Dead or Alive (DOA) was once the most beautiful fighting PC game in the world. Its beautiful full 3D graphs bring players all around the world a shock to the vision. No matter on the PS platform or Microsoct XBOX; no matter it's the first generation of DOA in 1996 or the DOA 4 and DOA-Beach Volleyball, except for the fighting, the deepest impression from DOA is its beautiful screen.
To celebrate the coming launch of the PC version of DOA Online in China, Shanda recently released some ingame screenshot which showcase the beautiful views in the game. please enjoy them.

Perfect World Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: PWRD; "Perfect World" or the "Company"), a leading online game developer and operator in China, today announced that "Legend of Martial Arts," ("Dream World - Legend of Martial Arts" in Japan) the Company's light-hearted adventure game, was successfully launched in Japan on February 29, 2008 by C&C Media Co., Ltd. ("C&C Media"), a famous online game operator in Japan.
 
 
C&C Media has many years of online game operating experience. C&C Media successfully operates "Perfect World II," ("Perfect World" in Japan) the Company's first 3D MMORPG licensed to overseas markets, in Japan. Perfect World signed a licensing agreement for "Legend of Martial Arts" with C&C Media in the end of June, 2007, and both parties have devoted great efforts in localization. On December 14, 2007, the closed beta testing was launched and was greatly welcomed by Japan's online game players.

"During the first week of operating 'Dream World - Legend of Martial Arts' in Japan, we have seen that it was very well received by Japan's online game player community and we are sati

CDC Games announced a publish agreement with Korean 3K Telecom, according to which, DCD Games has gained the rights to publish Digimon RPG and Digimon RPG2 in North America.

Developed by Digitalic, Digimon RPG and Digimon RPG2 was 3D MMORPGs based on popular cartoon series in Japan. Digimon RPG is planned to launch in North America at late 2008, and Digimon RPG2 is now under development, will debut in Korea first by the end of this year.

NetDragon, Chinese leading online game company, announced on March 10th that the company will launch three online games: Heroes of Might and Magic Online, Fun Online and Tian Yuan in China.

Heroes of Might

When  talking about the launch time of Heroes of Might and Magic Online, the spokesman from NetDragon said that game will launch by the end of March. Heroes of Might and Magic series are the popular PC games which have millions of players around the world. The development of Heroes of Might and Magic Online has been through a lot of up and downs, but with 3 million to 5 million potential gamers on hand, NetDragon is very confident with the future of this game.

Fun Online

At this moment, the oversea market has become another increase point of NetDragon. NetDragon has succeed in enter oversea market by localizing its self-developed game into foreign language. The Realm of Magic has been translated Portuguese version.  The English version of Gear War Online is under test now. According to Chen Zemin, CFO of NetDragon, 20% of the company's income from oversea. Different from other Chinese developer, NetDragon operates its own games aboard.

Heroes of Might and Magic

The rattling of dice across tabletops around the word falls silent today with the news that co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and TSR, Gary Gygax, has passed away at the age of 69. The news came via the forums of Troll Lord Games, who publish Gygax's Lejendary Adventures and Castles & Crusades sourcebooks, delivered via his son Ernie Gygax. He died in his home, having been in failing health for some time, suffering several strokes and a near heart-attack. Gygax was an inspiration to the gaming industry, with his work directly or indirectly influencing entire genres - role-playing games and MMORPGs specifically.

Seoul, Korea (March 5, 2008) - HanbitSoft announced today that the sales of Hellgate: London has broken through 3billion Won as of this February.

This actual result is noticeable for the fact that Hellgate:London was the first online game in three years to take monthly subscription model, and the record has been made just in two weeks right after Hellgate: London had started its presales. HanbitSoft also added that there are now 13thousand joint PC caf¨¦.

¡°We are very happy that lots of gamers are enjoying Hellgate: London¡± said Alex Kim, CEO of HanbitSoft, ¡°we understand this outstanding result was possible because of the low price and gamers¡¯ faith that expect more from us. HanbitSoft and Flagship Studios will put the best effort to bring updates sooner with more sustainable service.¡±

HanbitSoft also released contents of 1.2patch, which will be added soon this month. 1.2 patch includes many features that gamers have asked for, and lots of contents into Stonehenge area. Moloch, the boss monster in Stonehenge, drops items that initialize characters ability levels, and dyeing tools that have various kinds of effects. More monsters will come out in The Wild which will make the pa

There are three videos about a 3-year-old kid playing World of Warcraft online. According to his mom, this little guy has a great sense of directions. When playing the game together, the kid always showed road for his mother. 

Here are the words from his mother:

Hello everyone! I am his mother. I am writing this to communicate with you to discuss about kid playing games. My son is now three years and several months. When he was two years and three months old, I have already let him start playing with computer. When he started playing, we didn''t teach him anything. He all learned by himself. Now he can go to quest, set the keys, trade virtual items,  go to auction...all of these he was learned by himself, or asking me and his Dad. He likes to ask questions. When he saw we playing new maps, he would ask where it''s. And surprisingly, he can memorize most of the maps ine WoW. One of the most wonderful thing is that he can tell the classes of characters who goes quest together from their icons. I have been wondering about how he can do this. I asked a lot of people, many of them can only do this throgh the word introduction. Oh, I almost forgot, this little guy plays all the class

Since I saw this on MMOsite news board, I got interested in Mabinogi Merchandises and collected some more pictures of them. They're so cute, especially the Nao doll and her owl. I like them. ^^