Fans can officially stop dreaming: there will be no free-to-play relaunch of "Hellgate: London" in the United States. Although "Hellgate: London" will continue to receive updates created by a US developer, and press releases for those updates will likely continue to appear in English, HanbitSoft global PR manager Janelle Ha today clarified that the company still [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
It seems Eidos isn’t the only UK publisher/developer facing hard times ahead. In a recent NESTA report, analysts predict the UK will slip to sixth in the world gaming scene by the end of 2009; China, Korea, and Canada are all expected to surpass the UK. The first two will (almost assuredly) remain the US [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 15, 2008
When I wrote about Age of Conan and Warhammer Online preparing to make their splash in the Korean MMO market, I couldn’t help but wonder if the games would reach a similar level of success as they did in the US. So far, I’m still going to stick with my prediction and say no. In the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
If baseball and movies are America’s national pastimes, then MMOs and StarCraft are Korea’s. Hell, MMOs are such a big part of Korean pop culture that the Korean government funded and opened an English website dedicated to getting American (and other English speaking) gamers to play their Korean products. So it should come as no shock [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 21, 2008
As each new generation grows more and more net-savvy, new steps are being taken to provide safe havens for our impressionable youngsters. Cartoon Network, a company that knows a thing or two about keeping kids entertained, is entering the online fray: Cartoon Network is preparing to launch Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall (appropriately) this fall. On the surface, FusionFall looks like a standard kid-safe MMORPG which leverages CN's portfolio of unique characters, but as we learned during an extended conference with the FusionFall team yesterday, it has the potential to be much more than another single-click-combat level grinder -- and, as parents will be pleased to discover, it employs some fascinatingly extensive technology in the name of child safety.
Continue reading...Thursday, August 14, 2008
Fantasy MMORPGs are a tricky thing to report one's impressions on. Here is a genre of game whose very design is intended to be epic and time-consuming, providing players with dozens upon dozens of hours of large, suitably "massive" tasks like exploring a sprawling new game world, battling and questing your way through a rich, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Nintendo has tried -- and by some accounts, failed -- to stop DS software piracy in Korea with threats of "strict legal action" against those distributing the pirated commercial titles. But in Japan, they're taking a different tack. Rather than trace the digital ones and zeros left behind by ROM pirates, Nintendo has instead decided [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
This week on GameSpyte, Jesse explores Bill Gate's philanthropic side, harmful chemicals in game consoles, Microsoft's attentive customer service and Uwe Boll's latest theatrical disaster, Postal.
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