Get your 8 Realms VIP Access Key here!

If there's one thing we love more than our own children, it's games where you get to build a mighty empire and smash your opponents to pieces with your enormous military fist. Speaking personally, the high point of my life so far was reducing the entire map of a Civilization III game to glowing, radioactive rubble IN A SINGLE TURN, with every city and territory coming under the control of my armies.

Actually I felt massively guilty but that doesn't make for such a good introduction.

Anyway, 8 Realms. As is probably clear already, 8 Realms is a new MMO stragtegy game from Jagex, the makers of Runescape. Browser-based, it seems like a whole heap of empire-building fun from what we've played thus far, and so we've hooked up with Jagex to give away a bunch of 8 Realms VIP Access keys.

But before we go any further, here's an 8 Realms trailer.

You fancy a bit of that, right? Okay, well here's the so-simple-your-gran-could-do-it way to get onto the VIP beta. Just head to https://www.8realms.com and enter this code: GTN14

And that's it. Really. Oh, you'll get a specially-designed The Games Tribe flag when you enter. Like so:

And here it is in action. See the little fella holding one in the middle of the screen? He's representing.

We'll be jumping back into the game later today so we'll keep our eyes peeled for The Games Tribe flags. We'll also have a more detailed report on what's what in 8 Realms once we've played it a bit more.

In the meantime, here's that code again, which you enter when prompted at 8Realms.com: GTN14

And here are some further details about the game straight from the developer's mouth:

“8Realms is a free to play, online multiplayer strategy game and is a slight departure from what Jagex is known for, but continues Jagex’s tradition of having fun in the browser.

In principal you are the proprietor of a settlement which, through trading, researching, building and battling, you level up through 8 ages – Ancient, Classical, Feudal, Renaissance, Imperial, Industrial, Modern and Future.

The game is a persistent, Real Time Strategy Game where the game is never ‘off’ - unlike other games logging out of the world does not mean your game disappears, it is still going on. It is a portable game that can be accessed and played on any internet enabled devise. In essence you can log on at home, log-on on the way to work on your Smartphone/iPad, and log on again at work.”

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