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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Barack Obama has triumphed over both ignorance and the Republican primary field, in an unofficial and moderately alarming poll of players of the cartoony multiplayer online video game MapleStory.
Thanks to numerous tips, Kotaku has now confirmed with staff at Nexon America that the company’s Vancouver-based development studio has shuttered its doors today, leaving upwards of 90 employees looking for jobs.
MapleStory’s Singapore distributor looks to cut down on a rash of home-run pirate servers, as a plucky teen takes the world of big-headed platform battles into his own bedroom.
Welcome to the pirate party, MapleStory? Where you been? We already ate all the finger food and drank all the rum, but you’re welcome to the super-powered martial arts moves we set aside for the ninja, as none of them showed up. At least we assume they didn’t. Nexon America has just added a new character class to their adorable free-to-play platformer MMO, and while they’re called pirates and look like pirates, the fact that they can transform into not one but two glowing super forms with magical powers makes me think that someone’s concept of nautical raiders could use a little work.
A few months ago, Chris Plante had a thought provoking suggestion for the gaming industry: what we need is more global games. I thought it was an interesting position, and one that I more or less agree with — but the problem isn’t simply lack of ‘global’ games. On the whole, mainstream gaming press is seriously cut off from anything outside the typical mainstream purview. It would probably do all of us some good if we started looking seriously at game development and industry news coming from elsewhere.
