Red Stone's PvP Tournament! By Sasrine at 2:33pm Friday October 3 2008 In case you haven’t yet had the chance, now the time to sign up for Red Stone’s Autumnal Equinox PvP tournament! There are only two days left to register, so be sure to sign up. The winning team will receive one month Free Gold Premium for each team member! For more details, check out the info post here. ... Read More » Once Upon a Time in Derbaran... By Hyperion at 4:08pm Saturday September 27 2008 Hey Soldiers, This week we brought you the new Urban Ops map Paroho. This map takes place in a hydro power plant deep in the mountains of Northern Derbaran. This is a very open ended map which provides lots of ways to travel around as well as having the option to drive around in a few vehicles on the map. We also released the new 30% EXP UP! item through the in-game item shop. This new item provides 30 % bonus EXP (duh!) and s ... Read More » Guns...Lots of guns! By Hyperion at 5:28pm Thursday September 4 2008 The 25% Bonus Dinar and EXP weekend just ended. We hope our players made the best of it! If you haven’t been able to play during the weekend and missed out on the bonus EXP and Dinar, don’t fret! We will have more of these events in the months to come. For the month of September, for the first time, we are giving TWO different weapons for our players who are subscribed to recurring premium through G1. These players will receive (when their premium successfully renews) 15 days of Du ... Read More » The perils of acquiring Veteran Polishers By Pentareus at 5:51pm Thursday August 28 2008 Greetings Pioneers, I know that it has been a while since you've heard from me. And some of you are probably wondering, "Who is this guy?". Well....I've just recently made it back from the wilds of Caebolan. And let me tell you, "Whoah!" Compared to sunny southern Cali... sunny southern Coimbra, Caebolan is miserable! Neume's Notes on Caebolan here! ... Read More » Introducing PlaySpan By Valkyrie at 6:56pm Wednesday August 27 2008 We’re pleased to announce the addition of PlaySpan as a PayPal payment provider for the G1 Marketplace! Players who prefer PayPal can purchase GamersFirst credits and game premiums, safely and conveniently, through their own PayPal account using PlaySpan. To start shopping, log in and visit the G1 Marketplace. Thank you and we look forward to providing the community with more payment options! ... Read More » -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Welcome GM Napalm! By Hyperion at 3:19pm Wednesday August 27 2008 GM Napalm has joined the ranks of team War Rock! We are absolutely thrilled to have him on the team as he has already proven to be a huge asset. He is, however, a total nub and War Rock players are encouraged to harass him (with respect!) whenever possible. This forum thread shows that he is already a War Rock fanboy favorite. I'm getting jealous. -Hyperion ... Read More » New Costumes for the New World! By Kanillius at 4:03pm Tuesday August 12 2008 A ton of new costumes have recently been released for Sword of the New World. The most recent characters to get their new looks are Jose Cortasar, Yeganeh, the Coimbra Trooper, and Auch Infantry. Check out the new schwag! Read More » The Running of the Poison Bulls event By Modi at 12:14pm Thursday August 7 2008 The event, "Running of the Poison Bulls" began in the early morning hours of July 7th on Midgard and Helheim. [Mm]Toro, the Poison Bull with an inventory full of Poison Bull disguise rings, began dropping them left and right, bellowing "MUUUUuuuuuuuuuu" and running up and down the cobblestones of the town centers. As the players began to don their new magic disguise rings they'd find on the ground, the town of Noria was filled with giant Poison Bulls, each MUUuuuuing and following each ot ... Read More » Premium Gifting Now Available! By Linus at 7:37pm Tuesday July 29 2008 The best gift that you can give to your clanmates or guildmates (besides hard $$$) is now available in the GamersFirst Marketplace! Give the gift of Premium by logging into your account, going into the Marketplace and selecting the game you wish to purchase Premium from. Gifts come in the form of codes, and you can purchase unlimited amounts to hoard, or give away at leisure to your loyal buddies. Even better, Premium Gift codes never expire. So make someone’s day, log in now to gift a pre ... Read More » Registration for WCG is Now Open! By Sasrine at 5:14pm Tuesday July 29 2008 As of today, players may now begin to register for the WCG tournament. To register, simply click here. