Archive for July, 2011

Maple Story in Facebook Now

July 29th, 2011

Nexon’s popular side-scrolling MMORPG <Maple Story> is invading Facebook social game platform.

<Maple Story Advantures> launched its service on July 28, retaining colorful animation styles, action-driven game play, and immersive story-telling from PC MMORPG <Maple Story> which has more than 100m subscribers all over the world. Moreover, it features social network contents like qeusts interacting with friends.

It gathered 30,000+ gamers during a CBT recently took place for 11 days and 40,000+ Facebook users liked it.

Daniel Kim the CEO of Nexon America said “The action RPG <Maple Story Advantures> will give new exciting experience to the social game players.”

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NATE Hacking Clamors for PW Change

July 29th, 2011

After SONY groups and other major companies were bothered with hacking terrors, recently a Korean portal site NATE got hacked and leaked 35m personal information.

The 35,000,000 is 2/3 of whole Korean population, which means everyone except the elder and infants who do not likely use internet. What’s worse, my information is also stolen. >(

SK Communications’ NATE and Cyworld are one of the biggest portal sites and social network sites in Korea. Especially Cyworld is matchlessly the top SNS in Korea.

On 28th, many online game sites including PlayNC, Netmarble, and Pmang notified customers to change their password or use secondary security service such as OTP in order to prevent any damage arising from the hacking.

The leakage is the largest in size ever and contains customers’ name, ID, password, phone number, social number, address, and so on. SK Communications announced that the password and social numbers are fortunately coded. But who knows? The hackers already broke its network security. There is no law for them against decoding it.

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MBC Seems To Quit Broadcasting Game

July 28th, 2011

A game broadcastor MBC Game seems to turn into a music channel after its 10 years of establishment.

MBC Plus Media, the host company of MBC Game, is allegedly working with a music site in order to launch the music channel.

To do so, MBC Plus Media seems to sign an agreement with the partner and restructure the organization for later music service. All the e-sports and game programs would be closed within this year.

MBC Game has been one of top two game broadcastor with OnGameNet and has contributed to deveolping e-sports and game culture.

JaeHyuk Jang a production director of MBC Game said “It is true that we are talking about the music channel. But changing the genre to music from game is not fixed yet. We are being discreet about it since recent e-sports is making many negative rumors.”

If MBC Game becomes MBC Music, OnGameNet and Anibox are the only broadcasters for game left in Korea.

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NCsoft Acquired A Mobile Game Studio

July 26th, 2011

NCsoft took over a mobile game studio named Hotdog Studio by purchasing 58.3% of shares in the company.

Hotdog Studio had developed <Orient Saga> <Dark Shrine> etc. for feature phones and has been seperated independantly from a mobile application company HuOne ever since January 2010.

As it became an independant smart phone studio, it made many games including <Ready Action> <Tap Tap Shooter 2+1>.

NCsoft said “We are enhancing our ability in smart phone environment for NCsoft’s future. The acquisition is not M&A but a share investment which is a part of the business expansion we have worked on for a long time.”

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Nexon Once Again Broke New CCU Records

July 25th, 2011

Nexon announced that its popular MMORPGs <Maple Story> and <Dungeon & Fighter> broke their CCU records again.

<Maple Story> gathered 588,067 concurrent users last Saturday thanks to its trilogy updates after 2 weeks of having its highest CCU 417,000. It is the biggest number in Korea ever.

Meanwhile, <D&F> also topped its highest record, achieving 290,000 CCU. It also launched a big update called ‘D&F Revolution’ that introduces a lot of new things. Additionally it also recorded 2.6m CCU in China which is its hightest record ever.

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