Following the announcement of the upgrade of the original game to Battle of the Immortals 2 in China, the official website has just revealed the 3 new classes teased. The classes, roughly translated, are Demon Knight, Saint Archer and… Dancer…
Global Command – First Unreal Engine 3 TPS developed in China
Roughly translated into English as Global Command, this game is the first 3rd person online shooter to be developed in China using the powerful Unreal3 Engine. The use of Unreal Engine 3 will allow much more vivid visual excitement, especially…
Current MMO market share in China
As you all might have read, I am very interested in gathering information on the MMO industry in Asia. In this post, we will be taking a look at how the various mega MMO publishers in China size up in…
Eyedentity Games CEO comments on “marriage”
After news broke out this morning in that Shanda, one of the biggest MMO companies in China, will be buying over Korean developer, Eyedentity Games, the MMO industry is still currently recovering from shocks with regards to this sensational deal.…
Rockman Online – Surprise character revealed
After revealing Rockman X and Zero earlier this year, Neowiz Games has revealed a 3rd confirmed character appearing in Rockman Online, Duo. Duo originated from Rockman 8 and thankfully, after looking at his design, is one of Rockman’s many allies.…
Shanda purchases Eyedentity Games
As I reported earlier, Korean MMO giant, NHN Corporation, seemed to be on the verge of completing a buyout deal for Eyedentity Games, developer of the immensely popular action MMORPG, Dragon Nest. However, it has now surfaced in the Chinese…
Gravity grabs Dragonica NA
After THQ*ICE closed its doors as a company, Dragonica Online (North America) has been left in a limbo. But now it has been confirmed that Gravity Interactive, through its new MMO portal, WarpPortal, has acquired the rights to host the…
Huxley returns to Webzen
NHN USA has confirmed that they will not be hosting Huxley: The Dystopia after all. The game was scheduled to be hosted on NHN USA’s portal, Ijji, but the company has decided to cancel the contract with developer, Webzen, after…
Valkyrie Sky to close down?
According to foreign reports, Yolim Communications, the developer of arcade shooting MMO, Valkyrie Sky, has gotten into a legal dispute with the game’s publisher in Korea, JCE. JCE is also the publisher for the North American server, under their own…
Phantasy Star – New online game on the horizon?
According to foreign reports, Satoshi Sakai, the famed Art Director of Sega, revealed to the Japanese media that a new Phantasy Star Online MMO will be revealed at this year’s Tokyo Game Show (TGS). The English server for their last…
Warhammer Online – Korea server closes
NHN Korea, the publisher for Mythic’s MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has just announced today that the game will be shutting down on 30th September 2010 without even going into a Open Beta phase. One reason was due to…
Korea Games Conference 2010
Well, although not really a convention to announce new games as compared to the upcoming G*Star in November, the annual Korean Games Conference is just as important within the gaming industry. To celebrate its 10th year anniversary, there will be…
Forsaken World (CN) Open Beta on 16th Sep… Sort of.
You must be wondering why did I add a “Sort of” in the title for this post. Well, Open Beta has actually been announced on 16th September 2010 for the Chinese server of Forsaken World, But the official announcement comes…
MMO Culture hits 50,000 views in August
Well, Blogger introduced its very own stats system recently to allow blog owners to have a look at the traffic in their sites. I was just having a look around and was pleasantly surprised to seee that there were over…