Mabinogi II: Arena – Nexon claims global release in new report

Nexon released a new document earlier today with regards to its games lineup for Korea, in tandem with the recent 3Q financial report. The information is in Japanese, as Nexon is stock listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As you…

Phantasy Star Online 2 – Game celebrates 1,000,000 registered IDs

SEGA Japan today announced Phantasy Star Online 2 obtaining its 1 millionth account on 1st October 2012, which took just around 3 months after launch to achieve this feat. Personally, I feel this is quite the accomplishment knowing how the MMORPG market…

Phantasy Star Online 2 – New subclass system and content for October

SEGA must be the most hardworking MMO developer I have seen for years. While Western developers are scrambling over promises to launch content on a monthly basis and having delays, Phantasy Star Online 2′s content updates just keeps getting released…

Phantasy Star Online 2 – New trailers released for all platforms

Over at Tokyo Game Show 2012, SEGA revealed 3 new trailers for Phantasy Star Online 2. Currently in its commercial stage in Japan for the PC system, the PS Vita version, coming 2013, will sync with it (players on PC…

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Tokyo Game Show 2012 trailer

[Game website] Although Final Fantasy XIV tanked at launch, the newly minted version 2.0, A Realm Reborn, captivated me once the first screenshots were released. I am a semi-graphics whore, which I have never failed to admit. In the recent…

Sevencore – New Aimon race trailer released

First announced in Japan yesterday, the new Aimon race for Sevencore got its own introduction trailer earlier this morning. The signature cute and fluffy playable species for almost all MMORPGs nowadays, Aimon’s racial passive allows it to recover 5% of…

Sevencore – New race announced to keep up with trend

Other than pandas, which trend is most frequently seen in online games released over the past few years? A short, cute race coupled with furry ears of course! Sevencore is no exception to this, and this newly released online game…

NCsoft – “Internal error” led to latest account information leak

According to reports, NCsoft Japan leaked out account information yesterday due to an “internal error”. Information which were made available include the user nickname, address, blood type, age, gender, and information of all the characters bound to that particular NCsoft…

Aion – First ever private MMORPG server arrest made in Japan

Aion: The Tower of Eternity, otherwise known as The Tower of Aion in Japan, got into the news recently as police made its first arrest for operating a private MMORPG server. Police is intending to prosecute this Free-to-Play illegal server’s…

Soul Worker – Second overseas server revealed for anime action game

The second overseas server for Soul Worker was made public today via the local media outelts. NHN Japan (or Hangame) has capture the game’s right in the land of the rising sun, where the game’s anime style graphics will certainly…

Phantasy Star Online 2 – Potential IP block announced

SEGA announced the possible IP blocking of non-Japanese IP for Phantasy Star Online 2 after the huge content update today. Update to avoid confusion: The “POSSIBLE” IP blocking has not begun, but it was just announced as a new clause.…

Dragon Nest – Aya Hirano lends voice for Kali

If you are an anime fan, you would have heard of the name, Aya Hirano. She is the seiyuu (voice actress) behind several popular anime characters, with the most famous being Haruhi Suzumiya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), Lucky Star’s…

Gundam Online – New Alpha trailers display tons of action

Look, Gundam Online isn’t as big as Sony’s PlanetSide 2 in terms of players on a single map, but having 100 mechas on the same map is enough to make it the “biggest” game in Gundam’s history. Announced last year,…

Dragon Nest – Sea Dragon curry, anyone ?

The publisher of Dragon Nest Japan, Hangame, has always spared no expenses promoting the game (Gackt was the spokesperson for the game’s launch). Who is Gackt? Well, just go Google his name 🙂 In this new marketing campaign, Hangame has…