to announce that someone found our social games as fun as you have — in this case, that “someone” is Google. SocialDeck has been acquired and we’ve joined the Google team.

We started this company with the goal of connecting friends through social games on all kinds of exciting mobile devices. We’ve been amazed and humbled by all the stories and experiences our customers (you!) have shared with us.

Thank you for all your support and for being part of SocialDeck’s success so far.

1, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures

It’s a free-to-play virtual world based on the popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV show. Despite being a “kids show” it’s actually a remarkable piece of Star Wars narrative that weaves some dark themes in with its huge battles, lightsaber duels, and set-piece eye candy. While very popular with kids (it’s Cartoon Network’s biggest ever show,) and the catalyst for hundreds of new action figures and vehicles, it’s also incredibly popular with adults too, thanks to its sometimes-mature subject matter (political intrigue, warmongering, murder, and numerous other themes that pass over kids’ heads) and satisfying reimaginings of popular characters.

2, Herotopia

Herotopia is a fun and educational virtual world where kids become superheroes. In the dynamic multi-player online game, players explore real world cities and cultures and learn how to deal with bullies, a major issue facing 1 out of 4 of school-aged children.

In Herotopia, each child creates his/her own superhero avatar, chooses a special superpower and travels around the world to play and learn. The site design is a map of the Earth and users can explore nineteen different destinations, from New York to Paris, to Beijing and the North Pole. As kids travel throughout Herotopia, they are introduced to foreign languages, geography and reading skills all in a safe and interactive community setting.

3 , BrainNook

The world BrainNook is designed to help players aged 6 through 10 develop math and English skills by playing over 120 educational mini-games. The world’s content is mapped roughly to the California State Board content standards for grades 1 through 5. All of the games can be played individually or competitively against other players.

A player begins the game with access to only a few of the game’s 15 regions, based on different parts of the Earth. As the player levels up, he or she unlocks new regions where games based on more challenging math and English concepts are waiting to be played. While exploring a region, the player has a chance to learn facts and view virtual artifacts from the real-world location it’s based on. Each region also has a problem that kids solve by collecting items from the area.

4, Actionjetz

Actionjetz.com is a place where kids can play and learn in a fun, and safe environment. Actionjetz are cute and cool toy jets that come with a Secret Code card – your ticket to the fun and exciting world of Actionjetz. These are remarkable airplane toys that you can take home and play with, plus giving you a chance to join in an online game competition! How fun can that be? C’mon and experience loads of fun here at Actionjetz.com. Get your chosen Actionjetz toy here.

5, Bin Weevils

Welcome to the 3D virtual world of Bin Weevils! – A unique virtual platform where kids can have entertainment through 3D multimedia experience.

At Bin Weevils we focus not only on the fun element, but also develop a friendly and engaging environment which brings social and educational values to kids using brain games, or teaching them about time and budget management.

6, 7Wizards

7Wizards is a new browser virtual world that can be played via Primarygames.com. In this game, you play as a Wizards and do tasks assigned by the system instructor.

7 Build-A-Bearville

Build-A-Bearville is committed to providing a fun and safe online experience for kids of all ages, primarily 6 – 14.

Max Pow is proving to be very popular amongst gamers in China and Japan, and its U.S. debut began with the Open Beta Test on August 20th. Within hours, hundreds of MP accounts have been created.

Max Pow is an online role-playing experience set in a fantasy world. MP takes action RPG fundamentals and adds loads of creatures, environments, weapons and characters. Players become brave heroes as they explore and fight across a mysterious and perilous land. MP allows thousands of players to interact within the same world, where they can battle each other, form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power, glory, and accolades.

Real-time action and gaming!

Say goodbye to the time consuming turn-based games. Max Pow’s action is instant and real-time. Feel the rush as you are simultaneously lobbing your attacks while trying to dodge your opponents. MP is the game that is taking the web gaming franchise in a new direction with faster, more responsive combat allowing players to simultaneously battle and strategize. Controls are easy and intuitive, with the key to winning being strategy and quick reaction.

Develop your character and compete against other players!

