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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.

Rumor – Why Blizzard’s “Titan” will be an online shooter

As early as 2007, rumors have been spreading about an online MMO version of hit Xbox franchise HALO. The rumors were confirmed eventually, but it was canned when Ensemble Studios (not Bungie) disbanded. Just recently, Blizzard Entertainment once again stressed…

Dragon Nest (CN) – Slay a dragon for diamonds

Some weeks back, I posted that since the Sea Dragon update hit the Korean server in December 2010, no team has been able to complete it yet. The Japanese server was due to get the update next week (postponed as…

Ninety-Nine Nights Online readies for VIP Beta

If you are a gamer like me or have read around from friends (or from my blog), you may have heard of Xbox 360 classic, Ninety-Nine Nights. The game is now being ported to the online gaming realm by Taiwanese…

GameHi prepares Sudden Attack for North America

If you have not read, Korean MMO developer, GameHi, was purchased by Nexon Korea a few months ago. GameHi is well-known for MMOs including Dekaron (or 2Moons) and Sudden Attack. Some games were also cancelled as a result of the acquisition.Today, the company…

Ether Saga Online teases Odyssey expansion

Perfect World Entertainment’s Ether Saga Online is currently celebrating its 2nd anniversary, and along with the various events has revealed some teaser screenshots for the upcoming expansion, currently named as Odyssey. The screenshots currently do not show much except some…

Zombie Online – Open Beta closes in

For the past few months, I have been covering some minor details for Zombie Online, an upcoming 2D MMO developed by the same folks who brought us the now-defunct Ghost Online. Earlier today, the official Korean website refreshed with a…

Sphira to launch with China server simultaneously

Last year, I reported that Gameforge received the rights to publish “Warrior King”, a MMO developed by China studio Linekong, in both Europe and North America. The game has since changed its title to Sphira: Warrior’s Dawn. The teaser websites…

Alt1 Games attack English market with Waren Story

If you are not familiar with Alt1 Games, you may find the developer familiar as the creator of the Twelve Sky series of MMORPGs. The studio first announced this game back last year, with intention to break through the English…

Nexon and NHN stop Japan operations

Nexon Japan, the Japanese branch of the Nexon Korea, has announced that the company will be stopping all operations with effect from today. This is due to concerns about the mental and physical state of its employees, and also the…

TERA Korea – The Awakening

Ever since TERA Korea went into the commercial phase back in January, the game took the top spot in several charts for a few weeks. But since then, popularity of the game has sunk due to having too many max…

Aeria Games reveal Eden Eternal

To be honest, I was shocked when the good people at OnRPG first posted this game up. Being the nosy me, I decided to quickly scour for the game’s developer and hence the original server. At first, there is not much I…

Transformers Online – 2 different MMOs to launch

While many players have heard about Transformers Online being confirmed as a full fledged MMORPG set to be released in 2012, I feel that some clarifications should be made clear. There will be TWO different Transformers Online, 1 developed by…

Age of Wulin – Notes by the boss

In case you do not know, Age of Wulin is an upcoming martial arts MMO being hosted by gPotato Europe. Don’t ask me if there will be IP blocks, I do not know lol. Along with Perfect World’s Swordsman Online,…

Forsaken World – Launch trailer

I just received this email from Perfect World Entertainment, and since the game is still currently my favorite (I am playing in the Chinese servers), I thought I should upload the launch trailer and share it with you guys. Forsaken World is…