Winner for the last ticket to GNGWC 2008 decided

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- The last ticket holder for GNGWC 2008 that will be held in Ilsan Kintex, Korea, on coming November 16, has been decided.

The winners for the last ticket to GNGWC 2008 have been selected in Quest Hall, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan, that happened on 25th.

GNGWC 2008 is taking place for the third time. It is a global game competition having only Korean online games. Japan's regional round had three games total for the competition: SD Enternet's 'Navy Field', Onnet's 'Shot Online' and Ndoors' 'Atlantica.'

The regional round began with Director Joo Gi hwan's speech, who is from KIPA's Contents department. His speech is followed by a circus team, Crew JKT. Its performance indeed heated up the atmosphere.

SDEnternet's Navy Field had the greatest number of participants (each team had 20 players.) Each round was played by 20 players versus another 20 players. Their play showed how good strategies Japanese players have in general. For the final match, 4 teams were competing with each other. It was interesting to see that 2 teams (OS-V1, OS-V2) from the same Guild made to the final match. OS-V2 team had members who had won the final round last year. However they were beaten by OS-V1 team. OS-V2 thus lost its Japan championship but made to the global finals.

Ndoor's Atlantica had a lot of seesaw games throughout the whole tournament. The fact that Atlantica had so many great players reflected its potential in the future. 'Bahn' won a losing game from 2:1 to 3:2. The audience gave applause to Bahn's bold strategy which made them possible to win. 'Bahn' won the Japan championship and '102' made the second. They both were from the same Guild, having the same luck, making it to the global finals.

Onnet's 'Shot Online' had 2,000 players participated. After a series of close matches, 6 participants were selected to strive for the 3 tickets to the global finals. 'Huranjisuko' who played Shot Online for past 3 years won the championship by beating 'Aimochi' with a big gap. He went out of bounds at the second last hole, but fortunately the opponent made the same mistake.

One of the officers from KIPA who were at the scene has said, "Now we have finalized all the players for the global finals. We will do our best to make this GNGWC 2008 final's a global festival to all gamers over the world."

All participants for GNGWC 2008 global finals have been selected. Participants from 6 different continents will strive for the global championship on November 16 at Ilsan Kintex, Korea, while the Korea's biggest game show, "GStar 2008," takes place.

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Final Champion of Korean Online Games held in Japan

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- Final tournament for Korean online game in Japan will be held.

Final tournament in Japan for the third year 'World game festival GNGWC 2008' will take place on coming 25th. Participants will strive for tickets to the GNGWC 2008 world finals.

This coming finals in Japan follows the regional finals that took place in Germany, Singapore, US, Brazil and Korea. Representatives from six different continents will come together on November 16 for world championship that is sponsored by Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) and KT.

Japan is well-known for excellent games. Not only video games but Internet online and mobile games recently became popular as well.

Japanese Yano Research Institute Ltd. announced on February 21 that Japanese online game market has increased from 30.7 billion Yen in 2004 to 82 billion Yen in 2007. It is also expected to grow up to 160 billion Yen in 2011. This research shows that game publishing industry has increased from 27.8 billion Yen in 2004 to 80.2 billion Yen which is a remarkable 400 % increase.

Japan's fever for online game has influenced Korean online game market. A great number of Korean online games are becoming popular in Japan.

There will be 3 official games for the final tournament in Japan: 3D online golf game 'Shot Online', World War 2 'Navy Field' and MMORPG 'Atlantica'.

Director Kwon Taek-min from KIPA said, "Online game is an efficient tool which helps gamers from different countries to communicate with one another via Internet. I am honored and pleased to see that Korea and Japan has this great opportunity to get to know each other more through online games."

Representatives from 6 continents will compete at the World final tournament that happens along with the greatest Korean game exhibition, G-Star, that will take place in Kintex, Ilsan, on November 16.
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Turn-based Strategic MMORPG, ‘Atlantica’ is about to be revealed in July

NDOORS Corporation plans to gather users’ feedback and test stability in July with respect to its piece of work, ‘Atlantica’ which is a MMORPG game that will give worldwide services.

“MMORPG Atlantica was created by Producer Kim, Taegon who wanted a change from the original MMORPG.”

Producer Kim, Taegon who has 15 years of game producing experience have produced ‘Atlantica’ to grow out of original MMORPG. That is why Atlantica has a very unique style: Turn-base method and business management like strategy. We aimed to attract 20 plus male adults and let users to be more accessible to the game. That brought us to a conclusion that hunting games have many limits.

“Turn-base method is the basis of Atlantica’s battle strategy.”

Turn-base method is the basis of Atlantica’s battles. A user takes charge of a troop that is composed of a hero and a number of soldiers to fight with monsters. A user can have 8 soldiers maximum and have to decide how to assault in 30 seconds. It is interesting to see that outcome of a battle is often determined by stationing 9 characters including the hero in a 3x3 box.

As to stationing different kinds of soldiers at the front and back, users should take the attribution of a monster into account. A monster that likes to attack within a short distance usually attacks the soldiers at front line. In that case, users should place the strongest soldiers at the front.

There are many kinds of mercenary corresponding to that fact that they play an important role in the game. They mature along 3 steps: A feeder that brings animals and soldiers who carry weapons back, an inventor who collects machines and weapons, and lastly a princess who invalidates adversary’s magic.

Producer Kim, Taegon explained why they introduced the turn-base method, “The most important elements of a game would be repetitive battles and strategic battle. MMORPG these days are played by speedy actions. It is very crucial that who plays with more complicated mind and which strategy is used. We decided to use turn-base method because we wanted to improve the speed and control. We thought one-on-one fights would be not good.”

