Some business news to kick-start the day off, Korea’s mega online gaming company, Neowiz Games, is slated to purchase Japanese online gaming company GameOn in a deal worth around USD 25.5 million. This includes acquiring all the company’s 22,620 shares,…
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[TGC 2011] ArcheAge (CN) – Preparing for the big day
As reported earlier (link), ArcheAge China will be playable at Tencent Games Festival, with a never-played-before PvP mode shown to the public for the very first time as well as established gaming guilds having a PvP tournament there as well.…
RaiderZ (EU) – Teaser website opens
(Teaser website) Over the past few years, English speaking territories, other than North America, were lamenting the lack of online games being brought over. These include Southeast Asia and to a larger extent, Europe. Well, one of the hottest action…
Red 5 Studios sets up Asia HQ in Singapore
(Official website) If most of you would have read somewhere, I am from the tiny island nation of Singapore. Hearing game studios setting up headquarters here is not really something amusing, but for a major online gaming studio to do…
Dragon’s Prophet – Runes of Magic 2 ?
Well, Dragon’s Prophet ain’t exactly Runes of Magic 2, but it is indeed the 2nd title for Taiwanese developer Runewaker. The studio’s maiden title, Runes of Magic, was localized in many regions and gained a huge following and success over…
WeMade Entertainment rebrands new game
Originally known as ChangChun 2 in G*Star 2010 (link), the action online game by Korea MMO company WeMade Entertainment has now been re-branded as Chun Ryong, or translated from the Chinese characters as “Sky Dragon Tale”. Its predecessor, ChangChun, was…
ArcheAge (CN) – Signup for VIP account begins
While it will be a couple of weeks before the new version of ArcheAge is shown at Tencent Games Carnival 2011 (link), the MMO giant has not taken the liberty to invite China gamers to apply for a VIP account…
Dragon Nest (KR) : Katastrophe – Green Dragon arrives
I am not sure if it is deliberate or simply a spelling mistake, but Dragon Nest Korea’s upcoming mega expansion is indeed named “Katastrophe” according to the trailer. As with most of Nexon’s games, each update bring plenty of new…
[G*Star 2011 Preview] Age of Hero – Character artwork
As I posted just a few hours back, Age of Hero (bad English from Nexon?) is one of the new titles which Nexon will be debuting at G*Star 2011 in less than a month’s time. After reading the game’s description…
Rusty Hearts (KR) – 5th character teased
(English server) Barely a few weeks after Natasha the gunslinger, the 4th character added into Rusty Hearts Korea (link), the 5th character has now been teased by developer Windysoft. Currently translated as “Chen Meilin”, this Asian oriented female character will…
Rumor – Nexon continues to expand
According to foreign reports, Korea’s biggest online gaming company, Nexon, is set to expand again after news leaked out about a potential takeover of JCE, the developer of games such as Freestyle Online and its sequel, Freestyle 2: Street Basketball.…
Nexon Korea breaks own server maintenance record
Nexon Korea brought one of its hottest game, Mabinogi, down for an emergency maintenance recently on 4th October. But despite telling players the maintenance will last 72 hours, it was eventually extended to a whopping 96 hours in the end.…
Neverwinter – Going the action combat route
(Source) Back in May this year, Perfect World officially began the process of buying over Cryptic Studios (link), developer of titles including Champions Online and City of Heroes/ Villain. The new owners subsequently announced a delay for Neverwinter (link), which…
Rumor – Red 5 Studios and Webzen over?
According to foreign reports, Red 5 Studios, the developer of Firefall, will be exhibiting the title by itself at the upcoming G*Star 2011. The biggest online gaming event in the world, one would expect Webzen, the supposed publisher for the…