K-TERA – Classic Server Opening on January 31st
After the recent K-TERA dungeon tournament event was completed, a short trailer was played which announced the opening of a classic server. Back in August 2018, Pmang ran a time-limited…
Astellia coming to the west later this year
I last mentioned this MMO earlier in 2018 when the 2nd Korean CBT was about to begin. And as I noted in that posting, it wasn't something I was really…
Nexon Founder to Sell Controlling Stake in Holding Firm
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nexon-sale/nexon-founder-to-sell-controlling-stake-in-gaming-companys-holding-firm-korea-economic-daily-idUSKCN1OX010 Nexon's founder, Kim Jung-ju intends to sell his 98.64% stake in the holding company (NXC Corporation) which is worth approximately $9 billion. Holding companies are fairly common in Asia…
MapleStory 2 Skybound Expansion
http://maplestory2.nexon.net/en/news/article/40256/skybound-expansion-phase-1 Nexon released the first major expansion for MapleStory 2 last week (December 6th) which includes the Sky Fortress and new Soul Binder class. I haven't really started playing the…
MapleStory 2 – The First “Month”
I normally perform these first month retrospectives on games that I've begun playing and thought it would be a good time to do this with MapleStory 2 (actually, next week…
MapleStory 2 Producers Blog – Current State of the Game and Style Crate
http://maplestory2.nexon.net/en/news/article/37035/producer-blog-current-status-our-heartbeat Executive Producer Jungsoo Lee provided a current status update of the game as MapleStory 2 closes out the head start and prepares for todays official launch. For the most…
MapleStory 2 First Impressions
I've been generally just taking my time leveling in MapleStory 2 (many other head start players were already level 50 by day 2 whereas my highest level character as of…
MapleStory 2 Head Start Begins
http://maplestory2.nexon.net/en/news/article/36597/the-head-start-begins Rather than attempting to login right at the start, I waited around 45 minutes and was able to patch (from the Mushkin Royale install) and be in-game around 10…