Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! I know this is a special occasion but unfortunately I don’t have any NX to give away today.

Another reason why this is a really amazing day is because, according to the United Nations, the world’s population has crossed the 7 billion mark. Now that I think about it, I really should give away NX today… but I’m not prepared! Oh well…

Remember, Nexon America’s Q4 2011 Approval Rating Survey begins tomorrow!! Make sure you stop by and take the survey because it only runs until November 19.

P.S. GMS First Legend Update
November 29: 65%
December 6: 35%

[GMS] Legend and ‘Jump Season 2’ Predictions

Legend is coming and it’s coming fast. But as we issue in Legend, we now have what is being called ‘Jump Season 2’, a series of three updates in KMS which revamps all classes, to look forward to.

Legend

Assuming that we follow the same three update schedule that KoreaMS went through, I can predict the following:

1st Legend update: Cannon Shooter class, New World: ‘Legend’: December 7, 2011

2nd Legend update: Mercedes class, New World: ‘Cosmo’: December 21, 2011

3rd Legend update: Demon Slayer class: January 11, 2012

I’m 80% sure about the date of the first update, 60% sure about the date of the 2nd and 30% sure about the date of the 3rd. I’ll get more certain towards certain dates as we get closer to the updates.

Jump Season 2

I’ll explain my reasoning behind these predicts soon. But here are my predictions for the FIRST update (if we get it in more than one update). The months that we will have the update by:

March: 25%
April: 30%
May: 30%
June: 40%
July: 70%
August: 100%

So as you can see, I’m really leaning towards a Summer 2012 release date, but I don’t rule out Spring 2012.

Keep posted for more details!

Song Addiction Of Oct. 27

[VIN] One Massive Year Of VINDICTUS

That’s right, folks. It has been one year since the free-to-play phenomenon Vindictus went live in North America. Known as ‘Mabinogi: Heroes’ in Asia, Vindictus is the prequel to the established fantasy life MMO Mabinogi. The game is developed by the same company which developed Mabinogi and Nexon subsidiary DevCat. Usually a game spreads around Asia before finally making an appearance over there in the West. But this time the developers were so sure that Vindictus would be the next big thing that they urged Nexon America to take it up, and the North American publishing branch of Nexon Co. Ltd. became the second publisher of the game, after Nexon Korea. The next big thing it was. Vindictus is described as Nexon’s biggest game launch yet and has been critically acclaimed by the general gaming industry. Built on the source engine, Vindictus‘ graphics are beautiful and elegant, the combat is brutal and the physics are perfect.

Vindictus took home SEVEN awards at the Korean Game Awards including the grand prize and the biggest of them all, the Presidential Award!

If you haven’t already played the game, I strongly suggest you try it out now. I all honestly, the game can get repetitive. But don’t worry, because the combat, graphics and other aspects of the game make up for the repetitiveness and I have a feeling that an open world will be coming to Vindictus in the future.

North America website
Europe website

Massively has a look back at Vindictus’ first year of service in America and a look at the game now. Read on!

[GMS 1.02] Game Update – Rise of Fellowship + Content Notes

MapleStory will be going through a scheduled game update on Thursday, October 27, 2011. During this period, all game servers will be unavailable. The game update will last approximately 08 hours.

{ Time }
Pacific: Thursday, October 27 @ 7:00AM to 3:00PM
Eastern: Thursday, October 27 @ 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

{ Updates }

• New content: Monster Familiar, Sidekick system
• Events starting on October 27: Halloween event, Magic Gachapon Wheel, Potted Maple Tree, MapleStory Lifestyle Campaign
• Gachapon upddate: new Gachapon Grand Prize, new Chair King chair, Bunny Buddy Buggy
• Cash Shop update: Monster Familiar Starter and Booster Packs, Chair Gachapon bundles, Echo Megaphone, new transformation items, new special discount packages and items for first time buyers

[NX] [JCE] Nexon Acquires JCE

I reported on October 12 at Nexon Korea Corp. was looking to take over sport game developer JCE. Now the main transaction has been completed and Nexon has acquired 16.34% shares of the company, the majority stake. Nexon is expected to take over a further 16.34% of the company from JCE chairman YangShin Kim and ex-vice president IlSeung Baek, but has allowed them to sell those shares to Nexon over a 6 month period.