Before I start, please be informed that all these information is gathered from various Chinese, Taiwanese and of course, Korean media. It has been nearly month since TERA Korea went into its Pay to Play (P2P) phase, and with much…
Search Results For: l
Aion – Taking a shot at the fashion industry
In the MMO industry, mostly in the Asia regions of China, Taiwan and Korea, it is very common to see games being tied to other non-gaming products. For example, Nexon Korea’s MapleStory became the official “spokesperson” of a kids’ vitamin…
Weekend Rant – Episode 1
Well, I have decided to come up with a weekly roundup of stuff of my own, so do pardon me if it feels generic. I am calling “Weekend Rant”, as I am sure I have something to thrash about the…
Gunshine.net – An interesting web MMO
Well, I am not really into the world of web-based MMOs, having only played a handful so far. While doing my routine surfing of the internet for news, I came across this web MMO, Gunshine.net. Man I love all these…
AIKA Taiwan enters Epic II: Karena
AIKA Taiwan will be updating its server to Epic II: Karena in a few hours! Even if I had previewed the Karena patch previously, I thought I should add on to the vague information provided before as my Korean ain’t…
The Heaven of Three Kingdoms – Furore over new features
[Teaser site] Hanbitsoft’s latest war themed MMORPG, The Heaven of Three Kingdom, is sparking a debate amongst netizens just a few weeks’ shy from its Open Beta on 22nd Feb. The root of this ongoing controversy boils down to 2…
Rohan Korea teases major changes in 2011
Well, I am sure quite a few number of players who played the English version of Rohan are ticked off by the imbalance cash shop etc, but the game is still going strong in Korea since being released in 2006.…
Argo Interview – Bringing back the Age of Steampunk
ARGO Online is one of Korean developer, Mgame’s latest MMORPG. The game will be brought to Europe and North America in early 2011 by burda:ic, through its MMO portal, alaplaya. Belonging to the rare Steampunk genre, the game aims to…
Mabinogi Heroes teases Episode 8
Mabinogi Heroes, known as Vindictus in the English market, has teased its upcoming content update, Episode 8. Do note that this is only Part 1 of the planned update. So what new stuff will this update bring? In a nutshell,…
Dragon Nest confirmed for 3 regions in 2011
If you have read, Dragon Nest’s developer, Eyedentity Games, was brought over by Chinese online powerhouse, Shanda Games a few months back. Just a few hours ago, Shanda Games’ CEO not only announced (below) the acquisition of Dragonball Online for China, but…
War of Zombie – A preview
China’s biggest Internet company, Tencent Games, actually revealed this game last year at its annual carnival, but without much information, I did not post anything about it. Since then, the Closed Beta is nearing and I though I should do…
TERA Korea to go P2P soon
TERA Korea, which recently announced its monthly fee, has confirmed to go into its commercial P2P phase on 25th January 2011, about 2 weeks after Open Beta phase started. In addition to the standard monthly fee option, there will also be options…
Age of Titan – PvP preview
Chinese MMO developer, I Got Games (IGG), which mainly does its business in the North American market, has previewed a variety of PvP (Player Vs Player) elements in their upcoming MMORPG, Age of Titan. There are a total of 8 PvP modes,…
Dragon Nest – Infinity update
As I posted a few weeks ago, Nexon teased about the Dragon Nest’s first actual “Dragon Nest”, which belongs to the Sea Dragon. I am actually nearly a month late for this news, so do pardon me as I was…