Max Pow has eight distinctively different character occupations: Druid, Thief, Ninja, Witch, Hunter, Fighter, Mage, and Pirate; all of which have different characteristics and skills. Through these individual skills, the players can select and use characters to suit specific needs for missions. Players can even play in free-for-all or team modes.

Play it anytime, anywhere!

Max Pow is based on a new flash application technology for web browser games. It’s an casual action game with RPG elements that can be accessed from any browser with an internet connection. It is the first full experience real-time web browser game available to market.

The company revealed today that it has partnered with German online gaming portal Bigpoint Games (Sea Fight, Dark Orbit) to create and distribute quality gaming content for Playboy’s audience of 18 to 35-year-old men. The venture’s first title provides an idea of what’s to come.

Poisonville is a browser-based MMO that borrows heavily from the Grand Theft Auto Franchise. You’ll play an escaped convict trying to find out who framed you by doing jobs for gangs and trying to gather information. The rundown from Playboy:

Poisonville is an action-oriented, Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) that puts gamers into a fictional U.S. city where crime and corruption rule the streets. Players must complete a series of missions in order to counteract corruption, regain respect, and rebuild their reputations. Throughout the game, players will encounter beautiful, Playboy-caliber women. In full-3D, players can drive a variety of vehicles, engage in player vs. player combat, and compete in ongoing competitions designed to stimulate gang warfare — all through a standard web browser.

Poisonville is now in open beta, and any interested gamers can register at Bigpoint Games. There’s even a nifty trailer:

Specifics on the Bigpoint/Playboy partnership were not provided, but it appears Playboy plans to develop games in conjunction with Bigpoint and integrate Bigpoint’s browser into the Playboy web site.

“There is no better way to judge your business performance and career development than with milestones. Setting clear obtainable goals that progressively get bigger and bigger, reaching these goals and then seeing all that you have achieved is one of the biggest motivators of successful CEOs. Now, Business Tycoon Online has its very own in game goal and achievement ‘tree’. Due to not so recent events and the ‘wish’ that every tycoon has to reach their top goals, these achievements will be called The Wishing Tree.”

It is great to see the continued improvement and augmentation of features to BTO. An achievement tracking system was long overdue and looks to be a great way for players to set and obtain goals just like in real business. We look forward to seeing the future improvements and great new feature that will continue to bolster Business Tycoon Online.

DriverVille

Customize your avatar and car with all kinds of wicked virtual items, go on quests, race your friends to win bragging rights and enter the sweepstakes that could win you a brand new Mazda.

Nice game but there are many stupid points in it , When you arrive to the ninth level its hard to reach the level 10 exept after counting days, the problem is there are not many activities can be carried out to elevate the level 10 only by racing friends for more than a hundred times until you can reache this level, as well as the points are few for doing a specific job in the game, which makes very little upgrading in the game takes weeks rather than days

Zoo Kingdom

Zoo Kingdom is the tycoon-style zoo game from Blue Fang Games! Create your zoo, care for your animals, share with friends, and enjoy your Zoo Kingdom!

Backyard Monsters

Truly a fun game, not demanding, or high maintenance the way some games can be, play when you want and at your own pace. Not as happy about the part where strangers can come in and destroy everything and leave you with no resources… and that you are limited so much on how many of each item you can build, but that, I guess comes with every game, not everybody is going to like everything about a game. Still a thoroughly enjoyable game!

Castle Age

Castle Age is a free strategy game on facebook with social elements. The game allows you to train army, defeat monsters, and perform quests.

- Raise an army of Knights, Elves, Angels and other mythical creatures!
- Defeat Epic Monsters like Hydras and Dragons with Friends!
- Control Mighty Heroes to lead your army into battle!
- Obtain powerful items to equip your General and army!
- Quest to learn the secrets of alchemy and ancient spells.

Dreambear

Dreambear is a web-based, virtual world (that runs on a social network like Facebook and Hyves) where people (age 6 and up) can play, socialise and influence the world in a playful manner.

Pirates Ahoy

Pirates Ahoy! is a unique combination of any number of game genres and features that you’ve probably seen before: it’s a high seas sailing adventure that puts a fresh spin on everything from virtual spaces to treasure hunting.

