Archlord II – New images as Closed Beta 1 draws close

In a month full of Closed Betas in Korea, Archlord II is preparing to begin theirs in less than 2 weeks’ time. Still a hardcore PvP title with a couple of battlefields allowing 200 Humans going against 200 Orcs, developer…

Blade & Soul – New facial customization featuring Liam Neeson

It seems the new facial customization system, first previewed a couple of weeks ago, hit the Korean servers and the players are having a hell of a time creating various famous characters. I am guessing NCsoft is working to promote…

Marvel Heroes – New gameplay footage and more information

GameSpot has a new gameplay walk-through for Gazillion Entertainment’s upcoming MMORPG, Marvel Heroes, and while I am intrigued and curious about how the game actually plays, almost everything else still kind of pisses me off. Chatting with my colleagues while…

G*Star 2012 – Tale of the missing games and companies

G*Star 2012, Asia’s biggest gaming convention, the world’s largest for online games, is set to begin 1 month from now. Scheduled to be the biggest G*Star ever, there are a few big names missing from the confirmed public exhibition list.…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Why the game took 7 years

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era was originally scheduled to have a 5-years development cycle, which eventually took 7 now and still counting. With Closed Beta 2 coming next week, Korean gaming website Inven visited developer ESTsoft to seek out some answers. Note that…

Blade & Soul – 7 Waves update trailer teases 7th class

NCsoft just posted new information on the upcoming “7 Waves” update for Blade & Soul, and it specifically means 7 new items which will be added to the already-massive game. Most will include new maps and areas, including a new…

Blade & Soul – Official Western website now online

After the Europe announcement trailer with the PEGI rating logo, it seems the global Western website and trailers are also up online. The French and German versions are available, together with UK English.   Attached in this post are also…

NCsoft – “Internal error” led to latest account information leak

According to reports, NCsoft Japan leaked out account information yesterday due to an “internal error”. Information which were made available include the user nickname, address, blood type, age, gender, and information of all the characters bound to that particular NCsoft…

Queen’s Blade Online – Publisher for western regions confirmed

First thing to note, due to copyright stuff, Queen’s Blade Online will most probably be renamed for the English market. Developed by Korean studio, Liveplex of Dragona fame, the publisher for North America, (Edit) Latin America and Europe will be…

TERA – Free to Play server now permanent

Initially lasting only till 9th August, and later extended till 30th August, TERA Korea’s temporary Free to Play server has now gone permanent. According to reports, the level cap for this server will be raised to 58 as well.  …

Call of Duty Online – Interview with China producer

While technically, Activision Blizzard is the core developer for Call of Duty Online (only for China now), publisher Tencent Games will have a huge say as well, given the rumors of how the former was paid a record, undisclosed amount…

League of Legends booth – Everyone trying to grab a free Teemo hat

League of Legends actually has “2” booths on the opening day, with 1 under Riot Games and the other part of the eSports stage. Prior to the matches, Riot employees were throwing a couple of those highly-sought Teemo hats, which…

Hounds – Alien zombie co-op coming to English shores

Well well, it seems CJ E&M, the Korean HQ for their online games department, is taking the English market rather seriously. You see, under their current Netmarble English portal, there is just 1 game, Uncharted Waters Online. Hounds is scheduled…

ArcheAge – Closed Beta 5 interview

After a brief teaser at ChinaJoy 2012 talking to the Chinese media, XLGAMES is now preparing for ArcheAge Closed Beta 5 in Korea. A media conference was held as the date draws closer to 16th August, with ArcheAge’s development staff…