2010-07-21
News: 21 July 2010
Dear Atelians,

We wanted to take the time to update you on what’s been happening over the past week or so to Lords of Atelia:

Following the numerous attacks on our servers, we decided to urgently take them down and m...

2010-07-17
News & Changes, 18 July 2010
Hi all,

As you must have noticed, the war on terror continues as our servers have been up and down through the past few days.

We changed a lot and from scratch, and this is why it took so long to get back up. Even ...

2010-07-08
Changes: 08 July 2010
Over the past few days, you will have undoubtedly noticed that IGL has had a lot of downtime and restorations. It's been bad enough that we've had to give you emergency news updates to keep you in the loop about t...

2010-07-06
News: 06 July 2010 (And again...)
Hi all,

Server up again from another assasination attempt. We're still looking into the details, and I'll update once I have more information. In the mean time, I'm sorry for the trouble, and I'm sure that the coming u...

2010-07-04
News: 04 July 2010 (Or - Thank God For Backup)
Some of you may have noticed that something strange was going on over the past few hours: you were right.

Something went wrong with the game's database, and at the time of writing this we're still not sure what exactly....

2010-06-27
ANNOUNCEMENT: 27 June 10, Server maintenance
Greetings, ISOTX fans!

Today, the servers will be undergoing some short maintenance. During this time you may experience a hiccup in your usual activity. Please don't be alarmed: this shouldn't last very long, and is [i...

2010-06-20
Changes: June 20, 2010
Greetings, Lords of Atelia fans! We've got a lot of big news for you, launching...NOW!

First as a disclaimer: if you experience any gameplay discrepencies, please refresh your browser cache, and if it persists - please ...

2010-05-24
ANNOUNCEMENT: 24 May 2010
There's been a lot of big news coming through Lords of Atelia lately - and some of it's better than others. First and foremost, we'd like to make sure everyone knows that yes, we're aware of a lot of gold sharing problem...

2010-05-18
Changes: 18 May 2010
It's been a little under a month since our last big update here at Lords of Atelia and a lot of you are probably wondering what's up - well, there's a good reason for that. People who keep up with the HIVE have un...

2010-05-15
ANNOUNCEMENT: May 16 2010 - All That Glitters
Greetings players of Lords of Atelia. Those of you who frequent the ISOTX HIVE (or use Steam) are undoubtedly aware that Iron Grip: Warlord - the spiritual predecessor to Lords of Atelia - recently launched on Steam. T...

2010-04-26
Changes: 26 April 2010
Greetings, Lords of Atelia fans. A new version has been released (see, title fits this time) and with it has come a lot of changes to the mechanics of the game. Here's the low-down on what this new version features:

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2010-04-19
Changes: 19 April 2010
Greetings, Lords of Atelia fans.

Following the wipe, we distributed coupons for Iron Grip: Warlord discounts based on the levels of the player prior to the wipe. The amount of the discount went up to 90% for those who...

2010-04-15
Changes: 15 April 2010
Aloha, Lords of Atelia fans. In the next couple days (if not today), you'll be seeing some major changes coming to the game front and I'm here to explain to you what some of those are. Let's start from the top, shall we?...

2010-04-01
Changes: 01 April 2010
Greetings, Lords of Atelia fans. We've got some rather awkward news that I swear to you is not an April Fools prank:

The recruiting bonus for the Fahrong has been reduced - down from 50% to 35%. This change was necess...

2010-03-29
Changes: 29 March 2010
Alert, alert!

Following the reset, a rather severe bug was discovered with faction selection. When someone went to pick their faction at level four, they suddenly picked the faction for everyone. Consequently, ...

2010-03-25
Changes: 25 March 2010
Aloha.

After several days of complete insanity (brought on by the Gold increase, no doubt), we are happy to announce that the wipe of Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia has been completed successfully and everyone has receive...

