China has an estimated 180 million gamers, and most of them spend money on online games every month, according to a new study from analyst group Niko Partners.
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
Not surprised seeing all this news about Chinese couples ignoring their babies. Not all of them.
i guess china is the future for almost every industry.
i wonder if china will make their own PS4/X720/Wii2
as Japan's gaming industry is falling and US gaming industry is coming down from its peak, china is on the rise.
maybe they will switch to console gaming.
Well why do you the latest World of Warcraft expansion have pandas in it? A whole race of blood thirsty polka dot bears with Asian theme for their entire culture.
Western market : werewolves, vampires, lizard-like dragons and medieval knights in shining armour and giant swords.
Asian market : pandas,kung fu pandas,bamboo plants everywhere,serpentine dragons,pandas, pagodas and even more pandas.
Blizzard already has huge success with Starcraft 1 and 2 in the Korean market so it's natural for them to tap into another Asian market.