Previously teased, YNK is going to implement a sweeping update to their main MMO title, Rohan. The title of the expansion will be, queerly enough, named as Ranker: Golden Castle. Although no indepth details were given, YNK promised the expansion will change…
AIKA Taiwan enters Epic II: Karena
AIKA Taiwan will be updating its server to Epic II: Karena in a few hours! Even if I had previewed the Karena patch previously, I thought I should add on to the vague information provided before as my Korean ain’t…
Rumor – Was this what Diablo III looked like in 2005?
Source – According to a Taiwanese Diablo Facebook fanpage, the screenshots below showed what Diablo 3 looked like in 2005. These screens were apparently leaked by an ex-Blizzard North employee. If you do not know, Blizzard North was actually a division…
Forsaken World edges towards Open Beta
If you did not know, Perfect World Entertainment’s blockbuster MMORPG, Forsaken World, will be finally entering its Open Beta phase come March 23rd. The 4th and final Closed Beta phase will take place in a few days, on February 23rd.…
Will Nexon survive the social games market?
Source – Nexon has proven to be one of the fastest-growing online game companies of the past decade. The Korean company pioneered the microtransactions/free-to-play business model, where users play for free and buy virtual goods with real money. In the…
Aion Korea – A look at the first 3years
According to Korean MMO ranking website, Gamenote, Aion has reclaimed the top spot from NHN’s mega MMO release, TERA. The latter has dropped from its first spot to third, overtaken by Sudden Attack (a MMOFPS) as well. The recent version…
TERA Korea goes mobile
Well, the game itself isn’t going mobile, and how on earth would the game function on a mobile device anyway… An application (or app) is currently released for smartphones over in Korea, allowing TERA players to access a whole new dimension of…
World of StarCraft – No MMO afterall
Source – If you have not heard about the recent controversy surrounding the World of StarCraft mod, let me explain. A fan decided to make his own version of World of StarCraft using the StarCraft 2 engine. Do note that StarCraft and…
Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
Well, the day has just turned 14th Feb over here, meaning it is Valentine’s Day! On the MMO side of things, there are many events being conjured up relating to the festival. I am personally too lazy to post all of the…
The9 CEO – I don’t know much about Firefall!
In a rather amusing comment posted on his personal Chinese social website (something similar to Twitter), the CEO of China MMO company, The9, lamented that Red 5 Studios has kept much about the new content in Firefall away from him…
Aeria Games – Legendary Champions closes
Source – When Aeria Games announced acquiring this game back in 2010, I was genuinely impressed as it was a real hit back in Taiwan. Given Aeria Games’ track record, I expected the game to hold up at least for…
NCsoft – Lineage 1 still earning big
Yesterday, NCsoft revealed its financial records for the year 2010. Amazingly, the company’s first title, Lineage 1, managed a record number of sales in its 12 years’ history. The final earnings for Lineage 1 in 2010 is around USD 160…
Netease and Blizzard strengthens partnership
Netease, China’ 2nd largest internet company (behind Tencent), has been confirmed by Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime as the publisher for Starcraft 2 in the Mainland. Netease is also currently the publisher for World of Warcraft China, with an aim to…
NHN – TERA will earn us 80mil in 2011
According to NHN Korea, the peak CCU (co-current users) of the newly released P2P MMO, TERA, is around 180,000. With this number, the projected earnings from this mega title is estimated to rake in more than USD 80mil of sales…