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Parallel Kingdom, by Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, recently registered their 100,000th user.  Congrats to the PerBlue team on their continued success!  From PerBlue’s blog:

…Parallel Kingdom recently achieved a long time milestone. We now have over 100,000 PK user accounts. That’s a lot of PK’ers from all around the world.

Some other fun numbers:
1015 Cities have been founded in PK. There are 1,240,861 Flags, which represent about 425,000 km² of claimed territory across the world. That may sound like a lot, but it’s less than 1% of the Earth’s surface. That leaves 509,647,000 km² of spacious unclaimed territory – go claim some!

Parallel Kingdom, from Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue, was featured on GamerRoad.  From the article:

…you will want to download a little game called Parallel Kingdom.  P.K. is an MMORPG style game that uses Google Maps and the phone GPS to show your current position.  The in game world is the real world.  You move your character around the map fighting monsters and chopping down trees.  All while exploring with your dog (I named mine Sayjak).  You level, loot, and stab monsters.  While it is not a graphically intensive game, it can really pull you in.  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?  Oh, and did I mention it’s free?

Parallel Kingdom, by Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, was featured in a Mashable blog post entitled Three Of The Best Free Multiplayer Android Games.  From the post:

Parallel Kingdom, which has been available on Android and the iPhone for some time, gives new meaning to persistent multiplayer online gaming.

The game world is overlaid on a real-time view of Google Maps. Your position on the map is determined by your mobile signal or GPS, and game events (such as encountering other players, battling monsters) happen in real time at your location.

There is a small radius within which your character can venture from the comfort of your couch. But if you want to further explore the “world,” and meet other players, you’ll have to physically get out and go there. 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. It’s a mobile MMORPG with an augmented reality twist that takes some commitment to learn, navigate, and enjoy. But the payoff, especially for future, more graphically-rich AR and location-based games is huge.

Capital Entrepreneurs member PerBlue had their flagship product Parallel Kingdom featured in HTC Source.  From the article:

…the first release of the app had me hooked from day one.  I would find myself waking through the skyways in Minneapolis on my lunch breaks just so I could discover new areas on the map so I could kill more creates and build up my stash of gold.

The latest release of the game (Parallel Kingdom – Age of Emergence) was launched in late November.  Once I reinstalled the game, I quickly realized that it was a whole new world I was walking into.  It has been over six months since I played the game.  I had to uninstall it since my wife would yell at me every time I pulled out my phone to kill a few trolls or dragons.  Age of Emergence has quite a bit to offer.  I was planning on writing up a quick review on it a few weeks back, but found out that I would need some extra time to delve into all the new features that it includes.

The real fun comes in with the addition of Cities.  Players can now team up to build a city which adds a whole new element to the game.  Once you join a city (costs 1000 Gold) you will be able to travel to it wherever you like and can trade your items in the Trading Post.  You will also get your own personal Oil Well which will collect Oil for you even while you are not playing.  Oil can then be sold, traded, or dropped for Gold so you can purchase new items from other players or upgrade your weapons.

…I’m hoping that this is enough info to get you started on your Parallel Kingdom adventure.   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. I should also mention that Parallel Kingdom is also available on the iPhone.  So don’t be surprised to find a fair number of iPhone freaks in the chat rooms and trading posts of Parallel Kingdom.