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Current Press Releases:
January 30, 2011 - Parallel Kingdom Reaches 1M Players
[Translations: Français, Deutsch, Japanese]
January 11, 2011 - PerBlue Plants A Flag On Facebook With Parallel Kingdom
[Translations: Deutsch, Français]
November 15, 2011 - Parallel Kingdom Players Turn Virtual Food Into Real Meals This Thanksgiving
(Image: Food Basket Hat)
[Translations: Deutsch, Français, Español]
October 31, 2011 - Parallel Kingdom Celebrates Third Anniversary by Introducing Dark Monolith
(Images: Dark Monolith, Sunken City 1, Sunken City 2)
October 5, 2011 - PlayMob and PerBlue Set The Bar For Virtual Giving (Infographic)
September 22, 2011 - Social Games for Social Good
September 14, 2011 - PerBlue Brings Location Based Gaming to the Web
June 15, 2011 - Parallel Kingdom Exceeds 500,000 Players
October 29, 2010 - Parallel Kingdom Announces Major New Social Feature For Age of Thrones
April 20, 2010 - The Entire Virtual World Of Parallel Kingdom Goes Carbon Neutral
November 24, 2009 - First Location Based Game for iPhone and Android Launches New Version: Parallel Kingdom - Age of Emergence
October 7, 2009 - Parallel Kingdom, The First Location Based MMORPG for iPhone, Innovates Again by Letting Players Decide When The New Version Launches
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One of the 10 Best Cross-Platform Multiplayer Mobile Games
"This strategy game uses real-world maps to turn a user's surrounding area into a fantasy world where players on iOS and Android try to grab as much land as possible. There are enemies to fight that occupy real-world locations, and other players trying to take over those same surroundings. Players must find ways to protect their land from enterprising opponents."
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"Parallel Kingdom is a cool, top quality game that any good gamer should try."
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Top 10 Best MMOs On iPad, Android And iPhone
"This inventive MMO takes your current location and plants structures, enemies and collectables in and around your area... Much like FourSquare, Parallel Kingdom enables you to conquer the areas you visit most regularly, but this time with a clever RPG element."
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"[Parallel Kingdom] is an extremely intricate and enjoyable augmented reality MMORPG. The game has an excellent mentoring system to help you get started, many different crafting professions, huge trade centers, incredible monsters, pets, and the ability to create your own buildings and structures!"
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MMOReporter.com
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2/21/2011
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"Mash together a fantasy-themed ARG, MMO design goals, somewhat roguelike combat, GPS technology, and Google Maps, and you get Parallel Kingdom — in short, you get a game I’ve wished existed ever since I got a smartphone."
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Randomness.co.cc
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12/10/2010
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"A perfectly fun and legal way to cause havoc in your home town from the comfort of your sofa."
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"In all, this is a great mobile platform game with a huge population of players. Parallel Kingdom is possibly the first app that gives you a fairly in-depth MMO on a mobile device."
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New generation of location games catches on
"Parallel Kingdom is reminiscent of role playing games (or RPGs) on the computer or a games console in that it is loaded with features such as a fighting mechanism, a virtual aid to the player, leveling up the character, instant messaging with other players, trading items and food and so on."
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"Honestly, this is one of the most in-depth apps on the Market. One of the pioneers in augmented reality, PerBlue has managed to really hit a home run with this app. Yes, I play this game daily. Yes, I will kick your butt if you make me angry. Yes, I highly recommend you download this app now and start playing."
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"After you have looked through the Android Market and played with all the free ring tones and soundboards you will want to download a little game called Parallel Kingdom... Have a few extra minutes before a movie starts? Why not have P.K. locate your phone and see if there are any rare monsters hiding around the theater for you to kill?"
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Top 10 free apps to download NOW
"A great idea, this location-based MMORPG overlays the game world on top of your real Google Maps. You encounter real players and battle monsters in real time. It also adds an augmented reality twist by setting challenges in your environment..."
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AndroidAppReviewSource.com
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1/11/2010
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Highest Seal of Approval
"Overall, this is a great unique game for the Android. If you like World of Warcraft type of games then you should check this one out. This game is also available on the iPhone which means that there are even more players to interact with..."
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One of the Top 3 Free Multiplayer Android Games
"As you delve a bit further into the game, you’ll uncover other methods of virtual travel, most of which are connected to the ways in which other players stake out territory. The game has a lot of depth, as players can explore, collect items, even claim territory and found cities..."
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TheiPhoneAppReview.com
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1/3/2010
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Score: 7/10
"Developed by PerBlue Inc., Parallel Kingdom: Age of Emergence is one of the first games to bring a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) to the iPhone. Even more ambitious than that, Parallel Kingdom is a geo-aware game that uses your actual physical location (via GPS or WiFi) as your starting point in the game..."
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"The game has a lot more to offer than what I’ve covered and it truly is one of the most addicting and immersive games for the Android platform. I find myself logging in 2-3 times a day to collect my Oil, harvest Berries, and hunt Dragons..."
