Closed Beta for Naruto: Slugfest has started in Southeast Asia! Touted by publisher Cubinet Interactive as “the world’s first 3D open-world action MMORPG adaptation of Naruto Shippuden,” Naruto: Slugfest features cinematic 3D Visuals and plot restoration of the World of…
City of Heroes – NCsoft files trademark application for superhero MMORPG it abandoned
Even though City of Heroes was first developed by Cryptic Studios and Paragon Studios, publisher NCsoft actually owned the IP rights to the superhero MMORPG. Launch in 2004, City of Heroes garnered a core group of players over the years,…
Mabinogi Heroes – Asian martial artist revealed as 16th playable character
Nexon recently announced the 16th playable character for Mabinogi Heroes in the form of Lethor, an Asian female character apparently skilled in melee martial arts. Lethor (according to the official Korean website) is indeed a very unusual name, as the…
Bless Eternal – Neowiz announces Unreal Engine 4 mobile adaptation of MMORPG
Korean games publisher and developer Neowiz today announced Bless Eternal, the mobile adaptation of its less-than-successful PC MMORPG, Bless Online. The Chinese version of Bless Eternal was previously revealed back in October, and crafted by Longtu Games using Unreal Engine…
Heroes X Academy – Quick look at mobile tactical RPG with no character gacha
With most of the major game companies are still in the festive holiday period, I have decided to showcase an indie mobile game from China as the first article of 2020. Heroes X Academy is an indie mobile strategy RPG…
Nexon – Japan subsidiary sold for 1 Japanese Yen after years of losses
Back in 2012, Nexon bought over a Japanese studio called gloops to “accelerate Nexon’s mobile strategy.” The deal was all-cash with a massive outlay of 36.5 BILLION Japanese Yen! Fast forward to last week, it was revealed that Nexon has…
CrossFire ZERO – Smilegate announces new PC battle royale for Southeast Asia
[Pre-register] Korean developer Smilegate recently announced a new PC battle royale, CrossFire ZERO, based on the popular CrossFire online shooter IP. However, CrossFire ZERO is only slated for Southeast Asia market at this time. According to the teaser trailer combat…
Black Desert Online – Plans for 2020 previewed by developer Pearl Abyss
The festive season continues, contributing to the lack of interesting news during this period. Yesterday, developer Pearl Abyss held a “Calpheon Banquet” community event at Signiel Seoul to preview Black Desert Online’s content for 2020. This is the second gathering…
Codename C – Mobile action side-scroller inspired by Castlevania is actually really good
Before anyone assumes anything, yes, Codename C is no doubt a very, very close copy of Castlevania, though for mobile devices. And for the record, even though Codename C is still in early development, I personally had more fun in…
Project B.E.E – Quick look at new indie mobile action RPG from China
As the festive season continues, there might not be as many interesting news or rumors floating around. Hence, there is not a better time to showcase more indie mobile games from China! After a couple of quality action RPG titles…
SEGA – Japanese developer announces internal mergers and new business group name
Just before Christmas a couple of day back, Japanese games developer SEGA Sammy Holdings announced that it had merged subsidiary SEGA Interactive into SEGA Games, effective since 20 September 2019. Furthermore, on 1 April 2020, SEGA Games will be renamed…
Nexon – Korean gaming giant announce the merger of 2 development teams
Nexon today announced that is has acquired all shares of its standalone studio, Nexon Red, and merge it with subsidiary Boolean Games. According to the official press release, the main aim is to reinforce the company’s development capabilities “by organically…
Kritika – First new main class in years arrives in Korean server of action MMORPG
Developer All-M today announced the arrival of a new class in the Korean server of Kritika, the Female Warrior. Yes I do know that the class name is pretty lazy, but she is the first main class added since the…
SoulWorker – Ephnel the Bombing Spear arrives in Korean server of action MMORPG
Developer Lion Games and publisher Smilegate today announced the arrival of its 8th playable character in the Korean version of SoulWorker, Ephnel the Bombing Spear. Initially discarded as a failed human experiment, her codename was F-N.el, meaning Failed Number EL.…