DOFUS, the leading massively multiplayer online game in France, has hit the 10 million-player mark, and is opening a new French server today in celebration.

According to a press release from Ankama, DOFUS now counts 10 million players, including 1.5 million subscribers, throughout the world since its release in September 2004. DOFUS is now played in 150 countries and will soon be available in 10 different languages. In fact, 30% of players do not speak French.

The developers are currently working on a sequel to DOFUS called Wakfu, which is a turn-based tactical MMO that takes place 1,000 years later.

For the full press release and a picture of Mily, the new French server, keep reading after the jump.

Beginning today, Dofus players will experience a series of a events related to the Cosmic Ray.

Masol-To, the old Enutrof wakes from his sleep with a jolt and, lifts his trembling hands to his encrusted beard, remnants of a hot soup the day before. He saw everything in a dream and now he is sure that soon a fabulous cosmic ray will fall upon the World of Twelve. No rock has resisted the trusty shovel he now grips in his fists and as Masol-To strides along Amakna‘s pathways, his great dream gathers reality with each step.

From 15th to 29th of April, a series of events linked to the coming of the Cosmic Ray will take place. These include the exile of Otomai’s Creatures, exclusive items, titanic confrontations between Djaul and Silouate and much more.

Schedule of Cosmic Ray events:

XP x 2: The day the Ray strikes, April. 22nd.

Exile of Otomai’s creatures :: Plains cracklers will be replaced by Coralators and Crackrocks will be transformed into Polished Crackrocks.

Exclusive Set: 4 Enutrofs Merchants per server are hiding in different places around the world. Each of them will sell one element of the exclusive set for the Cosmic Ray event.

Bonta VS Brakmar: each day, Djaul for Brakmar and Silouate for Bonta will battle it out on each server. When the Cosmic Ray strikes, the alignment with the most victories will get a whole host of advantages… including a make over of the DOFUS community site with their side’s colors.

ANKAMA is proud to announce the upcoming release of DOFUSPocket which is being developed by its subsidiary Kalmeo. DOFUSPocket will delight DOFUS fans who will soon be able to play on their mobile phones as well!

“We wish to offer our DOFUS players new content and additional features that will add to the original online game. We do not wish to simply make a shorter version of DOFUS for mobiles.” says Mr. Emmanuel Darras, CEO and co-founder of ANKAMA. “It seems to be the logical follow-up to our development which is centered on innovating cross-media solutions as well as our will to have a total control over our projects.”

A few days ago, DOFUS community members were offered the chance to join the DOFUSPocket beta test to help validate the technical solutions chosen for the mobile application. This application was designed by Kalmeo, the most recent subsidiary of the ANKAMA Group, which has been based in Lyon since the end of 2007 and is directed by Mr. Boris Beaulant, former R&D developer on DOFUS: “This 1st phase is mainly about validating the software platform that we’ve developed and identifying the residual compatibility issues”.

The test server is now online!

The fan-art will be posted on the community website next Friday! Come check it out!
Thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to all the winners!