Nineyou, 9you.com, from China has secured US $1 billion funding from Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, an Asia investment house. Already a leading music online game, casual gaming and MMO operator in China, 9you’s huge funding means great profits are expected in the future of China’s gaming and interative community 2.0 portals.
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Japan Sanrio has worked with Hong Kong Typhoon Games to bring Hello Kitty Online, a English MMORPG which features Sanrio characters such as the invincible Hello Kitty, the cutish My Melody and Kermit-cousin Kerokerokeroppi. After creating your character, you start off from the Flower Kingdom (sounds familiar). As like most MMORPGs, you can slay monsters […]
A new educational MMO from IBM aims to raise the awareness of environmental issues among children. The game, PowerUp, is accompanied by carefully-designed classroom lesson plans (I’ve read one) for the teachers to use the game as a science teaching tool and a conducive learning virtual environment, rather than a mere MMO.
The game features three […]
Square Enix has filed a federal lawsuit (in US) against alleged infringers of Square Enix’s intellectual property, in this case, replicas of Final Fantasy swords.
“While Square Enix appreciates the enthusiasm of its fans, and values its relationship with them, it is also obligated to protect its intellectual property rights or risk weakening or losing […]
Do you want your home, city or country to be included in Monopoly World Edition? Cast your vote here.
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Kadokawa X Media of Japan has launched a Virtual World lifestyle print magazine last December. The magazine, Virtual World Walker, is like its sister publications such as Tokyo Walker, Hokkaido Walker and Wedding Walker and features must-visit cool places, latest fashion statement, yummy food haunts and life hacks in your friendly virtual worlds.
Inspired by World […]
Sony is tired of the man keeping it down and they’re doing something about it.
After getting trounced repeatedly by the DS, it seems that Sony has a secret weapon to boost sales: Skype. As Gamasutra points out, the rumor that the PSP would serve as a “portable communication” device isn’t new, but now we […]
Verizon Wireless customers have something to rock on with their cell phones this holiday season. Hands-On Mobile Americas, Inc. has came up with a mobile phone version of Guitar Hero III. Players just have to hit the keypad to rock on. As your handphone is not a guitar, the buttons are reduced to a mere […]
A new Singapore startup, Comiqs, has just came up with an online application that let you turn your photos into comic-panel-styled flash widget that can be embedded anywhere in your online properties. Simply, this application let you choose your photos, make it into a comic panel, with speech bubbles and lame captions attached. I’ve tested […]
I was reading over at Kotaku and saw that Flynn has posted the results of the Spike Video Game Awards that actually airs tonight.
Don’t want to wait the few hours until show-time?
Me either.
Here’s Flynn’s list of the winners [and losers] from tonight’s show.
Game of the Year
BioShock
Halo 3
Mass Effect
The Orange Box
Best Shooter
Call of Duty 4: […]
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