To help celebrate the popular American pastime of college basketball tournaments, Combat Arms will honor the millions of college basketball fans with its very own “Madness Server,” as well as offering up NX for the World Online Gaming League’s first “Death March” Clan Tournament, which features 1.7 million NX in prizes up for grabs. Both community-driven events highlight the competitive nature and fast, furious fun found Nexon America’s popular multiplayer online first-person shooter.

The Madness Server opened today and runs to April 5, offering channels dedicated to each scheduled college basketball game. To choose a side, look at how each team is listed on the Web site. Teams listed first and in red, will be players on the Alpha team. Teams listed second and in blue, will be the Bravo team. For example, if Syracuse is your school of choice, you would look for the channel labeled, “Syracuse vs. Vermont,” enter and start playing on the Alpha team. Each round of basketball games will bring new channels.

To support your favorite college basketball team, find it on the schedule and fight in their name. The schedule started today with eight Thursday games and is available on the Combat Arms Web site here.

WOGL selected among its best and brightest soldiers to participate in the Death March Clan Tournament, which is comprised of 16 teams and over 80 soldiers. First-round matches will be on Friday, March 26, and the tournament concludes on Saturday, March 27. The tournament will be single-elimination, best two out of three matches. Nexon America has authorized up to 1.7 million NX to be awarded to the participants with 50,000 NX as a bounty for each member of the championship team. Clans will play Elimination Pro with friendly fire on and all weapons allowed but with only one designated sniper per game. For more details, check at http://combatarms.nexon.net.

Joymax has launched Legend V: Heroes of Alexandria for historical fantasy MMORPG Silkroad Online. Players above level 100 can now make their way toward the sand-swept region of Egypt to see the sights in Alexandria, explore harsh landscapes like the Desert of Storms and Cloud, and test their mettle in one of two new dungeons: the party-focused Tomb of the Pharaoh and the PvP-friendly Temple.

“Just as the real Silk Road stretched thousands of miles and connected a wide variety of cultures, the dedication of Silkroad Online’s players has helped us create a community that spans the entire globe,” said Jina Song, General Manager at Joymax. “We hope everyone traveling the digital Silk Road has a blast exploring the land of Egypt, the grand city of Alexandria, and beyond!”

Upon entering the Tomb of the Pharaoh, parties are given the opportunity to choose from three difficulty levels before starting their 2-hour dungeon dive. Depending on the setting selected, monsters will drop items that range from moderately valuable to incredibly rare. There’s even a chance that players may stumble upon one of Legend V’s new eleventh-grade weapons, so those who are up to the challenge should definitely take advantage of the two visits they’re allowed to make each day.

Perfect World Entertainment is bringing the 3D MMORPG, Heroes of Three Kingdoms, to North America. Known as the Chibi in China, Heroes of Three Kingdoms is based on a historic battle and not gives players the opportunity to experience the chaos of this struggle first hand, as well as the chance to rewrite pivotal moments in Chinese history.

“With Heroes of Three Kingdoms, we’re going back to our roots and transporting players back in time to experience an era that helped shaped modern China as we know it today. Fans of the popular literature based around the Three Kingdoms era will be excited to be able to meet their favorite heroes and villains in our game,” said Andrew Brown, Product Manager of Heroes of Three Kingdoms. “Heroes of Three Kingdoms does an excellent job encapsulating the excitement and thrill that has led this era to have such a huge following.”

Highlights

• Motion Captured Combat – Using advanced motion capture technology; combat is brought to life martial arts specialist, making the action exciting and realistic. Experience in-game combat as if it were real life.
• Eighteen Weapon System – With a unique cool down system, players will have eighteen types of weapons available during the Three Kingdoms era in China to choose from.
• Kingdom War System – Join the Wei, Shu or Wu and choose to wage war or create alliances against one another.
• Historic Instances – Go back in time to experience historical battles and pivotal moments that helped shape the Three Kingdoms era and modern China.

Players interested in learning more about Heroes of Three Kingdoms as well as signing up for the closed beta can visit http://HOTK.PerfectWorld.com