November 2018 – Murasama•net

Krafton will be the new parent company name of Bluehole

By Murasama November 30, 2018

As noted previously regarding Bluehole's decision to rename the company, an extraordinary general meeting was held in order to approve the new corporate name. The parent company will now be…

TERA Frontiers: Mobile version of TERA to be published by Kakao

By Murasama November 29, 2018

As noted in my prior post regarding Bluehole's KRAFTON brand, Red Sahara Studio which Bluehole acquired (for their version of TERA on mobile) earlier this year in March, now has…

Bluehole launches KRAFTON Brand (a twist on the old Bluehole Alliance)

By Murasama November 27, 2018

Bluehole previously referred to their subsidiary units under the umbrella known as the Bluehole Alliance. They created a new brand called the KRAFTON Game Union as a way to allow…

LOST ARK Chinese Server Beta Rumor

By Murasama November 25, 2018

https://mmoculture.com/2018/11/lost-ark-rumors-claim-china-server-is-starting-closed-beta-soon/ The "teaser" site is back online https://lostark.qq.com/ (no changes besides now answering to https requests). It's not clear if Tencent had prior approval (before the moratorium earlier this year on new…

Smilegate Adds Two More Servers for LOST ARK

By Murasama November 24, 2018

http://www.inven.co.kr/board/lostark/4820/577 Everglas and Beatrice were added (bringing the total server count to 11) along with increasing the capacity for existing servers in order to help alleviate the login queues during…

Activision Blizzard Stock is Going to Zero and Beyond

By Murasama November 24, 2018

Let me try my hand at this click-bait title thing.... sarcasm intended... This again refers to why I stopped wasting time with the official Blizzard (D3) forums. When looking for…

That David Brevik Piece is 1 Month Old!

By Murasama November 20, 2018

Recently, a bunch of sites began to pickup what was known around a month ago regarding Brevik opining (drunkedly) about his thoughts of Mike Morhaime stepping down as Blizzard CEO/President…

LOST ARK Western Release – Keep Your Expectations in Check

By Murasama November 18, 2018

While I believe it is fine to speculate about how soon (or not) Smilegate will officially release this in the west, I've been seeing many take the Chosun Biz article from September…