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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.

Ragnarok II (KR) – Final test phase announced

(Game website) As mentioned earlier (link), Ragnarok II will be entering Open Beta in Korea sometime early next year. With this, the final test phase has been announced, starting from 26th December till 30th December. The main priorities of this…

Age Of Wulin (CN) – Game items up for auction

While Closed Beta 2 is hitting this coming weekend with no more data wipes, Snail Game has decided to hold a grand cosplay party on Christmas Eve to apparently celebrate this event. Included in the event list is the live…

Warface goes to Russia

According to foreign reports, Crytek’s very first online title, Warface, will be reaching Russia sometime next year. The publisher and operator of the game will non other be Mail.Ru, which recently acquired Dragon Nest Russia (link) as well. While the…

ArcheAge (KR) – Time for the pointy ears

The good folks at XLGAMES are really making their promise stand, with a patch almost everyday so far, the largest standing at a hefty 6GB. After a tough time playing as an archer using the Ferres race, I thought it…

Mabinogi Heroes (KR) – Chapter 10 trailer revealed

Back a few months ago, the producers of Nexon’s Mabinogi Heroes mentioned about new dragons in the making, with a huge scale raid being developed. Wow, they were true to their words and the dragons seen in this trailer is…

ArcheAge (KR) – First territory conquest achieved

2 days ago, an expedition in ArcheAge Closed Beta 4 secured the game’s first every territory capture. Called “Renaissance”, this team of over 100 players braved through the many near-impossible tasks to secure this milestone. Korean website ThisIsGame had a…

Rumor – TERA Korea claims another executive ?

Remember the time when one of TERA’s development leads left the project not long after the game launched? Another high profile executive is set to leave the company, according to foreign reports. Reports are pointing to the apparent failure of…

Blade & Soul – A producer’s tale

You have seen him at various game conventions around the world, featured in a Blade & Soul video and his pictures popping out on online gaming websites from time to time. Meet the game’s producer, Mr James Bae. This industry…

Lost Saga – Character List 4

Hello all you crazy and senile Lost Saga fans! As mentioned, Part 4 of the character list is finally here! To kick things off, the number 61 hero has now been revealed to be a historical character based off the…

Aion Europe going Free to Play

(Game website) Following Lineage II going Free to Play, NCsoft has now teamed up with European game publisher, GameForge, to launch Aion Free to Play in February early next year. If you are from Europe and currently playing on the…

Nexon becomes world’s 5th largest game company

With Nexon officially now up on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the company’s value has now sky-rocketed, now occupying the top seat as Korea’s biggest gaming company. But that is not all. On a global scale in terms of company value,…

Guild Wars 2 – 8th class announced

(Game website) It seems that ArenaNet has finally announced the 8th class, although no official content is seen at the site now. As most would have guessed, it is indeed the Mesmer class from Guild Wars 1, but it seems…

ArcheAge CBT4 – Sailing through the skies

Finally, I found the spot to try out this gliding feature. Similar to scaling mountains, gliding is used mostly for exploration now, before becoming an important source of… transport during castle siege in the near future.   Imaging a battalion…

Gundam Online – All grown up after SD adventure

So, I am sure by now you would have heard of or played SD Gundam Online from… OGPlanet if I remember correctly. While you guys checking out the mini robot butts, the Japanese gamers are getting the real deal. Introducing…