SEOUL, KOREA (March 6, 2008) – Yedang Online Corporation announced today the open beta launch of its flagship massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) “Pristontale 2: The Second Enigma,” which is powered by Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 2.5. Yedang Online is a dedicated online game developer and publisher best known for certainly developing Korea’s first […]
An online questionnaire polled 15,000 members of the Japanese internet community MyVoice about their feelings towards online games. The sample was 54 percent female, 2 percent teen, 16 percent twenty-something, 37 percent thirty-something, 28 percent forty-something and 17 percent fifty-something. An amazing half of them say they are not really into online games.
San Francisco, CA- February 19, 2008 -IGA Worldwide Inc., the leading independent in-game advertising network announced today from the 2008 Game Developer Conference that it has partnered with id Software to manage all advertising, sponsorship and creative branding opportunities within the forthcoming QUAKE LIVE web site and free-to-play version of the popular action series.
Created by […]
Things haven’t been exactly rosy for Perpetual Entertainment. On October 10, the San Francisco-based developer announced that Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising, its Greco-Roman mythology-inspired massively multiplayer online role-playing game, had been put on “indefinite hold.”
The promising project was effectively canceled so Perpetual could devote more time on their other MMORPG in development, Star Trek […]
A new study by the company Virtual Worlds Management claims that over USD 1 billion (EUR 709.1m) has been invested in virtual worlds companies over the past twelve months. That’s a lot of zeros to be sure.
Although the study’s definition of a virtual world company is tenuous in parts – it also includes Intel’s recent […]
At a press conference during the BlizzCon convention in Los Angeles yesterday, Blizzard stated firmly that it had no plans to implement real money transactions in World of Warcraft - or any of its other games. While microtransactions are an increasingly popular trend in Asia to run free-to-play MMOs where players buy in-game items with […]
id Software has just unveiled its next major game called Rage at QuakeCon and announced that it is building a second development team. This group has already begun by working on an experimental browser-based version of the id’s popular Quake 3 Arena called Quake Zero, which will be funded by advertising. Who would’ve thought that […]
We all know that the videogame industry is a cutthroat business but check out some legal action going on the other side of the pacific courtesy of Gamasutra takes on the increasingly lawsuit-prone Chinese online game market, with publisher 9you and developer T3 Entertainment clashing over smash hit music title Audition, and a Romance of […]
It’s Official - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion details have just been announced by Blizzard from Blizzcon. While it may take some time before we are able to get the new level cap, a chance to battle Arthas himself, and play the deathknight hero class, it actually is a good thing […]
Zelda, one of the largest video game franchises stemming back to the original NES, will make its online debut later this year. Phantom Hourglass, the direct sequel to Gamecube title Wind Waker, will be released later this year onto the Nintendo DS. TGDaily.com has the scoop:
“In an interview with Game Informer […]
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