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Publishers seem to be getting more and more eager to find and fund the development of indie games. Last month Activision announced plans to hold a indie game development contest. Now Nexon America , who publishers online free-to-play games like Combat Arms and Dungeon Fighter Online, has just announced plans for The Nexon Initiative where they will take submissions to help develop, fund and publish games from indie developers.

Submissions are being taken right now at the Nexon Initiative web site until April 30. The web site states they are looking mainly for online PC games or titles that have some kind of social features. Nexon will pick their choices to publish and each game will get their share of a $1 million total budget (the exact number of games Nexon will pick has yet to be determined). According to the web the the finalists will be notified sometime in June.

In the online side-scrolling multiplayer beat'em up game, Dungeon Fighter Online, players have a chance to choose between five different classes to play, but that's not all. Each class has access to a unique variety of weapons that range from things like swords and pistols to the outrageous like bashing enemies with a giant metal cross or gigantic prayer beads. There are also laser swords and broomsticks. The latter might not sound very powerful, but it's surprisingly effective. Dungeon Fighter Online is free-to-play, and the installation client can be downloaded here.

Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Weapons' Trailer (598 MB)
Download the Dungeon Fighter Online Install Client (1 GB)
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Dungeon Fighter Online recently went live with the Threshold of Power update, which raises the level cap to 50 and adds all-new abilities to the free-to-play side-scrolling online fighting game. Now that players have access to some fantastic upper-level powers, they need worthy creatures to use them on. As this video showing off some of the new boss monsters demonstrates, players will have plenty to challenges to punch and kick through.

Continue after the jump for a trailer showing off some of the new skills that are included in Threshold of Power along with some tips from the developers on how to overcome these bosses.

Download Dungeon Fighter Online 'High Level Monsters' Trailer (515 MB)
Download Dungeon Fighter Online 'Level 50 Skills' Trailer (206 MB)
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These gameplay trailers reveal the devastating abilities of the five different character classes found in the free-to-play action brawler, Dungeon Fighter Online. The Fighter class is shown above and the rest can be seen after the jump. Check out our impressions of the game if you want to learn more, and visit the official website if you're interested in more info and to sign up for an account.

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Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Fighter' Gameplay Trailer (100 MB)
Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Gunner' Gameplay Trailer (134 MB)
Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Mage' Gameplay Trailer (88 MB)
Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Priest' Gameplay Trailer (79 MB)
Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Slayer' Gameplay Trailer (102 MB)
Download HD Dungeon Fighter Online 'Characters' Trailer (22 MB)

The free-to-play model for online PC games seems to be working for some game developers. Earlier this week we reported that the change to such a model for Turbine's fantasy MMO Dungeons and Dragons Online has been a big success. Now Nexon America, which runs a number of similar games. has announced big percentage increases for revenues for its third quarter and September time periods

According to their press release, revenues for their third quarter (July-September) were higher by 36 percent. Revenues for September were up 44 percent. As usual, Nexon America did not reveal specific revenue numbers nor did they reveal if the company generated profits. Nexon America's launched the open beta for their next game, Dungeon Fighter Online, earlier this month and that will certainly generate even more money for the company.

In related news, Nexon announced that their FPS game Combat Arms will add a "casual server" called Foxtrot for new players. In addition new weapons, including a rocket launcher, are available for use in the game.

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If you are a fan of Nexon's free-to-play online games like Combat Arms and most recently Dungeon Fighter Online, you might have seen some weird animations show up on top of the Nexon.net web site this week. It's OK, you can go ahead and click on them. If you do they reveal some big changes in store for the Nexon.net site.

The biggest change is that Nexon.net will soon be no more. It will be replaced by Blockparty.com, a new site that will have a lot of Facebook-like social networking features. Yes you will still be able to access all of your Nexon games at the new site but you will also be able to do things like create a profile, message buddies and in general have more of an interactive experience with Nexon gamers even when you are not playing the games. There's no word on when Blockparty.com will go live.

Each week we find more and more free games that do not quite fit into the freeware mold. Games that do not require a subscription fee to play, but encourage player usage of money through microtransactions or special subscription services. This is Playing For Free, a column that showcases these games.

There are not a lot of brawler games available on the PC, and for good reason. Most people prefer control pads while kicking the snot out of random henchman. However, there are a few, and in the case of Dungeon Fighter Online, they are sometimes even MMOs. An excellent side-scrolling brawler packaged into a rather average MMO, it's Nexon's newest release, and easily our favorite. How can Combat Arms or Maple Story compete with classic gameplay, after all?

After launching their early access beta test for certain people this week, Nexon America has announced that their online fighting game Dungeon Fighter Online will begin their open beta on Tuesday, September 22. If you happen to be part of the current early access beta there's no need to panic; your account will still be good when the open beta begins.

The open beta will allow gamers to check out five of the game's character classes (Fighter, Gunner, Mage, Priest and Slayer) in the game's 2D side-scrolling fighting gameplay. No final launch date for Dungeon Fighter Online has been announced yet.

Just a quick reminder this morning that we are currently running a giveaway contest to give out 25 beta codes for Nexon's next free-to-play game Dungeon Fighter Online. People can head over to the contest page right now to leave a comment and get a chance to win one of the beta codes to the online 2D fighting game.

Remember, the comments must be made by 11:59 pm ET tonight. After that we will pick 25 random commentors and each will be mailed a beta code to play Dungeon Fighter Online during the game's early access beta. Thanks once again to Nexon America for the donation of the beta codes.

While the economy is still on shaky ground, the folks at Nexon America are apparently raking in the money from their many free-to-play online games. Last month the company announced that revenues from their games had increased 35 percent compared to the same time period a year ago. Now Gamasutra reports that Nexon America has told them their August revenue numbers were up 32 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.

Unfortunately, Nexon America has chosen not to give specific numbers for those revenue increases nor give out any profit numbers, although Gamasutra notes that Nexon's US sales were recorded as $30 million back in 2007. Nexon America supports a number of Asian-based online games such as MapleStory, Combat Arms, and Mabinogi in the US.

The fantasy MMO MapleStory has 6 million registered users in the US and in July Nexon said they had 70,000 concurrent users play the game at one time. The online FPS Combat Arms has 3 million registered US users and Nexon said they have seen "double digit growth" for the game over the past several months. They have also seen revenues go up for their other fantasy MMO Mabinogi. They are close to officially launching their next game in the US, the online fighting title Dungeon Fighter Online.