[GH] [LU!] Level Up! Interactive to Publish Sudden Attack in Brazil

MapleStory may be closing in Brazil at the end of October, but Level Up! Interactive, the publisher of MapleStory and Combat Arms, as well as many other games, has announced that they have formed a partnership with Nexon subsidiary Gamehi to bring Sudden Attack to Brazil. This is likely a result of Combat Arms’ success in Brazil. Sudden Attack is the most popular first-person-shooter in Korea where it is published by Nexon Korea. The game is old, being originally launched in Korea in July 2004, but is the MapleStory of the FPS genre, keeping and increasing its popularity many, many years into its service. The game is developed by Gamehi which was acquired by Nexon Corporation in 2009.

The official website can be viewed here

Combat Arms, by the way, is celebrating its first anniversary of service in Brazil.

[MS] “Fastest Updating” and “Most Updated” Rankings: Q3 2011

It’s the final week of the final month of the quarter and that means it’s time for Msupdate’s “Fastest Updating” and “Most Updated” Rankings.

This project started in April when I compared the content of all the services, but specifically KoreaMS, GlobalMS, MapleSEA and EuropeMS, in Content Speed Comparisons: KMS, GMS, MSEA, EMS . The last rankings were “Fastest Updating” and “Most Updated” Rankings: Q2 2011 .

Due to its closure on October 31 and the lack of updates since December 2010, BrazilMS has been removed from the rankings.

To quite understand what I mean by “fastest updating” and “most updated”, why I feel that EuropeMS remains the fastest updating service and why additional, original and exclusive content cannot be counted in how fast a MapleStory service updates (*cough* JapanMS), please read Content Speed Comparisons: KMS, GMS, MSEA, EMS.

Fastest Updating

Current Rank	Service	Move Since April 2011
1	Europe MapleStory	–
2	Global MapleStory	–
3	MapleStory South East Asia	+5
4*	China MapleStory	+1
4*	Taiwan MapleStory	+1
6	Korea MapleStory	-2
7	Japan MapleStory	-4
8	Thailand MapleStory	-1

*China MapleStory and Taiwan MapleStory are tied. This is not a mistake.

There has been a pretty major shakeup in the Fastest Updating rankings with JapanMS falling 4 places and MapleSEA rising 5.

[MSA] [MB2] Nexon Previews Upcoming MapleStory Adventures Content + Mabinogi 2 To Be Unveiled at G-Star 2011

Nexon America has previewed lots of upcoming content for MapleStory just days after the new region of Sky Scraper and the Korean language option beta were added to the game and the game surpassed 3 million monthly active users. Nexon has announced that new classes, multiple character slots, personal spaces that players can customize and language options of Spanish, French, German, Chinese and more will also be coming soon.

Keep posted to the MapleStory Adventures Facebook page for more information and to play!

With only 50 days to do before South Korea’s largest game expo, G-Star, it has been revealed by Nexon that it will be official unveiling the long announced Mabinogi 2. Developed by DevCAT Studio, an internal studio of Nexon and the developers of Mabinogi and Vindictus, Mabinogi 2 has already gone through its alpha test and it is expected to amaze players.

Where is MapleStory 2, which was confirmed to have been in development? No idea.