Crystal Saga Beta Test Has Arrived!

R2Games is pleased to announce that official beta testing for Crystal Saga will begin on September 1st at 4:30pm EST. Open to all players, Crystal Saga is a refined free-to-play browser MMORPG. To participate in this beta testing, please login or register for a new account. To celebrate our official beta launch, we will be providing a number of promotions and activities!


Crystal Saga is a 2D browser MMORPG in which you explore treasure, hunt for valuable items, slay creatures and communicate with your buddies in the world of Vidalia. The game proves a remarkable success in China as it closely follows the Chinese culture and background story while some client game elements have been implemented into the game.

Originally released in China under the title “魔神战纪“, Crystal Saga China has more than 100 servers including some affiliated publishers like Wan71.com, 37wan, and wowan365. On August 15, China-based R2Games behind Caesary, quietly launched an alpha server for Crystal Saga. After two week’s testing, R2Games launched the officially commercial server Himeng Valley, and Aurora Point.

Moon looking younger than ever

The moon is 4.36 billion years old, up to 200 million years younger than thought, according to the analysis of lunar rocks.

The estimate, reported in Thursday's issue of Nature, comes from a new dating of isotopes of lead and neodymium found in samples of ferroan anorthosite, a crustal rock that derives from magma.

A common theory for the origin of the moon is that it was created by an impact between a large planet-sized object and the nascent Earth.

The molten material, or magma, that was ejected from this giant collision progressively cooled, hardening into Earth's rocky, barren and airless satellite.

'The extraordinarily young age of this lunar sample either means that the moon solidified significantly later than previous estimates, or that we need to change our entire understanding of the moon's geochemical history,' said Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington.

If the estimate is right, it implies that the oldest crusts on both Earth and moon formed at roughly the same time, both of them shortly after the big smashup.

The dating concurs with a similar age estimate for zircons found in Western Australia that are the oldest terrestrial minerals found.