Allods Online has recently launched their Guild Portal, which allows players to create, recruit for, and show off their guilds. If you’re looking for a game that also encompasses a sense of community, this is one you should check out. At this early stage in the game, there are only roughly 20 guilds signed up, so there’s plenty of opportunity to form your own or join one.
To add a guild, you’ll first need to sign up at the Allods Online Guild Portal. When you’re all signed up, click on the “+Add a Group” button. There, you can enter all the info for your guild and include a guild logo. Interested? You can check it out here.
With the recent release of the Apple iPad, game developers have been in a rush to create gambling apps for the device. March 27th was the deadline for any game developer that wanted their game to be ready in time for the iPad’s big debut.
21 Online Casinos claims that a device like the tablet PC would provide a great opportunity for online gaming sites, particularly because they provide a more comfortable and realistic experience for the player. They’re much easier to read and navigate than a mobile phone, yet not as bulky as traditional laptop technology.
According to 21 Online Casinos, “The truly exciting thing about the iPad is the potential for more interactive online casino games. For instance, players can actually push the buttons on the slot machines themselves or rub the screen to play scratchcards. The format would allow players to interact with games in the same way they would at an actual casino and would also allow for a more user friendly gaming experience.”
One potential downside is that because the iPad would still run on Apple’s operating system, download-based casino apps can’t be accessed on the device, only browser-based applications. But who knows… maybe a successful online gambling experience will influence Apple to think about modifications in the future.
HTML5 is currently in development as the next revision of existing HTML and it’s rumored to be good for more than just basic video. A team of three developers at Google who have had some spare time on their hands (actually, Google has a 20% time policy, whereby Google engineers are allowed to spend 1/5 of their workday on projects that aren’t necessarily in the scope of their formal job descriptions) are working on Quake II, a video game involving demanding graphics that will be able to run in a browser window.
The initial plan is for the game to be run in either the Google Chrome or Apple Safari web browser. The video game will use an HTML5 canvas and WebGL for graphics acceleration.
The Quake II project was revealed on April 1st, and reports have said that the project is already successfully underway. If you’re interested in learning more about the game, check out the video below.
Conduit Ltd. may not sound familiar to you, but you’ve probably seen some of their technology at some point in your lifetime. Recently, they created a program that allows publishers to nest browser-based applications at the top of their web browsers.
Toolbars aren’t exactly new technology, but what Conduit is bringing to the table is. The technology that the company has created essentially allows its customers to create browser-based applications that run in a toolbar near the top of the internet window. For example, the FarmVille toolbar is one of Conduit’s creations.
According to Conduit’s president, Adam Boyden, the company currently has 220,000+ publishers creating applications and 100+ million active users. Growth in those numbers is expected to continue as browser-based games grow in popularity, especially in China.
Boyden says that Conduit has “been very popular within the game space because companies have been able to build tools which have helped them make their games more easily accessible or interact with their game-related content more easily within the browser. It gives game publishers, developers, and community sites a constant engagement potential with end users.”
Electronic Arts has recently introduced a new game for its Ultima franchise lineup. The company’s newest creation will be a free-to-play browser-based game titled Lords of Ultima and the company describes it as “an online strategy game where you build your own unique city and play with thousands of other players.”
More specifically, the game’s development is being handled by EA Phemomic, which has been responsible for creating the free-to-play MMORTS/MMORPG game BattleForge.
Lords of Ultima is currently in closed beta testing and running only on one server. If you’re interested in testing out the game and if there’s still room on the server, you can try it out at its official website, www.lordofultima.com.
In the Boxhead More Rooms 2D browser-based game by Kongregate, you play a shooter whose mission is to kill all the Zombies and Beasts you encounter. There are eight types of layouts in the game: Boxy, Buttons, Mazey, Gladiator, Strip, Tight, Columns 2, and Castle so you’ll be amused hours on end.
When you advance through the levels, your character is able to pick up little red boxes, which contain different forms of weapons and equipment. The pistol, the weapon which your character starts off with, never runs out of amo, but other weapons can run out of amo. Examples of other weapons and equipment include: uzis, shotguns, grenades, and barrels.
Arrow keys are used to control your player throughout the game, and when applicable, number keys are used to select which weapon or piece of equipment your player will use to defeat the enemies. The space bar is used to fire. The Zombies in the game are white and take much less hits to kill than the red Beasts. The beasts also have the ability to attack back.
Boxhead More Rooms is a simple game and has simple graphics, but it’s quite fun. If you’re interested in checking it out for yourself, visit Kongregate’s website. And just as a heads up, this unusually addicting game requires at least 512 mb of memory and a relatively fast processor. Have fun!
Today I happened upon the Japanese browser-based game Tower of Moai. In the game there are these moai (little statues of human figures carved from rocks) and the objective of the game is to rescue as many of them as possible before the time runs out.
These little guys can be rescued by tipping the tower towards the ladder that is dangling from the top of the screen so that the moai can climb up to safety.
There are multiple levels in the game. The first level involved balancing moai atop a tower and the second level involved balancing moai that were sprouting out of lily pads. There is a timer of 90 seconds for each level.
The graphics aren’t super amazing or anything, and throughout the game, the music consists of repetitive beatboxing, but if you have five minutes of free time on your hands and have nothing better to do, you can check out the game here. Don’t get too carried away now — the game can tend to get somewhat addicting. Have fun!
The My Brute browser-based game allows players to create unique characters and fight against other players in a great arena. The in-game characters are nicknamed “Brutes” and players can generate their own based on the name they pick for their character.
This is actually a pretty neat gaming feature, as the website generates a new character based on each additional letter of the alphabet that you enter for your character’s name. Once a name has been selected, players can also change the appearance of their character (while keeping their base character) as well as the color of its skin, clothes, etc. Changes are activated by clicking a button and are random.
The name of the game is deceiving, as it indicates that the characters in the game are big, bulky, and ugly, but actually the opposite is true. The characters in the game are quite cute and animated. If you’re interested in picking and fighting your own battles, you can check out this flash game at www.mybrute.com.
The Fragoria browser-based MMO game, which has been widely popular in Europe (including in Russia), is now being developed for a North American audience.
Aeria Games is in charge of the game’s production and just yesterday, the company released the open beta for this browser-based product. To celebrate the launch of the open beta, Aeria Games will be giving 400 AP to the first 250 players of the game who reach level 15 and post a screenshot of their progress in the forums area of the Aeria website.
According to the official press release, here’s some info about what players can look forward to when playing the game. In Fragoria, “Players can create and customize their heroes with incredible weapons and armor; enhance their equipment; control pets and lead other players into battle; explore dungeons, the deepest depths of the ocean, snow capped mountains; and embark on a variety of exciting quests.”
If you’re interested in testing Fragoria out for yourself, you can visit the game’s official website at fragoria.aeriagames.com.
Created in 2000 by Gameforge AG, OGame is a resource management and space war-themed MMO browser-based game. It’s available in multiple languages and features communities for different nationalities. There are also in-game forums, through which players are notified of updates to the game as well as changes to the game’s existing rules.
In the intergalactic conquest RTS game, players start on a planet and their mission is to turn it into an invincible empire. To do this, players create economic and military infrastructure, wage war, negotiate, and collect valuable resources. Each players’ planet is located in a random system and galaxy. Within the game, there are nine galaxies. Each galaxy has 499 systems and each system has 15 planets.
This game is free to play so if you’re interested, click here and get to it! Good luck.
Browser-Based Games | JJ | 
April 8, 2010 11:33 am | 
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