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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Tencent's 5v5 mobile MOBA King of Glory (also translated as Honor of Kings and called Strike of Kings in the U.S.) is a resounding success. In fact if current revenue trends continue it will quickly become the most successful video game ever. According to an analyst at BOC International, King of Glory will contribute about 50% of the Tencent's mobile [...]
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Back in March, NetEase and Square Enix announced the joint development of a new mobile entry in the Million Arthur series, which loosely translates to "Rebellious Million Arthur." The game would be the third in the series of card-based mobile RPGs, but other than that, not much was announced at first. Yesterday, NetEase unveiled that the game will have a [...]
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Tomorrow's Lineage 2: Revolution's update will formally introduce sieges. Sieges are set to occur every Sunday at from 9:30 PM to 10:00 PM KST, with the first siege set to occur this Sunday, April 30th. In Lineage 2: Revolution, sieges are fought in order to determine who controls each of the game world's castles. One clan defends a castle while [...]
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Project DH is an upcoming Unreal Engine 4-powered action RPG developed by Mabinogi and Vindictus developer devCAT. It was first unveiled at G-Star 2016, but more details were revealed today at Nexon Developers Conference 17. While we were not able to attend the conference ourselves, fortunately, ThisIsGame has all of the details. Project DH is set in a steampunk world [...]
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Neowiz announced at G-Star 2016 that it had licensed the Bless IP to Longtu Korea, including all of the PC game's assets, for the creation of a Bless mobile game. It's been five months since then and we've yet to hear anything more about the game, but Neowiz announced yesterday that it has also licensed the IP to JOYCITY studio [...]
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It's no secret that Bless wasn't exactly finished when it launched. It is said that the initial level cap was intended to be 60, but the game launched with a total of 45 levels of content. Due to the fact that the game was launched in an unfinished state, Russian publisher 101XP has decided to close the game and send [...]
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ChangYou seems to be on somewhat of a major downturn right now, as its first quarter 2017 revenues are showing non-trivial decreases year-over-year. In total, the company made $120 million in revenue, an 8% decrease year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. Online game revenue was a mere $85 million, a 17% decreases year-over-year and an 11% decrease quarter-over-quarter. ChangYou claims that the decrease [...]
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Bless is entering Closed Beta in yet another region and, unfortunately, it isn't North America or Europe. No, the next region to receive the highly anticipated Korean MMORPG is Japan. If you've been following the game, this makes sense, as it is being published via the Japanese Pmang portal, which is Neowiz's own gaming portal. Despite that, it's still a [...]
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Tencent announced yesterday at its Tencent UP press conference that, among others, it will be publishing Deformers, Paladins, Paragon, and Rocket League in China. We were unable to attend the conference ourselves, but fortunately, Niko Partners industry analyst Daniel Ahmad has us covered. Tencent and Ready at Dawn will work to bring 'DEFORMERS' to China. #TencentUP pic.twitter.com/5RAprTXzvg — Daniel Ahmad [...]
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