Grand Safari

Grand Safari is a new facebook game, but some players found it really tedious and annoying, especially with all the pop up wandering pets that occurred every two minutes almost like clockwork.

My Empire

My Empire is a city-building game where you must construct homes, leisure, and resource generating buildings, but it’s different from the other games out there due to the ancient Roman setting. As is the case with all of Playfish’s games, the art is in a super cute and polished cartoon style.

Legacy of Rome

This game is about the end of the Julius Caesar reign in Rome and how Caesar is looking for an able and apt successor for his empire through the game. The task is to expand his empire into Germania and prove yourself to be a worthy successor of Julius Caesar’s throne. Bring the comforts of modern Roman life to the barbarians, including bath houses, theatres, and temples. Take your place in Rome’s Dynasty! The game has been built by innoWate and 6Waves in collaboration.

Expedition Egypt

Your goal in Expedition Egypt is that of completing Quests and completing ancient collections, while raiding other players (and surviving their raids) and building your empire of properties to generate coins for the items you’ll need in completing quests. In other words, the game is your classic Facebook RPG like Mafia Wars or Vampire Wars, but with a different theme: you spend most of your time mastering missions and gathering loot, getting skill points to increase your stats and climbing up the charts trying to become the number one explorer in the game

TRZZonline’s Fame & Fortune

TRZZonline Fame and Fortune is a new celebrity styled Social Game, where you can do Gigs to earn Fame and Fortune

City of Wonder

City of Wonder is a brand new Facebook social game by Disney’s social gaming affiliate, Playdom, and it’s already joining the ranks of such games as Farmville and Mafia Wars as a top hit on Facebook. It draws inspiration from such established titles as Civilization, Sim City and Civony, while adding that social gaming touch for an all-new twist on a popular gaming formula. You can build up your own civilization, form alliances and/or rivalries with neighboring nations, establish trade or go to war, or both, and all from the comfort of your own Facebook!

Treasure Odyssey

In Treasure Odyssey, you pack your shovel, grab your map, you’re in for a Camel ride. Come unveil Egypt’s most precious treasures and display them in your own museum! From now on, you are a treasure hunter!

Car Town

Facebook’s Car Town is all about collecting cars. Once you join the game, you’re given a basic garage that represents your home base. You’ll also receive credits to customize their garage or to “buy” a car. You start with a base model car and move on up to exotic vehicles such as the McLaren F1, Lamborghini LP670-4 SuperVeloce and Mercedes SLR McLaren . You’ll find all types of cars in here, even Indy Cars.

Mythopolis:

A real-time strategy war game featuring legendary heroes and gods of ancient Greek myth! Rule as a Spartan Warlord, an Athenian Senator or a Trojan King to rebuild a fallen nation and unite a divided land, before the world of men and gods falls to complete ruin!

This time will be no exception. Though evolved from the run-of-the-mill city-construction theme, CityVille may well be a milestone where the title takes new shapes and is gonna make gamers “WoW” in several different ways. Zynga never follows the beaten track and the too-familiar building-and-expanding trick will by no means get it satisfied. Gamers have every reason to expect a revolutionary turn in their beloved simulation titles and be ready for new strategies in order to get their jobs done.

An enhancement of all city-governing features is the bottom line, and thus our safest bet. The upcoming Cityville will build on other similar titles and at least offer a more realistic game play. The graphics will be a signature stunning one for sure, as is always the case with any Zynga online productions, and more missions related to domestic building, economic running, and other capacity-building areas are likely to be activated.

As its name suggest, there will gonna be more than one city on the map, which logically entails conflicts, even wars over territory and population, and meanwhile, possible diplomatic ties forged among alliances or even rivals. An in-depth storyline and more intricate in-game relationships thus will come most naturally, and together gives Cityville a stronger social touch.

The special focus on RPG elements always makes Zynga stand out among the many MMO developers both home and abroad. Cityville will most likely continue with the line. Therefore, gamers can well hold their breath for dazzlingly customizations of cities and avatars, thrilling combats with both fellow players and NPCs, and other features of the kind.

Features:
The long-established reputation of Zynga as a social gaming expert and the genre’s natural appeal of lording over a real piece of land together make CityVille worth all the waiting.

