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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.

Dungeon Keeper World

Yeap, you didn’t see wrongly. Electronic Arts’ (EA) Dungeon Keeper, the single-player sleeper hit for the PC, is going online. The developer will be a Chinese studio, also known in the West as TQ Digital Entertainment. It seems like TQ…

Playdom buys over Acclaim

Personally, no love lost for Acclaim. At the start of the brand’s revival, Acclaim acquired a few good games, namely 2Moons and 9Dragons. I played both, and I can tell you straight in the face both are highly playable, with…

Nexon reveals new casual MMO

Nexon Corp, fresh from the purchase of Ndoors and in the process of buying GameHi, has announced its new MMO, Apex. Apex is touted as a casual shooter MMO, to me, very much in the vein of Team Fortress 2…

Beyond the Future, Beyond Webzen

On the 18th of May, just yesterday, Webzen Korea organized a press conference to roll out what the company’s short term and long term plans. If you have forgotten, Webzen went silent and radar for quite some time back then…

Perfect World – Some updates

The Perfect World I am referring to is the headquarters over at China, not the North American subsidiary unless stated. The company has just announced its 1st Quarter earnings, and you might have guessed, revenue and profits increased significantly again.…

Butterfly Sword Online – New martial arts MMO revealed

Butterfly Sword Online is an upcoming Chinese action MMORPG developed by 9you. Based on the novel, Meteor Butterfly Sword, by famed author Gu Long, the game is developed using the Unreal 3 Engine. An upcoming big-budget drama of the novel…

Marvel Superhero Squad Online announced

Well, the game was actually announced a few days ago, but I was waiting for its debut trailer (below) before posting this up. Developed by The Amazing Society (under Gazillion Entertainment) and published by Gazillion Entertainment, the game features various…

Priston Tale 2 EU – No IP block except for NA

The EU server for Priston Tale 2,published by GamerKraft, will go into Open Beta in half a day (around 11 hours more for Singapore). Having played the previous English servers, I would say the game was one of the worst…

Funcom to publish Bloodline Champions

This certainly came as a slightly surprising news to me. A little more than a year back, Funcom was apparently in all sorts of financial troubles. The developer and publisher’s fortunes took a sharp U-turn when they started to reveal…

Nexon officially begins purchasing GameHi’s shares

As I posted a few days ago, Nexon was in discussions to purchase Korean Developer, GameHi, the creators of Sudden Attack and Dekaron. The discussions are now over and Nexon is currently proceeding with acquiring GameHi’s shares. According to reports,…

One of the worst MMO ad ever

If you have missed my brief introduction on Journey to the West Online, do have a look. The Taiwanese server, managed by publisher Wayi, has changed the game’s title to Heavenly Sage Online, where Heavenly Sage is the celestial title…

Neowiz reveals RaiderZ

From the creators of Gunz Online and the in-development Gunz 2, Maiet Entertainment, comes a new action MMORPG, RaiderZ. The title was originally known as Project H and has been in development for the past 4years. The publisher will be…

Pokémon Black & White – Starters revealed

As an avid Pokémon fan since the Yellow version (which I played on the PC), I feel obliged to post this piece of information on my blog. Its not a MMO, but the Pokémon franchise has always been part of…

RunUp to host Dekaron SEA

Dekaron SEA (South East Asia),previously hosted by Mobius Games, will move to its new host soon, RunUp Games. RunUp Games has acquired the rights from developer GameHi to publish the title in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines. While it…