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Your average online gamer who is bilingual in Chinese and English, although he does try to play Japanese and Korean games sometimes. Online gaming since 1999, and has worked in the online gaming and mobile gaming industry (Journalist, Game Master, Community Manager, Operations Manager) since 2008.

Duke of Mount Deer – Development costs breakdown

In order not to overshot the frame size, the game’s title has been cut short from the full name, “The Duke of Mount Deer Online”. Developed by Chinese MMO giant ChangYou over a period of 4 years, “industry veterans” have…

Wizardry Online – A brief walkthrough Part 2

(Source) Yeap, there is a Part 2 for this brief walkthrough of Wizardry Online. The main reason being me not wanting to cluster all the screenshots into 1 single post. Separating them into 2 will give me more post counts…

Wizardry Online – A brief walkthrough Part 1

(Source) I am sure by now most of the people visiting my blog would have heard of Wizardry Online developed by Gamepot Japan. It was also on show earlier at E3 2011 with a really neat press conference. Top Japanese…

ESTAR Online – A brief introduction to the game

(Source) Korean MMO developer, Naru Entertainment revealed some new information about its latest online game, Estar Online in a press conference yesterday. As usual, Korean gaming portal This Is Game is there with the latest news. The biggest feature revealed…

Firefall – Webzen admits lack of funds

For the past few months, I have been posting about the saga between Red 5 Studios and Korean MMO company Webzen over the publishing rights for Firefall. Today, Webzen finally admitted that the company has ran into serious financial problems…

TERA Korea begins paid services

TERA Korea, published by MMO giant Hangame, has officially revealed its paid services program. The system works pretty much like World of Warcraft’s, where players pay an extra fee to customize some of their characters’ features. There are 4 option…

Final Combat – Looking suspiciously familiar

Final Combat is a new online shooter developed by China company. Xunlei (well known for its download manager software). Revealed under Xunlei Games, the game is apparently led by Troy Horton who was involved in developing Tomb Raider III back…

TERA Japan – Official desktop endorsed

The gaming industry and hardware industry in Japan do work closely with each other to promote their products. Last I remember, Final Fantasy XIV Online had a similar promotion back when it was first released. Now, TERA Japan is nearing…

Dragon Ball Online (TW) – Open Beta time revealed

Hello all! I hope you have successfully registered for the Open Beta phase for Dragon Ball Online Taiwan seen here. Just a reminder, it is now 15th June in Taiwan, but the game servers will only start at 17:00 (or…

Steam opens up new Free to Play section

Lo and behold, guess who jumped on the Free to Play online games wagon? It is non other than Steam, the world’s biggest digital games distribution platform! While not all titles are available yet, I am certainly surprised to see…

Guild Wars 2 – No stand-alone expansions

(Source) Guild Wars developer ArenaNet is taking a new approach to game add-ons. While there were two stand-alone, continent-adding retail expansion packs released for its predecessor, Guild Wars 2 will be having none of that. “At this time we don’t…

Soccer legend Maradona suing The9

According to foreign reports, soccer legend Diego Maradona is set to sue Chinese MMO company The9 and Internet company Sina for a sum of USD 3 million. This case allegedly stemmed from The9 using Maradona’s photos as a promotional tool…

NCsoft Korea to stop 2 games in July

NCsoft Korea today announced the closure of 2 titles under their stable, with them being action MMORPG Dragonica Korea and MMOFPS Point Blank Korea. Both games will cease services on 13th July next month. It seems like NCsoft Korea is…

ChoiRock Games fire Berkanix team

Korean MMO developer and publisher, ChoiRock Games (originally Sonov) fired the entire Berkanix team from the company earlier today. Letters of retrenchment were sent to over 100 staff, meaning all off them will be leaving the company. This comes as…