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Today’s updates were submitted by Nexon Europe about Maple Story, Gamevil and their new Baseball Superstars 2010 for iPhone, and a new member Min Communications with a unique game called Ran online.
You can find their videos, pictures and press releases onwww.koreagameswire.com
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Navid
Awesome Marketing ^_^
One of my favorite Korean groups “Big Bang” are transformed into playable characters in one of my favorite FPS games “Sudden Attack”
Features include Big Bang character choice, arm reserve etc …
One picture and two videos below:
Navid
Many of you know the giant Korean company NHN. For example they run Korea’s biggest search engine called naver.com and many related online game services and platforms.
Animated by Korean studio WooDUS, this Tetris advert from NHN’s Naver puts the game in a fresh spotlight. However I it very much reminds me of a similar advert by Coca Cola.
I put them next to each other so you can compare ^_^ … What do you think?
It’s nicely done anyway. And only the basic concept is similar. They are both great adverts in my opinion.
This is the Korean Tetris advert:
This is the Coca Cola advert:
By Navid Firouz
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First of all I’d like to thank all the 800, and more, followers on my Twitter account. It seems my tweets are competing with my posts.
Time away from the blog has enabled me to gather plenty of thoughts, which in return need to be transformed into text. Has Google not managed to develop a mind reading application yet? Perhaps that might assure their entry in Microsoft’s operating system domain….
At present I’m playing “Dungeon Fighter Online”, a 2D side scrolling action adventure by NeoPle and published by NEXON. So you know what I’m writing about here is a commercial trailer:
And you can follow my latest updates on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/koreagames
Tweet you later.
Navid
Howdy!
It seems the convenience of Twitter and its picture service Twitpic has made me addicted to post Korea Games related images there directly.
The link is: http://twitpic.com/photos/koreagames
You will find over twenty individual picture posts with comments there.
Yesterday I saw a real life car race in Seoul. A Mercedes vs Hyundai sports car race which ended up being stopped by police.
The link to it is: http://twitpic.com/73bhx
Today I saw the new media terminals in central Seoul’s discrict Gangnam. They have games installed and have wifi and touch-screen functionality. The black terminals are on every 50 meters – and in my opinion they only block the view and are useless. Nobody even checks the news, restaurant guides or gaming features.
The link to this one is: http://www.twitpic.com/73vtg
Last week there was also the Korea Games Wire event at the COEX expo center in Seoul. It was private and on invitation only.
One of the journalists that came to interview sent this picture http://www.twitpic.com/6poji
Anyway you can see all the pictures on my Twitpic account.
Navid
The sentence “this is a public service announcement” (PSA) established after the birth of public radio and the first commercial broadcasts around 1920.
The sentence was intended to raise the public’s awareness, educate them and create interest about specific issues.
So what does this have to do with my blog and Korean games?
I enjoyed working on a new master plan in the last few weeks and as a result a yet unannounced games related event will take place in Korea between 01st and 02nd June. The 4th June will be a special event at the COEX expo center in Seoul – organized by me.
So with the explanation of a PSA look out for a future Public Service Announcement in this space.
This blog will feature the updates about the yet unannounced game related event.
See you around,
Navid
When I saw the Korean Basketball MMORPG “FreeStyle” I was surprised and impressed at the same time. The MMORPG genre is usually driven by warriors battling their way trough fantasy worlds filled with Elves and Orks.
To my second surprise the Korean developer devCat has created “Husky Express”; to be published by NEXON.
It is a dog-sledging MMORPG where players make deliveries in snowy scenarios. In the same way you would upgrade your characters in a “normal” MMORPG, in “Husky Express” dogs are also leveled with different skill sets such as smelling goods…
Quite frankly I like that more variety is coming to the MMORPG genre. Basketball, Husky dogs …. what’s next?
By Navid Firouz
Following the previous post with the title “Six Games Featuring Korea” here are two more promintent games set in Korea. The famous “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2″ and “Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction”.
In Ghost Recon 2 the single-player campaign players experience the near-future North Korea, where a rogue military leader is trigger happy about a nuclear bomb.
Mercenaries takes place in a version of North Korea that some might know from news on TV. After North Korean president Kim begins to see the upside of democracy, he’s assassinated by his son… (in the game).
Thanks to http://www.futurizekorea.com/ for bringing this to my attention via his Twitter page http://twitter.com/futurizekorea
Navid Firouz
I recall that in the movie “James Bond – Die Another Day” 007 is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Therefore I was wondering which videogames have featured Korea and, after some research, I put together the below list. All of them are related to war and most titles date back to times of 3.5″ floppy disks and Windows 95.
All images are the copyright and/or trademark of the respective owners:
DMZ North Korea
By VIVENDI JEUX PC
December 18, 2006
(DMZ stands for Demilitarized Zone)
Korea: The Forgotten Conflict
By Cenega
November 17, 2003
Flash Point Korea
by Jane’s Combat Simulations
F/A-18 KOREA
By Graphic Simulations
Modern Campaigns: Korea ‘85
By: HPS Simulations
Genre: Strategy RPG
By Navid Firouz
The leading Korean pop group Wonder Girls perform in their latest video “Now”.
Considering this is a short music video the opening scene has a product placement of PlayStation3 for the duration of about one minute.
In one of my recent posts you have seen ”Girls Generation“, another Korean girl group, promoting the game Dungeon & Fighter.
As an alternative they could have used the Game Park Wiz. It was just launched last month and is a local games handheld 
By Navid Firouz