“Special feature of online PC games would be PVP and community.”

Atlantica is MMORPG which not only has a typical monster hunt but also has PVP(3 teams on each side) that enables players to talk to other players. It also has online game features such as a party hunting and PK that are different from SRPG’s console games. One of the strong points of online games is that they have communities. Atlantica has a political system that runs a nation. A nation is built by guild confederate. PK can be applied among nations that have declared a war against each other. People can even raise children which is pretty realistic.

Turn-base method is familiar to most users but they are found in console games and are not common in general online PC games. Users in North America and Europe who are very much used to console games can enjoy Atlantica’s PVP and communities because features are not many.

In the meantime, Atlantica will be updated on July 10 in Korea that is called ‘Atlantica 2.0.’ In Atlantica 2.0 will announce to the public regarding the New World, North America and main scenario through gamengame.com

Global 'AVING' News Network www.aving.net Reporter Isaac K( 김 종권 金鐘權) jk@aving.net T) +82-2-856-3276 F) 856-3260 M) +82-10-2046-9974 3F Kolon Science Valley II, 811, Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul , Korea

GNGWC 2008, online preliminary round soon begins

The third Game&Game World Championship 2008(GNGWC) online preliminary round will soon begin.

KT and Korea Software Promotion Agency sponsor this worldwide gamers' festival 'GNGWC 2008.' Online preliminary begins at the end of July in Europe( Germany ) and other six countries.

Four games are chosen for the preliminary round: ShotOnline (OnNet, www.shotonline.gamescampus.com), Atlantica (Ndoors, http://atlantica.ndoorsgames.com), Silk Road Online (Joy Max, www.silkroadonline.net) and Navyfield (SD Enternet, www.navyfield.com.) Gamers abroad access through servers in each nation or companies' global servers to participate in the online preliminary.

Ndoors's (President Cho Sungwon) 'Atlantica' has been chosen as an official game for GNGWC for the first time this year. Atlantica has existing matches within the game. Gamers will have to do the matches divided by regions until the last day of the preliminary. Top 16 gamers will be admitted to the next round in their regions.

SD Enternet's 'Navy Field' will have 4 top teams with 20 members from each region for the next round. Online preliminary has only one match to win. Top 2 teams from regional league shall be admitted to the final round that will take place in Korea .

OnNet's 3D golf game, 'Shot Online' gives 8 times of individual play at the highest level, Cadeiger, during the preliminary. Gamers can submit 4 best score cards and total 12 gamers shall be entitled to participate in the regional final round.

Joy Max's 'Silk Road Online' will have 30 gamers who will receive one account each. Gamers should create a new character at a designated level and have a time for preparation for 10 minutes. Then a staff will give a sign to start this PvP style game. 16 gamers shall be selected during the preliminary.

Preliminary in Europe( Germany ) will start from July 28 to August 14. Regional finals will be held in GC exhibition center in Leipzig .

Director Kwon Taekmin from SW Promotion Agency's Digital Contents department said, "This year's GNGWC will begin with regional preliminary in Germany . I wish that gamers who love Korean online games from different countries would be able to communicate and build friendship through GNGWC."

	Regions	Regional Preliminary (On-line)	Regional Preliminary (Off-line)
			Date	Etc.
Regional Match	Germany	July 28(Monday) ~Aug. 14(Thursday)	Aug. 21 (Thursday)	Leipzig (GC Exhibition)
	Singapore	Sept. 8(Monday) ~Oct. 2(Thursday)	Sept. 6 (Saturday)	Singapore Polytechnic
	USA	Aug.18(Monday) ~Sept. 10(Wednesday)	Sept. 20 (Saturday)	LA (Internet PC Café)
	Korea	Sept. 1(Monday) ~Sept. 17(Wednesday)	Sept. 28 (Sunday)	YongIn ( YongIn Training Center for Teenagers)
	Brazil	Aug. 25(Monday) ~Sept. 17(Wednesday)	Oct. 4 (Saturday)	Sao Paulo (Event Hall)
	Japan	Sept. 15(Monday) ~Oct. 9(Thursday)	Oct. 25 (Saturday)	Tokyo (Quest Hall Event Hall)

Global 'AVING' News Network www.aving.net Reporter Isaac K( 김종권 金鐘權) jk@aving.net T) +82-2-856-3276 F) 856-3260 M) +82-10-2046-9974 3F Kolon Science Valley II, 811, Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul , Korea

Samsung Electronics, PMP with TV recorder/TV-out ‘YM-P1’

SEOUL, Korea (AVING Special Report on 'KES 2005') -- Samsung Electronics has presented its new PMP ‘YM-P1’ and announced that it is going to enter PMP market next January.

This model features TV recorder/TV-Out, so you can enjoy watching any TV program in anywhere by using recording function. You can see them with a big TV screen by TV-out.

It has 4-inch TFT-LCD and it plays various file formats: Divx, Xvid, MPEG4, WMV, AVI, MP3, OGG, ASF, WMA, JPEG, BMP.

SDIO slot supports SD, MMC memory card.

Suggesting price is about 400,000(KRW) for 20GB and 500,000(KRW) for 30GB.

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KES 2005, Samsung & LG battling each other

SEOUL, Korea (AVING Special Report on 'KES 2005') --

1. Booths-Samsung booth

Of the companies attending KES 2005, the most notable companies are Samsung and LG, the two giants in Korea as well as in the global electronics market.

Since their booths are facing each other ironically, visitors consciously or unconsciously find themselves comparing two of them, which is quite interesting.

Then, why don’t YOU also look around and find differences? Let’s get started with the appearance first.










(Picture 1~17 : Samsung booth in KES 2005)


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