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The official site for Dark and Light has a new look today! Head over and check it out.

Here it is, you read this news on the new website !

This website replace the two old websites and it reflect the ingame design.

The new account creation webpage is also integrated to this website.

Patch Notes 1.0.17

The official site for Dark and Light has just posted their patch notes for today's update.

AMONG the numerous evolutions brought by this new Dark and Light patch, you will find some work done on the starting areas which will bring the players together in a single starting point as they begin their journey. You will also find new tribes who inhabit Ganareth’s lands. Find all of this in the patch note below...

New starting areas:

In order to make new players meet other people more quickly as they are experiencing their first hours in Ganareth, the Dark and Light team has chosen to rework the starting areas.

There's lots more to read so get clicking!

Exclusive Dark and Light Q&A with Géraldine Lescs

On the list of headquarters locations for MMORPG development, Africa's Macarene Islands probably rival Iceland in the "surprising but true" category. Nevertheless, our latest Dark and Light Q&A comes to you direct from the two tiny Indian Ocean island nations called Mauritius and La Réunion. Géraldine Lescs, Marketing Manager for Farlan Entertainment's truely massive MMORPG, clears up a few misconceptions about the game, introduces some little known DnL features, and also clues us in about Farlan's future plans for Dark and Light.

"Géraldine Lescs, Farlan Entertainment: ''What is really unique in Dark and Light is that players never experience travel constraints. Not only they can use terrestrial mounts as soon as they start playing, but also they can fly using para-glide, experience free fall parachuting, or snowboard from the very first levels onward. And, using flying mounts, players can ascend, fly above the clouds or the rain... they are totally free.'"

Get clicking to see the rest of the interview. Share your thoughts with us on Dark and Light and all your favorite MMOs in our Ten Ton Hammer Forums today!

Inactive Accounts Charged

MMORPG.com has a report on the billing issues rearing their heads at Farlan Entertainment recently.

Farlan Entertainment, the makers of Dark and Light, has come under fire by community members for billing player accounts who are not actually playing the game. In these types of situations things can become very tricky so we here at MMORPG.com want to try to provide all the people involved with as much information as we can get. Here is the situation as it stands from community posts on the Dark & Light boards.

Read the full report and then weigh in with your thoughts in the Ten Ton Hammer Forums.

MMORPG.com Tells All

MMORPG.com has posted a review of Dark and Light. This review includes some really nice screenshots. Keep reading to learn more.

Take the world of an MMORPG, multiply it by a hundred and add complete freedom of movement and a fluid day/night cycle with changing seasons and weather. This is Dark and Light. The world of Dark and Light is so huge that you can actually get lost in it. You can spend hours just exploring and enjoying the wonderful views of bright deserts, snowy mountain peeks and dark caverns. Unfortunately, this big beautiful world is pretty much empty.

The environment may never stop impressing, but the character models certainly do. They do not make good use of the current technology and their animations are at times silly. In fights your character sometimes swings his sword in circles above his head before hitting the enemy. The characters do a disservice to the environments they populate.

Get clicking to read the full review. Do you agree with their point of view? Let us know in the forums right here at Ten Ton Hammer.

Farlan Entertainment Acknowledges Dark and Light Performance Challenges, Announces Free Subscriptions As It Makes Improvements

In a press release issued today, Farlan Entertainment admits that they "prematurely released" their MMO Dark and Light. To fix the problem, they have gone to lengths to compensate current and new subscribers.

* Three Months of No Invoices for Existing and New Subscribers
* No Disruption of Any Kind in Gameplay, User Access Keys or Accounts During Repair Period
* Farlan Adds Technical Resources to Assist with Improvements
* New Access Keys Still Available for USD $39.99 (39,99€ taxes included)

Read the full press release and learn more. Have you played Dark and Light? Share your experiences with us in the forums right here at Ten Ton Hammer.

Dangers of Ganareth Revealed

If you're following Dark and Light, then you may be collecting the wallpapers that have been released. Yesterday another on was released that shows some of the dangers to be found in Ganareth.

Get the latest wallpaper and don't forget to let us know what you think in the forums! Keep checking back here at Ten Ton Hammer for more information on all your favorite MMOs, including Dark and Light.

New Excitement Comes To MMORPG Dark and Light

This just in from Farlan Entertainment...

Farlan Entertainment, publisher of Dark and Light™, The Largest MMORPG You’ve Ever Seen!, today announced two additions to its popular online fantasy game that provide even more engagement for players on a daily basis. Alchemic Dream, Dark and Light’s community management provider, has initiated multiple daily events for players to participate in, while the return of Dark and Light’s newsletter, the Ganareth Gazette, once again keeps players up to date on the battles, villains, nobility, creatures, quests, and other developments in the land of Ganareth.

“Just as in the real world, Ganareth is a place where nothing stands still. Unexpected challenges and opportunities are a major part of the appeal of Dark and Light,” said Frédéric Caille, CEO of Farlan Entertainment. “We believe players will find the daily events introduced by Alchemic Dream to be both entertaining and useful. Ganareth is a living, breathing world full of inspiration, intrigue and adventure—a world people naturally want to be a part of.”

