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Korean game companies hit up with their game advertisement

Now, the advertisements in Korean game maket hit up by starring top-notch Korean actors, paying millions of dollars for their promotion. In the ads, famous Korean movie stars are covered with VFX swing game weapons.  Byung Hun Lee, who also appearred on the various Hollywood movies like G.I.Joe or Terminator Genisys, gives his worrier image in gaeme promotion film.

Webzen's "Mu Origins", Netmarbles "Idea", Kunrun Korea "Nantu", Rocket Moblie "Ghost",Neowiz Games "Asker", use star image in their games and compete for promotion.
Game companies have been used star marketing before, appearing popular actors or Kpop idols enjoy their games with bright and enjoyable atmosphere. Sometimes, those idols wore game charactors dolls for bubbly and friendly images, giving the messege "Let's join together".

However, after success of various RPG games, companies tries to project fantasy image of the game to the Korean stars, adding actions and weight feeling of the game, and of course, these promotion hugely works on the Korean audience to make the game successful.

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Introducing Korean mobile game, Anipang

Anipang is one of the greatest hits on Korean mobile game history, made by Sunday Toz. It ranked number 1 in mobile game for two consequetive years (20011-12), the game has been everyones favorite from childs to elders.

 

 

Thes leaderboards show how well your friends are doing compared to you, creating a competitive experience. The gameplay in Anipang for Kakao is very simple. There are various animals that you match together and get rid of to make more opportunities for chains. There is a meter at the top of the screen that you fill as you clear animals, which will give you a bomb that will clear long lines.

 

Visuals in Anipang for Kakao are very cartoony, but they fit the style of the game very well. The sounds in the game can get annoying, but you have the option of turning them off. As a free game, each round costs "1 heart." You can send hearts to friends so they can keep playing adding to the social aspect of Anipang for Kakao. You also earn coins that are used for upgrades in the store and there are also in-app purchases for in-game currency that can be traded for coins or hearts.

The design of Anipang for Kakao does not require you to spend money that often if you have a lot of KakaoTalk friends.

 

You can get the download Anipang both iOS and Android in United States too.

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Introducing one of the greatest hit games in Korea, Lineage 2

Lineage 2 is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Window, the second game in the Lineage series. It is a prequel to Lineage, and is set 150 years before the earlier game. 

It has become very popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in reporting 1,000,918 unique users during the month of March 2007. To date, the game has been played by more than 14 million users, mostly based in Korea. 

The game follows a fictional history through sets of plots called "Sagas". There are currently two sagas: "The Chaotic Chronicle" and "The Chaotic Throne". Large-scale updates and expansions known as "Chronicles" are done every six months, which introduce new story elements as well as new features and add-ons. Each chronicle also adds a great deal of new content to the game, including new skills, quests, areas and items; some chronicles also increased the level cap.

Characters act as a player's avatar within the game. Players are afforded up to 7 characters per account. There are currently six races in the world of Lineage 2. 

The Humans, who are similar to modern-day humans and who have all-around balanced characteristics; the Elves, who have superior dexterity, movement, and casting speed, but weaker offense; Dark Elves, who have higher magic and melee attack capabilities; Orcs, who have higher HP and MP but slower movement; Dwarves, who are powerful melee attackers and master craftsmen; and Kamael, who are humanoids with single wings and gender-specific job classes.

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Mobile Gaming Market still in growth in China

There are more Chinese internet users than double the entire population of the United States, and there is so much money to be made, that nothing is going to stop it.

One of the biggest opportunities in China might be in mobile gaming, where China is about to overtake the United States for the first time ever, according to the Mobile Gaming Report 2015 out from Asian Games Market Intelligence company Niko.

2015 will be the first year that the Chinese mobile games market revenue will have surpassed that of the U.S. market, where revenue to reach $4.5 billion in 2015. The size of the Chinese market is only expected to grow, more than doubling to $11.1 billion by 2019.

