eRepublik

eRepublik second year anniversary celebration

eRepublik is celebrating today its second year anniversary. We would like to share our joy with those who have made it possible, our more than 230,000 currently active citizens. In October of 2009, www.erepublik.com received over 6.9 million visits and 158 million page views. During the past month citizens spent over 96 million minutes navigating the [...]

More languages, new Chat Tool & eRepublik presence at FICOD in Madrid

eRepublik is now officially available in four more new languages (French, German, Russian and Portuguese) thus making its interface and the game experience itself more enjoyable for thousands of our citizens. More languages will be added in the coming weeks. This week we took another important step forward towards putting our citizens in the center of [...]

eRepublik exceeds the 200,000 active citizen mark

eRepublik, the massively multiplayer online social strategy game, has recently exceeded the 200,000 active citizen mark with more than 600,000 citizen accounts created since day one of the New World. That means that one fifth of a million real people, are keeping their citizens alive by playing regularly. This is double the size of the [...]

Citizens get creative with Citizen Ads

About a month and a half ago, we launched Citizen Ads within eRepublik. Many games opt to run external advertising within their games, which can often be irrelevant to users and/or just plain distracting. Rather than take away from the [...]

GamesCom Conference in Cologne

Overall Gamescom (trade day August 19th) was very interesting, the traditional industry was out in force with giant stands in spite or maybe because of a drop in sales of about 33% YoY in June / July.Online players were a lot more discrete, only present in the trade area. Interesting when you think that this [...]

A new map for the New World

About a month ago, eRepublik promised that the New World would receive its deserved and much needed professional map. A map to mirror rapid changes that occur in the New World. A map to show you how big an empire is, or what enemies surround the region you live in. A map to show you [...]

Tutorial available in new languages thanks to citizens

Several weeks ago, we made available a citizen-narrated French version of the tutorial. We thought this was a great idea - considering that Plato himself has currently only been available to narrate the Spanish and English versions of the tutorial (available on www.erepublik.com), we thought it would be great to make it available in [...]

Lead Game Designer, Carsten Kisslat, joins eRepublik

Carsten Kisslat, a game designer, writer and producer with almost 16 years of experience in the videogames industry, has joined the eRepublik Labs team as Lead Game Designer. Based in London, Kisslat has worked as an interactive entertainment consultant on games for PC, mobile, Nintendo DS, in addition to taking part in the development of [...]

Community interview with George Lemnaru

Recently, a veteran member of eRepublik, Big Brother, decided to “sit down” and chat with eRepublik’s Co-Founder George Lemnaru. Given Big Brother’s history in the New World, his objective for this was not only to ask George many of the questions that the community has been eager to get answers to, but also to [...]

eRepublik reaches the milestone of one million monthly unique visitors

eRepublik Labs announced today that it has reached the milestone of one million unique visitors per month, only eight months after the release of its public version. Given the popularity of the game, it is no surprise then that the massively multiplayer online social strategy game has also recently been ranked 22nd on the TechCrunch [...]