You’ve heard of Twitter, right? If you haven’t, you must have been living under a rock!

The Maple News Twitter page is looking pretty dull right now and we need your help to fix it up! Design us a MapleStory based Twitter background for Maple News and the best background image will be put on our Twitter page and the creator will win 5 million mesos in a server of their choice. It’s the easiest 5 mill you’ll ever make!

Send your submissions to twittercontest@maple-news.com with your image attached or a link to it on the internet by February 20th to be eligible to win.

Nexon, are you ready?

Due to the recent reports about GMS (MapleStory Global), using a new set of codes to launch the game via their website. Nexon might not have noticed… we use Window computers to play MapleStory, not Macs (Apple Computers)!

What do I mean?

Hypothetically speaking, launching Maplestory using a website launcher is like managing your banking/SSN (Social Security Number) without thinking about spy-ware entering your computer, and stealing your data.

Playing MapleStory on the official website is a BIG risk. Nexon really has to step up their protection. The new Hackshield program currently in use wouldn’t do squat to protect us from website-based attacks especially account fraud and keyloggers. Keyloggers are extremely deadly. They can see what you type on your computer and where you go.

Spyware is also a concern. There are tons of websites out there pretending to be official MapleStory websites offering to give you free NX for your account information. In early 2008 there were at least 100,000 accounts hacked due to their owners entering their information on a fake official site. (According to the Maplestory Website Notice in Early 2008)

Nexon and everyone else in the MapleStory community should STOP and think about how this change can affect the safety of accounts. Security must be improved if the web client is to be a success. Just be careful and mindful of URL’s and links and you should be fine. Make sure that when you log in to the MapleStory homepage to launch MapleStory you aren’t on maplestory.nexonn.net.

Is Nexon ready for this big leap? OR am I just insane to bring this up…I don’t know…but tell us what you think.

Sources: Basilmarket.com/google.com/maplestory.nexon.net/nexon.net

Last year Nexon America had been delivering many-many new games features to Maplestory~PopTag. But one in particular is the release of iTCG Online…

Now iTCG Online is a game that is based on it’s “brother” game Maplestory. Most of the equips/items/monsters/etc, are from the game itself.

(Background: iTCG Online is a free Nexon game that only needs to have a web browser open to experience. The game is sort of a like when you play with Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon cards. They are attacks, skills, items, trade, deck building. And they are all virtual.)

But it seems like Nexon is slacking off in their lead game (Maplestory). Apparently they put more work in iTCG, than making Maplestory a better MMORPG for the rest of us. If you observed the past year (2009) Maplestory South East Asia (MSEA), had gotten a wide varrity of new maps/places/items, you name it! The people in Global Maplestory, however, had been struggling behind them one patch after another, (we are about maybe 1~2 months behind MSEA.)

I am not criticizing iTCG Online, I am just saying that wouldn’t it be nice to have: The Ninja Castle? Neo Tokyo? or any other maps that other servers: KMS~MSEA (Korean Maplestory~ Maplestory South East Asia)?

It just seems like Nexon is putting up an excuse or a cover so that the Nexon community wouldn’t be AS mad that they don’t have as many features as other version?

Leave us a comment on your perspective below. Maybe I am just crazy, but who knows…

Yes! The fun started yesterday, but now already over 1500 beta-keys were obtained by Mabinogi fans in whole Europe.

Links:
Learn more about Mabinogi here
The official site can be found here
Beta-key give-away is here

Events:
Beta-key give-away!
All beta-keys gone!? Don’t worry, we will give away 3 beta-keys.
How to win? Mail to mrpudding@maple-news.com with the reason you want to win!
Winners will get their beta-key on December 1st, Mabinogi and verifying your beta-key can be done on the 2nd of December and later.

-rules can be changed at any time, we do not correspondent about the winners-

CB Event

Bye, and have fun!!

-MrPudding

Halloween is almost upon us…so why not have a spooky event?

Show your support for Maple-News by going in-game and taking a picture of your character saying “Happy Halloween Maple News!” in your best Halloween outfit. Upload your image and post it in the comments below.

If you want to make things even more interesting, get a bunch of your friends and do it! The more people, the better the image!

You will be rated on the following:

• Halloween Costume/Outfit
• Amount of participants

The best screen shot will receive a $10 NX Cash Card.

The deadline is November 1st.

Hi there!

A new server check with an awesome event from Nexon Europe for Maplestory!
Check it out below:

The event

Also, they will go trough a server check:
Dear Maplers,

We will go through a Server Check on Wednesday, 30 September, 2009
at 4:00 a.m. CET (GMT+2).
The Server Check will last for approximately 2 1/2 hours and during that time
the users will not be able to access the game and the website.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

- Maintenance of the game system
- Maintenance of the website
- Royal Hair Coupon will be added :

Royal Hair Coupon

- Adding new cash items in the Cash shop:

- Sale on Owl of Minerva item (30%)
- End of Monster Box Drop Event

Time:[Game] : Wednesday, 30 September, 2009 at 4:00 a.m. ~ 6:30 a.m. CET (GMT+2)
[Website]: Wednesday, 30 September, 2009 at 4:00 a.m. ~ 6:00 a.m. CET (GMT+2)

Thank you and Happy Mapling!

- MapleStory Europe Staff –

~Pudding

ps. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter, and join our forum! (Click to go to our forum)

In celebration of the closed beta launch of Dungeon Fighter Online, a new game by Nexon America, I have received 5 closed beta keys which will be given away to 5 people in this event.

What you have to do

• Create a 1000×158 pixels fall-themed MapleStory banner for the Maple News website
• The banner must not have any text whatsoever
• It must be a JPG file
• You must submit the link to your banner in this forum thread

The top 5 banner creators will have their banners featured on Maple-News.com and will receive a closed beta key. A new banner will be displayed every week.

The deadline is Friday October 2nd, 2009.

*Note: Your closed beta key may or may not work depending on Nexon America and if the keys have an expiration date. The keys were received September 8th and we realize this is quite late to be holding an event, but because of the recent DDoS attack the event was delayed.  Please be aware they may not work before entering the competition.

Posted from: http://maplestory.nexon.net/WZ.ASPX?PART=/News/View&boardNo=100&contentNo=005fF
Additional info at: http://maplestory.nexon.net/WZ.ASPX?PART=/Event/View&boardNo=200&contentNo=005fJ

I haven’t made a article in a long time. However, Global Maplestory has a new patch.

 MapleStory will be going through a scheduled update on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009. 

This one involves the game servers, and it’ll last for approximately 7 hours.