Gamigo Announces UFO Online Tactical Squad MMO and Grimlands post-apocalyptic MMO (Updated Info)

I am sitting at the gamigo next G 2011 event with my iphone, please excuse brevity and typos. I will edit later.

First up UFO Online fight for Earth a squad-based, tactical turn-based combat MMO that will be playable at Gamescom 2011. Looks good even in pre-alpha.

"We come in peace." – The red flag should probably go up whenever extraterrestrial visitors use this phrase. In the tactical browser-based game UFO Online - Fight for Earth humanity has also made the mistake of trusting the aliens. A terrible mistake, as it turns out. The supposedly-peaceful aliens soon turn out to be nasty invaders looking to exploit our planet’s resources. While a majority of the population still believes their lies, three factions of resistance fighters form to take up arms against the aliens.

In UFO Online - Fight for Earth, players choose a faction to join and build and expand a base that acts as a hub in the fight for freedom. This is where mercenaries are hired and trained and where technologies and weapons are researched and added to the arsenal. Then it’s time to take on the aliens in turn-based tactical battles. The player commands an army of specialists, each of which has their own class-specific skill tree. Only with the right combination of targeted research and carefully planned out tactics will the player come out of battle victoriously.

PvE mode is all about destroying the extraterrestrial invaders while PvP battles are between players. Here they need to demonstrate their tactical skills and the firepower of their troops against other human opponents. Thanks to Flash and the Unity engine, UFO Online - Fight for Earth has highly-detailed modern 3D graphics on par with those found in most client games.

Features

• Impressive 3D graphics right in your browser

• Expandable base

• 3 factions

• A variety of mercenary classes with unique skills

• Upgradable weapons and items

• Tactical battles against the AI and other players

Next they announced their new post-apocalypse MMO Grimlands wih skill based combat results in a mix of TBS and RPG.

Earth in a fictitious future. Twenty years after devastating earthquakes lay everything to waste, what remains of humanity is fighting hard for its survival. Those cities that did not crumble in the quakes have been flattened in the bitter struggles for power that have ensued. Roving bands of marauders, mutants and psychopathic robbers wander the streets, looking for trouble. In this inhospitable post-apocalyptic scenario there’s only one goal: survival!

Not only does the MMORPG Grimlands have an interesting setting, it also has intuitive and innovative gameplay. Players take aim at their enemies with a variety of weapons, primarily firearms, from a classic shooter-game-style third-person perspective. Using a gunsight will make accurate shooting easier though aiming manually will increase the chances of causing more damage. Linear character development and inflexible class systems are a thing of the past in Grimlands. Skills are improved simply by using them. Grimlands is all about "learning by doing". Skills that aren’t used often are forgotten after a while.

The southwest United States are waiting to be explored in highly-modifiable vehicles. The incredibly comprehensive crafting system plays a very important role in the overall gameplay. Clans can control cities and build up new islands of civilization in these. Arenas and battlegrounds set the stage for rough-and-tumble PvP combat.

Features

• Dynamic gameworld that is changed by player actions
• Flexible skill system - skill are improved by using them, forgotten when not used
• Comprehensive crafting system with almost endless possibilities
• Quest system with single-player and group quests as well as area quests that take place in a specific region
• Intelligent enemies that run for cover, flee, hide or lure players into traps
• Cities that can be controlled by the player and expanded
• Highly-modifiable vehicles
• Clan system with ranks, clan levels, a calendar of events and a base
• Wide-ranging PvP features with duels, arenas and battlegrounds

Magic Campus, a Chinese MMO with pet collecting, combat and battling gameplay.

With Magic Campus, gamigo presents a complex and challenging browser-based game that will appeal to the hunter-gatherer in all of us: More than 600 creatures can be captured and trained to be comrades-in-arms. Flash allows the game to be displayed in highly-detailed and cute graphics with fluid animations right in the browser window.

Once a player has captured one of these dangerous creatures and added it to their brigade, the creature will continue to develop and become a mighty ally. During the course of the game they will learn more and more skills and can be equipped by the player. Spirit beings with special skills add even more variety to the wide selection and are an additional motivation to go out hunting.

In Magic Campus players have six unique classes to choose from that each come with a wealth of special skills. Different mission types add variety to the game: whether it’s a story mission in which players uncover the secrets of the game’s history, simple tasks, daily challenges or special adventures for a special event, there’s always something going on in Magic Campus. The comprehensive crafting and upgrading system lets players create or improve their own weapons and armor. Though the gameplay is rich and many-layered, the game is easy to control. A variety of community features like the mentoring system and quests with friends make getting started in the fascinating world of Magic Campus easy and fun.

Features

• Browser‎-based role-playing game in a Far Eastern graphics style with strategic battles
• 6 factions, 6 professions and twelve characters
• Hundreds of varying quests
• Innovative character classes
• Extensive companion system: almost all creatures can be captured and trained
• Interesting crafting system
• Players can furnish their own houses and couples can decorate their own love nest
• PvP with special maps, guild wars and different scenarios

Jagged Alliance Online update- AI is done now working on rest of game. Enemy soldiers will be smarter instead of mass numbers.

Patrician online - an MMO version of the PC trading simulation during the Hanseatic League. Still in early alpha also.