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NCsoft to launch Lineage 2: Valiance expansion next week

NCsoft has announced the new Valiance expansion to the Korean publisher’s popular MMORPG Lineage 2 will be released worldwide on 11 December. “Players deep into the game will...
Smartphone release for DQ VIII confirmed for December in Japan

Japanese publisher Square Enix has announced that Dragon Quest VIII for iOS and Android devices will be released in Japan on 12 December. Dragon Quest VIII will be...
Live FPS event IRL Shooter to debut in Sydney next year

IRL Shooter, a live FPS game combining laser-tag technology and realistic weapon props, will launch a new event dubbed Patient 0 in Sydney in 2014. The first zombie-shooter...
Parent Sega looking to Atlus to develop dormant IP

According to a statement by Sega Sammy COO Naoya Tsurumi, the company would “love to have (newly acquired Atlus) utilise any of Sega’s dormant IPs.” Sega IPs that...
Sony sells 2.1M PS4s overseas ahead of Asian launch

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has announced that the company sold 2.1 million PlayStation 4 units as of 1 December, with 700,000 consoles purchased in Europe and...
Mobile, PC games to drive SEA market growth to US$1.2B

Niko Partners managing partner Lisa Cosmas Hanson expects the Southeast Asian games market to double in value from US$661 million to US$1.2 billion by 2017. Mobile and PC...
SQEX confirms FF XIV: A Realm Reborn to PS4 next year

Square Enix has announced that the popular MMORPG version of the Final Fantasy series, FF XIV: A Realm Reborn, will launch on PlayStation 4 in April 2014. Prior...
Rune Factory dev files for bankruptcy in Japan

Neverland, the Japanese developer of Marvelous AQL’s popular RPG sim Rune Factory, has ceased operations, according to a statement by the studio. Citing ‘changing economic conditions’, the company...