Machine Zone launches ambitious iOS title Game of War: Fire Age after huge investment

After more than a year of effort on its biggest game yet, Machine Zone is launching its free-to-play Game of War: Fire Age today on Apple’s iOS platform. Among the features is an automatic translation engine that allows players from different countries to communicate and band together in alliances. That enables global gameplay and a chance for one player to literally rule the world.

Everything is built to facilitate mass battles with an unlimited number of participants fighting in real time. Players can team up in alliances of 100 people and attach their alliance to a kingdom. Different kingdoms can vie for the throne, and the winner can be crowned the king of the entire game. Hundreds of thousands of players can gather in the same space in the massively multiplayer online role-playing mobile game, the company estimates.