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you register: You must be a legal US resident You must be 18 years or older You HAVE to register in pairs To register, one member of your two person team will sign up as a captain of the team. The other person can then find the name from the team drop down list. You will ne ... Read More » --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Marketplace Upgrade By Valkyrie at 2:42pm Wednesday July 16 2008 We're currently in the process of upgrading our credit card system. It will be safer. More secure. Sexier than ever! During this time, some accounts may not be able to use credit cards (the option just won't be there). If you've signed up for recurring billing, that won't be affected, so don't worry. While we're doing our upgrades, everything is still secure, and it won't affect any other payment options (ESN, PayByCash, ClickandBuy, Moneybookers). Sorry about the inconve ... Read More » Red Stone in the World Cyber Games! By Sasrine at 11:07am Wednesday July 16 2008 As you may or may not have heard, Red Stone will be participating in this year’s World Cyber Games (WCG); something we are quite excited about. While the information I can disclose at this time is very limited, I wanted to give the G1 community the first morsel of information before it goes public. Red Stone will be throwing a 2v2 PVP tournament to select the best of the best players to move onto the semifinals. We will be attending the WCG USA National Final this fall, and we will invite the ... Read More » Sword of the New World's Launch Anniversary! By Kanillius at 3:10pm Thursday July 10 2008 Yes, that's right. As of July 10th, Sword of the New World has been up and running for one year, and what better way to celebrate than with events? Starting July 10th, supplies will be dropping all throughout the New World. If you collect enough of these you can turn them in for unique costumes! You better hurry though, once July 31st comes and goes, they won't be available any more. ... Read More » GM Wars By Linus at 4:56pm Wednesday July 9 2008 As Community Liaison I may work for K2, but my experiences with the game are as a player rather than a GM. I don’t get special treatment, so I have to buy my own potions, and scrolls, scour the market for uniques I can afford. I farm for cash and I pull a frowney face when I get owned by noobs with no skill. Every time I use the magic anvil it’s a nail-biting roll of the dice just like it is for everyone else. Basically, I had no idea what it’s like to have all that awesome GM power. < ... Read More » War Rock's new look By Hyperion at 12:26pm Wednesday July 9 2008 Dream Execution updated several of the in-game icons as well as sent us a new login background that highlights the new CQC deathmatch map: Blue Storm. It's pretty cool and easier on the eyes in the background of the main lobby. I'm all about the 4v4 deathmatch maps, insanely fast paced and tactical always is how I like my maps, and Blue Storm delivers just that. Check it out if you haven't already! ...is it just me or does the sniper look like a girl? As if War Rock players ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Premiums Available on G1 By Sasrine at 3:55pm Wednesday June 25 2008 All of Red Stone's wonderful and amazing premiums are now available on G1! I know there's a few of you who've been waiting for this day, so have at it! ... Read More » Splash Fighters - New Installer! By Valkyrie at 5:14pm Friday June 20 2008 Splash Fighters - there's a new game download available! To continue playing, you'll need to follow these instructions: 1. Uninstall your current SplashFighters game. 2. Download the new installer here (yes, we know, it's the old page) 3. Install the new client. 4. Log in and play! If you're new, just mosey on over to that link, and join the Open Beta for some free in-game gear! SplashFighters is a 3d no-holds-ba ... Read More » Nocturnal Sonata Sneak Peak By Kanillius at 3:08pm Friday June 20 2008 If you’ve been following Sword of the New World at all, you’ve most likely heard about our next Expansion coming June 25th, Nocturnal Sonata. I was able to sneak a few screenshots of Baek Ho, a very powerful Martial artist, and Vincent Rio, who attacks with his lutes. Yes, that’s right, he kills with music. Enjoy! Read More » New Patch Means More Gems By Linus at 4:11pm Thursday June 19 2008 You’ve got to check out Ronarkland these days. Recently we released a little patch that changes PvP in Knight Online in a big way. It all has to do with master skills. Previously, if you wanted to acquire these coveted skills you needed to quest for key components called Crystals, Opals, and Crude Sapphires. Easy enough, right? Except they dropped on a relatively low level monster in an area with no option for PvP. Everyone needed these items, but few could wrest them from the hands ... Read More » They're live! By Sasrine at 5:49pm Wednesday June 18 2008 In case you couldn't wait to get your hands on the items I talked about in my last post, I've got good news. The brand new items are live and flying off of the virtual shelf! Be sure to check them out! (it's ok to look even if you're not from Red Stone ) ... Read More » --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Clan Tournament FTW! By Hyperion at 7:45pm Monday June 9 2008 As the CL for War Rock, I get to see a lot of War Rock being played. While, in many ways, I consider War Rock to be among the most fun and enjoyable FPS games out there, I must admit that I never considered it to be a highly competitive game. Wow, was I wrong. Last weekend we had the first official clan tournament since the CT systems re-launch early this year, and I was blown away by the level of play I saw. I saw mass grenade attacks, killing sprees, an ... Read More » Sword of the New World Update Extravaganza By Kanillius at 6:07pm Monday June 9 2008 It seems like we’re releasing new content for Sword of the New World all the time. Literally. Since this January we’ve had about twelve content updates. That’s about seven new UPC’s (Unique Player Characters), hundreds of new items, with new bosses, and more monsters than you can shake a stick at. The latest of many updates is the Bahamar Bayou update, which in itself has nine new areas, tons of monsters, new quests, a new raid boss, and several new Cash Shop i ... Read More » We're live! By Valkyrie at 5:24pm Monday June 9 2008 We're finally live with the new look for G1! The guy to the left is Felankor, from KOL. I just picked him because he looks cool, he has nothing to do with my post. Aside from the facelift, we’ve done a lot of upgrades that should make stuff like registration and account management easier. It’s also easier for the Community Liaisons to post announcements via the Blogs, so you can probably expect to see them whining about how much work I make them do. Other new features a ... Read More » New Items! By Sasrine at 5:08pm Monday June 9 2008 The Red Stone team is currently elbows deep in preparations for the next round of Item Shop goods. We’ll be releasing over 60 items (even bigger than last release)! We’ve got some cool stuff coming out too. For example, there’s this item called a “Couple Ring”: it splits into two different rings once on your character and you trade the other off to your friend. Once they have their ring, you can teleport to them wherever they are in the majority of Prandel! A little farther of ... Read More » The truth about Knight Online players By Linus at 3:51pm Monday June 9 2008 In his letter to the community, Castellan touched on something important, and I wanted to take this opportunity to elaborate on it: Knight Online players are tough. We have to be, because Knight Online is “Hard mode.” Other games might have shinier armor and cuter monsters, but Knight Online is a gritty, unforgiving hack-and-slash brawlfest. The quests are hard. The bosses are mean. The enemy players are merciless, and the competition between clans is unrivaled. It’s a harsh envir ... Read More » --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Lone Wolf, MU Style By StoneGold at 2:28pm Monday June 9 2008 It is an ancient lament as old as massively multiplayer games themselves; do I want to play solo, or group up? The massively multiplayer experience was designed for social interaction, but sometimes, the spirit of individuality wells up in the soul of the most guilded player. Fighting alongside your comrades is great, but sometimes, the only way to get the job done is on your own, without any one else to hold you back, your only friend the cold, hard steel in your hand. Global Mu Online ... Read More » More Than Meets the Eye By StoneGold at 2:27pm Monday June 9 2008 One of the annoyances in most MMORPGs is built-in weaknesses amongst character classes. It may help to keep the classes balanced, but it can really make gameplay a chore, rather than a challenge. For instance, if you are a magic user, you are probably going to die if you run into creatures resistant to your magic. Archers are great for long distance assaults, but up close, they are going to get mauled. There's a very good reason for all of this; if a character can do everything at once, ... Read More » Lunatic Fringe By StoneGold at 2:27pm Monday June 9 2008 Knight Online is the game where PVP'ers go to prove their mettle. It is not an MMORPG for the weak at heart, or those who like to talk in Elvish. Here, the player kill is king. And one of the most popular ways to show that you and your clan are the best of the best is in Lunar War. Lunar War is a mega PvP event where players from the two warring factions, the human-like Elmorad and the monstrous Karus, do battle in the Lunar Valley, with the victor getting to pillage the losers' city in a ... Read More » Welcome to the Team By StoneGold at 2:27pm Monday June 9 2008 Multiplayer FPS games like War Rock are fun, but sooner or later, playing in random matches can get tedious. In order to take your game to the next level, you're going to have to join a clan. Fortunately, War Rock's clan system makes that easier and more efficient than ever. The nice part about an FPS running persistently online is that it becomes possible to more thoroughly integrate the clan system into the game itself. The days of having to go to a third party website and hoping all t ... Read More » Control Freaks By StoneGold at 2:27pm Monday June 9 2008 In most MMO games, your role is predefined by the character you choose to create; fighter classes are destined to tank, priests are good to heal. If you want to change your role in the game, you have to create a completely new character from the ground up. This is where Sword of the New World excels. Because of the innovative stance and Multi-Character Control system, you are never truly pinned to one particular role. Like in every other RPG, as characters progress in game, their levels w ... Read More » --------------------------------------------------------------------