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Today InnoGames announced the cross-platform strategy-MMO Rising Generals. The PvP-heavy online game is modern warfare centric, giving players access to numerous tanks, armored vehicles and dozens of deadly planes and other aircraft. Targeted at fast-paced, action-fueled sessions, the game will be playable on iOS- and Android-phones and tablets as well as on browsers. Users will be able to access the same account on all platforms. On www.risinggenerals.com, players can apply for the upcoming beta, which is scheduled for summer 2014.

In the current edition of InnoGames TV, online games Developer InnoGames presents the latest news from its popular titles and offers a glimpse behind the scenes of game developing.

Today InnoGames released additional information on the battle tactics of its online strategy game Tribal Wars 2. In Tribal Wars 2, players find themselves as leader of a small village in the midst of a medieval world. Tasked with growing and expanding their empire within a war-torn landscape, they have to fight in order to survive.Aside from the raw number of soldiers, successive waves of exactly timed attacks are crucial to victory – but players have to keep an eye on their troops’ discipline. A new video explains how the attacks work, and displays exclusive new footage from the game’s browser-, iOS- and Android-versions. The PvP-heavy game encourages its players to attack their neighbors and conquer their villages, upon which the defeated has to restart in the game world at another location with a new, basic settlement.

InnoGames just announced it would create 100 new job positions upon its upcoming relocation. Tomorrow, the online game developer and publisher will move to a new headquarters closer to thecentre of Hamburg.Following the move, InnoGames plans to use the additional office space for hiring 100 new colleagues. Until the end of the year, a total of 400 people are supposed to be developing and publishing games for the German Studio.

With Guild vs. Guild, InnoGames’ just released a massive new long time PvP feature for its successful strategic browser game Forge of Empires. From now on, the game’s guilds may participate in a large-scale battle for control and power on one persistent continent. Participating guilds need to gain and keep control of sectors by means of battle and trade and will gain rewards like recruitment or research boosts according to their success. InnoGames released a video explaining the basics of guild vs. Guild. The feature is out on all language versions.

InnoGames’ online role-playing game The West launched a Valentine’s Day event today, leading players on a hunt for hearts! With those hearts, players can unlock up to ten rewards with increasing heart requirements. The first special item to unlock is a traveling fair, with which the players can win unique item sets. Hearts can be earned via regular jobs or in duels with other players until March 2nd.As appropriate for a day of love event, players will also be rewarded for cooperative behavior. Hearts can be sent to other players via a friends bar, which will be part of a special quest line. Furthermore, all hearts collected on one world will be accumulated. The more successful the community is here, the more valuable the rewards given to them will be. Those community rewards can be items given to every single player on that world, and include things like a new questline.

InnoGames’ just released the Grepolis Heroes feature on three test markets. Along with Spanish and Brazilian players, the Dutch community will have the chance to play with the new special units before anyone else. Their feedback will be implemented in the further development of the feature, which will go live on the other markets soon. The Grepolis team also explains the feature in a recently released video.

Valentine’s Day might still be one week away, but in Innogames' online game Forge of Empires, the time of love just started today. From now until February 16, players will have the chance to master two unique quest series: The troubled couple Jack and Rose need the player’s support to survive several challenges and come to a happy end.If players manage to reunite Jack and Rose, they will be rewarded by the Tree of Love, which contributes heavily to the happiness of cities’ inhabitants. If players are already proud owners of such a valuable tree from last Valentine’s Day, they receive an updated and bigger version of it. As a bonus, two new avatars await the successful cupids.

Today InnoGames released additional information on the unit system of its online strategy game Tribal Wars 2. Thirteen offensive and defensive units will be responsible for the players’ shining victory or crushing defeat on the battlefield. Every unit brings its own set of weaknesses and strengths to the table – archers are a great defense against foot soldiers, whereas rams will easily crush the enemies’ fortifications. The new special units, the powerful berserker and the trebuchet might give players an edge in heated conflicts – but which one will they choose? InnoGames introduces more information on the battle system in a new video.

InnoGames’ new monthly podcast, dubbed InnoGames TV, just went live with the second ever episode on YouTube today. The 16-minute video offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the publisher’s titles, featuring interviews with producers, product managers and developers from games such as Forge of Empires, Grepolis and the upcoming project, Tribal Wars 2