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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.

Project Blackstone – Blizzard reveals “new game” to the public

Yes, it is bad news when you see me typing “new game”, as it is really otherwise. Blizzard got the whole world speculating when it registered the Project Blackstone domains, and promptly rumors about Diablo III’s expansion, Project Titan or…

gPotato – Official notice claims no games will be affected

In a followup to the sudden news of gPotato North America, Europe and Brazil being sold to rival Webzen, an official notice has been posted. It states that “There are no plans to slow down, scale back, or shut down…

Bella Online – Unique skills revealed for same gender marriage

Just announced for Southeast Asia a couple of days back, Taiwan MMO company OMG has announced that its first self-developed title, Bella Online, will feature same gender marriage. That is not all, as marriage skills between male-male and female-female unions…

Cabal II: The Neoforce Era – Sky Fortress dungeon debuts

Cabal II actually has seen a couple of new dungeons over the past few months since release, but this time round, players will visit the new Sky Fortress dungeon. Ok, not exactly Aion-style of flying over there and stuff (just…

Project OG – Golf online game crafted by CryEngine 3

Possibly the best looking golf online game seen so far, Project OG was announced by Golfzon in Korea yesterday. Not a traditional MMO developer, the Korea-based company sells software golf simulators and has offices in Canada as well. As mentioned,…

NCsoft – Guild Wars 2 continues to rake in cash for a rosy 4Q 2012

NCsoft released its earnings report earlier today, and it is an absolutely rosy one. As you can see from the chart below, revenue from Guild Wars 2 continued to grow at an exponential rate from 3Q to 4Q 2012. Lineage…

Kingdom Under Fire: Age of Storm – Game trailer looks oddly familiar

It is usually a bad thing when I mention about “looking familiar”, and in rare cases Korean online games come into the mixture (China games most of the time). With the official website due to open in a couple of…

Steal Fighter – Open Beta in Korea announced

After several months of testing, Gravity Korea’s latest online game, Steal Fighter, is ready for Open Beta come February 21st. A hybrid of action RPG and the MOBA genre, the game is set to steal some spotlight from the unstoppable…

Kritika – Open Beta phase scheduled for March

Korean studio All-M, developer of Lunia Online, has announced that its 2nd title, Kritika, is scheduled to enter Open Beta in Korea by March, after 1 more round of test phase sometime this month. The game’s publisher is Hangame.  …

Bella Online – Southeast Asia publisher announced for new game

Let me first talk about the game, Bella Online. It is the first title to be developed internally by Taiwan publisher, OMG (Oh My God), using the in-house 3D Chameleon Engine. The game is still in development, but according to…

Kingdom Under Fire: Age of Storm – Official reveal coming soon

First announced back in early 2011, the game was initially known as Kingdom Under Fire: Avalanche, before being re-branded 4 months later as simply Kingdom Under Fire Online. After a couple of quiet years, developer Dragonfly has finally settled on…

Mercenary Online – Exclusive gift packs up for grabs

[Game website] Yes, it is time for another gift code event! This is Mercenary Online, a free-to-play 3rd person shooter crafted using Unreal Engine 3. Also known as Mercenary Ops, I played the China server before and it rocked wih…

gPotato – North America and Europe portals sold to rival

Announced just hours ago, North America and Europe MMO portal, gPotato, has been sold. The deal includes its parent company, Gala-Net, and its offices in the 2 locations. Gala-Net’s operations in Korea and Japan seems to remain intact as they…

Phantasy Star Online 2 – Lengthy new trailer for PlayStation Vita version

As the launch date for Phantasy Star Online 2’s PS Vita version inches closer (28th February), developer SEGA has just uploaded a new trailer focusing on the features found in the game. As players will be in the same servers…