The events introduced into Dark and Light are sure to be varied and fresh. In a recent schedule, for example, players had the opportunity to escort a troupe of performers traveling by Alk’Em, take part in the Ganareth World Sport, take back a strategic Al-Drifa bridge, or stop a turf war between two spiteful clans. Events are staged in all five game languages and are posted on a weekly basis in the Community section of the site’s language forums.

The Ganareth Gazette is an indispensable daily news publication detailing all the latest that’s happening in the world of Dark and Light. Reports of various actions, schemes, stories and other developments are reported by a team of journalists. Feature articles also provide valuable information about the history, characters and strategies of Dark and Light. Players can find the Ganareth Gazette by logging onto www.darkandlight.com.

In addition to these additions, Dark and Light has launched a new corporate home page at www.darkandlight.com .

About Dark and Light:
At 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) of seamless playing surface, Dark and Light (DnL) is the biggest gameworld ever created. Massive numbers of fortresses and cities will populate the thirteen kingdoms of Ganareth, a land locked in an epic battle for control between the Dark and Light factions. Visit www.darkandlight.com .

About Farlan Entertainment:
Farlan, headquartered on the island of Mauritius, has been involved since 2001 in the entertainment gaming industry. Founded by a group of successful tech entrepreneurs, Farlan publishes the highly anticipated Dark and Light™ MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) and has been intimately involved in the games development from its inception.

First Reviews Come In

Today, GameZone posted one of the first significant reviews of Dark and Light.

Players, after choosing race, begin at the citizen level, killing mobs to acquire the experience to level. Upon leveling, there are seven areas in which a player may distribute points, and there are also four initial paths that players can put points into. A player is considered a citizen until reaching level 10, at which point they get to choose their general class. The base skills fall into four categories – fighter, healer, hunter and spellcaster.

Head over and see if this reviewer gave this game the thumbs up or down...

If you've been waiting the last few months to get into this game and weren't one of the lucky Settlers of Ganareth, today is the day for you. That's right. The full game launches today June 5, 2006. You can go to the Official Site. for more details.

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Right out of the gates, it's time for a patch and a little downtime.

PIONEERS of Ganareth will be back in the world of Dark and Light on May 30th, 2006 - First patch to be released on Thursday, June 1st.

The world of Dark and Light is now available to Pioneers of Ganareth on May 30th, 2006. The first hours in Dark and Light were full of experiences and discoveries, as the first players were able to begin the exploration of the long-awaited unique world...

The Pioneer inheritance will be available starting June 1st, 2006. In order to implement this, the Dark and Light server will be disabled for two hours, starting at 1pm UTC. The Dark and Light client will be patched in order to fix several quest bugs. The server will be back online at 3pm UTC.

The server will be shut down again on June 2nd, starting 8am UTC, for hardware maintenance. It will be back online at 10am UTC.

The Dark and Light team

So yes, have fun with that.

If you've been following this game, waiting for it so anxiously that you no longer have fingernails, you are now in luck! Dark and Light is now available for download. The servers are open. The game is live!

You can get more information on the client here. Make sure you read it before you download the .exe. Have fun playing!

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The pricing is complete, the release date is set. All that's left to do? Release some "beauts" of screenshot glory to the public so we can drool.

Find the screenshots here.

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It's almost here, the launch of Dark and Light. MMO Gaming takes on Burger King's Have it Your Way mantra with Dark and Light's new subscription plan. Find out how you can purchase the game as well as your monthly subscription. Get all of the information here.

There are updates to the Bestiary for Dark and Light.

For example, for centuries, fond of their mounts, the humans refused to change the name of the Dodos and the Ranchos, and nothing came of it! Even the proposition of “Dod’O”, although close and corresponding to the new rules of naming (race’ sub race) were stoically refused. The Dodo and the Rancho, therefore, are the only creatures to have conserved their ancestral name from the humans.

The Zoologists counted nearly 250 creatures in the world.

You can read it in its entirety here.

Have you read our E3 preview? No? Wha wha what? You can find it here. Read RadarX's funny commentary. You'll be glad that you did.

Farlan Entertainment Reschedules
Dark and Light™ Release for May 30th

I just got this press release from Farlan Entertainment straight from E3! It seems that they took some time to balnace things a bit better and polished up the whole game. Now they are ready to let the masses at it!

"Dark and Light will be available for download four days earlier, on May 26th, 2006, at 1pm UTC.

According to César Jacquet, manager of NPCube, “As the April 2006 release date got closer, we realized we were not satisfied with the balancing and debugging, so the development team decided to postpone the release until the best conditions” were in place."

Keep reading to see the full press release...

Well that's a word you won't hear developers use in a positive light that often... Exploit.

There are six kinds of natural resources: wood, stone, metal, crystals, water/gas and animal products. They are used in the building and maintenance of a fort, as well as maintaining mana fountains. Each resource has its own purpose; animal products (strings, leather and others) are used for tents, water for life at the castle, etc. The resources can be found all over Ganareth, but you will have to find the suitable areas for the resource you are looking for. For example: On a mountain, you will gather mainly stone and metal, and not much wood.

Read this developer log here.

Get more Dark and Light News here.