Zynga Folk is quite cagy about the development and the upcoming beta stage of CityVille, which makes the new game all the more tempting and mysterious to follow.

A lot of things are still rather cloudy about this long-awaited Facebook “blockbuster”, which now unveils just a tip of its ice berg; however, one thing is for sure: the game is gonna bring something new to the old genre and make a dent in social gaming family, as both fans and the developer hoped.

Count down together for a brand -new city-building experience in CityVille.

For dealers in your base, you equip the hero with potions, weapons and artifacts. Typical for this genre you choose initially for one of five hero classes (Warrior, Mage, Hunter, Assassin, Master) and then pull it into the fight. The World of Soul binder consists of a variety of levels and “splinter worlds” correspond to the usual instances. There you are put in with skeleton warriors and goblins, collect items, manage your inventory or put a pet – such a powerful bear Hither. If you like, you can play alone in Soul Binder – alternatively you pick up support from five other colleagues. Particularly impressed with the isometric view in Diablo 2 format, which shines with lots of details and smooth animations. The game uses the entire screen surface.

Soul Binder plays mainly on the surface, but of course there are dark dungeons. The beta test for Soul Binder will start at the end of the year, or early in 2011, then all Diablo fans could enter the dark age world. As for browser game’s developer and publishers will pubish this browser RPG. You will play along with Firefox, Explorer, Opera & Co., and the game itself is free. From the developers, there are two playable demo scenes where you can try to control yourself and see the environmental effects.

We are interested in your opinion: Do you like the graphic style and the game world of SoulBinder?

Remember, you are not merely a dweller here, but more of an owner of this newly-discovered isle. Life here goes exactly the way you want it to be. You can totally lay back and get yourself tanned on the balmy beach to while time away, or you may well choose to work hard on your new home and make every day worthwhile in one way or another. Either way you are up to, the island functions accordingly. It could be an ideal resort where you get drunk in beautiful sea-side scenery, or a test field where you make everything with your own hands and reap exactly what you have sowed.

Your new “Islander” life here begins with much farm work. Plough the patch of arable land you get and cultivate various crops to bring enough food to table. Then you also need to build up a house to take shelter from the capricious sea-side weather. After that, you may want to mark out your own backyard and rear some poultry in it in exchange for coins in the local island market, or to simple make life more alive. If you have more leisure time to kill, make some decorations at your new home and invite friends over for fun of whatever kind.

Among all, go fishing would be a nice choice on this sea-shore land. It could not only add some new delicacy to your menu, but also bring you much entertainment and, not but least, rich profits in trade-offs. Make yourself a rod and spend a care-free afternoon practicing your fishing skills here.

Features:

“Islander”, the new Facebook social game, allow gamers a pretty interesting try to grow a sea-side isle into their new home with boundless creativity and imaginations.

Nice graphics, vividly-depicted characters and free options for activities together guarantee a casual and relaxing gaming experience for all would-be “Islanders”.

Much opportunity for socializing is another strong suit of the game. Players can throw parties, shoot the breeze, have trade-offs, or even send gifts to one another to live a much colorful life here.

Come say hi to other Islanders, and together give the nature-bound piece of land a human face!

It turns out that people in the sky lives pretty much as we do on earth. There is also a bustling city life which we have got so familiar with. Everything ranging from the way life goes to the way the facilities look like rings much bell. So it is fairly easy for you to blend in and feel right at home with your short stay there.

Sky people have a strong cult for things that they never heard before. Innovative ideas for city governance and fresh new living concepts are what they always adore. Cater to this special taste and always brainstorm for new stuffs, then you can get yourself much respects, adorations and most importantly, trust from these sky-dwellers.

It couldn’t be long before you have the whole city in charge. Being the mayor of the virtual city is no kidding. The citizen’s welfare is what at stake. Better take the job seriously and really invest yourself into it. Map out a blueprint first and do everything that fits the bill. Build up cozy homes in neighbors and establish recreational centers of this or that kind to help your citizens enjoy their life more in this sky city. Organize robust markets and free trade-offs to have a well-balanced budget. Forge diplomatic ties with neighboring cities to keep warfare at bay. Tip in advanced technologies to keep the city in touch with a much modern living style we are accustomed to on earth. In a word, keep your eyes on building a flagship sky city with your own trademarks on it.

