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E3 2011 - Blacklight Retribution debuts trailer

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:49 PM PDT


(Teaser website) Perfect World Entertainment announced today its partnership with Zombie Studios to publish its next-generation, adrenaline-pumping first person shooter (FPS) Blacklight™ Retribution. A sequel to Zombie Studio's Tango Down, Blacklight Retribution will be shown for the first time at this year's E3 (June 7 - 9) in the West Hall, Booth #5322 for a behind-closed doors first hands-on to select media.


"Blacklight Retribution will be the first FPS in Perfect World Entertainment's diverse portfolio of online games and highlights our commitment to providing players with new and unique online gaming experiences," said Alan Chen, CEO of Perfect World Entertainment Inc. "With Zombie Studio's vast experience in developing high-quality first person shooters, we look forward to working closely with them to bring this free-to-play online experience to PC gamers everywhere."


"We've wanted to develop a high quality and yet free-to-play first person shooter for years, which is why we're excited to be teaming up with Perfect World, an online-game developer and operator with more than eight years of experience in the free-to-play space," said Mark Long, co-CEO of Zombie Studios Inc. "We know how to make thrilling first person shooters and Perfect World have vast experience in publishing various games in different markets. With this alliance of expertise, PC gamers can look forward to a high quality first person shooter that is available for everyone to play."


Blacklight Retribution will set the new standard for free-to-play shooters, by fully leveraging Unreal 3 technology and implementing DirectX 11 to give gamers cutting-edge graphics that will blow away expectations as well as minds. Visit the teaser website here.

Clarification - Luna Online and Iris Online

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:01 PM PDT


In my previous post, I revealed that Nexon had bought over 20% of Korean developer Eyasoft's shares. Eyasoft's online games included Luna Online, Iris Online and Legend of Edda. All 3 games have since stopped its service in Korea and I did state that it is possible (not confirmed) that the English services might be affected in terms of game updates.

One of gPotato's representatives had since emailed me about the matter and will like to clarify with players and assure that content updates will still be available for Luna Online and Iris Online for the North American versions. While I was asked to take the games' logo banners down, I believe it is within my rights to put up the Korean versions' game logos unless being told otherwise.

Posted by Shri Krishna

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