Aeria Games, based in Santa Clara

Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, is an online games publisher. Aeria Games & Entertainment Inc. (AGE), a subsidiary of Aeria Inc. (www.aeria.jp) in Japan, is developing an Internet gaming portal for MMORPGs in the U.S. It focuses on massively multiplayer online role-playing games, licensing games from (primarily Asian) developers for a North American audience. A European subsidiary office, Aeria Games GmbH, is located in Berlin, Germany and in the summer of 2010, another subsidiary office opened in São Paulo, Brazil.

Its games are ostensibly free-to-play

Free-to-play

Free-to-play refers to any video game that has the option of allowing its players to play without paying. The model was first popularly used in early massively multiplayer online games targeted towards casual gamers, before finding wider adoption among games released by major video game...

 but use a micropayment

Micropayment

A micropayment is a financial transaction involving a very small sum of money and usually one that occurs online. PayPal defines a micropayment as a transaction of less than 12 USD while Visa prefers transactions under 20 Australian dollars, and though micropayments were originally envisioned to...

 system to generate revenue (in game item malls and advertising).

Community

As of September 2011, the community has over 23 million registered members.

As with all free-to-play

Free-to-play

Free-to-play refers to any video game that has the option of allowing its players to play without paying. The model was first popularly used in early massively multiplayer online games targeted towards casual gamers, before finding wider adoption among games released by major video game...

 games or gaming communities, the number of registered users has to be differentiated from:

• unique users, i.e. the number of persons actually registered as differentiated from the number of accounts (a same user can make several accounts, all counted as a "registered user")

• active users (users returning regularly)

• paying users (since all of Aeria's games are F2P, it's possible to play without paying a cent)

There are no public numbers for unique, active, or paying users.

Download Games

• Last Chaos - Fantasy MMORPG
• [Dream of Mirror Online] - Anime themed MMORPG
• Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine
  Shin Megami Tensei: IMAGINE
  , formerly , is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game based in the Megami Tensei universe. Aeria Games acquired the rights to the game from Cave Co., Ltd. Shin Megami Tensei is a major intellectual property of the Japanese developer and publisher, Atlus Co., Ltd...
  
  Anime Sci-Fi MMORPG
• Dynasty Warriors Online - Action MMORPG
• Shaiya - Fantasy MMORPG
• Twelve Sky 2
  Twelve Sky 2
  Twelve Sky 2 is a free to play MMORPG by ALT1Set in Ancient China, players are thrown into an age old conflict between three warring Clans. Centered on the reemergence of a new faction, players must fight for the honor of their brothers or turn their backs in their hour of need.The Twelve Sky 2...
  
  - martial arts MMORPG
• WolfTeam - Sci-Fi FPS
• Metal Assault - 2D Action shooter game
• Grand Fantasia - Anime themed MMORPG
• Eden Eternal
  Eden Eternal
  Eden Eternal, also known as in Taiwan or in China and Hong Kong, is a free to play anime styled MMORPG developed by and published by Aeria Games...
  
  - Anime themed MMORPG
• R.O.H.A.N. Vendetta - Fantasy MMORPG (German Only)
• Battlefield Heroes
  Battlefield Heroes
  Battlefield Heroes is a cartoon-style action video game developed by DICE initially—now developed by —and published by EA for Microsoft Windows. It is played from a third-person EA are calling it FPS perspective. The game is less demanding on computer specifications than the previous games of the...
  
  - Cartoon styled TPS

Upcoming Games

• Realm of the Titans
  Realm of the Titans
  Realm of the Titans is a Chinese video game developed by Ningbo Shengguang Tianyi for the PC platform...
  
  - Action Strategy (MOBA)
• Lime Odyssey - Anime themed MMORPG
• "Repulse" - Future MMOFPS
• Perfect World
  Perfect World
  Perfect World , is a 3D adventure and fantasy MMORPG with traditional Chinese settings. Players can take on various roles depending on choice of race and choice of class within that race....
  
  - Fantasy MMORPG (Spanish Only)
• Need for Speed: World - Action Driving
• Repulse - Sci-Fi FPS

Current Browser Games via Aeria Now

• Golden Age - Browser Based MMORTS
• Poker Heroes - Facebook poker game
• MilMo - Browser Based MMORPG
• Pirate Galaxy
  Pirate Galaxy
  Pirate Galaxy is a Free-to-play, massively multiplayer online game written in Java in which players operate spaceships, explore various planets, mine minerals from orbit, fight other players and computer enemies in planetary combat...
  
  - Sci-fi browser mmorpg
• Lords Online - Fantasy browser MMORTS game
• DDTank - Turn-based Action Game
• Ministry of War - History-based MMORTS
• Lord of Ages - History-based Based MMORTS
• Call of Gods - Browser Based MMORTS
• Heroes of Gaia - Browser Based MMORTS
• Tauri World - Browser based MMORTS

External links

• Aeria Games official English language website, with links to the games offered by the company.
• Aeria NOW page with Aeria Games' browser games listed all together.