While high mobile gaming usage is obviously a good thing for companies wanting to expand there, they may have trouble breaking in if they are not specific to the culture.

Kabam partnered with Longtu, to publish its Marvel game, they saw the need to, rather than doing it themselves, have a Chinese company publish and market the game for them in order to better let it succeed. They also changed the game, everything except the title and the IP, in order to suit the Chinese audience.

10 ideas for weapons

1. Jet pack, two compact plane engines attached. Normally, it makes player to fly. If player lands to the ground, the engine parts change into flame thrower.

2. Healing spray, which looks like a combustion fog generator. The spraying part looks like a fencing foil at first, pokes a body and sucks up the blood. If the can fills up, fencing foil transforms into the dull spray for injured soilders to heal.

3. Motorcycle helmet, it is normal helmet. If the player changes helmet into 'attack mode', two small machine guns come out from the sides, near ear areas. Guns take aim at enemies automatically.

4. Bullet absorbing shield, which absorbs the bullets in some degree, and changes into weapon to attack with the absorbed bullets.

5. Jumping shoes, looking like robot feet attached to a human feet. Player can jump higher than others, with the momentum of bullets. Also, there are two points of gun that can helps to attact the enemies on the back.

6. Long-distance rocket launcher with navigation. Even though it seems like ordinary rocket launcher, it can attack far distance enemies using nativation after activating a satellite antenna.

7. Back pack-type gatling gun. At two sides of the back pack, there are two points of gatling gun, easily player can access to the weapon for attacking enemies.

8. Portable stereo, which seems like a portable hiphop stereo, contains grenades in the speaker parts. Player can use the grenades whenever they want.

9. Belt-type electric shock sword. Player uses this weapon as a belt contains battery back as buckle. The belt transforms into electric sword to give the shock to the enemies.

10. Gigantic flashlight. Fixed to the tripod, if the enemies step on, the powerfull flashlight blinds them.

'World of Warships' launches with free online play

World of Warships is a naval action themed massively multiplayer online game produced by Wargaming. The game freatures aspects similar to "World of Tanks" and "World of Warplanes", having several types of military ships fulfilling different roles within teamed player versus player battles. It will be released for Microsoft Windows on September 17, 2015. After about a year of beta-testing sea trials, the game is revealed.

Fans of Wargaming's "World of Tanks" will find a lot to like with this new title. Similar controls, game play and upgrade pathways along with the familiar World War II-like hardware and battle settings. Newcomers to the Wargaming universe will still enjoy the relatively intuitive controls and get underway to wrecking high seas havoc in no time.

In game play, teams of 12 face off against each other across one of 10 maps. Designers have taken some liberty here at the expense of realism .Battles largely take place amid island-dotted settings, but the additional landscape provides both a welcome visual element also presenting fun tactical play as you maneuver your ship for the best cover.

Better ships, faster upgrades and a wide range of consumables can be purchased thorough Wargaming.net's online store, but as with its predecessor "World of Tanks," there's still plenty of fun to be had freeloading as you build your war chest through game play.

AcheAge knocks to China market.

ArcheAge is an MMORPG developed by Korean developer Jake Song (former developer of Lineage) and his development company, XL Games. The game was released in Korea on January 15, 2013, Europe and North America on September 16, 2014,. 

The game is described as a "sandpark" MMORPG, which the developers say is a hybrid of the open content style of a "sandbox" game and the more structured play experience of a "themepark" game.

The ArcheAge takes another step to China with holding hands with one of the biggest internet provider in China, Tencents. The game changes into its title to "Sanggoxieqi" more like Chinese way, both companies prepare around 100 or more servers for the big launching day.

The ArcheAge service is in partial free, and players must to buy several items for further fun with various contents. The game ranked in number 1 in new releasing games in Chinese portal like 12173 and DuoWan, showing the expectation of Chinese players. 