Features:

Sky city has in place all the bits and odds of a thriving city life in reality, thus offering gamers a quiet realistic city-running experience and stimulating much motivation within the gaming process.

It is the place where creativity matters the most. Let your imagination fly as wildly as possible and mold the sky city into your own version of paradise.

Don’t ever forget to apply proper strategies from time to time in order to build the best sky city among others and make your friends pale in front of your artwork.
The future of Sky city is now in your hands. Try all outs to make it as brighter as possible!

Still remember how you used to bite lips over the ecstasy of intense cross-fires and how many times you got on the edges of seats over the many life-hanging moments during throat-cutting combats? For hardcore fans of Jagged Alliance, these thrilling memories never faded away easily. The unique gaming experience still echoes in minds from time to time. Now that GamesCon bitComposer is making a comeback with the same title some ten years later, gamers can once again relish the beloved game and fight each other for glory, only on a larger arena. This time Jagged Alliance has made its way online and will open fire on the internet browser, engaging more fighters in the newly polished strategy and combative mechanism.

Still turn-based and action-packed, Jagged Alliance Online indeed inherits the core features of its previous franchises which swept other PC games away with a sensational debut a decade ago. However, seeing the game simply as a spin-off is somewhat unfair. Rather, to give the game its due credit, the Jagged Alliance series actually culminates here in this coming online version, with enhanced MMORPG elements, plus the browser gaming fun still novel to the title.

What present in front of gamers is a brand new virtual world where the pay-to-fight deal has been on its boils. More death-affronting soldiers are ready to take their chances, earning big commissions through dangerous missions. Have a large fortune, then you can get the bravest fighters on board, the most advanced equipments in hands, and therefore a favorable kiss from victory when battles are on. More missions accomplished, more cashes will be channeled in, and before long, you will be sitting right on the top of luxury and fame.

Though valiant souls are everywhere here in Jagged Alliance Online, they are not all full-flung warriors ready to fling in war any time you give the order. Rather, to become ideal fighters, they need much training in terms of strategy-making, and get equipped with sophisticated weapons for modern warfare. Only a combination of tough bodies, wise tactics, and proper management can guarantee you larger winning odds.

Gamers will see much more need for cooperation here in Jagged Alliance Online than they did ten years ago. You have to lend hands to others from time to time as a means of self-preservation in this war-torn virtual world. Rent out your forces to those in need and get paid back in more ways than cash.

Features:
Jagged Alliance Online not only brings the old fighting cult back, but also adds some new spice to the original fun.

Improved combative mechanism, refined graphics and characters, and other upgraded role-play elements makes Jagged Alliance Online worthy checking out for both old fans and new comers.

Get the lost feeling back for a brand new Jagged Alliance experience online!

The ads are on display in Facebook Inc.’s virtual game “Car Town,” as Honda advertises on the social-network site for the first time today. The game, which allows users to collect and customize cars, has 2.6 million users.

Brands are turning to social networks to reach an audience with leisure time on its hands and the patience to sit through branded messages. Walt Disney Co., Electronic Arts Inc. and Google Inc. have all bought games makers in recent months to benefit from millions of users signing up to play.

“You can have 200,000 people drive past a billboard on an L.A. freeway everyday, but you don’t have the same level of engagement as when people select “Car Town,’” Steve Center, Honda’s vice president for advertising, said in an interview. “Marketers and game developers will discover they are building powerful channels and that there’s enormous property for sale.”

Dove Soap and Breyers Ice Cream are running ads on “TikiFarm,” while Energizer batteries are promoted on “Family Feud.” Microsoft Corp., Cascadian Farm Organic and 7-Eleven have all marketed themselves on “Farmville,” a game with more than 62 million users that lets users try their hand at farming. A player grows and harvests crops, purchases items like shovels tractors and rakes and raises livestock.

Farmville, Mafia Wars

Global advertising in social games and applications will total $293 million next year, a 60 percent increase from 2009, according to researcher EMarketer Inc. in New York. By comparison, expenditure on television advertising was $166.9 billion in 2009, according to ZenithOptimedia.

