Posts Tagged ‘starcraft’

Starcraft Pro Gamer Turns into League of Legends Coach

February 23rd, 2012

JinHo Hong, a.k.a. a legendary pro gamer of <Starcraft> in Korea with Battle.net ID YellOw, has been appointed as a coach of a <League of Legends> pro game team called Xenics Storm. ‘Storm’ is actually his nickname when he made a name for himself as a <Starcraft> pro gamer.

“After a while of retirement from pro gaming career, I finally found a place to nest. I am currently focusing on <LoL> and starting a new challenge as a coach,” said Hong. “Thanks to a lot of fellows, Xenics Storm was able to launch. I deeply appreciate Xenics for sponsoring us and KyuHoon Hwang the chief of oGs for supporting us.”

Xenics Storm’s first competition is going to be the regular league ‘<LoL> the Champions Spring’ hosted by OnGameNet this Friday.

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Best booths and games of GStar2011

November 22nd, 2011

 

We had the  survey at GStar 2011 with the total of 496 gamers.

Best Booth

The most visited booth was Blizzard. 67% replied that they come to GStar2011 for visiting Blizzard booth. Nexon is 2nd by 66%, very close to 1st. (NCsoft 56%, Neowiz 53%, NHN 45%)

Apparently big 3 titles, SC2:HotS/Diablo3/WOW, plus Blizzard DOTA were as hot as they could get in Korea during GStar2011.

Cyphers, AOS game from Nexon, was the booth that 33% spectators visit first because of the game coupon. Blizzard was 21% and NCsoft was 8%.

The most favorite booth to visit was Blizzard booth by 27.4%. On the other hand, the worst booth to visit was also Blizzard booth because people needed to wait for a long hours to experience games. Nexon was 2nd by 15% and also for the worst by 38% because people struggle to receive a game coupon.

Best Game

The most favorite game of GStar2011 is Diablo3 by 48% and SC2:HotS by 36%. Lineage Eternal was 3rd by 32%. Other competitors were Cyphers and Guild War2. The game people play the most during GStar2011 was online FPS Dizzel from Neowiz Games by 20%. Neowiz prepared well to have many computers with Dizzel. SC2:HotS was 2nd by 19%.

The game people like the most after they are playing were Dibalo3. Especially, 79.1% ,34 out of 43, like the game after they were playing. Kingdom Under Fire 2 and SC2:HotS were the games people like as well.

Other Games

Among social, mobile, web games, people like Homerun Battle 2 for iOS from Com2uS, Rhythm Scandal from Wemade Entertainment.

Giveaways

There were many Giveaways in each booth mostly from in-game items, mug, mouse etc. The most preferable was an in-game item coupon for Cyphers. The giveaways that people don’t like was Guild War 2 paper bag from NCsoft.

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Blizzard and KeSPA Got Reconciled

May 17th, 2011

The conflict over the IP of <Starcraft> in Korea is finally settled.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced on 17th that the conflict with KeSPA, OnGameNet, and MBC Plus Media is over by letting them to host and broadcast <Starcraft> eSports in Korea.

The 2 year long contract ended their long and boring legal battle.

“We are glad to work with partners who have contributed fostering Korean eSports industry. It would be the first step toward long term and positive relationship, and we are looking forward to providing exciting eSports entertainment with new partners,” said Mike Morhaime the CEO of Blizzard Entertainment. “Korea will help developing global eSports industry through close cooperation with KeSPA and two boradcasters as the epicenter of eSports.”

“All of our staffs are so glad to work with the largest game developer Blizzard. Everyone participated earnestly to reach the settlement and had meeting with Blizzard pleasantly,” said JoonHo Kim the chief of KeSPA. “Blizzard’s devotion to eSports industry is well reflected in the game development. We will do our best to introduce better entertainment to more people and make our vision which is to build global eSports industry comes true through win-win relation.”

Next <Starcraft> tournament will be announced soon.

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Starcraft eSports on Settlement Track

May 11th, 2011

The conflict derived from <Starcraft> eSports is now on settlement track. Blizzard, MBC Games, OnGameNet, and KeSPA are meeting to solve the conflict peacefully. To that end, the 4th hearing scheduled on May 13 is postponed to next month.

The negotiation would be end as early as May and the lawsuit would be naturally withdrawn if Blizzard shakes hands with MBC Games and OnGameNet over the IP violation.

This settlement is limited to only <Starcraft>. Reportedly, Korean eSports would admit the IP of <Starcraft> and Blizzard would accept most of demands of the industry.

An official said “There has been no winner since the conflict began. The broadcasters had hard time on attracting sponsors for the leagues and Blizzard had negative marketing effect when <Starcraft 2> launched. So I guess they both had some common need on settlement.”

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Blizzard Claimed US$ 300,000 for IP

December 13th, 2010

The hearing of violation of intellectual property(IP) between Blizzard & Gretech and MBC Games, a Korean broadcaster, was held on Dec. 10.

The first hearing has been done with requesting Blizzard the assurance of paying the costs of the lawsuit from MBC Plus Media. MBC Plus Media, therefore, can now plead until Blizzard responses to the request. MBC Plus Media also requested specifying more detail facts of alleged violation of IP to Blizzard, and the court also requested Blizzard to submit any related precedents in the US if available.

OnGameNet will be summoned as a?co-defendant?at the next hearing as MBC Plus Media want it to be a concurrent processing.

It was eye catching that MBC Plus Media answered ‘want it to be judged’ while Blizzard saied ‘yes’ to a question, ‘Is it not such a case that should be mediated instead of being sued?’

“Blizzard sued us first and as it is the first lawsuit over game IP, we want it to be judged to define the extent of game usage,” said MBC Plus Media.

According to the homepage of Seoul court, Blizzard claimed US$ 300,000 against MBC Plus Media. The second hearing will be held on January 28.

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