Dice interviews with Min Kim to talk about the future of Nexon America; talking about Block Party, how the business is going, and new games coming soon.

Link: http://www.gamepro.com/video/news/138003/nexon-america-dice-interview/

Credits to GAMEPro.

Nexon has released a new game called PopTag. It has been in development for about a year now and it seems like Nintendo has something to say… (Well, not really, but this game does seem like Bomberman.)

You know the very similar retro game back in the late 1990’s? Clueless? Well, don’t worry I’ll fill you in. Bomerman is a game that allows the user/player to play as a character in a map. The character on the screen has an objective: to kill the opponent. No matter how hard/tactical/ugly the monster is, the person must fight it. The character has bombs which are used to destroy the enemy.

In PopTag, it seems like the same exact thing. Except we aren’t using bombs, but something much safer: water balloons. The objective of the game is to try to get as many points as possible and to defeat the boss before you feel like a fool standing there with monsters “draining” your life. You are allowed to work in teams.

So let me ask you, (Yes, I mean you…the person staring at the screen) do these look familiar? Compare them and see for yourself.

What do you think? Share your opinions below.

Youtube- (Bomerman Video)

Wikipedia- Bomberman Info

Nexon’s Official PopTag Website

… because a new game is taking their place!

It’s called PopTag, a new game made by NexonAmerica.
Basically, it’s kind of like the hit game BomberMan, but replace the characters with KartRider characters.

What do you think guys?

Will this game be successful or will it be sent down the river like KartRider? D:

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuoF35091QU&feature=sub

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

Thanks to an anonymous source for this link. Looks like the “Blizzard doesn’t sue private servers!” argument is now null and void.

Source

We’ve talked about private servers on the site here before, but in case you haven’t heard the term: they’re unofficial servers, very much against WoW’s Terms of Use, that are run by companies other than Blizzard. They’re shady as get out — some make you pay (and these are not people you’d ever want to give any credit card information to), some will delete or change characters on a regular basis, and many times they’re created just so whoever’s running them can mess around with GM powers, and cheat with any items they want.

So you can see why Blizzard would want them shut down, and that’s exactly what they’re trying to do with this lawsuit filed in the California Central District Court against a company called “Scapegaming” that runs at least one private WoW server (and they’ve apparently been running microtransactions in-game — selling in-game items for “donations” of money). The law firm working for Blizzard, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, also worked on the “Bnetd” case, which was another piece of unofficial server software that allowed players to play off of Blizzard’s Battle.net setup.

The complaint lists copyright infringement as the cause, which means they’re probably using the same argument targeted at other private servers in the past. We’ll keep an eye on this, but it’s very likely Blizzard will win this one unopposed, and Scapegaming (or at least just their WoW server) will get shut down for good.

Thanks, Phenom!

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.

This is an actual recreation of what will happen when MapleStory closes.

WonderKing

WonderKing

~UnknownFox

Well we all know MapleStory is one of the most popular games around the world, but is it slowly turning into the next WoW?

Here’s an article about an addict with a serious problem:

Happy 4th of July from everyone here at Maple-News!