Dungeon Overlord Rights For Korea Sold

The9 Korea Co., Ltd. ("The9 Korea"), an online game operator and developer in Korea and a wholly-owned subsidiary of The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NVTY) ("The9"), has entered into an agreement with Night Owl Games for the exclusive license to operate Dungeon Overlord, an online strategy game, in Korea. Dungeon Overlord is a hardcore online strategy game in which thousands of online players take on the roles of evil tyrants with armies of fantasy creatures who will stop at nothing to conquer the world. The game will be known as Dungeon Craft in Korean. The9 will launch a closed beta for the … Continue reading Dungeon Overlord Rights For Korea Sold

Create Your Own Portal Levels Soon

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the second game add-on for the year’s highest rated multiplatform game, Portal 2, is in development and targeted for release early next year. This major update will feature an easy-to-use in-game map editor that will let users design, build and share their own single-player and co-op test chambers with the community, who will be able to view, play and vote on them with a simple click. Portal 2 was released April 19, and currently … Continue reading Create Your Own Portal Levels Soon

New XIII game on the cards

Publisher Anuman Interactive is breathing life back into the XIII game, originally released by Ubisoft in 2003. The new game is called XIII Lost Identity and will be based on the Franco-Belgian comic of the same name. Ubisoft brought XIII to PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC eight years ago. It’s stylish cel-shaded graphics make it one to be remembered, but was let down by lack lustre gameplay and it failed to garner commercial success. The XIII comic series was originally published in 1984. Inspired by Robert Ludlam’s Bourne Identity novel, the comic’s protagonist is an amnesiac who struggles to unravel … Continue reading New XIII game on the cards