Before I begin, please be informed that this is just a small preview, with me barely scratching the core content even at level 40. Duke of Mount Deer Online is based on Louis Cha’s final martial arts novel, developed for…
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Rusty Hearts (KR) – 4th character teased
Rusty Hearts North America will be going into Closed Beta soon, and the Korean server today teased about the upcoming 4th character (shown above), the gun-slinging Natasha. From the teaser video below, it seems that she will be able to…
Duke of Mount Deer – Development costs breakdown
In order not to overshot the frame size, the game’s title has been cut short from the full name, “The Duke of Mount Deer Online”. Developed by Chinese MMO giant ChangYou over a period of 4 years, “industry veterans” have…
Firefall – Webzen admits lack of funds
For the past few months, I have been posting about the saga between Red 5 Studios and Korean MMO company Webzen over the publishing rights for Firefall. Today, Webzen finally admitted that the company has ran into serious financial problems…
ChoiRock Games fire Berkanix team
Korean MMO developer and publisher, ChoiRock Games (originally Sonov) fired the entire Berkanix team from the company earlier today. Letters of retrenchment were sent to over 100 staff, meaning all off them will be leaving the company. This comes as…
Dragon Ball Online (TW) – Complete registration guide
The Open Beta phase for Dragon Ball Online Taiwan starts in a few days on 15th June, hence I thought I should create a registration guide for all to give the game a shot even if you do not know…
Langrisser celebrates 20th Anniversary
Langrisser, a classic game franchise with many avid fans, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. If you did not know, Taiwan’s Gamania Corp is currently developing Langrisser Schwartz, a new Free to Play MMO in the series. 2 videos were…
E3 2011 – Brief look at 3 Asian online games
Well, there was a handful of Asian MMOs on display at E3 2011, but most of them are already translated into English versions. In this post, we take a look at 2 of the untranslated MMOs (other than XAOC) which…
Lineage II: GoD – Awakening trailer
Apologies for shortening “Goddess of Destruction” into “GoD” as the former is probably too long to fit into the post title. First, a clarification. In my previous post, I stated that Lineage II’s first part of the expansion will be…
The Weekend Journal
This week passed extremely fast. And I mean incredibly fast. There is nothing much this week to be honest, let’s see… Well, E3 2011 is around the corner and this year, many online gaming companies (even from Korea and China)…
Jagex reveals Transformers Universe
(Source) Back in March, Jagex and Hasbro announced that they had joined forces to create a Transformers MMO. Today, they revealed the game’s name: Transformers Universe. Players can how head over to the Transformers Universe site to register for the…
CJ Entertainment & Media – Top executive departs
It was announced earlier today that one of CJ Entertainment & Media top executives, Mr Whon Namkoong (below), had left the Korea’s biggest media company. Mr Whon was the Head of Games Business for the past 17 months, spearheading much…
Lineage and Lineage II (China) going to Tencent Games
As rumored several weeks ago, the rights for Lineage and Lineage II (China) were going to Tencent Games, the biggest online gaming company in China after NCsoft’s contract with Shanda Games was not renewed. Despite signing Blade & Soul, no…
Transformers Online (CN) – Preparing for launch
So, if you have not read my previous posts, there are actually 2 Transformers Online game in development. This particular one is from Chinese developer NetDragon, officially announced a few days ago and it will be a third person online…