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As always, Korea is somewhere off in the future, being all Blade Runnery.
Despite the barrage of inquiries, the troubled sites are keeping mum until then. Only Item Ria, which experienced connection problems, posted a notice on its site explaining the reason behind the shut-down. “We were under pressure from hackers, and a temporary shut-down for [...] Read More...
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Shanda, one of China’s largest MMO producers, has announced that boys must be boys and girls must be girls in one of its latest MMOs… and if you want to roll a female character, you have to prove you are a female. Via webcam.
I fervently pray something has been lost in the translation. Read More...
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Incorruptible Warrior, the truly bizarre anti-graft game from the land of some truly bizarre MMOs, has gone offline. This translation of a Chinese newspaper article has some details of the game:
When you kill a corrupt official, you gain experience points. For example, killing the notorious eunuch official Wei Zhongxian from [...] Read More...
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When you have thousands of prisoners at your beck and call, there’s clearly only one thing to do: restage 1980’s music videos. More on this on the BBC. Read More...
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Interesting take by the SF Chronicle on problems facing Asian MMO producers entering the US market, with an emphasis on the re-release/morphing of Granado Espada to Sword of the New World.
“With all due respect, E3 is a gathering for the old school videogame industry,” he says. “It’s driven by consoles, and it’s all about the [...] Read More...
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Granado Espada shows us their new “Mandarin Pop Star” class Read More...
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Apparently Ragnarok has been shut down in Vietnam for, as best as I can understand, violating commerce laws.
On February 5, the HCM City Department of Post and Telecommunications instructed VinaGame to stop its Ragnarok services because it failed to apply limits to the sales and exchanges of game products. Read More...
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As seen on Zen of Design, the Chinese are seeing the South Korean moves towards RMT legislation and saying “hm, got to get us some of that“. Of course, the stereotype of China is being part of the problem with RMT, to put it mildly, but now that the Chinese have domestic MMOs as well, [...] Read More...
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J. Henderson has a story up on Gamasutra about the continuing adventures of Jake Song, who designed that Lineage series you may have heard of.
Was there an opportunity to reach both [Asian and American] markets before now? Maybe, Song wrote. “I think I had a chance to do it at NCsoft but I missed it. [...] Read More...
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According to reports from Korea, the National Assembly (the Korean legislature) is considering a bill that will make trading in virtual gold a crime, specifically with fines assessed on companies that buy and sell the stuff.
Ted Castronova from Terra Nova sees this as a long-needed shot across IGE’s bow… but in a global industry where [...] Read More...
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