Added: 07.06.2015 23:16 | 4 views | 0 comments


MMOculture: After three years, Taiwan publisher Beanfun (Gamania) today announced the closure of Mabinogi Heroes on 11 August. The reason given was due to the contract signed with Nexon Korea expiring. Beanfun tried to preserve player data, but it was not possible due to some technical issues. Gamania is preparing to enter the mobile games market soon, and is slowly shutting down its client games.

Added: 07.06.2015 22:16 | 49 views | 0 comments


MMOculture: Two Dota 2 teams from Korea will be spending more than $13,000 to come to Singapore for a few days, just so they can reduce their gaming lag by one tenth of a second. The 11 members from MVP.Hot6ix and MVP.Phoenix are in Singapore to play the qualifying rounds for The International, the biggest competition for the extremely popular competitive online game, Dota 2.

Added: 05.06.2015 2:16 | 4 views | 0 comments


AltPlus Korea have started the pre-registration event of the Astro Musume space battle RPG game in Japan.

Added: 03.06.2015 7:16 | 7 views | 0 comments


A few months after the first Closed Beta phase, publisher Nexon Korea announced Arpiel will enter Closed Beta 2 from 25 June to 28 June.

Added: 20.05.2015 18:16 | 11 views | 0 comments


Polygon: Blade Soul has been out in Korea since 2012, but eager MMO fans in the West have been left wondering if or when publisher NCSoft would decide to bring the game to their shores. Wonder no longer: NCsoft has announced today that Blade Soul will come to North America and Europe this winter. Setting itself apart from most massively multiplayer games, Blade Soul is based around martial arts, specifically drawing from the "wushu" style of Chinese kung fu stories. Think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but with a bunch of friends online.

Added: 13.05.2015 6:17 | 8 views | 0 comments


Remember those women in South Korea who get paid money to film themselves eating large meals to provide company for any lonely diners out there? It appears that a similar trend is growing in popularity in China, only this time with male online gamers who pay an hourly wage for online female escorts to play with them.

Added: 13.05.2015 5:16 | 6 views | 0 comments


Players expecting large-scale guild battles will be disappointed, as Nexon Korea today revealed a new video on the Guild PvP.

Added: 12.05.2015 3:17 | 17 views | 0 comments


Nexon Korea recently held a promotional campaign for the latest update for Mabinogi Heroes (Vindictus), titled as Shadow and Light. When the official promotional artwork was shown, gamers were stunned to see an uncanny resemblance to the one used by Blizzard Entertainment for Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. The main character, Malthael, can be spotted underneath the Nexon image.