As ads move online and marketers follow consumers to the Internet, traditional advertising in print newspapers and magazines has suffered declines. Internet ads are forecast to make up 17.1 percent of the ad market in 2012 from 12.7 percent in 2009, ZenithOptimedia Group Ltd. a London-based ad buyer owned by Publicis Groupe SA, said last month.

Zynga Inc., the top maker of Facebook games whose titles include “Farmville,” “Texas HoldEm Poker” and “Mafia Wars Game,” said it’s in talks with numerous brands about advertising.

“We believe that advertising will play a larger role at Zynga by providing brands the reach of TV, the measurability of online and the most engaging ad integrations available,” said Manny Anekal, director of brand advertising at the company.

Microsoft’s Bing

“A lot of the growth around Facebook has been because people play social games so much,” said Simon Mansell, chief executive officer of TBG Digital, a London-based digital ad agency that also sells ads on Facebook. “Users spend so much time playing that during downtime in the game they can respond to offers.”

Microsoft Corp. gave virtual currency to “Farmville” users who became fans of the Facebook page of the Bing search engine, according to Lynn Rowe Girotto, senior director for Bing marketing. Users then received status updates linking Bing search results to “Farmville.”

The result was 425,000 new fans of Bing on Facebook and 70 percent of those fans visiting Bing in the next month, she said.

“As long as it’s done well, and it’s not overly intrusive, I think it’s a good thing,” John Schappert, Electronic Arts’s chief operating officer, said in an interview. “It does offset the development cost and provide an early revenue stream for these games, for which many people don’t spend a dime on now.”

Google’s Games

Earlier this month, Google bought Jambool Inc., a provider of virtual-currency software and Slide Inc., a maker of games and apps for social sites. Walt Disney snapped up Playdom Inc., the second-biggest maker of games on Facebook, in July for $563 million. Japan’s Softbank Corp. invested 13.5 billion yen ($158 million) in Zynga and Electronic Arts in November bought games maker Playfish Inc. for $400 million.

More than just advertising in games, brands are also spending money developing social applications to attract consumers. American Family Insurance created the “IamFam” game that allows a user to build an avatar, settle into a neighborhood, outfit a house and shop at a local store.

Nestle SA’s Purina PetCare Co unit created the “Friskies Wonderland Quest II” game, where users find hidden food ingredients like salmon and chicken to move onto higher levels.

‘Still Too Small’

“We’re running 20-odd campaigns now on Facebook with advertisers,” said Dave Madden, a vice president for ad sales at Wild Tangent, a games company that worked with American Family Insurance and Nestle Purina. Wild Tangent also developed an in-game ad platform where brands air short commercials in return for users receiving virtual currency and items.

“These ads have to add value and they cannot take away from the game,” he said. “We’ve seen solid growth in our ads business and to say they would triple is a relatively achievable forecast.”

Not everyone is embracing in-games advertising, including some of the developers. Bigpoint GmbH, one of the world’s largest online-game providers, sees the market as “still too small for it to be interesting for us,” Chief Executive Officer Heiko Hubertz said in an interview last week.

“For now we make more money from promoting our own games than by selling ads for the games,” he said, estimating that casual players of social games on Facebook spend 10 euros a month on value-added services versus hard-core gamers who can spend 40 euros.

With total ad spending on Facebook estimated at $1.28 billion this year, according to EMarketer, social media is vital to marketers.

Companies view social media as a core part of their online marketing spending, and not an “experiment,” said Victoria Ransom, the founder of Wildfire Interactive Inc., which has helped Nestle SA, The Gap Inc. and PepsiCo Inc. build social marketing campaigns.

“One of the ways we’re going after younger folks is to be in the places they are,” Honda’s Center said. “Young people are online; they live online and communicate online. We want to catch people where their interests lie.”

