The Perfect World I am referring to is the headquarters over at China, not the North American subsidiary unless stated. The company has just announced its 1st Quarter earnings, and you might have guessed, revenue and profits increased significantly again.…
Butterfly Sword Online – New martial arts MMO revealed
Butterfly Sword Online is an upcoming Chinese action MMORPG developed by 9you. Based on the novel, Meteor Butterfly Sword, by famed author Gu Long, the game is developed using the Unreal 3 Engine. An upcoming big-budget drama of the novel…
Marvel Superhero Squad Online announced
Well, the game was actually announced a few days ago, but I was waiting for its debut trailer (below) before posting this up. Developed by The Amazing Society (under Gazillion Entertainment) and published by Gazillion Entertainment, the game features various…
Priston Tale 2 EU – No IP block except for NA
The EU server for Priston Tale 2,published by GamerKraft, will go into Open Beta in half a day (around 11 hours more for Singapore). Having played the previous English servers, I would say the game was one of the worst…
Funcom to publish Bloodline Champions
This certainly came as a slightly surprising news to me. A little more than a year back, Funcom was apparently in all sorts of financial troubles. The developer and publisher’s fortunes took a sharp U-turn when they started to reveal…
Nexon officially begins purchasing GameHi’s shares
As I posted a few days ago, Nexon was in discussions to purchase Korean Developer, GameHi, the creators of Sudden Attack and Dekaron. The discussions are now over and Nexon is currently proceeding with acquiring GameHi’s shares. According to reports,…
One of the worst MMO ad ever
If you have missed my brief introduction on Journey to the West Online, do have a look. The Taiwanese server, managed by publisher Wayi, has changed the game’s title to Heavenly Sage Online, where Heavenly Sage is the celestial title…
Neowiz reveals RaiderZ
From the creators of Gunz Online and the in-development Gunz 2, Maiet Entertainment, comes a new action MMORPG, RaiderZ. The title was originally known as Project H and has been in development for the past 4years. The publisher will be…
Pokémon Black & White – Starters revealed
As an avid Pokémon fan since the Yellow version (which I played on the PC), I feel obliged to post this piece of information on my blog. Its not a MMO, but the Pokémon franchise has always been part of…
RunUp to host Dekaron SEA
Dekaron SEA (South East Asia),previously hosted by Mobius Games, will move to its new host soon, RunUp Games. RunUp Games has acquired the rights from developer GameHi to publish the title in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines. While it…
Rockman Online – Game confirmed with developer announced
Rockman, Mega Man… Whatever name you use on this iconic and beloved Capcom character, I think no gamers will be strangers to him. In what I perceive as a “weird” co-op effort, Japan’s Capcom has announced that it will be…
Kingdom Heroes – Closed Beta announced
Aeria Games has just announced that its latest warfare MMORPG, Kingdom Heroes, will go into Closed Beta on 18th May. To be honest, I will normally just brush this game off as one of the many Asian inspired titles. But…
NCsoft to buy casual MMO developer?
It looks like the takeover frenzy within the MMO industry in Korea will not stop anytime soon. Following Webzen’s takeover of NHN Games, Nexon’s purchase of Ndoors and impending purchase of GameHi, it was reported in foreign media that NCsoft…
IAH Games to publish Counter-Strike Online
I will be the first to admit I am not a fan of MMOFPS. Even in single player FPS games, I only enjoyed the original Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. Hence, I did not post this piece of info earlier. But…