June 15, 2009 - Dublin, Ireland - Gala Networks Europe, the leading online game publisher that operates the gPotato.eu free-to-play MMORPG portal, is proud to announce that Rappelz enters Open Beta today across Turkey. Developed by nFlavor, Rappelz offers players a fantasy world where they can tame terrible creatures to bring into battle with them and has been fully localised for the Turkish market.

With over two and a half million players, Turkish players across the world will be able to benefit from a fully localised version, with Turkish content, community features and backed up by the Turkish customer support team. Servers will open at 2pm Ankara time, and the Turkish GM's will be on hand in the Trainee Island to welcome players into the game.

After a community poll, Closed Beta players have voted to name the first server Fenix and players will have a number of in-game events open to them to introduce the gameplay in Rappelz. Monster Invasions will happen at the end of the week and both the Item Drop rate will see an increase of 50% and an experience boost of 30% for the duration of the first week.

Playing the Turkish version of Rappelz is simple. Simply register at http://tr.gpotato.eu/Account/AccReg.aspx and download the game client from http://tr.rappelz.gpotato.eu/Download/Client.aspx or Bittorrent.

For more information on the Turkish version of Rappelz which also contains the brand new Navis Lamia expansion for high level players, visit http://tr.rappelz.gpotato.eu

About Gala Networks Europe Ltd. & gPotato

Gala Networks Europe Ltd. is a leading European free-to-play online games publisher. Gala Networks Europe operates the gPotato brand by hosting, publishing and distributing free online games via the www.gpotato.eu portal. Present in Europe for over two years with three successful MMORPGs Flyff, Rappelz and Street Gears, the gPotato.eu portal is now a major destination for online gamers with over a million users. Dragonica, the fourth game of the portal, launched on June 10th 2009 and Allods Online, the fifth game of the portal will be available in Autumn 2009.