2010-03-22
News: 22 March 2010
Last week, we told you about four new factions coming to Lords of Atelia. This likely made the wheels in your heads start to turn and wonder what other big things would be released this week. I'm happy to say that the am...

2010-03-18
News: 18 March 2010
Greetings, Lords of Atelia players!

In the coming days, there will be some major announcements being released by the ISOTX staff, detailing changes coming to Lords of Atelia. Some of these you've been requesting for qui...

2010-02-25
News: 25 February 2010
Behind the scenes, developers at ISOTX are fast at work. We promised you a lot of changes, Lords of Atelia fans, and the first of them have begun to arrive. We're happy to announce a lot of bug fixes and several new feat...

2010-02-11
News: Feb 11 2010
The following tweaks and improvements took place in IG:LoA since the last update. You might have already noticed some of these improvements, but many of these were just finalized and brought live as this announcement is ...

2010-01-11
News: 11 January 2010
Hi all,

The promised balance changes are here.

Here's what was already done:
- Power Cap was increased to 6000 (This is a temporary thing. The issue will be taken care of more seriously later on).
- Power mining...

2010-01-01
Cha-cha-cha-Changes!
Firstly, this is directly from the desk of me: the omnipresent developer, the one who bosses Jayme and Monique around as well as our talented code monkey. I'd personally like to thank you for playing Iron Grip: Lords of ...

2009-12-28
News: 28 December 2009
Nothing is ever static in the world of Iron Grip. And this holiday season, there is suddenly an increased demand for coal. Previously eager Warlords found themselves drowning in the resource, not really valuing its worth...

2009-12-24
News: 24 December 2009
The Lords of Atelia team would like to wish all of its beta testers a happy holidays. Naturally there will be some downtime this weekend as we celebrate and kick back, so be patient if responses are a tad slow for the ne...

2009-12-21
Fatal Weekend Concludes
As it is now Monday, our Fatal Weekend event has drawn to a close. While people are still invited (and encouraged) to attack the Revenge alliance to knock them down a peg or two, you will no longer be awarded Gold for yo...

2009-12-18
Gunfire & Smoke: Fatal Friday is Here
Greetings and salutations, fans of Lords of Atelia. Today we would like to introduce the beginning a very special (and fun... for some of us) event: Fatal Friday.

Today marks the first day of a... shifting of p...

2009-12-14
Changes: 14 December
Aloha, Lords of Atelia fans!

We've got some really cool news for you. After some quick technical fixes, the developers have recently informed us that the option to reply directly to our news on the forums can finally ...

2009-12-11
Booby Traps bug is fixed
Hi all!

While Booby traps are supposed to be strong against infantry units, there was a bug in some cases that made them even stronger than they were intended to be. That bug is squashed now, and the road for vic...

2009-12-09
Changes: 9 December 2009
A lot of drastic and major changes here for everyone to mull over. These changes will hopefully be something to consider andgive feedback over for the next few weeks; we've felt we have been backpedaling and changing thi...

2009-12-07
Downtime: 07 December 2009
We're having some server maintenance today, the game may experience some brief downtime. Thank you for your patience, and hopefully you'll be ready to play some more Lords of Atelia after the downtime!...

2009-12-03
The Gift of Giving Contest Concludes
So I'm a couple days late in reminding everyone but the Gift of Giving Contest - you know, that gold contest that we hosted last month? - has finally concluded. I'm proud to say it got a lot more of a response than we ex...

2009-11-30
Changes: 30 November 2009
Thanksgiving has come and gone, leaving tired Atelians everywhere with turkey in their bellies, I'm sure. Wait, what? Atelians don't celebrate Turkey Day? Way to rain on my parade...

But it does appear that thi...

2009-11-24
Changes: 24 November
Hey, Lords of Atelia players! We've got some awesome stuff happening right now - enough to merit a second news post today, how's that for awesome? As most of you know, the developers have been very hard at work. That's t...

