(Teaser website) Perfect World Entertainment announced today its partnership with Zombie Studios to publish its next-generation, adrenaline-pumping first person shooter (FPS) Blacklight™ Retribution. A sequel to Zombie Studio’s Tango Down, Blacklight Retribution will be shown for the first time at…
Clarification – Luna Online and Iris Online
In my previous post, I revealed that Nexon had bought over 20% of Korean developer Eyasoft’s shares. Eyasoft’s online games included Luna Online, Iris Online and Legend of Edda. All 3 games have since stopped its service in Korea and…
Jagex reveals Transformers Universe
(Source) Back in March, Jagex and Hasbro announced that they had joined forces to create a Transformers MMO. Today, they revealed the game’s name: Transformers Universe. Players can how head over to the Transformers Universe site to register for the…
CJ Entertainment & Media – Top executive departs
It was announced earlier today that one of CJ Entertainment & Media top executives, Mr Whon Namkoong (below), had left the Korea’s biggest media company. Mr Whon was the Head of Games Business for the past 17 months, spearheading much…
E3 2011 – Perfect World reveals sci-fi online shooter
It seems like Perfect World Entertainment is very successful in pulling off surprises recently, with the sudden purchase of Cryptic Studios from Atari as the opening sequence. In an email I received earlier, Perfect World revealed its first online shooter…
E3 2011 – New trailers for Rusty Hearts and RaiderZ
Perfect World Entertainment, the North American arm of Chinese MMO giant Perfect World, released the official E3 trailer for their upcoming games just recently. Rusty Hearts (2011) will be the first external title published by PWE which will soon be…
ArcheAge Korea – WoW was inspiration
(Source) At yesterday’s annual Nexon Developers Conference (NDC), the creator of NCsoft’s Lineage and founder of XL Games, Mr Jake Song, talked about the thought process he had in creating the company’s maiden online title, ArcheAge. Please note that this…