StarCraft II: Chronicles of Fate

While not an online game, StarCraft II: Chronicles of Fate was meant to be on initially. Developed by a talented StarCraft II modder, Blizzard took notice and subsequently invited him to join them. But of course, not without the big…

Warhammer 40,000 Online – Relic joins up with Vigil

The full name of the game is Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online, but it is really too long to fit into the post title. According to foreign reports, Relic Entertainment, which recently finished up on the multi-platform Warhmmer 40,000: Space…

The Weekend Journal

Yet another week passed! The next MMO convention coming up will be ChinaJoy 2011, which begins on 28 July in less than 2 weeks’ time. What can we expect? Well, for the biggest announcement I am guessing the announcement for…

Mabinogi Heroes (CN) – Finally no IP block

So, Mabinogi Heroes (China) went into Open Beta a few days ago and luckily, there is no IP block. Which is of course the opposite of the English server Vindictus, restricted to only players in North America. From what I…

Alliance of Valiant Arms (KR) – Battle Gear update

It seems Alliance of Valiant Arms (A.V.A) is getting quite a number of content updates, both small and big, over the past few months in Korea. The next big update coming after the zombie patch is titled “Battle Gear”, which…

Rusty Hearts – Core mechanics introduction

Today, Perfect World Entertainment Released the first Rusty Hearts Developer Diary to the public. The video combines intense combat scenes, beautiful cel-shaded art style, as well as details about the core gameplay and interesting character identities to give players insight…

Ragnarok II – 2nd Closed Beta begins with glitches

Despite having played for a few minutes in Closed Beta 1, I decided to skip the second as I am convinced Gravity will not fix the various instabilities and bugs found. True enough, the 2nd Closed Beta began with several…

Red Duck Inc. – A look into the developer of A.V.A

Have you played Alliance of Valiant Arms (A.V.A), one of the hottest English online shooter since last year? If you have not, you should give it a try! Published by Ijji (official website), Alliance of Valiant Arms is one of…

Age of Wulin (CN) – Rage over Closed Beta

As most of you might have know by now, Age of Wulin will be published by gPotato Europe for the English market. Supposedly delayed for several months, the Chinese service will go into its Closed Beta phase in August. It…

SevenCore – New media released

Phew, the last time news about SevenCore was posted was almost 2 years ago, in October 2009 with a post I made here. Though scheduled to be published by gPotato in the English market in 2010, the development phase apparently…

MapleStory: Legend – New industry record

On 7th July 2011, the first Legend update was patched onto the official MapleStory Korea server. The new Pirate adventurer class, Cannon Shooter, was added to the game content. Over the weekend, a record number of players was recorded in…

Dungeon & Fighter – Innovation update

In my previous post, I roughly skimmed through certain new features coming to Dungeon & Fighter next week in Korea. The update is called Innovation, and true to its name the update will add lots of new content to the…

The Weekend Journal

Initially, I decided to skip this week’s Weekend Journal as there is simply not much I have to write about. Hmn… Well, I am getting piled up with review requests, partnership requests and proposals to join various gaming websites, but…

The Secret World – Dungeon Demo

I am sure by now most avid online gamers would have heard of Funcom’s upcoming MMORPG, The Secret World. In case you haven’t, Funcom is also the developer of Age of Conan and Anarchy Online. The Secret World is a…