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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.

SevenCore (KR) – Countdown to Closed Beta

SevenCore, announced to be publish in the English market by gPotato (link) almost 2 years ago in 2009, is finally entering the Closed Beta phase later this month in Korea. Originally scheduled for 2010, it is yet another example of…

Dream Drops – Reina the Nutcracker introduced

In what promises to be a nut-cracking experience (I’m joking), Dream Drops just teased the game’s 2nd character, Reina the Nutcracker. Developed by Taiwanese MMO company Gamania (or Beanfun), a new trailer was released revealing Reina and some information about…

TERA Japan – Commercial launch campaign starts

TERA Japan, hosted by NHN Japan, has announced its official commercial launch to begin on 18th August at 10:00 hrs, 2 days after the end of the Open Beta phase on the 16th. With that, a pre-commercial launch campaign has…

Alaplaya announces L.A.W: Living After War

(Source) European MMO publisher, Alaplaya, just revealed its upcoming online title, L.A.W: Living After War. On a personal note, it came as a surprise as the game was just officially showcased at last year’s G*Star event (link). Developed by Nitrozen,…

The Secret World – World & Setting Developer Diary

(Official website) Funcom, known for their MMO title Age of Conan, has released a new developer diary for its upcoming mega online title, The Secret World. The 5 minutes long video, exclusive to GameSpot, basically talks about The Secret World’s…

Vindictus EU – Beta begins in September

(Official website) For the past few months or even years, the European crowd, together with parts of Asia, looked in vain as Nexon rolled out games after games with heavy IP block placed on the North America servers. Now, the…

Dragon Nest (KR) – Academic newbie footage

So yeap, I managed to get into Dragon Nest Korea for a little while to try the new Academic class out. The problem is, I can only log in from my office, which basically means during my 1 hour lunch…

Lost Saga – Character List 3

Hello all, due to the previous list having too many animations and lagging some of the readers, some of the new characters are moved here! This post will be the new character list for Lost Saga Korea until the loading…

DaVinci Online – Going to North America and Europe

DaVinci Online, originally known as Project Renaissance (link), has been signed up by ChangYou for the North America and Western Europe market. According to foreign reports, there will be 4 different languages upon release, including English, French and Spanish. DaVinci…

TERA Japan – Open Beta starts

TERA Japan went into the Open Beta phase yesterday and according to the numbers revealed, it was a resounding success. The highest number of players recorded stands at 48,624 on Open Beta day. 3 emergency servers (see below), 2 PK…

Saint Seiya 2 – The unofficial online game

Perfect World recently revealed Saint Seiya Online (link) being in development and claimed that a beta phase will begin before the end of the year. However, another fellow China developer has claimed the rights to release the first Saint Seiya…

Karos Online – New regional publishers

According to foreign reports, 2 new servers for Karos Online is bound to start operations soon. These will be the North America and South East Asia (SEA) servers. For the North America server, it will be published by Ignited Games…

Glory Destiny Online – Cute Thrills

Glory Destiny Online is a new MMORPG by Taiwanese developer, X-Legend, which went into Open Beta back in June if I remember correctly. X-Legend is known for its other games in the English market, most notably under Aeria Games with…

The Weekend Journal

I just finished watching the Manchester derby for the Community Shield match… A really entertaining and heart-stopping curtain raiser before the new season begins soon! So, gamescom 2011 is coming real soon, with focus on some big titles including Firefall…