Rock, Paper, Shotgun

If I have read the entrails of this internet correctly, then it would seem that the open beta part of Vindictus’ EU roll out is happening this afternoon. You can currently sign up on the site, but the actual servers are down, so no playing. But “what is Vindictus”, you might ask. It’s an online action game of melee combat, persistent and quasi-MMOish, built in the source engine. It features a lot of creatures getting very killed by weapon-wielding characters. Take a look a the video below for an illustration of how that happens.
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Vindictus, Nexon’s free-to-play fantasy melee game, will be arriving in the European inter-tubes very soon. To celebrate that they’ve put out a trailer, which you can see below. Of course if you are a North American or reside therein you have been able to play this game for about seventy-nine months. So North Americans, is it any good? What do we have to look forward to? Your Old World cousins need to know!
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Last year Nexon announced a $1m fund for indies to submit their game projects to, with the chance of a publishing deal via the free-to-play publisher. It’s back again this year, and the details are here. What kind of games are they looking for? Well: “online games on the PC (web or client) that have potential of being (or is designed to be) cross-platform. A great example would be a game you can play on your PC and also have it be accessible on a mobile platform like the iOS or Android.”

And that sounds like it might coincide with the ambitions of a few indie devs out there. Furthermore, I think indies who are working on this sort of stuff can probably pitch pretty high, since this is a chance to get Nexon to support and co-develop the game. Worth considering, anyway?

Free-to-play hack ‘n’ slash MMO Vindictus is looking snazzy with its Source-powered fighting scenarios, and it’s now out of beta and live in North America. The launch trailer (below) shows off some of the beasts you have to fight, as well as some of the melee moves that feature in the game. It looks pretty bold for an MMO, however unMMO that might actually be. Word from Nexon is that Vindictus is coming to Europe “soon”.

Any North Americans (or IP-spoofers) had a go?
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UPDATE: Bah, US/Canada only. Rubbish!
Later today, at least, which I suspect means this evening UK time. This fancy-looking Source-engined MMO caught my eye a while back with its hack ‘n’ slashy combat. It’s free-to-play, too, so not cost to dipping in and seeing what the grind/community/micro-paymentisms are like. We’ll be taking a look, anyway. If you want to understand why then take a look at the game footage I’ve posted below. The in-game stuff kicks off after 1 minute, after the meaningless blather about darkness and stuff getting forsakened. Man, do you hate it when you people go around forsaking? Tsk. Nevermind, look at those dudes getting spectacularly killed! That’s the stuff.

Also: Spider!
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Vindictus is… not live yet. Which is a shame, because the beta seems to have caused quite a stir. It’s got me interested enough to download it (except you can’t at the moment, sigh) and take a look, anyway. It’s a Source-powered, free-to-play multiplayer fantasy combat game (with RPG toppings) from Nexon. Basically, dudes get all kicked and some unfriendly bears get stabbed. Other types get smacked over the head with a big stick. You can see all this in the trailer below, which, after some waffle about blood and stuff, get to some serious weapon-waving business. Go eyeball, and perhaps we’ll get around to beating up some stuff when it comes online.
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I think I found the polar opposite of Quake Wars: it’s the trailer for Nexon’s Mariokart-inspired PC racer, KartRider.

Game Trailers, we salute you.

This game has been rather popular in South Korea over the last couple of years, where Nexon have it installed on pretty much every gaming Cafe PC. Nexon makes its money from micropayments for kart upgrades, so you can log in and play for free whenever you want. The same model is being distributed over the net here, and, like Maple Story, will have US and European releases.

You can get the 232mb client for the American version here, although you seem to be able to play it anywhere. Quite why you have to enter your date of birth twice as well as your ‘ethnicity’ is beyond me, however…