January 7th, 2011
Hey Everyone,
That’s right! We now have a shop! It has T-shirts, Badges, Hats, Keyrings, Magnets, Mouse Mats, Mugs and Stickers!
See the full shop here
There is quite a lot to choose from, but if there’s something you want that you don’t see, you can request it in the suggestions forum and i’ll see what I can do 
Also, once you’ve clicked on an item, you can further customize your order – you can change the colour, move things around etc.
If anyone does buy anything, let me know – and if you’re able, take a photo! I’m going to be buying a few things, so i’ll take photos when I get mine 
Posted in Website Updates
December 16th, 2010
Hello everyone,
I emailed Smilegate yesterday with some stats – regarding how many people visit the website etc.
I asked them to give us an official response to whether Turfbattles will be coming back.
Here’s the response:
Dear TB fans
We really appreciate your keen interest about TB.
We are sure that TB will be serviced again in US version.
Unfortunately we cannot tell you when we exactly start to open TB service in US at the moment.
When we are able to give the information or press release to you, I’ll send it to you.
Again we thank you very much for your interests.
Hope to see you soon in TB.
Best regards
Smilegate Team
You can discuss this in this forum thread: http://www.turfbattles.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=313
Posted in Turf Battles News
September 23rd, 2010
Interesting article found by Giga at http://www.koreagamewatch.com/wp/2010/09/13/smile-gate-knocks-the-gate-to-publishers/
Interesting bits have been highlighted
A star developer of China-capturing FPS Cross Fire, Smile Gate now breaks into the monopolistic online game publishing market. On September 10, Smile Gate informed that its brand new publishing and sourcing division, led by pre-NHN Investment (NHN’s venture capital subsidiary) director Park, Jung-Pil, will go into hunting online games of any genre, be it casual or MMORPG. Smile Gate had already acquired the publishing rights for e-Magic’s MMORPG Sephiroth and laid the foundation as a service company. Hereupon, whether this medium-sized promising developer will become a successful publisher draws public attention.
Director Park, originally one of Cowell venture capitalists, vertically rose into a star publisher after launching Special Force at Neowiz and Dragonfly, Sudden Attack at CJ Internet, and FPS games at NHN. Such fickle movement among rival companies game him disgrace – “migrant.” However, such stigma did not matter for Smile Gate’s urgent metamorphosis into a publishing company: All Smile Gate needed was Park’s experiences and intuitions accumulated from publishing FPS masterpieces. That is, Smile Gate had to seize back the torn apart Cross Fire benefit to China-publishing Tencent and Global-publishing Neowiz Games.
Besides a countermovement to the publishers’ oligarchy, transformation into a publisher is a part of Smile Gate’s long-term (namely 4 to 5 years) master plan. In order to diversify its Cross Fire-dependent revenue structure, Smile Gate decided to source the game developing functions. Recently, Smile Gate acquired My New Children, a developer of My New Café serviced at NHN, into its subsidiary. Further acquisition of Go! Fishing’s developing team and renewal of Sephiroth will pile up know-hows for future product development. Smile Gate’s steps resemble the past growth of Dragonfly and Gamehi, now major companies grown on the basis of a single hit (Special Force and Sudden Attack, respectively) – except that both the games were successful in domestic market. Here, popularity in Korea remains a pending question for Smile Gate’s next big leap.
This confirms that Smilegate are well under way with development on their games. Whether we’ll see any specific news relating to Turfbattles soon or not is another thing unfortunately.
Posted in Turf Battles News
July 22nd, 2010
Some of you may remember the lullaby that was included in that one Nephilim quest in Veros. Before the servers went down, I had actually rewritten the poem to make a little more sense and fit in with the game. However before it could be added, Turf Battles ran out of time. Please enjoy this small bit of what was never to be.
Underneath Mother Nature’s ancient tree,
were five children playing wild and free.
The first child with hair snow white,
loyal and brave, wants what’s right.
The second child with hair of raven black,
strong and fast, always on the attack.
The third child with hair of flaming red,
rash and valiant, eager to get ahead.
The forth child with hair of sky blue,
quiet and smart, a friend to turn to.
The fifth child with hair of sun yellow,
patient and shy, a peaceful fellow.
But darkness spread across the peaceful land,
and an ancient evil raised a wicked hand.
The children no longer could remain in play,
as they viewed their lands in dismay.
Heroes now the children must become,
to face the terrible darkness still to come.
-DonnieDarko
Posted in TB-FTW!
