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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.

Dragonball Online – Classes

Dragonball Online is currently one of Korea’s hottest MMORPG now, and no one should be surprised given how popular the title and franchise is in Asia. Not to forget, the game itself was monitored by the series’s creator himself, Akira…

Hellgate revives

Yes, you read it right. Hellgate: London, which was developed by the late Flagship Studios, is apparently going to see light of an English version soon. According to various foreign gaming websites, Hanbitsoft has just bought over the full rights…

Punch Monster

Punch Monster is NCsoft Korea’s first MMO in 2010. While it is not touted as the blockbuster for 2010 as opposed to Aion in 2008/09, the casual MMO section is still what the company tries to gain a share of.…

MWO 2 – Western influenced maps

If you have not followed my previous posts about Magic World Online 2, here’s a quick summary. Magic World Online 2 is the much improved sequel to Goldcool’s Magic World Online, the MMORPG with a really indepth legal bot system.…

TERA – Interview with Sonar Eclipse

On 28th April 2009, Sean Lee, representative of renowned music production studio, Sonar Eclipse, announced that the studio will be working with Bluehole Studio on its maiden MMORPG, TERA, for the music production of the upcoming MMORPG. Sonar Eclipse, made…

Dragon Nest – Interesting news

Ok, this is only for the China server of the game, which will be published by SNDA, a MMO bigwig in the country. Just before the MMO is due to start its operation ins a few months, the company has…

Forsaken World officially confirmed

I did not come across this official article until now, so I apologize for the delay. Apparently, Perfect World Beijing, the headquarters, also delayed one of its own Chinese martial arts MMO to fully concentrate on the launch of Forsaken…

The Heaven of Three Kingdoms – Closed Beta announced

Heaven Of Three Kingdoms, developed by T3 Entertainment and Hanbitsoft’s latest MMORPG, has been confirmed to go into its first Closed Beta on 15th January till 21st January. For this Closed Beta, some features which will be tested are the…

Dungeon Heroes

After the recent flurry of DOTA-like MMOs, now its the age of side-scrollers, particularly in 3D graphics. Dungeon Heroes is the latest in this genre, developed by China studio, 9you. While this game bears a very striking resemblance with Mgame’s…

Project 9 – Combat trailer

If you have not heard about this game, you are forgiven. While the game has not even set foot in Chinese territories, Gpotato EU has already bought the rights for the English version. At the recent 2010 Taipei Gaming Convention,…

TERA gets multi-million investment

Bluehole Studio, developer for the upcoming MMORPG epic, TERA, has just received a multi-million investment deal from 6 companies, including KNet Investment and Stonebridge Capital. The total amount is about 18 billion Korean Won, which is around 15.6 million US…

Forsaken World

Perfect World Entertainment’s 2010 blockbuster MMORPG, originally codenamed Project Empire (EM), has been renamed as Forsaken World (Online ?). Though not official, the tease has been given via Perfect World’s English blog and the end of the last video regarding…

ArcheAge – Sneak look

ArcheAge, origianlly codenamed Project X2, is currently being developed by Korea’s XL Games using CryEngine 2, which started 3 years ago. XL Games is founded by Jake Song, the creator of NCsoft’s Lineage. The name ArcheAge is used to represent…

Valiant – Brief features

Valiant, one of Mgame’s few MMORPGs officially revealed at this year’s G★2009, recently went into Alpha Testing with some of the game’s controls and features revealed. Valiant will not have any specific classes, with players able to equip 3 out…