Dragonica – New continent revealed

The new continent was teased by Barunson recently, revealing a brand new ice-covered environment. It is said to be targeting a launch first in the Taiwanese version within this year, followed by the Korean version hosted by NCsoft. Players can…

Ragnarok 2 – Closed Beta application starts

As announced by Gravity on 11th August, they will be accepting Closed Beta applications for the newly revamped Ragnarok Online 2 Closed Beta till the 25th. The first phase of the Closed Beta will last 7 days, from 31st August…

Aion graces train cabin

After Blizzard launched a StarCraft 2 themed plane, we get back to the ground to a transport which is more… grounded. Technology giant, LG Electronics, which has teamed up with NCsoft to promote their new range of PC devices recently,…

Flagship alumni form BitFlip Games

Well, this is certainly some old news (their website was up since January this year), but it was a well-kept news I guess. 2 of the 3 founders of new studio, BitFlip Games, are alumni of the now defunct Flagship…

Gameforge buys 60% of Frogster

Well, even though some websites reported this news earlier, there weren’t exactly any figures. It has been confirmed that Gameforge, which only dabled mostly in browser-games till recently, has bought a 60% stake in Frogster Interactive, which essentially makes Gameforge…

Journey to the West Online – Global conference

As I have mentioned in June this year, Chinese developer, Linekong, has teamed up with Vietnamese company, VTC Online, to publish the games in 7 languages (including English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai and Hindi) and in 12 countries.…

Arcadia Saga gets English publisher

According to foreign reports, Japanese developer Rosso Index’s latest MMORPG, Arcadia Saga, has been snatched up by German publisher, Innogames. Arcadia Saga, which was developed after Pandora Saga, puts players in a land 50,000 years in the future, where they…

Rumour – EA buying into Perfect World Beijing

Well, not Perfect World Entertainment, but the headquarters in China, Perfect World Beijing. According to reports, EA, which unsuccessfully tried to break into the China gaming market previously with The9 (EA had been dumping their shares in The9), is trying…

Soldier of Fortune Online – Gameplay trailer

Dragonfly, the developer for the upcoming Soldier of Fortune Online, has just release some screenshots of the game itself. While I doubt the gameplay trailer is an official one (some players were chosen for an early beta already), it will…

Transformers Online confirmed

Well well well, no one really thought this will happen, eh? Probably the biggest announcement (after Mabinogi Heroes China) so far at this year’s annual ChinaJoy convention, Hasbro and Netdragon has revealed that they will be working to develop Transformers…

Gameforge grabs new MMO at ChinaJoy 2010

It has been a rather quiet ChinaJoy 2010 with regards to new games being brought over to the English market (the biggest news so far was the unexpected revealing of Mabinogi Heroes China), so it was quite relieving to know…

HoTK Interview – Staying true to a classic

Heroes of Three Kingdoms is one of Perfect World Entertainment’s upcoming MMORPGs due this year. The game is based on the historical Warring States Period, stamped into the annuals of history in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China’s…

Forsaken World – Rifts

The features found in Perfect World Entertainment’s upcoming MMORPG, Forsaken World, is so plentiful, I had to delay posting some just to make sure no one gets an overload over the game. As you have already knew, Forsaken World will…

Blade Wars Interview – Movie grade martial arts

ChangYou can be counted as one of the newest MMO publishers to set foot in the western market, who primarily focus on the development and publishing of Free to Play MMO titles. The company is no “newbie” to the MMO…