Lord of Heroes – Clover Games reveals its first hero collection mobile RPG

New Korean studio Clover Games today announced its first mobile RPG, Lord of Heroes. Founded in 2018 by a former VP of SMARTSTUDY (maker of Monster Super League), Clover Games managed to attract around USD 9 million of investment during…

Katekyō Hitman Reborn! – Brief look at new mobile game based on popular anime IP

CMGE, one of the biggest mobile games company in China, recently launched a new mobile game based on Katekyō Hitman Reborn! domestically. While the Japanese manga and anime has long since ended, the IP apparently remains popular enough for this…

Naruto: Slugfest – Limited number of Closed Beta keys up for grabs!

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…