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Archlord Buckles Swashes Worldwide
3:40AM Mike Fahey | Webzen has officially launched European and North American servers for MMO Archlord, picking up where Codemasters left off and delivering a brand new Swashbuckler character class to the West in the process. More »
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Codemasters Says Goodbye To ArchLord
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Codemasters has lost the rights to operate its first free-to-play MMO ArchLord in North America and Europe, but a new operator is stepping up to make sure the players can keep playing. More »
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Fileplanet Has Your Huxley Beta Invite
5:20AM Mike Fahey | Yes, Webzen’s massively mutliplayer online first-person shooter Huxley: The Dystopia is still a going concern, and all it takes is a Fileplanet login to get in on the closed beta action. More »
Huxley Delayed On PC, Again
9:20AM Stuart Houghton | Ahh, Huxley. Were it not for the Korean Open Beta – which apparently exists, and has players and everything – we would have to keep checking Snopes to see if it was still considered real or not. More »PC Huxley Officially Coming To North America
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Webzen’s massively-multiplayer online first-person shooter Huxley is officially heading to North America and Europe as NHN, Korea’s largest internet company, announces that they will be publishing the title via their Western subsidiary, NHN USA. The game will be available to download and play via the company’s www.ijji.com website in late 2008, while the 360 version remains up in the air at this time. “Huxley is one of the most anticipated online games currently in development, and we are very excited to bring the triple-A title to Western audiences,” said Whon Namkoong, CEO, NHN USA, Inc. “Huxley provides gamers with a unique and compelling experience that gamers everywhere are sure to enjoy.” Is Huxley still one of the most anticipated online games currently in development? There was a time when I couldn’t mention online games without Huxley coming up, but now? Meh. Anyone out there still all tingly for some MMOFPS action? More »
Crackdown Devs Wrest Control Of APB From The Koreans
8:20AM Michael McWhertor | And by “the Koreans” we mean the fine folks at publishing outfit Webzen, which until now was the planned publisher of Realtime Worlds’ cops and robbers MMO APB, planned for a PC (and possible PlayStation 3 and almost definite Xbox 360) release. You may recall that the Crackdown developer was on the receiving end of a $US50 million cash infusion, the majority of it we assume was spent on frozen haggis, but which some was surely earmarked to get the game out of hock from the Korean distributor. More »
