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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.

Blade & Soul – PC version no more

1st April 2010, NCsoft has just announced the official cancellation of their upcoming MMO epic, Blade & Soul, for the PC system. The title has now switched platform to smart phones. In an introduction video shown, there is indeed a…

Blade & Soul – Developer reveals 5th race

NCsoft has just revealed the secret 5th race on their official Blade & Soul website. The new race is known as “Middle-Age”. Team Bloodlust, the game’s developers, promised that more information and details will be released soon. What is currently…

Dragonica – 4th class skills

All videos will be updated in this post.

Perfect World preparing for world conquest ?

As you can read 2 posts down, Perfect World Beijing is gearing up to reveal its latest martial arts MMO in the coming weeks and months. I have just read a report claiming that this new title, now known as…

Hellgate: Tokyo new info

The website for Hellgate: Tokyo recently refreshed with more information regarding this new update. While most of the details are already covered in my previous posts, here are more indepth details which were mentioned. As you can see below, there…

Perfect World Beijing teases new MMO

Perfect World Beijing has recently teased its upcoming MMO after the successful Closed Beta launch of Forsaken World. The Chinese title for the game will be 笑傲江湖 Online, which roughly translates to The Smiling, Proud Wanderer Online. The title is…

Journey to the West Online

One of the latest MMORPGs developed in China, this is Journey to the West Online. And yes, what I love about this MMORPG is its authenticity towards the real novel. Over the years, I am sure MMO players have seen…

Dragonica – Ultimate Skill

Dragonica China has just released more information about the upcoming mega update which will introduce the new class advancements. As stated, each of the new advance class will have an ultimate skill of their own. In Part 1, here is…

The King of Fighters World – English game logo revealed

The King of Fighters currently has 2 PC online games under development in China, both with approval and assistance from SNK Playmore. Around a week ago, the first official screenshot for one of the title, King of Fighters World, was revealed.…

Forsaken World – Beijing Interview

2 players (representing 2 guilds) who participated in the China-wide preview of Forsaken World recently went to the head office of Perfect World Beijing for an early preview of the upcoming China Closed Beta. The 2 players actually submitted a…

Final Fantasy XIV – System reqs

Just saw this being posted on a foreign website, apparently its the system requirements for the Final Fantasy XIV Online alpha test. Although the requirements are not exceptionally high, its still considered above mid-range for me. Once again, anyone got…

Magic World Online 2 – Videos

If you have not read my previous post about Magic World Online 2, the developer, Goldcool, recently participated in Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2010. Apparently, they are discussing with various MMO publishers to bring the game to North America in…

Not an Aion clone afterall

A few months back, I reported that the first true Aion clone is being developed in China. Apparently, it turned out wrong, and the most significant similarity are still only the flying mode and wings found. Recently, Wings of Heaven…

Martial Empires – Closed Beta

Martial Heroes, last known as Project S during its initial Closed Beta, is going into a new Closed Beta phase on 23rd March. Known as Seven Souls in Korea, the game is touted as an “adult” MMORPG over there. This…