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As citizens, you must know how important country-managing skills are. Our personal living standards can skyrocket if our leader manages well ranging from hard power to soft power. On the contrary, we would live miserably. Therefore, if we want to live happily, we must have a good leader with excellent managing skills. Some of you may complain that your leaders suck. Some of you holding amazing country-running philosophy may find nowhere to put into practice. You guys must be exceptionally happy seeing this strategy game with social elements, City of Wonder, aiming to let players build well-advanced and prosperous civilization because you can be a leader in the virtual world.

If you are familiar with Social City, you won’t find the City of Wonder difficult to play. To put it in an easy way, you need to build residential houses to accommodate your people who can produce goods and strengthen your army, you need to research technologies to unlock new buildings, and you need to forge relationship with your neighboring countries either in nice or bad way.

As a strategy simulation game, City of Wonder is in-depth and of interest. Specifically, you need to develop your city going through Stone Age, Classical Age, Modern Age… and finally to civilization. How cool is it! What you can do in the initial period is building houses to expand your population cap and produce people. When you reach level 5, you are able to trade, attack, and conduct cultural exchange with your neighboring countries.

In terms of the inner city construction, besides building houses or other technology-driven buildings, you have to build entertaining devices to make your people happy. You need to build gardens or other decorations and you have to clean them regularly. On the ride side of the game screen, three kinds of masks showing “happy, bored and sad” will alarm you to take care of your country’s happy index. Advising system is also introduced in this game, corresponding with modern city’s emphasis to talents training. There are three advisors in the game—military, economic and cultural advisors. They pop up when you need to pick which kind of building to be constructed. When you follow their advice, your respective points increase.

When you think your countries are too small to bear your buildings, you need to expand your boundaries using your silver coins or gold which can be earned by trading goods or winning cultural exchange. As long as you walk out of your little cozy country, you shall visit your embassy in other countries, helping to increase your cultural points.

In addition, what’s worth mentioning is that you have to build marvelous cultural monuments such as the Great Wall or Egyptian Pyramid as your individual identity, If you were the leader of your country, would you suck at developing it? Prove it if you nod your head.

Like the football world cup that’s just finished, there will be basically 2 phases to this new PVP competition. The “Group” phase and the “Knock Out” phase. Every hero level 11 and above will be eligible to participate. All players who participate will receive gold as a reward, players who reached the second phase the “knock out” stage will be commended with additional rewards, which ranges from keys, union rewards to high level treasure maps.
The competition takes place once a week, there will be rolling announcements 24 hours prior to it in general chat. Players will be able to sign up at the allied force headquarter an hour before the competition. Players will have up to an hour to sign up, during which time there will be system notices on the town interface.

Each competition will take at least 16 and up to 1024 players, on a first come first serve basis. Each player will be able to bring up to 3 heroes at once to participate. If there’s not enough interest in a particular competition, a cancellation notice will be made and sent to all players who signed up. Each participating player will also be given a 3 hour protection to protect their cities while they are away.

Phase 1 – The Group Stage

During this phase, players will be divided in to 16 groups. There will be up to 64 players in each group, players will face their randomly selected opponent one on one, the fight will continue until one side has no soldiers left to fight with. Heroes will not die from these PVP fights. There will be a 10 minute break between each fight, for players to replenish and redistribute soldiers for the next fight. There will be one and only one winner from each of the 16 groups, who will then go on to the next stage of the competition.

Phase 2 – The Knock Out Stage

During this phase, the top 16 players that emerged from the first round will be paired up into 8 groups, as shown in the picture below:

The winners of these 8 groups will go on to the next round – the quarter finals. And there will be then semi-finals and final to decide who’s better and who’s best. There will be breaks between each fight, much like in phase 1.

Note:

All participating players will receive gold as a reward, the amount is based on the amount of soldiers lost in the competition.

50% of all soldiers lost in the competition will be returned to the players.

There will be 3 tiers of rewards for players who reach that second phase: the top 16 players will receive keys and various elemental items for their unions; the top 4 players will receive Magic Energy Core, the amount will be based on their ranking; finally, the overall winner will receive 2 blue and 1 purple treasure maps. His or her name will also be displayed on the sign up page.

The hero who killed the most during the competition will receive additional EXP scrolls, his/her name will also be displayed till the end of the next competition.

Regular PVP rewards like soldier uniforms will also be given, at 50% of the regular amount.