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Post 13041

Price slashed on a Pump It Up Portable bundle

By Spencer . May 20, 2008 . 8:39am

Studio 9 released two Pump It Up games on the PSP in Korea. Neither contains actual dancing, but the timed-to-the-music button pressing gameplay might interest fans of DJ Max Portable. At the price of $20 for two games, Pump It…

Post 12566

Studio9 makes downloadable music content cheap, really cheap

By Spencer . May 2, 2008 . 2:37pm

I mentioned Superstar, a Korean karaoke game for the Xbox 360 before, and like many other music games Studio9 is selling downloadable content. However, they aren’t selling three songs for 500 Microsoft Points ($6.25). Studio9’s downloadable content is way cheaper,…

Post 12022

Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Fit coming to Korea by the end of 2008

By Spencer . April 15, 2008 . 10:43am

I mentioned Korea’s Nintendo Wii launch line up yesterday, which is surprisingly light on first party games. Wii Sports and Wii Play are the only Nintendo published games if you don’t count Virtual Console titles. Zack & Wiki, Super Swing Golf…

Post 11984

Wii launches in South Korea on April 26 with even cheaper Virtual Console games

By Spencer . April 14, 2008 . 3:16am

Later this month South Korea gets officially introduced to Nintendo’s remote with a suite Wii games fully localized into Korean. Nintendo is only bringing out two titles to start Wii Sports (sold separately) and Wii Play (still bundled with the…

Post 11720

Wii descends on South Korea

By Spencer . April 7, 2008 . 4:51am

Nintendo Wii launches? Been there done that. South Korea sort of feels the same way since imported Wiis are readily available in Yongsan. However, sometime in the near future Nintendo will officially launch the console in South Korea. Nintendo of…

Post 11472

Nanogram quietly creates downloadable PSP game only for Korea

By Spencer . March 28, 2008 . 1:16pm

Compared to the DS many more Korean developers are trying their luck with the PSP. Pentavision, Studio Nine and now Nanogram, a company I was unaware of until I saw Wonichi. The game arrived on Korea’s and only Korea’s PlayStation…

Post 11387

Ys online in South Korea, fueled by microtransactions

By Spencer . March 26, 2008 . 4:04pm

Nihon Falcom announced Ys Online around five years ago and most people probably forgot about it. The good news is Ys Online did not silently fade away. Nihon Falcom’s MMORPG is out in South Korea with 500,000 registered accounts since…

Post 11285

Ntreev Soft chips in to DS development pool

By Spencer . March 24, 2008 . 6:50pm

The creators of Pangya are diving headfirst into console development. On top of a PSP version of their casual golf game Ntreev Soft has Project Dorothy A and Project Dorothy B which are revealed as “console and DS titles” in…

Post 11168

Evading skeletons in Astonishia Story 2

By Spencer . March 20, 2008 . 4:39am

  “Must not let the blue ogre spot me” was the only thing in my mind while trying out the Astonishia Story 2 demo just uploaded by Sony Computer Entertainment Korea. (Note: PSP Fanboy has better instructions on how to install…

Post 11164

Watch out SingStar, the Xbox 360 has SuperStar

By Spencer . March 20, 2008 . 2:26am

I mentioned Studio9 was working on an Xbox 360 karaoke game sometime last year. Now that the first Korean 360 exclusive is out in the home of bibimbap we have a much better look at Superstar. First impressions? It looks…

Post 11031

Blueside sings the console development blues

By Spencer . March 17, 2008 . 7:28am

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom was panned by nearly every critic out there, including Dan from right here! The result is at best disappointing for Blueside, one of the few Korean studios designing Xbox 360 games. In an intriguing…

Post 10774

Link learns Korean in April

By Spencer . March 7, 2008 . 7:47pm

The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass is old news for most of the world, but not South Korean where Link is about to make a debut. This isn’t his first appearance thanks to importing, but this will be one…

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