Tencent Games – Roundup of the other major news from annual event

The annual product announcement event just ended for China’s biggest online gaming company, Tencent Games, and the most prominent titles include Naruto Online and Monster Hunter Online. Below are just a few of the other major titles to round up…

Monster Hunter Online – Debut trailer highlights unity is strength

The birth child of the collaboration between Tencent Games and Capcom, below is the first look at Monster Hunter Online, all using in-game assets. This CryEngine 3 masterpiece will enter its first beta phase in June.   Yoshinori Ono, the…

Naruto Online – Official turn-based browser game revealed

The reveal of Naruto Online being a turn-based browser game might disappoint gamers, but then again it is the first licensed Naruto game to go online.   Naruto Online will feature the Five Great Shinobi Countries as the available factions:…

Monster Hunter Online – Tencent confirms CryEngine 3 masterpiece

As stated in the heading, Tencent Games and Capcom officially revealed the new Monster Hunter Online, a totally new MMORPG crafted using CryEngine 3. This is apparently not a visual upgrade of Monster Hunter Frontier, which launched quite a number…

Queen’s Blade Online – Trailer for first male playable character debuts

[Register now] Much to the chagrin of players all around the world, the male character for Queen’s Blade Online (or Scarlet Blade) wasn’t really an April Fools’ joke. Called the Chaser, he will be released on the Korean server come…

King of Combat – Tencent announces collaboration with The King of Fighters

Over at Tencent Games’ annual announcement event, China’s biggest online gaming company made the surprise announcement of teaming up with SNK Playmore to include characters from The King of Fighters in its self-developed online fighting game, King of Combat. King…

Swordsman Online – First impression of the new martial arts MMO

Before I begin, this article is purely a personal opinion piece, based on 6 hours of gameplay and 3 characters belonging to different clans. Swordsman Online, developed by Perfect World, entered test phase 2 earlier today, and I got in…