[More info] After months of legal battle between NCsoft and Bluehole Studio, the developer of TERA, the Korean court officially charged a group of ex-NCsoft staff working on Lineage III with leaking confidential information with regards to the project. In…
Cyphers – Cosplay cats are back
Remember how Miyuko’s cosplay for League of Legends (link) crashed a website due to overload traffic? The member of cosplay group Spiral Cat’s is now back to dressing up as a MMO character again, this time from Nexon’s popular 3D…
Codename K (CN) – ChangYou’s answer to Blade & Soul ?
As mentioned in my previous post (link), China MMO developer and publisher ChangYou revealed a number of titles which are in development, including “World of Shadowbane”. While the China gamers are all awaiting Tencent’s Blade & Soul China server, rivals…
Eyedentity Games developing 3rd online game
After announcing Dungeon Striker (link) just a couple of days ago, Korean media website Inven confirmed that the company is currently developing a “large scale” MMORPG as its 3rd game. While details are scarce including the name and genre, the…
Shadowbane – ChangYou preparing game reboot
Yesterday at a big media conference where ChangYou revealed several new titles, the company’s Vice President revealed that the company secured the Shadowbane IP rights and is developing an online game mentioned as “World of Shadowbane”. Having been part…
Garena signs Club Mstar for Southeast Asia
Garena has always been known to be more of a company hosting PvP games such as Heroes of Newerth, League of Legends and most recently Firefall (link) in the Asia region, hence today’s news came as a surprise to me.…
Dungeon Hero – EyaSoft’s new dungeon crawler MMO
I know, Dragon Nest developer Eyedentity Games just announced Dungeon Striker recently, which I think forced EyaSoft to reveal their rendition of a online dungeon crawler as well. EyaSoft, if you remember, developed some rather memorable titles including Luna Online,…
Dragon Blade – New gameplay trailer
China’s number 2 MMO company, NetEase, is not shying away from naming Tencent’s upcoming Blade & Soul China as its main competitor. First revealed late in March, Dragon Blade so far has garnered mixed reviews, some claiming it to be…
Path of Exile – Developer thanks Easter givers
[Game website] Crowd-funding seems to be the hottest thing right now in the gaming industry, with developers trying to get the financials in order to operate and sell games themselves. Those pesky publishers like EA should really do some self-reflection.…
Blue Tears – Cute and fast with tons of action
I do know cute, fast and action sounds like a weird mixture in an online game, but at least that was what I felt 🙂 Originally published by NCsoft back in Korea under the title “Punch Monster”, the game was…
Guild Wars 2 – Counting down to pre-purchase
[Pre-purchase website] It is 10th April over here, and I think in less than a day the pre-purchase for Guild Wars 2 will begin. Guild Wars was one of the rare 3D MMORPG which my brother enjoyed playing (he actually…
TERA Taiwan reveals monthly fee
TERA will be hitting Taiwan next after Korea, Japan and North America, and at the publisher OMG’s company event, the CEO (pictured below) candidly talked about some details behind thrashing a deal with developer Bluehole Studio. Apparently, Bluehole Studio stood…
Firefall – Russian publisher rumored to have been confirmed
According to foreign reports, The9 and Red 5 Studios is set to sign another multi-million deal for Firefall’s Russian server. Recently signed to various parts of Asia under Garena for USD 23 million, the publisher for Russia will apparently be…
Dungeon Striker (KR) – Q&A with Eyedentity Games
I was taken by surprise a couple of days back when Dragon Nest’s developer, Eyedentity Games, sort of “suddenly” held a press conference to reveal the studio’s 2nd online action title, Dungeon Striker. Prior to this announcement, I have not…