Lune of Eden - Demons wipe their tears

Korean studio Eden Entertainment worked on the creation of role ekshena Lune of Eden (formerly known as Last Online) for five years, and finally it came before the official announcement. Judging by the roller, we are waiting for a worthy competitor Blade & Soul, TERA, and other anticipated games of the fantasy themes. Although the greatest impact on the project has had a famous shooter Devil May Cry - the developers have borrowed and character design and style, and even the combat system, which combines cutting with a sword and pistol shooting.

The developers promise a bright fights, based on a system of "non-target", as in off-shooter: spectacular combos, finishing, evading enemy attacks. All these pieces are especially proud of the company, because of their implementation took two full years. Players also will be offered a PvP to suit every taste. Fans will be able to take advantage of battles chamber system of selection of matches quickly, but fans are waiting for massive battles sieges of castles. Knowing the bad reputation among Korean game western players, the studio noted that the grind for hours to the next level is not necessary - at least in the initial stages.

The game will be released in 2012. Usually, the eastern game long commute to the western market, but this time the English localization will not take long: the developers have already signed agreements with several Western publishers from USA and Europe. It would be nice if one of them was and the Russian company.

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DreamHack Winter 2011 tournament in Sweden

Today in the Swedish town of Jonkoping begins major computer festival DreamHack Winter 2011, which attracted the attention of fans from around the world of eSports.

Still fresh memories of the tournament MSI Beat it! Russia 2011 Counter-Strike 1.6, in the final of which our countrymen have beaten Moscow Five Swedish team fnatic. So it has ordered the lot that will soon be losing the chance to take revenge on their territory: both teams were back in the same group. All in all, the tournament will be attended by sixteen teams, eight of which will take place in the semifinals. More interesting it will follow the struggles of three favorites, because by eliminating travel from the Danes We Need $ in one group to m5 and fnatic, passing skills, hit the Ukrainian team Na `Vi. Recall that a tournament MSI Beat it! Russia 2011 Na `Vi fnatic lost in the semifinals, eventually finishing in fourth place.

In addition to fnatic, at DreamHack Winter 2011 will be attended by Swedes SK Gaming, as well as teams Lions and ESC. Of guests for a prize fund of $ 30 000 will compete AGAiN, Anexis, eSahara, mousesports, k1ck, TeG, Antwerp Aces and Eearthquake.

In the arena of StarCraft 2 CIS players are White-Ra, Empire.Happy, Empire.kas, RoX.KIS.Abver and RoX.KIS.TitaN. The prize fund here two times higher than that of Counter-Strike: a respectable $ 60 000 64 players will compete, including the champion of ESWC 2011 Millenium.Stephano, as well as Mousesports.MaNa, EG.PuMa, ESC.GoOdy (surprised everyone at Battle in Berlin), MVP.DongRaeGu, EG.IdrA, EG.HuK and many others.

Also as part of DreamHack will play in DotA 2 (about five hundred online applications for participation) and Quake Live. But stand League of Legends organizers at this time was given to the Heroes of Newerth. As far as the idea of ​​pay for itself, it turns out very soon, and while we wish good luck in Swedish battlefield to our compatriots.

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DarkOrbit: serious price for serious people

Some free games, free-to-play, jokingly referred to as pay-to-win - literally translated as "Pay for the victory." The German publisher Bigpoint, one of the major western manufacturers of free games, long famous for the fact that consciously profess their games in the system, selling for serious money playing advantage. Yes, and agitating for the rest of this, considering his point of view the only correct one. But every cloud has a silver lining.

It seems that experts from Bigpoint Donat found a really interesting variant of earnings, not too breaking the balance: the online game DarkOrbit is now possible to buy combat drone Zues. Very powerful, a rare and useful. That's just sad price tag - just EUR 1,000. And what do you think? For 4 days it was sold in 2000 drones. Publisher earned 2 million euros ($ 2.7 million), the rich have the right players in the economy thing, and the rest ... Well, for the rest, hopefully, it went quite smoothly - such advanced drones are too small to affect the balance of these games in general.

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