Over the weekend, Nexon held an event in Korea known as the "Mabinogi Showcase: Call of Destruction." While we won't (and can't, for the most part, due to a lack of translatibility from Korean sources) go overly in-depth into the event, we can talk about a trailer that Nexon recently released - and their announcement of Mabinogi Mobile. 마비노기 모바일 [...]
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Tencent's hit mobile game Honor of Kings (called Strike of Kings in the West) is apparently getting a bit TOO popular for its own good. So much so that it's widespread popularity (over 50M daily active users) led to some harsh criticism from The People's Daily, a Chinese language publication known to be affiliated with the Communist Party government. This [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's turnaround story is one of the greatest in the industry. In 2010, FFXIV 1.0 was a disaster of a game, and was a stain upon the Final Fantasy legacy, but in 2013, it turned itself around completely with the launch of A Realm Reborn. Previously, we covered Noclip's documentary about exactly how Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 failed. Parts [...]
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Lineage M, the mobile remake of NCSoft's classic Lineage MMORPG, is currently the top grossing app in South Korea since its official release last Wednesday. Within 7 hours of launching, Lineage M has dominated the top spot in both Android and iOS app stores, with an estimated 9.7 million downloads so far. Some users have reported difficulties downloading the app [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV is, by all accounts, a fantastic game. Currently 20,280 people worldwide are playing it - and that's just on Steam alone. FFXIV is also available on the PS4, and available on the PC without having to necessarily use Steam. And yet, it wasn't always like this. Final Fantasy XIV, when it first launched on September 30th, 2010, [...]
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Vindictus has certainly come a long way. In North America, the RISE Update has brought with it a whole slew of changes and revamps. Areas look different, the story-telling experience has been streamlined, quests removed and EXP changed. Certain skills are now available from level 1, and the backstories of the characters you play at has been expanded. Speaking of Characters, [...]
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Vindictus has just announced a MASSIVE overhaul to its gameplay. Titled the Rise: Revolution update (or RISE in Korea), the details of the RISE update have been known to the playerbase for quite some time via unofficial Korean-to-English translations in the community, but now, Vindictus NA has finally announced details of the RISE update in English. Here are some of [...]
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Most Korean Free-to-Play MMORPGs don't succeed in the West. While many games can keep themselves up and running, K-MMORPGs that aren't nearly as popular with Western audiences as they are with Eastern ones. It is for this reason that Astellia, published by Barunson Studio, are looking into seeing what they can do to make Astellia more appealing to Western audiences. [...]
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Only just recently, Overwatch China had released the data on the probabilities of their lootboxes. This was in accordance with the "lootbox law" that had come into effect on May 1st, 2017 in China, a new law which mandates all game publishers to publicly announce the probabilities on lootboxes and/or items with randomly generated properties. However, Overwatch China seems to [...]
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The beautiful fantasy / sci-fi action MMORPG Twilight Spirits is set to begin open beta testing on June 29th in Chinese. The game is being developed by Netease for the Chinese market, but oddly enough, the game is being developed with Western tastes in mind. I plan on checking out the Chinese version when its out so expect a first [...]
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