Project S – Debut trailer highlights Western fantasy world view

First revealed as a self-developed MMO by ChangYou with various sandbox elements last week, it was announced that Project S will be going into its first test on 13th December. It is not a Closed Beta, but more of a…

Asura – First look at Closed Beta gameplay footage

Do note that this is just the Closed Beta, and I did not really play too much of it given the lag and long queue times. This is Asura, a self-develop title by China’s biggest online gaming company, Tencent. Based…

Project S – ChangYou teases its own sandbox MMORPG

In case you are wondering, the first sandbox from China in recent years was Darkness and Light, otherwise known as Savage Horizon. Back to Project S, ChangYou announced the game out of the blue 2 days ago, and is apparently…

300 Heroes – Game footage for 3 more characters

It seems like many gamers around the world are really amused and intrigued (both positively and negatively) by the China MOBA, 300 Heroes. Proof? Page views for my small website tripled the past 2 days!   While I understand most…

The Magic Sword Online – Clans of the game revealed

The Magic Sword Online was revealed over the weekend at Tencent Games Carnival 2012, with several famous personality from the Chinese film industry acting as the game’s consultants. While little information was shown, I managed to source out some confirmed…

The Legend of Tibet – Journey to a mysterious realm

NetEase is China’s 2nd biggest online gaming company, and also the proxy publisher for Blizzard’s games such as Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft. However, Diablo 3 has yet to be launched in China, with several hurdles on the way.…

300 Heroes – Manga, Disney and more reports for war

As I teased on my Facebook page a couple of days back, I was playing in the Alpha phase of a new China-developed MOBA, where manga characters such as Luffy, Usopp, Ultraman, Saber and even Disney ones such as Wall-E…

Swordsman Online – New interview with product lead

I hesitated to post this article, purely because of the low-resolution video which irked me immensely. But still, I decided to go ahead, with the video below showing 3 different instanced dungeons from Swordsman Online, each with different plots, mechanics…

Swordsman Online – New footage shows off 6 clans’ combat

The special coverage for Perfect World’s Swordsman Online by Chinese gaming website 17173.com continues today, with focus on combat. 6 clans are in focus here, and I actually merged all 6 videos together to make the whole thing more epic.…

Swordsman Online – New game engine replaces the old

Still mentioned as the Angelica III Engine, Perfect World has given it a rather heavy upgrade which changed Swordsman Online from a static isometric Diablo-like MMORPG to a full 3D one. The changes no doubt caused the massive delay in…

Swordsman Online – Sneak preview of North Hengshan Sect combat

Perfect World’s upcoming martial arts MMORPG, Swordsman Online, officially begins its “Vanguard Testing” phase over at its Beijing headquarters, with only a handful of players selected. The last time we saw a video on the game, the camera was pretty…

RIFT China – Protesters claiming unpaid wages

While RIFT celebrates its mega expansion in North America, the game is not doing too well in Asia, first Korea and now China. According to today’s local news, the 3rd party group which translated the game claimed publisher Shanda Games…

Neverwinter – The races and classes of the game

[English website] I was informed that in my previous post about Neverwinter China, the image posted was one not seen by the English community thus far. below are a couple of screens from the teaser China website, detailing the races,…

Perfect World – Preparing its first 2 foreign games in China

Perfect World Beijing, or Wanmei, all along has only publish its self-developed client online titles on its platform in China. But with the tastes of gamers greatly widen these days, the North America subsidiary was the first to begin importing…