NHN-USA posts

The team at ijji.com have sent over the exclusive first word to Big Download that its free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms will be getting a major new update starting on Thursday, February 10. The update will add a new free-for-all map to the game called Breakout. The map is based on a small town outside of Nimes in Southern France.

The update will also add the FG24 automatic rifle, the AN-94 Sidewinder assault rifle and the MK23 SOCOM pistol to the game. Also starting on February 10 and running through March 8 players can earn the Heathbreaker grenade if they play at least 60 minutes per day. During that same time period, folks who play the game will receive the Pink Love Bat (yes, the Pink Love Bat).

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The free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms is adding some new content to its line-up of maps and modes Publisher NHN USA has announced that a new gameplay mode, Cross-Steal, will be added to the game. It's basically a redressing of the Capture the Flag mode as opposing teams try to take each other's nuclear launch key while protecting their own.

Along with the new gameplay mode comes a new map, Blind Eagle, and a number of new weapons and items. In addition, the ijji.com web site has launched the game's first servers based in Europe so those countries can access better ping rates.

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The free-to-play sci-fi first person shooter Genesis AD recently went into open beta and today the game got a major new content update. The update includes four new multiplayer maps. Two of them, Blackout and Titan Lab, support the game's Demolition mode. Another map, Castle (shown above) support the game's Deathmatch mode. Finally the new Duelist map is used for the game's Blaster mode where players go up against each other armed with only the mini-chainsaw.

Also included in the update are over 10 new weapons and items, some of which are unique to each of Genesis AD's character classes and some that are shared by all the classes.

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As promised last month, the open beta for the free-to play sci-fi first person shooter Genesis AD has started today. Anyone can now download and play the newest free-to-play Unreal Engine 3-based shooter on the ijji.com web site. The game also comes with some extra such as "booster backpacks and cloaking armor for the Assault, Supplier and Sniper" classes and 30,000 CR (the game's version of in-game credits).

Genesis AD players can also participate in events that could net them some prizes. Now that the game is in open beta there will be no more character wipes. There will also be new content updates added every two weeks.

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The free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms is adding its 25th new multiplayer map to the game this week along with some new weapons. The maps that's being added is called Showdown and as you can see in the screenshot it's an urban-themed level that's designed to be used in the game's Demolition gameplay mode.

A.V.A. will also add two new weapons to the game. The M14EBR assault rifle is a update to the standard M14 weapon. In addition players can access the Kriss Super V, a version of the sub-machine gun that has reduced kick back for better accuracy.

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The free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms has just released its latest update over at the ijji.com web site, adding a new map called Lockdown to the game's series of levels. The co-op themed map takes place in a prison setting as players have to deal with wavers of "chemically enhanced" AI enemies.

In addition to the new map the A.V.A update adds a number of new weapons to the mix including the SA58 Para, the CZ75 automatic pistol and the P90 Harimau which was actually designed by one of the game's community members. The game also adds some Halloween-themed items including a pumpkin helmet and pumpkin grenade, the latter of which leaves a "spooky effect" on players who encounter its blast.

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First announced earlier this year, the free-to-play sci-fi shooter Genesis AD is about to enter into a new phase. The game from NHN USA will enter into open beta testing sometime in early November on the company's ijji.com web site.

As we have reported before, Genesis AD is set on a future Earth where the melting of the polar ice caps have made the planet's remaining land masses more valuable. Players will have access to several different classes along with special abilities including cloaking effects, jumping higher than normal in the levels and more. You may remember that another sci-fi shooter that was supposed to be made available on ijji.com, Huxley, will no longer be published in the US by NHN USA.

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The free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms from developer Redduck gets regular content updates and tomorrow the game will be adding a new map for its players. The map is called Death Valley and unlike previous multiplayer maps for the game this one has been designed specifically for co-op gameplay.

The game's US publisher NHN USA has sent Big Download an exclusive developers diary from Redduck's level designer Junghun Kim as he explains how the A.V.A dev team designed the Death Valley levels We also have some exclusive screenshots and a new trailer showing the level in action. Players will get access to the new map tomorrow via ijji.com.

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Huxley, the sci-fi first person shooter MMO that was first announced over five years ago, is getting back together with its original developer Webzen. Big Download received an email today from Huxley's now former publisher NHN USA that it "has agreed to transfer future international publishing plans of Huxley: The Dystopia back to its developer, Webzen."

The statement added, "Both NHN USA and Webzen are internal divisions of NHN Corporation, and Webzen is currently revamping their international publishing platform. As part of this new global program, Webzen intends to self-publish Huxley. Our team at NHN USA fully support this decision after serious internal discussions between both divisions."

Announced in February 2005 as a retail game, the title has been delayed numerous times. In mid-2008 NHN USA announced that it would publish Huxley as a free-to-play game on its ijji.com web portal. The game actually went into closed beta testing in the summer of 2009 but since that test was completed NHN USA has only said that it was "working with the development team in Korea to iron out the kinks" in the game. There is still no word on when Huxley will actually be released.

NNH USA's free-to-play multiplayer first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms is one of Big Download's most popular clients. Today NHN USA announced that it had added a new multiplayer map to the game, Pyramid, along with a new gameplay mode.

The new map, as you can see above, is set in a fictional ancient Egypt setting, complete with a massive pyramid in the background. The new gameplay mode is called Annihilation and is basically team deathmatch but with the teams populated with AI bots. One real person from each side is required to play the mode and the AI bots can use weapons that cannot be purchased in the in-game store which lets players get access to the new weapons when they kill off the AI bots.

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