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The so-called MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game genre has been exploding on the PC game scene in the past year and later this spring yet another free-to-play game that based on this genre will launch. It's called Rise of Immortals from developer Petroglyph. Using the fantasy world that Petroglyph introduce in its downloadable strategy game Guardians of Graxia, the game aims to take the MOBA game trend in some new directions. It's currently taking sign-ups for its beta test.

Big Download got Petroglyph's community manager Mathew Anderson to tell us more about the game, how it relates to Guardians of Graxia and other features of the game.

Rise of Immortals is the latest free-to-play game to be announced that fits into the action-RTS genre that has exploded lately on the PC game scene. This new entry comes from developer Petroglyph and is set in the same fantasy universe as the developer's downloadable strategy game Guardians of Graxia. The game will feature single player gameplay that will serve as practice for the game's online multiplayer modes with support for up to 10 players.

The game will allow players to upgrade their Immortal characters via a persistent skill tree that will allow players to keep their new upgrades and abilities after matches are over. There will also be a place where players can show off their game achievements, chat with other gamers, form and manage guilds and more.

While the game is designed to be free to play it will have an in-game store where players can purchase items like skins for their Immortals (the game's version of Champions) and more. The title will have 12 Immortals to choose from when its released and new ones, along with other new content, will be added on a monthly basis. Petroglyh is already taking sign ups for the game's closed beta test on its official web site. Rise of Immortals is set for its official launch later this spring.

As promised late in 2010, developer Petroglyph has now released the first expansion pack for its fantasy strategy game Guardians of Graxia. The expansion, Elves and Dwarves, is now available for download and purchase via Steam. Normally the expansion would cost $5.99 but for the next week its available on Steam for 10 percent off its normal price. Also the main Guardians of Graxia game is on sale for the next week for 25 percent off.

The expansion itself adds two new guardians to the game (Flist the Elf and Broxin the Dwarf) along with 14 new units and six new maps. The expansion also has maps that will support randomly generated tiles, giving them more replay value.

The Steam PC game download site still has a few more days before its annual holiday sales event ends. In addition to all of the deals that have been active since the sale began on December 20 it has some one-day price cuts that are in effect from now until 1 pm Eastern time on Saturday.

Far Cry 2 Fortune's Edition - $4.99
Command and Conquer games - Save 75 percent off all games in series
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl/Call of Pripyat bundle - $4.99
Star Wars Dark Forces/Jedi Knight collection - $5 for all five games in series
Empire/Napoleon Total War Game of the Year Edition - $24.99 or $19.99 if you own Medieval Total War or Rome Total War
Dawn of Discovery Gold Edition - $14.99
Supreme Commander 2 - $3.74
Flight Control HD - $1.70
Theatre of War - Save 75 percent off all games in series
Team Fortress 2 - $5
The Hitman Collection - $5 for three-game bundle (Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman Blood Money)
Guardians of Graxia - $2.49

Developer Petroglyph Games just recently released its downloadable fantasy strategy game Guardians of Graxia. However the developer team is already busy working on the game's first expansion pack. The Wargamer has the first details on the expansion, which is titled Elves and Dwarves.

The expansion will add two new guardians to the game (Flist the Elf and Broxin the Dwarf) along with several new units and six new maps. The expansion will also have maps that will support randomly generated titles, giving them more replay value. The expansion pack is due for release sometime in January but there's no word yet on pricing.

Gallery: Guardians of Graxia Screenshots

It's less than two weeks away from the big day. Have you sent out your holiday cards yet? Yeah, we haven't either. We've been too busy with getting some end-of-the-year features ironed out.

• AMD has just released new 10.12 Catalyst driver updates for its Radeon series of graphics cards.
• Steam has a new Guardians of Graxia patch update available to download.
• If the Call of Duty games were ever adapted into one of those Lego-style game, this is what it might (sort of) look like.
• StarCraft II's list of the top 200 players in North America has been updated again.
• It was inevitable: WikiLeaks: The (Flash) Game.

Guardians of Graxia made its first appearance on the Steam download service earlier this month. Now the fantasy strategy card game from developer Petroglyph Games is quickly issuing a new map pack that expands the original game with a number of new content additions.

The map pack includes, of course, 10 new maps for the game. It also adds some new achievements and five new units to the game with such names as Drimar the Mountain Giant, Honshu the Golden Dragon and Tivix the great Hyvexx. The map pack is normally sold for $2.99 but until November 26 it's being sold for $2.69.

Ok, who ordered all of these late-night game announcements and reveals from EA today? How odd. Are the PR folks testing web news boys like us to see if we are still working? If so, the answer is obviously , "Yes".

• As we first reported would happen, Guardians of Graxia is now available on the Steam download service with a 10 percent discount for the next week.
• Also the Chaos Parachute DLC item for Just Cause 2 is now available for free via Steam to all owners of the game.
• There's a new Source Engine update available via Steam that fixes bugs for several Valve games.
• Bejeweled 3 is now available for pre-order on Steam with a 10 percent discount. Also owners of the Steam versions three previous games in the series can get Bejeweled 3 for 20 percent off.
• The creator of the indie-made MMO Love is giving away his animation tool.

Last month developer Petroglyph released its downloadable fantasy strategy game Guardians of Graxia on GamersGate's PC game download service. Now Big Download has learned that the game will be coming to the Steam service next week and that more content for the game is coming soon.

According to Petroglyph's community manager Mathew Anderson, the game will make its Steam debut on November 10. The Steam version will add achievements to the game's features. About a week after that, a map pack for the game will be released and Anderson tells us, "A full expansion is also being planned before Christmas holiday." We hope to get more info on these expansion plans soon.

As we first predicted earlier this past weekend, developer Petroglyph Games has now released its latest game, the fantasy strategy series Guardians of Graxia. You can now purchase and download the game exclusively (for now anyway) at the GamersGate PC game download site.

As we have noted before, this game is a mix of card collecting features with board game looks and mechanics (indeed Petroglyph is also selling an actual Guardians of Graxis board game). The single player only game, where players have to collect and use cards in the game to build their army on top of the "game board", is already planning to add to the title with downloadable extras and maybe a nice steak to the mix.