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iPhoneFootprint.com
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12/17/2009
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5 out of 5 Stars - Beware! Parallel Kingdom AOE on the iPhone is an addictive game
"Forget about RPGs, in this day and age of advanced technology, MMORPGs (Multi-player Role Playing Game) are here to give players a gaming experience like never before. Parallel Kingdom Age Of Emergence from PerBlue Inc superimposes a game world over a phone GPS generated real map to bring us a game that is as real and exciting as it can get..."
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4 out of 5 Star Rating
"...you can coerce your friends to pick the app up and play along side of them and take on the Parallel Kingdom together. It’s definitely worth checking out, whether you’re a RPG nut or not, merely because the game is so unique. And its FREE, so give it a try."
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New York Times
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11/12/2009
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"Players immersed in Parallel Kingdom need to be wary in case digital dragons or other mythical creatures are lurking nearby.
'The whole world is covered in creatures' said Justin Beck, the chief executive of PerBlue, the creator of the game. 'Wherever you go, you can stumble upon these creatures. You can combat them. You defeat some of them and partner with others'..."
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GPS Business News
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9/25/2009
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"One of the active companies in [location-based gaming] is PerBlue Inc, a mobile development start-up which created Parallel Kingdom (PK), a location-enabled role playing game where the world - actually Google Map - is the gameboard. GPS Business News interviewed with Justin Beck, CEO and President at PerBlue, Inc. and his vice president of marketing, Andy Gilbertson..."
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theSchap's Blog
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9/24/2009
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"I picked this game up for my iPhone a few weeks ago and I didn’t know what to expect. I don’t know where I heard about it, I likely just found it doing a random search, but it deserves a bit more recognition that it gets..."
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Thirteen1 - Online Games Magazine
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9/13/2009
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"At this moment in time, there is a high chance that there's an ogre wandering around in your back garden. It is also quite possible that there are a few people with swords running down the road in hot pursuit of a dragon who has chosen your postcode as its lair. Unfortunately, the only way you can see this is if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and an application called Parallel Kingdom, where thousands of players have created characters and gone out into the wide world, our world that is, in an attempt to slay and conquer..."
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Always Go Right
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4/13/2009
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"When I downloaded Parallel Kingdom by PerBlue Software, I never expected it would be such an interesting game that frankly got me excited about the future of iPhone apps..."
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Long Live Geeks
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3/30/2009
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"A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Coloroid, a game I've been playing on my G1. At the time I asked for suggestions for additional games, and two people said Parallel Kingdom. I downloaded it, gave it a shot, and now I'm officially hooked :) ..."
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"Imagine the day when a GPS and a video game console are one. Actually, don’t bother, because this day is now here with a totally free iPhone application known as Parallel Kingdom..."
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"Rather than dropping you into a wholly fictional realm, Parallel Kingdom wanders off the beaten RPG path. It plots your physical location in space with Google Maps then overlays it with a host of monsters, items, and adventurers..."
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"The RPG genre isn't well represented on the iPhone. There are a few offerings, such as Vay. But the MMO subset of the RPG genre has been barren. Until now. Using the GPS capability of the iPhone, Parallel Kingdom offers a real world twist to the RPG, creating an MMO that casts the entire country as a potential battlefield..."
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"Parallel Kingdom is a Massive Multiplayer Trans-Reality Game (MMTRG) for the Android platform. This game has been of great interest to both the gaming and mobile community for quite some time and is now finally available for the public to play. Using your phone's GPS, Parallel Kingdom locates you and allows you to explore a virtual world that is placed right on top of ours..."
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"Parallel Kingdom is making waves for being one of the first massively multiplayer online games (MMO) developed for play on both the iPhone and Android platforms. The interface, upon first glance, isn’t all that striking – it’s the real/virtual world gameplay that is the exciting part. The game relies on the mobile device’s GPS to detect the player’s real world movement on an onscreen map..."
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"Since the launch of the iPhone App Store, we’ve seen a wave of geo-aware social networks that make use of the phone’s GPS (or in the case of the original iPhone, pseudo-GPS). Each of these apps aims to help facilitate social interaction by locating nearby friends, points of interest, or people you might be interested in meeting (but might not know yet)..."
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"Imagine, if you will, a world inside your phone, parallel to the real world in which you toil through the typical ins and outs of daily life. An overlaying world, in a sense. What you are imagining is the Parallel Kingdom..."
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"The cool chaps from Pocket Gamer whipped up an interview with the developers of Parallel Kingdom — an upcoming MMORPG for the iPhone and Android powered mobile devices (its official website doesn’t mention the iPhone, but the interview does). Not only would this be the first MMORPG for iPhone, but this online medieval role playing game should be the first game out there to utilize iPhone’s more or less recently added Google Maps’ pseudo-GPS feature! ..."
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"Some have got their Android on already, though, and are developing games for the platform. One example is Parallel Kingdom, a medieval-themed MMORPG game that'll include GPS-powered location features..."
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