Nexon Korea – MapleStory gets hacked again

It seems like Nexon Korea is still taking its own sweet time solving the mass hack “event” which happened a few months back (link). On 23rd and 24th earlier this month, a number of high level MapleStory accounts were hacked…

Warhammer 40,000 MMO now single-player

[Source] It seems like even a giant like THQ is dying a slow death. The company just announced that the upcoming Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium MMO will now move forward as a single-player title. Amidst this abysmal news, a total…

Puzzle Bobble Online (KR) – Closing down …

A sad news emerged from the Korean MMO scene today, which is Neowiz Games closing down Puzzle Bobble Online just 8 months after Open Beta. The game was first announced at G*Star 2010 to a huge pop (link). While Neowiz…

Nexon Korea – CEO summoned by police

Remember the incident in Korea recently where MapleStory Korea’s account database was hacked? If you haven’t, read this link. Despite Nexon Korea giving handsome benefits to all the affected players and the management issuing a public apology (below), the police…

World Zero (CN) – Create your own world

Although this game was announced around 3 years back, I never did report about it as the concept of the game was kind of unclear for me, and there really ain’t much specific details other than sketchy press releases in…

Dungeon & Fighter (KR) – Skill reset to be removed

A piece of big news posted on the official website rocked the gamers of Nexon’s Dungeon & Fighter today, and it is generally a positive one for almost everyone. According to this notice, on April 19th, Nexon will be removing…

Rumor – Guild Wars 2 cash items preview ?

[Game website] As usual, was surfing around my usual foreign spoiler game sites and came across these pictures, which allegedly shows some of the cash items which will be in Guild Wars 2’s cash shop. I am not sure if…

NetEase teases Game-X with short footage

As posted a couple of days back (link), China’s number 2 MMO company, NetEase, is looking to reveal its self-developed and big-budget MMORPG soon. A teaser footage was shown earlier today by the Chinese media, and it no doubts resembles…

ChangYou goes global with Unreal Engine 3 title

I am not really sure why ChangYou acquired this game for the global market, but I guess I have different views from their board. Touted as the first anime-styled turn-based MMO to be developed using the Unreal 3 Engine, Peach…

World of Warcraft – 2 new expansions in the works

[Source] According to website CVG, Blizzard Entertainment is currently working on the next expansion (number 5) after Mists of Pandaria while the next-next expansion (number 6) is already being pitched and planned. To add on, Blizzard COO Paul Sams claims…

Aion prepares for Free to Play in North America

[Game website] Well, the game is literally free now, since players can get to level 40 without paying any costs. Once 11th April hits, the game will be completely free. What’s more, there will be a server merge (link) in…

NetEase prepares big reveal for Game-X

Although NetEase is the number 2 online gaming company in China, it was not able to break into overseas market in its 15 years of existence, quite similar to number 1 Tencent Games. Or perhaps they did not even both…

RaiderZ (KR) – Preparing for Open Beta

[English website] As you might have known now, the English server for RaiderZ is currently in Alpha test. Which means there will be glitches and some bugs, although quite a number swore not to have met any. The English server…

[TG-UP 2012] ArcheAge teases China-inspired city

Well, this is Tencent Games’ important media event after all, how could ArcheAge and Blade & Soul be missing from the party? Over at the event, XLGAMES revealed that a new main city will be developed, with inspirations from the…