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NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced that it has secured worldwide publishing rights for Human Element, an open-world first-person survival title developed by Nexon’s strategic partner Robotoki Inc. Robotoki is a Los Angeles-based game development studio led by Robert Bowling, former Lead and Creative Strategist of the Call of Duty franchise.

Set 35 years after a zombie apocalypse, Human Element combines action, strategy and resource management to offer players the ability to create multiple human survival scenarios. The game features a cinematic, immersive, first-person experience using the latest CryEngine technology, and combines innovative new Streaming and Segmented World massively multiplayer online (MMO) game technologies to achieve a large open-world MMO experience while maintaining the high visual fidelity of a first-person shooter (FPS).

“We are excited to work with Robotoki to bring this exciting game to consumers in North America and around the world,” said Owen Mahoney, President and CEO of Nexon. “This announcement marks an important milestone in the strategic partnership we formed with Robotoki in February 2013 and furthers our goal of developing groundbreaking, AAA quality free-to-play games.”

“Partnering with Nexon has allowed us to achieve our ambitious vision for Human Element,” said Robert Bowling, President and Creative Director of Robotoki. “Combining the fast paced, cinematic, visceral gameplay that our team is known for with the exciting MMO social experience and expertise of Nexon, we are redefining the genre of survival games with an unprecedented level of detail within an open-world experience.”

Human Element is scheduled for global release on PC in the fourth quarter of 2015. Find out more at http://www.humanelementgame.com/

Paradox Interactive and Paradox North today announced that Magicka: Wizard Wars, the online competitive multiplayer game of misdirected magic, is going to begin an Open Beta phase on May 27. Currently available via Steam Early Access, Magicka: Wizard Wars will be playable for free by those who demonstrate a lack of self-preservation instinct when the title enters its Open Beta phase. Robe enthusiasts everywhere still have the chance to experience the friendly-firing frenzy of Magicka: Wizard Wars as it draws nearer to launch and test whether their friendships can withstand repeated spellcasting “incidents” by purchasing the title on Early Access and, in the process, nabbing exclusive goodies.

Eager spellcasters can get into Magicka: Wizard Wars straightaway here: http://access.wizardwars.com/

Leading game developer and publisher of popular free-to-play  MMORPGs, KOG Games announced today that the original, online action-brawler MMO, Grand Chase announces that the biggest content update in the history of the game is upon us!

Starting today, KOG Games kicks off the first phase of the multi-part Grand Chase Season 5 update with the Character Separation patch. This first update introduces the Grand Chase players to Character Separation. The basis of Character Separation prepares the actual game framework for all of the features to come with the awesome Season 5 update.

What is Character Separation? Grand Chase typically hosts all of a player’s characters in a combined UI environment. This means that a player can navigate through all of their characters in the same location; regardless of whether they’re in a Dungeon or PvP. As well, all of the character specific gear that has been accumulated would be stored in the same, resource intensive, single UI inventory environment. Basically, if a player unlocked all of the 19 characters, and leveled them all up to max level, you’d have to accumulate and keep 70+ levels of gear for 19 different characters. If you’re not a diehard GC player… mass hysteria would typically ensue.  Character Separation will allow players to fully utilize a completely separate UI and interactive environment for each character. As well, you’ll be able to keep a separate inventory for each character as well as a joint warehouse inventory. Speaking of which, during the Character Separation Event, players will have their inventories permanently boosted to 120 slots for each character! You’ll also get Individual quest logs, a streamlined UI design and more.

When Grand Chase was conceived, the game was initially designed to accommodate a starting roster of 3 characters, trail-blazing as the first MMORPG side-scrolling action RPG brawler and offer some wicked PvP. To watch that same roster expand to 19 characters, the game world itself developed into an epic RPG storyline that pits the ultimate heroes vs. the most diabolical of evils, and years’ worth of great adventures and award winning content, it’s more than any small game developer can hope for. That’s until you realize that the game has become bigger than what it was initially designed to be.

“Even as a small developer, we’ve always done our absolute best to bring fun, new content to the players of Grand Chase,” Eugene Kim, CEO of KOG Games states “Now the time has come to let Grand Chase truly show its potential.”

With this awesome prelude complete, Grand Chase players will be prepared to experience Season 5! Grand Chase gets a completely new User Interface, a dungeon experience like you’ve never seen before, bigger-faster- smarter AI, brand new active combat dodge and combo systems, player-characters will be revisited and revamped and the GC epic will unfold revealing a side none of us expected! Stay tuned Chasers ~ Season 5 is coming!