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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.

Korea Game Awards – List of nominees revealed for annual awards

Every year before G-Star 2020 begins in South Korea, there is an awards night celebrating the best games in the country. Known as the Korea Game Awards, the nominees for 2020 were revealed a little over a week ago (yes…

Summoners War: Lost Centuria – Com2uS teasing Closed Beta on Android later this month

First announced back in February 2019, Com2uS is finally ready to start the Closed Beta phase for Summoners War: Lost Centuria possibly later this month. This is the first of two new games in the Summoners War expansion, the other…

Honor of Kings – Developer teases 2 new games including a possible MMORPG

While Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and the upcoming League of Legends: Wild Rift are no doubt market leaders in the mobile MOBA sector, it seems that many has forgotten about Arena of Valor, or better known as Honor of Kings…

Kakao Games – Korean gaming giant reveals global plans for 2021

It is the time of the year where listed companied share their financial numbers with the public for the third quarter (July to September) 2020, and Kakao Games started the ball rolling. The company stepped up its game offerings significantly…

Soul Maskers – This is a total disaster which you might like

Korean publisher Mobirix is not known for their quality games, but rather they try to push out as many titles as possible, even launching 2 in 1 day. Soul Maskers is no different, as the side-scroll action RPG lacks functions…

Ragnarok Origin – Quick look at starting gameplay

Ever since we posted about Ragnarok M: New Start! and stated that it is our favorite mobile adaptation of Ragnarok Online so far, we have received protests that Ragnarok Origin is actually much better. So, Ragnarok Origin is only available…

Wizardry – Drecom acquires global rights to develop new game using classic IP

Japanese developer Drecom recently announced it has obtained the global development and publishing rights for Wizardry, a classic game IP which started back in 1981. Other than console and PC titles, the most recent and commonly known title was Wizardry…

NCsoft – Company name change expected to take place before September 2021

It was revealed recently that NCsoft has filed an application with the authorities to start a new company known as “NC”, which led to media speculations that the company is now preparing to switch over to the new name. While…

Star Smash – New Disney mobile game set to launch in Japan this month

Last week, Disney and Japanese developer XFLAG announced a new mobile title, Star Smash. A single or co-op 4-player game, the gameplay is somewhat similar to a tennis games, where players hit balls to attack enemies on the other side…

X2 – Eclipse – Quick look at new mobile action RPG launched in China

It has been sometime since we played a random Chinese mobile game, and today we have one to showcase, X2 – Eclipse. The development team, SIVA, is part of a larger games company, hence it is now considered as an…

League of Legends: Wild Rift – How to access and play the game via BlueStacks on your desktop

You might be wondering why should someone play League of Legends: Wild Rift on the PC using an Android simulator software instead of a proper smartphone. Well, other than the controls being more similar to the PC version’s, we suspect…

Gran Saga – Taeyeon performs official theme music for upcoming MMORPG

As announced a couple of days ago, Korean developer NPIXEL has partnered with K-pop royalty Taeyeon to perform the official theme song for its upcoming PC + mobile MMORPG, Gran Saga. Earlier today, the full music video was released! It…

Elyon – Buy-to-Play business model announced for new PC MMORPG

During a media conference recently in South Korea, developer Krafton (TERA, PUBG etc) and publisher Kakao Games announced that Elyon will officially launch on 10 December. It will not be a Free-to-Play PC MMORPG, but rather a Buy-to-Play one with…

Shining Beyond – Game preview for mobile RPG launching in November

XII Braves, the creator of the hit mobile RPG “Valiant Force” has recently announced their brand-new mobile title, Shining Beyond. The game is slated to release some time this November and currently, there is a pre-registration event running where Players…