Digimon Online #1 in China

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

CDC Games, a pioneer of the “free-to-play, pay for merchandise” micropayments model for online gaming has announced that its upcoming title, based on the popular Digimon franchise from Japan, has been ranked number one by Chinese players via online recommendation on the most popular Chinese search engine, g.baidu.com.
The Digimon online game is scheduled for release [...]

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Would you like some tea with your MMORPG?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

 It’s about time we had something other than dragons and spaceships to populate our MMORPG gaming worlds.
Recent trends have increased the viability of online games featuring Asian, particularly Chinese, historical characters and gameplay elements. Hollywood is partly the reason for this, with box-office hits like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:, “Hero” and the recent “The Forbidden [...]

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1 Million concurrent players: WoW!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

So according to Blizzard Entertainment, the number of its Chinese concurrent users for the massively mulitplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades have passed the one milion mark–the highest ever rate since they launched the game there in 2005.
Be prepared for a tidal wave of web-jokes about everyone in China doing something at [...]

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