Thursday, October 18, 2007

POPOMING PREVIEW!!


Game About, one of most popular webzines in Korea introduced POPOMING review before the first closed beta test.
Here is the link!

POPOMING REVIEW


POPOMING, Two Thumbs Up!!
Gamers give Ten Full Points for POPOMING!!
POPOMING, new online casual RPG by JoyImpact finished its first closed beta test last weekend. Mud4U, one of most popular webzines in Korea had review on its site. Scaled one to ten, participated gamers gave ten full points to POPOMING. They say they were very satisfied with the last version and they especially enjoyed one of POPOMING's unique features, transforming system.
The Mud4u review article introduces POPOMING as the following.
POPOMING has cartoonic SD characters named ARA, CHIRO, and ROY which you might have seen in children's book or comic books. Their adorable appearances apeal to young and female players. It's control system is also very simple and easy that anyone playing the game for the first time can easily adapt to the environment. The most interesting and fun part of playing POPOMING is to experience transformation of the three characters. Each character has five different ways to transform, in 5 stages. To make it more easy, one character can change into 25 different characters and experience different skills, items each time.
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Halloween Party in PANGYA



PANGYA OPENS HALLOWEEN PARTY WORLD WIDE
42 Countries Participate the Halloween Event Today

Seoul, Korea(October 18, 2007) – HanbitSoft announced today that Pangya, online golf game, is opening Halloween Party in 42 countries.

42 countries include Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, North America and Europe. From today, these 42 countries are having Halloween Party inside Pangya. Pangya has exclusively developed items and event to celebrate Halloween world wide. The Halloween Party in Pangya starts today in Korea first.

Halloween Party opens in Pangya Island, and for those who join the party, Pangya has prepared many rare items such as Halloween Club, Pumpkin hat just for Halloween.

“This is the first time for Pangya to open a large event world wide,” said BK Yoon, Hanbitsoft PR director. “We are planning on more world wide events in the future. We hope gamers will like it.”

Pangya is an online golf game developed by NTREEV. Pangya is serviced in 43 countries world wide, and loved by casual gamers for its cute characters and stable updates.
For more information on Pangya’s world wide Halloween Party, visit
www.pangya.com and other official sites world wide.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

NeoSteam in China!



NEO STEAM China

NeoSteam's Expansion package release is coming up. Before the release NeoSteam is having an event until October 19th. Premium items are provided to those who collects most points in each server.

To see the original article, visit
http://news.17173.com/content/2007-10-17/20071017163613622,1.shtml

GE interview at Launch Party China



Granado Espada's OBT in China

Granado Espada had its lauch party in China last week, and announced that OBT for GE in China will start from October 24th.

Well known developer Hak- Kyu Kim showed up at the party to celebrate together.
At the interview with 17173.com, Kim mentioned that he's satisfied with GE's OBT in China. He had launched GE in many other countries before China, and the game has been updated ever since.

"Many gamers are showing positive feedbacks, and I think this OBT is very successful." said Kim. "We are planning on releasing the expansion package, and it will be focused on communication systems."

For more details, read the original article at
http://news.17173.com/content/2007-10-16/20071016164533045.shtml

Groove Party OBT 1.5 in China






According to 17173.com, GROOVE PARTY's Open Beta version 1.5 has smaller client size than the last version. The new client is 1.12G, and you can download now. SunShine, is also having an event to celebrate. For those who participate, SunShine provides 5000 game money, 21 new songs, and DJ. For more details, visit http://gp.higame.com.cn/
You can read the original article from 17173.com at

Hellgate: London NEWS

MEET HELLGATE: LONDON™ BEFORE HALLOWEEN

Seoul, Korea (October 18, 2007) – HanbitSoft today announced that Hellgate: London(
www.hellgate.co.kr) has gone to gold master and will be available exclusively for the PC on October 31st in North America.

“This has been an amazing journey for us and we couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished,” said Flagship Studios CEO, Bill Roper. “We’re anxious to get Hellgate: London into gamers’ hands and we can’t wait to play right along with them.”

For gamers who can’t wait until Halloween, Flagship Studios is releasing a single player demo this Friday, October 19th. The single player demo is just for a small taste of the Hellgate: London experience. Gamers can choose from two of the six character classes and experience the streets and tunnels around London’s Holborn Station.

Flagship Studios also made announcement of collectors edition, which includes the entire Hellgate: London comics series by Dark Horse Comics. The Hellgate: London Collectors Edition will be released on October 31, 2007, in conjunction with the release date of the game. In addition to the Hellgate: London game and the exclusive, special edition, 104 page Hellgate: London graphic novel, the collectors set will also include a bonus DVD of The Making of Hellgate: London, as well as the game soundtrack, and a special Hellgate: London world map.

HanbitSoft has also announced that Hellgate: London’s Korean version of limited edition will be released very soon. Before then, Korean gamers can experience Hellgate: London on October 20th and 21st. HanbitSoft is operating a test to check on exterior interface surroundings before going into second Closed Beta Test. Only selected testers from the last Closed Beta Test can participate on this test, and they will be experiencing ACT2, the unrevealed part of Hellgate’s storyline.