Pangya Halloween Design and Cosplay Contest
October 21, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Cosplay, MMO Sports, MMORPG News
The great thing about having customization features in a massively multiplayer online game is getting the opportunity to launch special events in time for holidays. An example of this is Ntreev USA’s Carve Your Own Halloween on Self Design Items contest for the casual online golf game Pangya.
The contest is, of course, open to all Pangya players and is designed to test the limits of their creativity and skills with a virtual brush, courtesy of the game’s Season 4 update that features new customization options.
Here’s a video of what you can do with Pangya’s Self Design feature:
So with the help …read more
Stage set for ChinaJoy 2009 in July
January 12, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under ChinaJoy, Coming Soon, Cosplay, MMO Girl Gamers, MMORPG
Egad! Time indeed flies so fast. Okay, I’ll keep this brief. It is, after all, just an announcement. For those who don’t know what ChinaJoy is, it’s China’s premiere video games expo, equal to the United States’ Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, and Japan’s Tokyo Game Show.
With that thought firmly in mind, let me guide your attention to the announcement story from China-based online games portal 17173:
ChinaJoy 2009 will be held at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Center between July 23 and July 26. The theme for this year’s event is to promote the international image of the Chinese game …read more
In this part of the world, MMORPGs and cosplay go hand in hand
April 7, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, Cosplay, E-Games Philippines, Level Up! Games, Lineage II, MMORPG, Random Rants
It’s true! A lot of people, especially those living in the West may object, enough to say that cosplay, a contraction of the words “costume” and “play,” is much a part of their culture than it is in Asia. I admit, yes, that dressing up as a character from a movie, television series or comic book with the hope of getting noticed at conventions is a big deal in some Western countries, particularly in the United States, where conventions, like the ever popular Comicon and RPGcon, are a dime a dozen.
But massively multiplayer online role-playing games as themes for cosplay …read more
Countdown to ChinaJoy 2008 has begun
March 9, 2008 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, ChinaJoy, Cosplay, MMORPG, MMORPG News, Random Rants
Ahh, ChinaJoy. Just the mere mention of it brings memories of scantily clad women, uhmm, I mean cosplaying models. But this is MMOtaku and we’re here to talk about ChinaJoy’s relation to online games and nothing else. Well, nearly nothing else.
Perhaps I should just let the press release do the talking:
In order to give game developers and operators as well as investors a better understanding of the Chinese online game industry, the committee of ChinaJoy 2008 will host the Sixth Chinese International Digital Interactive Entertainment Summit Forum during the three-day event.
In this forum, officials from the Chinese government will explain …read more
