InnoGames starts new Online Games Portal

InnoGames, with about 60 million users one of the worldwide leading publishers and developers of online games, announced today that they are going to launch a new game portal. As its essential feature, it will offer a Single Sign-on: The user will only have to register once but gets access to several InnoGames products.

This element will be included in the public beta version. Community features like an award system and friends lists will be introduced within the upcoming weeks. From the beginning on, the portal will offer the games Tribal Wars, The West and Grepolis, several new games will be added soon. At the time of the launch, the portal is available in English, German and French, more languages will follow.

The portal does not only make it easier for the players to register for new games, but it also links the existing accounts they have in different games as long as the players used the same email address. This means that current players do not have to create new accounts in order to manage them through the portal.

Hendrik Klindworth, co-founder and Managing Director of InnoGames sees a huge advantage for the players with the upcoming portal: “It will be much easier for the users to switch between our games and to organize their accounts. Our game portfolio has been widened by Social Games like WestWars and BlockStreet as well as the upcoming MMOGs Tribonia and Bounty Hounds Online. This will lead to a great and various offer of games in the portal as well. However, we will definitely stick to our InnoGames policy: Quality always beats quantity.”

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Grepolis 2.0 Unveiled

About one year after its release, the strategy game Grepolis is close to start a new era. With the update to version 2.0, a lot of new features are implemented into the Browser game. Within the next weeks, the existing worlds are supposed to be updated as well.

“With version 2.0, we have improved Grepolis in all of its aspects”, says InnoGames founder Hendrik Klindworth. “The graphics for the isle world and the city have become much more realistic. In the game play, we have simplified the start by easing the farming system for the players. You can get more resources with less effort now and therefore proceed faster. Simultaneously, we have introduced the Seven Wonders of the World as the decisive strategic element for the late game phases”, he reveals.

In Grepolis 2.0, those wonders (Pyramids, Hanging Garden, Temple, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum, Colossus, Lighthouse) define the conditions how to win a world. They can only be built by alliances, not by individual players. When an alliance has finished a certain number of wonders, it wins the world – and by this opens the gate to a whole new game level: the so called hero worlds.

Mr. Klindworth: “Our aim is that an alliance might win the world after one and a half to two years. But of course, we do not want to lose those passionate players afterwards. That is why we offer very special awards to all players who have survived a world for such a long time: the ascension to the hero worlds.” Those worlds will have exclusive content like special units and also the game balance will be different compared to the regular Grepolis worlds. Or to say it in another way: The hero worlds will be a very special challenge for all of those who have proven to be masters of strategy.

With six million registered users, Grepolis is one of the popular strategy Browser games worldwide.

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BlockStreet – Build the city district of your dreams

Today, InnoGames’ second Social Game BlockStreet started into Closed Beta. In the game, the player has to convert a run-down city district into a flourishing and lively town. Besides residential buildings, shops or gardens it is possible to realize large construction projects like the Eiffel Tower, open-air theatres or sports stadiums. Passionate builders should take a look at www.facebook.com/blockstreet, to get one of the wanted Beta positions.

In order to make his residents happy, the player has to recognize their needs and fulfill their individual desires: If they are hungry, the best thing to do is building a diner and serving them delicious Fast Food. If the inhabitants are more interested in fine arts, he creates an art exhibition hall. While happiness and activity of the residents increase, the player collects experience points and money, with which he can unlock house improvements, new buildings and more districts. It is his own choice whether to create a modern business center or a calm residential neighborhood. As the game develops, the residents´ demands increase and their wishes become more manifold.

Additional fun during game play brings the interaction with friends, relatives or colleagues. As neighbors, the players are able to complete construction projects together and support each other with their house improvements. But besides helping each other, it is also possible to play a trick: For example sending witches or a loud fan group to the flourishing neighbor town, in order to bring some trouble.

After WestWars, BlockStreet is the second Social Game which InnoGames publishes on Facebook, Game Developer is Cliffhanger Productions. InnoGames also produces Browsergames like Tribal Wars, Grepolis and The West, which are played by more than 50 million registered users all over the world. Cliffhanger Productions, founded in 2005, is an independent developer and producer of pc- and videogames with focus on online games. Besides the production of SpellForce and Risen they also developed own projects in the online gaming section.