For the past few months, I have been posting about the saga between Red 5 Studios and Korean MMO company Webzen over the publishing rights for Firefall. Today, Webzen finally admitted that the company has ran into serious financial problems…
TERA Korea begins paid services
TERA Korea, published by MMO giant Hangame, has officially revealed its paid services program. The system works pretty much like World of Warcraft’s, where players pay an extra fee to customize some of their characters’ features. There are 4 option…
Final Combat – Looking suspiciously familiar
Final Combat is a new online shooter developed by China company. Xunlei (well known for its download manager software). Revealed under Xunlei Games, the game is apparently led by Troy Horton who was involved in developing Tomb Raider III back…
TERA Japan – Official desktop endorsed
The gaming industry and hardware industry in Japan do work closely with each other to promote their products. Last I remember, Final Fantasy XIV Online had a similar promotion back when it was first released. Now, TERA Japan is nearing…
Dragon Ball Online (TW) – Open Beta time revealed
Hello all! I hope you have successfully registered for the Open Beta phase for Dragon Ball Online Taiwan seen here. Just a reminder, it is now 15th June in Taiwan, but the game servers will only start at 17:00 (or…
Steam opens up new Free to Play section
Lo and behold, guess who jumped on the Free to Play online games wagon? It is non other than Steam, the world’s biggest digital games distribution platform! While not all titles are available yet, I am certainly surprised to see…
Guild Wars 2 – No stand-alone expansions
(Source) Guild Wars developer ArenaNet is taking a new approach to game add-ons. While there were two stand-alone, continent-adding retail expansion packs released for its predecessor, Guild Wars 2 will be having none of that. “At this time we don’t…
Soccer legend Maradona suing The9
According to foreign reports, soccer legend Diego Maradona is set to sue Chinese MMO company The9 and Internet company Sina for a sum of USD 3 million. This case allegedly stemmed from The9 using Maradona’s photos as a promotional tool…
NCsoft Korea to stop 2 games in July
NCsoft Korea today announced the closure of 2 titles under their stable, with them being action MMORPG Dragonica Korea and MMOFPS Point Blank Korea. Both games will cease services on 13th July next month. It seems like NCsoft Korea is…
ChoiRock Games fire Berkanix team
Korean MMO developer and publisher, ChoiRock Games (originally Sonov) fired the entire Berkanix team from the company earlier today. Letters of retrenchment were sent to over 100 staff, meaning all off them will be leaving the company. This comes as…
Dragon Ball Online (TW) – Complete registration guide
The Open Beta phase for Dragon Ball Online Taiwan starts in a few days on 15th June, hence I thought I should create a registration guide for all to give the game a shot even if you do not know…
Langrisser celebrates 20th Anniversary
Langrisser, a classic game franchise with many avid fans, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. If you did not know, Taiwan’s Gamania Corp is currently developing Langrisser Schwartz, a new Free to Play MMO in the series. 2 videos were…
Swordsman Online – Closed Beta phase looming?
One of the big 2 martial arts MMO in coming to the Free to Play English market, Swordsman Online (the other being Age of Wulin) recently underwent its first Focus Group Test in Perfect World’s Beijing Headquarters. All 6 clans…
The Weekend Journal
Another busy week for me, especially so due to E3 2011. I was thinking that the online games would mostly be shown during the first day, but boy was I wrong. How did you guys find this year’s E3? The…