The Spirit of Aika is conflict carried out through PvP.A good fight makes this world go ‘round, and in this dev diary we’ll be discussing three of Aika’s most challenging PvP events.

PvP is the core element to everything you do in Aika.Aika is built around a large scale player vs player model, in which players form guilds, guilds form alliances, and alliances form nations that do battle against each other. There are three PvP events that can change an entire nation’s political landscape: Castle Siege, the Relic War, and the Altar War.

Castle Siege pits comrades against each other over the right to power.In each nation there is a bastion of power called the Lakian Fortress.Each week, a new rebellion arises as guilds rally to take the castle from the ruling alliance and their Lord Marshal

August 20, 2007 - The paramilitary first-person shooter formerly known as Crossfire has taken on a new identity, becoming the latest installment in the Conflict series, publisher Eidos announced Monday.

Featuring cooperative gameplay and highly destructible environments, Conflict: Denied Ops focuses on so-called "deniable operatives," special forces soldiers who do the government's arm's-length dirty work.

According to an Eidos news release, the game's characters are ruthless, merciless, brutal and all-around just swell people.

"We are taking the Conflict series in a new direction, making it more explosive and mature," said Robert Lindsey, executive vice president of sales and marketing with Eidos. "Conflict: Denied Ops delivers large-scale Hollywood style action sequences in real-world political hot spots, sure to appease fans of the FPS genre."

We feel appeased already, and we haven't even had the chance yet to "brutalize the opposition" or "dissolve" threats in South America, Africa and Russia.

Conflict: Denied Ops will be the fifth game in the series and is scheduled for a spring 2008 release on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But if you tell anyone you read it here, we'll deny ev