<![CDATA[Kotaku: Webzen]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Webzen]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/webzen http://kotaku.com/tag/webzen <![CDATA[Rumor: Red 5 Studios Goes Down, Hit By Layoffs]]> Red 5 Studios may never complete its unannounced MMO. The Irvine, California based developer founded by ex-Blizzard staffers, has been hit by substantial layoffs, sources tell Kotaku, leaving it with a "skeleton crew" and an abandoned massively multiplayer online shooter. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5457504&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Archlord Buckles Swashes Worldwide]]> 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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5377022&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Codemasters Says Goodbye To ArchLord]]> 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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5350336&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fileplanet Has Your Huxley Beta Invite]]> 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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5329938&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Huxley Delayed On PC, Again]]> 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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5091463&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PC Huxley Officially Coming To North America]]> 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. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5012226&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Crackdown Devs Wrest Control Of APB From The Koreans]]> 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 $50 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 »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=382330&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Huxley Closed Korean Beta Coming]]> Remember Huxley? Of course you do. I can't write about an MMO without someone in the comments section talk about how awesome Huxley is going to be. Well now some lucky Koreans will be getting a chance to find that out for themselves as Webzen has announced the first closed beta test for the FPS MMO. Starting on August 28th, 999 beta testers will be chosen from the official Huxley web site to participate in the event that will start on September 13th and run for five days.
"With Huxley's many innovative elements, gamers are in for a totally different experience," said Nam-Ju Kim, chief executive officer of Webzen, Inc. "Huxley is sure to challenge the existing genres with a new look and feel in multiple platforms. We're extremely confident that this title will set a new standard in MMOFPS."
Man it's good to be writing about Huxley again. Hopefully I'll have many more chances to do so in the months to come. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=292597&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Webzen Ready For Hot Console MMORPG Action]]> Cindy Armstrong, Webzen America's CEO, says the company's ready to distinguish itself from other MMO companies like NCSoft or Blizzard. How? Console software. The Korean-based Webzen is responsible for the popular MMORPG Mu Online, but the company with dive feet first into the Xbox 360 with Huxley. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=169911&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Red 5 Gets a Publisher for Its MMO]]> If you don't know what Red 5 studios is, it might be time to start getting ready for them. They are a group of developers who worked on World of Warcraft and then left to form their own studio. There's more to it than that, but an episode of Guiding Light might be better for explaining the whole story. Anyway, Red 5 Studios signed a deal with Webzen to publish their MMO. That MMO, currently is untitled and almost no information is available about it. Hopefully more will be revealed this May - but the game is so early in development that it might be a trailer with some target renders and a title. More »
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