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That Dragon Cancer, love for one developer's son

Joel was diagnosed with an atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor, a particularly invasive form of brain cancer. He was treated with radiation and chemotherapy, but now a doctor, fighting back his tears, is explaining that the tumor has returned. Little Joel will not survive. It is just a matter of time. 

For the last three years, Ryan, a game designer, has been working with a team of coders and artists on "That Dragon, Cancer" a kind of interactive biopic, exploring his son’s life and the experience of caring for him. The game takes the form of a “point and click” adventure, built around his family’s memories.

It began with a book Amy (mother) wrote to explain Joel’s situation to the couple’s four young sons. In it, she depicts his struggle as a mythical battle, with his cancer portrayed as a terrifying dragon. The game is touching and also, there are wits in some scenes too. 

Joel died on March last year. He died after fighting a succession of tumors over four years, after relearning to walk and speak several times. 

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Pikmin 4, coming soon!

Nintendo has confirmed "Pikmin 4", the previously unannounced next iteration in its real-time strategy series, is in advanced stages of development. 

Speaking during an interview with Eurogamer in July 2015, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto said Pikmin 4 is "actually very close to completion."

Pikmin is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube in 2001. It was created and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, and is the first game in the Pikmin series. The player controls Captain Olimar, an astronaut who crash-lands on a mysterious planet. Olimar befriends creatures he calls "pikmin", and utilizes their abilities to collect the missing parts of his spaceship he lost during the crash. The player has 30 days to recover the pieces and repair the ship. Both Olimar and the Pikmin are approximately one inch in height. 

The game was both a critical and commercial success. The game has spawned two sequels,Pikimin 2(2004) for the GameCube and Pikimin 3(2013) for the Wii U. In 2009, Pikimin was re-released for the Wii as part of the New Play Control! series.

First Korean Indie Game Festival is held in Busan, Korea

First Korean Indie Game Festival will be held in Busan, Korea, from Sept 10.

The festival is held by Busan city and Cultural Department, and Korean Mobile Associates and Korea Contents Academy are the sponsors.  

During the festival, both domestic and foreign indie developers comes together to introduce their own indie games and share lots of information.  The first evening in festival, there with be event outside of BCC building, called "BIC: After Dark", the 6 new games will be released to play in the dark. 

Keynote address will be spoken by Kelly Wallick, creator of Indie Megabooth and President of IFG. Also, there would be more keynotes lectures by Google and Webzen representatives. 

​There would be exhibition of Indie games, from unreleased to the popular hit games, total of 80 games. ​The exhibition is free to the public, who are interested in indie games can come to enjoy. 

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The mood is Fear

Star Wars Uprising (Game), will be launched on Sep 10th.

On September 10th, free-to-play "Star Wars: Uprising" mobile game will be released on iOS and Android devices. All the movie fans and mobile gamer would be excited to hear the news, and the game is worth paying attention to.

The game is an official canon, takes place after the events of "Return of the Jedi" in the Anoat sector of the Star Wars galaxy. After the Emperor's death, the leaders tries to maintain tight control, using the new Purge Troopers to enforce the Empire's iron will.

In the game playing, it is a cooperative dungeon that looks similar to the Blizzard Entertainment's popular "Diablo" series, with laser pistols and Storm troopers instead of demons. Players have to work together to battle various Imperial enemies using their unique skills. After defeating those enemies, players are rewarded with items of various quality to improve their characters.

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" lands in theaters on December 18th. 

Ubisoft plans to open theme park in Malaysia!

Ubisoft, the maker of video games including "Assassin's Creed" and "Just Dance," plans to build a games-themed amusement park in Malaysia, the company announced this week. 

The 10,000-square meter park will be based in Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur and will open in 2020, according to Ubisoft, featuring the rides based on the French company's popular franchises, such as Rayman Raving Rabbids.

Ubisoft's park will not be the first video game-based theme park. Angry Birds Land ,based on the popular mobile game developed by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment opened in 2012 in Finland and the U.K. also hosts an Angry Birds Activity Park. 

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