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Your average online gamer who is bilingual in Chinese and English, although he does try to play Japanese and Korean games sometimes. Online gaming since 1999, and has worked in the online gaming and mobile gaming industry (Journalist, Game Master, Community Manager, Operations Manager) since 2008.

Dragon Nest: Rise of the Black Dragon – CG movie to air next year

Announced back at ChinaJoy 2012, Dragon Nest: Rise of the Black Dragon has now gotten a rough confirmation time to be aired in theaters, and that takes place in June 2014. The animated movie is produced by Mili Animation Studio,…

GunZ 2: The Second Duel – European teaser website is now live

[Game website] With the global English server supposedly to be launching on Steam, it has now be revealed that GunZ 2 will be getting its very own European publisher instead, denying the possibility of a true global English server once…

MapleStory – Huge summer update coming along with new class

[Source] Announced last month, RED actually stands for Revolution, Evolution and Delight. It is also MapleStory’s annual summer update, with tons of new features, content, revamps and more. As suual, RED is divided into 3 parts, each being added from July till…

Kingdom Under Fire II – Game client reportedly downsized by 85%

With Kingdom Under Fire II recently hogging the headlines in the Asian gaming market, there were worries about the game’s graphical requirements and the massive client size players will need to download.   According to foreign reports, the client has…

Blade & Soul – New trailer arrives for first part of major content update

Folks were emailing me about Blade & Soul going “2.0” in Korea, but after looking around, NCsoft hasn’t started labelling the game with a version number, but rather “Chapter 1” or “Season 1” of the game has been ended, with…

Burst Sky – A brief look at Closed Beta 2 for new arcade shooter MMO

More famous recently for Dragon Sword, China MMO developer/ publisher NetEase has also launched Closed Beta 2 for its arcade-style shooter, Burst Sky. First announced late last year, I finally got my hands on this game, and was really entertained…

Dragon Quest X Online – PC version set for September release in Japan

Currently running just on Wii and Wii U in Japan, developer Square Enix has announced that the PC version of Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online will be heading to the PC systems on 26th September. Similar…

Monster Hunter Online – New gameplay video from Chinese media

Despite the minimal activation keys going around for the debut test phase, publisher Tencent Games is still doing massive promotion on several gaming websites. 17173.com, one of the country’s big gaming news outlet, released a few game videos from its…

HeroWarZ – Closed Beta 1 gameplay videos for new action game

A.Storm is a new developer in South Korea, but heading the studio is Kim Yoon Jong, the man responsible for  leading Nexon’s Dungeon & Fighter and Cyphers back in their early days. HeroWarZ is its maiden online game, which focuses on…

Age of Wushu – New faction and character trading system revealed

Let me start by the supposedly “good” news first. After the reveal of Palace of Moving Flowers, Rootless Clan, and the school-less factions (3 more to be mentioned below), Snail Game announced the 4th new faction coming to the China…

Kingdom Under Fire II – Indonesia publisher announced for epic title

[Press release] Qeon proudly presents the newest “AAA” quality online game, which will be launched soon in Indonesia, Kingdom Under Fire II. With a unique and impressive gameplay, we believe Kingdom Under Fire II will give a new gaming experience…

Kingdom Under Fire II – Southeast Asia publisher announced

After the Taiwan server was announced a few months back, Korean developer Blueside has confirmed that Kingdom Under Fire II will be heading to 4 countries in Southeast Asia, under the rather obscure publisher, Leadhope.   Leadhope is actually a…

Titan War – Closed Beta phase is now live right in your browsers

[Press release] Titan War, the first English 3D MMORPG under gaming portal WinnerHub, has officially entered its Closed Beta phase on 21st June 2013. Without a need to download any client or having a powerful PC, players will experience an epic MMORPG…

Monster Hunter Online – Preview for final map in debut test phase

I am not really sure how to translate this even though I know Chinese, but I shall call the new area Dawn Woods. This is the final area in the upcoming debut test phase client, and the very first area…