Today, Perfect World has just confirmed that Forsaken World’s Public Open Beta will be starting on 21st October 2010 (GMT+8). No more lame key giveaways and restrictions, everyone (with an account) can now play the game!As the Closed Beta for…
MU Online (Korea) enters Season 6
Evergreen MMORPG, MU Online, has officially updated the new Season 6 content into its live servers. Developed by Korean studio, Webzen, the game has been in service since 2003 and has several servers still in various overseas locations. With the…
NCsoft’s CEO tops rich list
According to foreign reports, NCsoft’s founder and CEO, Mr Kim Taek Jin (below), has topped the rich list in Korea’s gaming industry for the 7th straight year. He now has a personal wealth of around 1.1 billion US dollars. According…
Battle of the Immortals blocked in Korea
According to a Korean report, Perfect World’s MMORPG, Battle of the Immortals, was blocked by the Korean government after failing to get receive a rating. The reason? The “unlimited” usage of the the in-game macro function (or bot). Being published…
Forsaken World – Offline EXP System
This system actually took me quite some time to understand, having read it for over 10 times. Well, here’s a short introduction to this system. If you are working or schooling or simply don’t have the time to sit down…
AIKA Epic II – Some info
While I know that the Korean server released all these info months ago, I was actually playing on the Taiwanese server since my grasp of the Korean language is still at its infancy stage. All these info will be updated…
Mabinogi Heroes – New character revealed
Nexon Korea, the company behind Mabinogi Heroes, has recently posted the game’s upcoming character, Karok the Giant. Karok was supposed to be updated into the game (Korean server) this summer, but Nexon expressed their apologies for the delay and assured players the…
Legend of Edda Interview – Never too cute to kill
Legend of Edda is an upcoming MMORPG hosted by North American publisher, OnNet USA, through its MMO portal, GamesCampus. Developed by Korean studio, Eya Soft, who is well-known in the English market for Luna Online, the game focuses much on…
[G*Star 2010] Ghosts ‘n Goblins Online to be revealed
G*Star 2010 will be starting in Busan, Korea later in November and over the next few months, any rumors or spoilers will be posted here (as long as I source them out)! For the very first G*Star 2010 news, classic…
Sonov is now ChoiRock Games
Korean MMO development giant, Sonov Entertainment, creators of games like the popular Shaiya Online, has re-branded itself as ChoiRock Games in order to distinguish the company better. In the word “Choi”, “cho” actually means “super”, while the extra letter is…
BERKANIX – Awesome new trailer
A sci-fi MMORPG developed by Sonov Entertainment, known for Shaiya Online and the recently announced Project Mercury, Berkanix’s latest trailer was just revealed recently. Costing up to 100 billion Korean Won (nearly USD 900,000), exhausting up to a period of…
MMO Culture hits 72,000 monthly views!
Just last month, I posted about my small blog hitting a monthly pageview of around 50,000 during the August to September period. During the September to October period, the number has increased to more than 72,000! This actually means a…
Project Mercury – Press conference
Just a few days ago, I posted about Sonov Entertainment’s upcoming MMOFPS, Project Mercury. Today, a press conference was organised to officially announce the game’s existence. I am still not sure if the company will still be using Project Mercury as…
Project Renaissance unleashed
Korean developers seem to have a common trend of naming their ongoing MMO projects as Project “insert letter here”. Well, one more similarly named MMO just got revealed fully to renowned Korean gaming website, thisisgame. Let us just have a brief introduction to the…