Developer and publisher Codemasters has revealed a free expansion for MMORPG ArchLord titled Episode 3: Spirits Awakening. The update, which is scheduled to go live in "the coming weeks," is expected to overhaul the title with up to 30% new game content.

ArchLord challenges it players with raising an army to compete to become an all-ruling ArchLord on their servers. Spirits Awakening will add three new game zones, skills, ruling ArchLord skill and abilities, armor, items, and monsters.

Codemasters Online announced in May that ArchLord had attracted over 500,000 subscribers following the company's decision to switch to a free-to-play model with its August 2007 expansion, Season of Siege.

Said Codemasters Online director of marketing Ed Relf: "We are pleased to be able to set out our exciting new expansion plans for ArchLord. As recently announced ArchLord is now more popular than ever with thousands of new players taking up the challenge every day to compete to become the games all-ruling leader! Episode 3 adds a significant amount of new content to what is already a leading free MMORPG and we look forward to delivering this free expansion to our players in the coming weeks."