Kotaku: Mabinogi

They've Added Hamlet To This Video Game

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:00:00 EST

The free fantasy video game Mabinogi has been out for a couple of years, entertaining players with the kind of swords and dragons adventure stuff lots of gamers like. Now the developers are adding something even more fun: Shakespeare. More »

Vindicating Vindictus

Owen Good — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:00:00 EDT

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OK, I really got off on the wrong foot Thursday with Vindictus, the new MMO from Nexon that we'll see more of at E3. So, let's make a reintroduction with this trailer, giving the game's backstory. Vindictus, readers. Readers, Vindictus. More »

Nexon Teams With 7-Eleven For Slurpee Goodness

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:40:00 EST

7-Eleven continues to push their whole mini-gaming store initiative, teaming up with online game operator Nexon America for the ‘Where You Play for Free’ Slurpee and Online Games advertising campaign. Now through December 31st, 7-Eleven stores will be carrying four different Nexon game branded 22 -oz. Slurpee cups. Purchasing a Slurpee in one of said cups gets you a limited-edition DVD containing all four of the games featured - Maple Story, Combat Arms, Mabinogi, and Sugar Rush. More »

West Meets East: A Week in Mabinogi

Maggie Greene — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

There is a hilarious article up on the Escapist on one MMO player's experience with Mabinogi, the Nexon free-to-play MMO that was released in North America earlier this year. I had to laugh because I'm not an MMO player and I've been having a culture shock experience of my own adjusting to a Western-style MMO. John Funk of WarCry admits that he's turned a blind eye to MMO offerings coming out of Asia, so a week in Mabinogi offered a lot of culture shock and total confusion: More »

Mabinogi Open Beta Starts March 5th

Maggie Greene — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:30:52 EST

Eee! Singing sheep! Nexon's not-new-but-new-to-the-US MMORPG Mabinogi is moving to open beta as of this coming Wednesday. The Harvest Moon-meets-MMORPG has already been through a closed beta and pre-open beta test run, apparently to a good response. You can sign up at the Mabinogi website or over at FilePlanet. I'm a total sucker for stuff like this, so I'll be wandering over to check it out. Full release after the jump: More »

Nexon's Mabinogi Coming To the US

Maggie Greene — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:30:51 EST

Nexon is adding to its US stable of free-to-play MMOs with Mabinogi, the Celtic and Welsh-themed game which launches a closed beta on 30 January. It sounds like MMO-meets-Harvest Moon, with promises of "offering players a 'life' experience" - characters age at a set rate, can participate in mundane tasks like farming, writing music, and getting married in addition to the usual battles-and-quests. I was delighted to see faint whispers of deliciously bad press releases for Asian MMOs: More »