from the carrot desk
Aeria games has dictated the following terms to its player community on Omeka Prime: The first 5,000 Facebookers that like their Realm of the Titans page will get access to the BigWorld-powered game’s beta.
if we can get 5,000 likes on our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/realmofthetitans), we will give accounts to everyone who posts in this thread! So tell your friends to like the page to increase everyone’s chances!
Breath bated.
from the DotA desk
Aeria Games has been partnering with Mobacast to stream their BigWorld-powered Realm of the Titans tournaments.
from the thunderdome desk
BigWorld-powered Realm of the Titans is coming to the end of its closed beta period, after which publisher Aeria Games will be lining everything up for open beta. No word officially on when we’ll all be able to jump in and DotA our brains out in free-to-play glory, but hopefully soon.
To celebrate its recent entry into closed beta, Aeria partnered up with MOBACast to stream competitions between professional DotA players. If you’re lost, DotA = Defense of the Ancients, the most popular Warcraft III custom map series of all time, and certainly one of the most popular and noteworthy independent game mods of all time.
You can watch the pro DotA head-to-head matches, streamed earlier this week, here.
Keep an ear to the ground for more of these streaming competitions, most likely coming toward the end of this week, or early next week.
from the titans desk
Aeria Games has unveiled a new player character in Realm of the Titans, powered by BigWorld Technology. Aeria recently took RotT into closed beta.
The Sage of Ink is a support spell caster that punishes any team that lacks knowledge of their surroundings. Using his ability to draw reality, he forces his opponents into a corner and then commands his allies to the front lines to dirty their hands so he doesn’t have to.
Catharsis: Catharsis deals damage over time, makes the target’s skills cost double, and gives back some of that mana to the Sage of Ink.
Black Dragon Dance: This ability paints a huge dragon that hangs in the air for a moment then propels itself a long distance in a line, dealing significant damage and popping targets into the air for a short stun.
While this ability can be easy to see coming, crafty placement of the dragon in the woods or out of sight can ensure your dragon will land (Sort of like Janna’s tornado from League of Legends). It’s also absolutely great to combine with your ultimate, ensuring that even the smart opponents who stand their ground will be victim of a Black Dragon Dance. This is also an excellent ability for farming creeps.
Dream State: This ability can reduce cooldowns for you or your teammates or increase them for your opponents. While it’s likely you’re probably going to be using this on your own ultimate to have it up all the time to control the flow of combat, it’s certainly useful for popping on teammates before they fire off their ultimate abilities.
Beautiful World: Sage of Ink’s ultimate paints the world with a large brush, anything tagged with the brush will be forced back to the position it gets “painted in” after a few seconds – dealing damage proportional to the distance moved during this time, up to very high % of total health. Enemies who run away or try and chase you down will find themselves taking gobs of damage and “teleporting” to a prior position. Teams (and players) that overpush lanes or are on the run are both extremely vulnerable to Beautiful World.
from the titans dept.
Aeria Games and Games Radar have partnered up for a beta key give-away for BigWorld-powered Realm of the Titans.
The DotA-inspired title went into beta a couple days ago.
“You can choose to not care about RotT… or you can, like me, look forward to playing another MOBA that attempts to build on DotA, instead of retreading ground that’s already been covered. Right now, this is my most anticipated game of 2011.” – PC Gamer
“If you like DotA-inspired games, Realm of the Titans has given a very good show. It’s got a great variety of seemly well-balanced heroes … The Titans have a lot going for them in sheer volume and different abilities permitting a lot of range of play styles. The map is vast, pretty and well defined with points of interest … which should make strategizing something that well-oiled teams do as they roll over the enemy.” – GameOgre
“By combining familiar DotA and League of Legends gameplay elements, Titans looks to carve out a niche for MOBAs where players can have a hard-core DotA-like experience… with the customization experience found in LoL’s masteries and summoner spells.” – MMOHut
from the doting desk
Aeria Games is today launching BigWorld-Powered Realm of the Titans into closed beta. This landmark caps the extensive design, development and alpha testing of this DotA-inspired, isometric, free-to-play action/strategy game.
Testing has thus far garnered positive feedback from the testing community and press, and the BigWorld team is proud to see the title mature so quickly.
Whet your appetite with this video and go sink your teeth in!
from the DotA dept.
Aeria Games has introduced a new map for Realm of the Titans, the DotA-inspired game built on BigWorld Technology.
As game activity is hinged on map design, in classic DotA tradition, here are some of the map’s features..
· New Win Objective –Destroy the enemy base OR be the first team to achieve 66 enemy kills for match victory in Titan’s Eye!
· Play More, Win More – The map also features increased global gold gain, decreased death timers, and reduced cooldowns for all heroes.
· Plant Power Up — You’ll encounter a strange new plant as you battle across Titan’s Eye. Be warned — this is no ordinary vegetation. Any character near the plant becomes invisible to enemies!
· Rune System — The Rune system randomly spawns a useful buff in different locations on Titan’s Eye. Scoop up double physical damage, double magic damage, haste, increased regeneration, flat experience and more as you push toward your objective.
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