MapleStory

By Savage A fight broke out today in South Korea’s Parliament over a new media bill. This is an actual recreation of what will happen when MapleStory closes. A fight broke out today in South Korea’s Parliament over a new media bill. This is an actual recreation of what will happen when MapleStory closes.

By Savage A new class coming to KMS (Korean MapleStory). Rumored to be an ice-based job and related to the warrior class, but different all the same. Level 50 Level 100 Level 150 Level 200 Also, credits to Spadow for posting the trailer first, and to NEXON Korea for making it. Enjoy!

Some vid from Nexon. Korean MapleStory vids.myspace.com

 CA Starting with subscriptions (including the world’s first million-subscriber MMO, NCsoft’s Lineage), the Korean industry eventually shifted to F2P games that made money from micro-transactions, such as Nexon’s KartRider and MapleStory. ...

Online game publisher Nexon America (MapleStory, Kart Rider) has named Daniel S. Kim its new CEO, the company said today. A subsidiary of Korean parent company Nexon, Nexon America is based in Los Angeles and primarily localizes and markets imported ...

South Korean firm Nexon launched a version of MapleStory in the USA in 2005 and has about 6 million users; a new online fighting game, Sugar Rush, is in the works. Free online games are "definitely starting to emerge in the USA and growing faster than ...

MapleStory dev's Vancouver studio shuttered  - Jan 28, 2009 We're sure you've all heard of Nexon Vancouver (aka Humanature), the Canadian branch of Korean MapleStory creator, Nexon. Oh, you haven't. ...

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By Randy Nelson We're sure you've all heard of Nexon Vancouver (a.k.a. Humanature), the Canadian branch of Korean MapleStory creator, Nexon. Oh, you haven't. That's likely because it hadn't produced any games. And now it's been closed, as confirmed by Gamasutra.

Nexon, the South Korean game maker behind free-to-play online titans like MapleStory, Combat Arms and Mabinogi, are set to close their Vancouver based development studio. 90 jobs will go as a result of this Canadian closure, and staff were informed in ...

By Savage I received an email courtesy of a kind contributor, Kenny (RazorNion on YouTube) who brought this video to my attention. Apparently in a test server (possibly Korean MapleStory), a new job is being developed…the Striker. This comes at an ironic time when the Pirate class is only days away f...

 Canada - Oct 30, 2008 In MapleStory, a South Korean role-playing game with more than 50 million subscribers worldwide, players battle monsters and obstacles and occasionally get ...

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By blanne Anyway, MapleStory is for free and is a 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) which is developed by the South Korean company Wizet. Although playing the game is free, "upgrades" such as character ...

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 UK - Nexon is the Korean company that pioneered the free-to-play MMO with its massive (in all senses) RPG platformer, MapleStory, and cartoon racer KartRider. ...

 CA - Aug 29, 2008 Klei recently teamed up with Korean free-to-play publisher Nexon (MapleStory) for its next game, Sugar Rush, described as an "online arena combat game. ...

 Hong Kong - Company's "MapleStory" has more than 87 million subscribers worldwide, while its "KartRider" claims a third of the South Korean population as participants ...

The announcement last September that the massively popular casual MMO MapleStory by Korean games-maker Nexon Corp. was bound for Nintendo’s (NTDOY) DS handheld system stirred a lot of excitement. And with good reason, a true blue mobile ...

By ylwong let's skip all the mushy-mushy stuffs here at the folk town. I delivered the letter and later proceeded to do another two quests. Nah, the box of jewellery can't be sold as it was a Quest Item, so I had just tossed it away. Bleh. Hi. Yes, I am here again with some more MapleStory stuffs, and this time,...

By virdealkmesos is a free-of-charge, 2D, side-scrolling Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game developed by the South Korean company Wizet. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions, ...

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By Shawn Schuster Update: Though we initially listed both Audition and KartRider as games Nexon was looking to bring to North America, Audition has been available to North American audiences for some time now, complete with a catalog of familiar songs!

By Michael Zenke Filed under: MapleStory, Business models, Culture, Interviews, MMO industry, Free-to-playToday Gamasutra has up a massive interview with Min Kim, public face for the Korean gaming powerhouse Nexon. Kim has spoken on numerous occasions at various industry events on overcoming chal...

Focus On Korea: N-Log Soft's Cho Talks Bots, IP Ownership Gamasutra, CA - Apr 1, 2008 With the rise of microtransactions and the rise of titles such as MapleStory in the casual MMO business, South Korean gaming has been growing in respect and ...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: At a glance, Huxley, MapleStory, Business models, Culture, Economy, Interviews, MMO industry, News items, Free-to-play, Academic The CMP games-flagship site Gamasutra has up a Massive article about the state of Korean gaming, which basically means it's almost entire...

By Scott Jon Siegel Sale schedule copied from the MapleStory website. All sale items will be in limited qualities, so Nexon recommends showing up early. If a player can not see the sale item, Nexon recommends exiting the Cash Shop, re-entering and clicking the "Event" section.

Nexon Group has announced the Korean online RPG MapleStory has launched in Europe.

By beans Via Gamasutra News.) Q& A: Nexon America Talks Maple Story: “South Korean MMO developer and publisher Nexon Corporation is best known for MapleStory, an online casual RPG aimed primarily at teens. The title, which was first released in South Korea in 2002, is currently distributed w...