With Open Beta service beginning in a few hours in Korea, games website Inven Korea has uploaded a couple of videos showing the boss battles in CJ E&M’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins Online. Developed by Seed9 with the help of Capcom,…
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Core Online – Open Beta event prizes to include new BMW car
Core Online is currently celebrating the upcoming Open Beta phase with various events, with a BMW 120D Urban Line as the grand prize. There are tour trips, several branded watches, YSL and Gucci bags to be given out as well,…
Hounds – War against alien zombies begins in a few weeks
After months of Closed Beta phases, Hounds is scheduled to enter Open Beta on 21st February. This comes just a week after Ghosts ‘n Goblins Online goes official, both under publisher CJ E&M (Netmarble). A shooter more focused on PvE…
Ghosts ‘n Goblins Online – Open Beta date announced
If I remember, there aren’t many 3D side-scrollers in recent years, with only Dragon Saga and the new Ghosts ‘n Goblins Online. Developed by Seed9 and authorized by IP owner, Capcom, Open Beta for the game has been announced for…
Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Sky Fortress dungeon debuts
Cabal II actually has seen a couple of new dungeons over the past few months since release, but this time round, players will visit the new Sky Fortress dungeon. Ok, not exactly Aion-style of flying over there and stuff (just…
Project OG – Golf online game crafted by CryEngine 3
Possibly the best looking golf online game seen so far, Project OG was announced by Golfzon in Korea yesterday. Not a traditional MMO developer, the Korea-based company sells software golf simulators and has offices in Canada as well. As mentioned,…
NCsoft – Guild Wars 2 continues to rake in cash for a rosy 4Q 2012
NCsoft released its earnings report earlier today, and it is an absolutely rosy one. As you can see from the chart below, revenue from Guild Wars 2 continued to grow at an exponential rate from 3Q to 4Q 2012. Lineage…
Kingdom Under Fire: Age of Storm – Game trailer looks oddly familiar
It is usually a bad thing when I mention about “looking familiar”, and in rare cases Korean online games come into the mixture (China games most of the time). With the official website due to open in a couple of…
Steal Fighter – Open Beta in Korea announced
After several months of testing, Gravity Korea’s latest online game, Steal Fighter, is ready for Open Beta come February 21st. A hybrid of action RPG and the MOBA genre, the game is set to steal some spotlight from the unstoppable…
Kritika – Open Beta phase scheduled for March
Korean studio All-M, developer of Lunia Online, has announced that its 2nd title, Kritika, is scheduled to enter Open Beta in Korea by March, after 1 more round of test phase sometime this month. The game’s publisher is Hangame. …
Kingdom Under Fire: Age of Storm – Official reveal coming soon
First announced back in early 2011, the game was initially known as Kingdom Under Fire: Avalanche, before being re-branded 4 months later as simply Kingdom Under Fire Online. After a couple of quiet years, developer Dragonfly has finally settled on…
Dungeon & Fighter – Flashy trailers for 2 new Slayer advancements
Man, the names for these 2 new class advancements are weird. Named as BloodEvil and 因陀罗天 (Indra), they are the upgrades of the Beserker and Asura respectively (Slayer tree). Touted as “Gods”, all 4 classes are insanely powerful with their…
Cyphers – Game trailers for the latest 3 characters
It has been some time since I touched on Cyphers, so I thought I should post something about it. Developed by Neople, the team behind Nexon’s Dungeon & Fighter, Cyphers is actually a MOBA title, although the game doesn’t look…
Mabinogi Heroes: Twilight Desert – Quick look at the new dungeon
Along with Part 2 of the new Twilight Desert update, there is also the new end-game dungeon to boot, featuring some of the toughest monsters yet. The final boss here is the Desert Princess, whom players will fight in 2…