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Labor/Personnel Issues at Smilegate (LOST ARK Related)

By Murasama February 24, 2019

An Inven article from back in October 2018 reveals some illicit details regarding labor related issues at Smilegate where employees were "forced" to resign depending on several different circumstances according…

LOST ARK – Episode 1: Rohendel Continent Available

By Murasama January 31, 2019

Smilegate patched in the first major continent update to the game a few days ago (January 30th Korea local time). Mokokoark has a small amount of the patch notes translated. For…

LOST ARK OBT – Episode 1 Rohendel Continent Coming on January 30

By Murasama January 16, 2019

Additionally, another image gives a sneak peek at what will be the first major PvP battleground which will be detailed in a forthcoming roadmap update.

LOST ARK OBT Redux

By Murasama January 9, 2019

Now that Lost Ark has been out in open beta for 2 months, the picture has become much clearer as to the positives and negatives of the current design (some…

Smilegate signs publishing deal with Mail.ru for LOST ARK Russia

By Murasama December 21, 2018

In what is clearly surprising news, Smilegate announced that Mail.ru aka My.com will be the publisher for LOST ARK in Russia. The news is currently specific to the Russian service…

LOST ARK – Huge Balance Update + Developer Notes About Upcoming Changes

By Murasama December 13, 2018

Smilegate performed a major balance/tuning pass update (with a ton of bug fixes) for LOST ARK (KR), touching every single subclass in the process as they looked through player data…

[Rant] When does speculation on a blog become official news?

By Murasama December 3, 2018

http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=jmk1756&logNo=221406229009 First of all, Naver is one of South Korea's largest/longest running online sites with a lot of user generated content. The blogging component there is akin to Blogger (blogspot)…

Smilegate – 11/29 LOST ARK Update

By Murasama December 2, 2018

After last weeks November 29th maintenance, Smilegate released a massive communique regarding upcoming updates they will be focusing on for the first half of December. http://www.inven.co.kr/board/lostark/4820/604 The pertinent part comes…