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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.