2009-11-24
Changes: 23 November
We have some hot new updates for all the beta testers. However, most of these changes will only happen as we update the live server, which is most likely coming this Tuesday or Wednesday. Still, we thought we'd give you ...

2009-11-20
Changes: 19 November
Over the past few days, we've had a growing number of changes here at Lords of Atelia and we'd love your feedback on them. The changes that have occurred since our last update are:

- Creating an alliance now costs 5 Go...

2009-11-16
Balance: Your Feedback
Some of the Lords of Atelia players have already noticed, but for those who haven't: We've recently posted a poll on the forums regarding Game Balance and we'd love it if everyone could stop by, vote and offer opinions o...

2009-11-13
Changes: 13 November
Yesterday in our news, we told you about some changes to social groups. To elaborate on that update, the social groups are now tied directly to alliances. In other words, when you make an alliance it creates a social gro...

2009-11-12
The Gift of Giving Contest
We're entering the official holiday season at last. Winter is coming slowly but surely, the weather's getting colder (for half of the world, anyway) and the end of the year is fast approaching. We've been in Closed Beta ...

2009-11-12
Changes: 12 November
Greetings, forum users. These changes apply to you in particular. We've run across a snag: some of you may have been in social groups before. Well, we've made some changes across the game that means social groups are tie...

2009-11-12
Changes: 11 November
A lot of cool new features are in the works for Lords of Atelia (including a contest that should be launched today or tomorrow, assuming that the developers don't get struck by lightning). We're excited to say that our C...

2009-11-10
Changes: 10 November
Greetings, Lords of Atelia players. We hope you had a wonderful weekend. As always, the development staff has been hard at work to make Lords of Atelia a better experience for you all around. We don't have any major chan...

2009-11-06
Changes: 6 November
The weekend is finally here and with it comes some cool updates here for Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia. Our development staff will be working on the changes that were announced yesterday and more fixes throughout the weeken...

2009-11-05
Changes: 5 November 2009
This weekend is a big one, as our developers are heading right into the code and will hopefully have some exciting changes as well as features to show us.

- Alliance reset is going to happen soon. We have done a lot o...

2009-11-03
Changes: 2 November 2009
With the holidays this weekend (hope everyone had a nice Halloween and Day of the Dead, for those who celebrate), the notable changes for Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia are significantly more minimal. (That is, there aren't ...

2009-10-30
Changes: 30 October 2009
Some more changes were made today in Lords of Atelia.

Before we get to them, let me take the time to wish everyone a Happy Halloween. There's no in-game event this year, but as for next year... we'll have to see

...

2009-10-29
Changes: 29 October 2009
Some of you may have noticed that quite a few changes have been taking place here on Lords of Atelia. Let me start by telling you about the most prominent one:

Gold. If you're posting in the Game Guides section of the f...

2009-10-28
Changes: 28 October 2009
As Lords of Atelia is in beta, we've got a lot of changes that are being implemented. It's kind of pointless to derail everyone with long lists of everything under way but the notable changes will be listed in updates he...

2009-10-26
Weekend Changes
Hey folks! We've got a summary of updates from the weekend that we'd like to let you all know about! Here's some ideas of what was changed over the past couple of days; remember, as always, you can let us know your feeli...

2009-10-23
Marketplace Reset
With the coming of closed beta came some changes and, unfortunately, one of those came in the form of having to reset the marketplace.

The bad news is that everything on the marketplace was lost in the process…

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2009-10-23
Closed Beta is Live
The closed beta for Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia is now live! Feel free to register and pass the link along to your friends!

In preparation, we've added a few new changes to the game:

- Capture attack cost raised to ...

2009-10-22
Important: Tribe Names changes, server changes, and more!
Greetings users,

Recently, we updated our servers here at Lords of Atelia. While this may not sound like a big project, we've also begun efforts to integrate our forums, something that many of you will have undoubtedly...