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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.

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…

Project EM – More details revealed

For those of you who haven’t heard of this game, Project EM (or Empire), is Perfect World Entertainment’s 2010 blockbuster MMORPG. The name might changed for the English server, but the Chinese title has been confirmed as 神魔大陆, roughly translating…

Crayon Shin-Chan OL announced

Yup, you read it right. Crayon Shin-Chan will be made into a MMO after an official announcement was made. The developer will be Windysoft, who also developed/ published games like Infinity Online, GetAmped and GetAmped 2, Rusty Hearts and Heva…

A peek into Riot Games

Have you heard of League of Legends ? If you haven’t, you get a “F” grade as a MMO gamer, lol. League of Legends, developed by Riot Games, is an online version of DOTA, the hit mod map spawned from…

Hunter Blade expands

Even though Hunter Blade, developed in China, has not gone live (in 2010), the publishing rights for the game has been grabbed in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. The game will most probably remain in Chinese, as these 3 places…

Project EM – 5 main races revealed

Perfect World Entertainment’s 2010 blockbuster MMORPG, Project Empire (codename), has just revealed the 5 main races and a small ingame map of the starting areas. There’s supposedly no fixed classes for Project EM. The 5 main races will be the…

Hellgate: Tokyo interview

GameMeca, one of Korea’s top gaming websites, recently had a interview with the development team of Hellgate: London and the upcoming Hellgate: Tokyo. Quite a few indepths quesitons and answers were revealed, so here’s the translated script. Q: How is…

Project E

Project E is Korean developer, EYA Soft’s latest MMORPG. Gamers might remember EYA as the developer for Luna Online, Titan Online, Legend of Edda and Gpotato’s upcoming Iris Online. The game, as seen from the website design, focuses on the…

FFXIV – Character Customizations

Square Enix updated their Final Fantasy XIV Online website again, this time with specifications on how players can customize their characters’ looks and appearance. It seems the Square Enix is wasting no effort to make sure there will be abundant…

Magic World Online 2 – World Map

Its 4 days till Magic World Online 2 enters its very first Focus Group Test phase, and the World Map for the game has just been released. Does it look too familiar to Diablo 2’s world map ? It certainly…