The rain poured down on July 8th 2012 in London, drenching the streets and the runners.  GEU-UK-Samantha Whale   This year’s British 10K London Run was particularly special because it also commemorated the 2012 London Olympics as well as Queen’s Jubilee. The ‘iconic route’ was designated from a section in the 40km marathon route in Olympics, which incorporated various famous London landmarks. However, on the day of the run, it was raining. Despite the rain, there were over 40,000 people participated in this charity run. GEU-UK, Samantha Whale took the opportunity and raise funds for charity organization, GamesAid. Initially

▲Alan Lan, GEU (first on the left) participated the local Futsal league and met friends from different countries when he was stationed in Netherland.  Alan Lan of GEU participated the Futsal League when he was stationed in Netherland. His team mates came from different countries, ranging from Taiwan, England, Ireland, Netherland, Italy, Morocco to Romania. 7 men from different countries teamed up as Amsterdam Futsal League. They took part in regional matches in Amsterdam which runs twice a year. Since they played the matches, they have had great results: two champions, and two runner-ups.  ▲Runners up of division 2

gdex 2012（Gamania Developers Exchange）Official Launch: July 2nd -13th !   A good R&D organization, in addition to having a well-rounded talent pool, creativity encouraging environment and an efficient R&D management process, another crucial key is whether or not it could establish a sound sharing culture.  Research and developing games is a creative-intensive job. The sources and materials for creativity come from all kinds of daily experiences. These are the elements that R&D persons get in contact with on daily basis and then internalize them into creativity. This is why R&D people get to create more fabulous games. Through a

GJP announced that Langrisser Tri-Swords, a webgame adapted from the classic console war-chess game, :Langrisser, is to conduct its official open beta test!  Langrisser is initially a console game series created by Masaya, the software division of Nippon Computer Systems. It is categorized as war-chess game. In the proceeding of the game, the drama element takes up a huge proportion which is why some players positioned it as tactic-role-play game. Since its launch in Japan and Asia in 1991, it has been sold over million sets and is said to be the ‘it’ war-chess game of the 90s. The

Before I get into the subject, I’d like to begin with a slogan from Nokia’s commercial, “Hunan Technology”. Through the design of emotion, a life-less product is given a friendly feeling, no longer a cold product or webpage. In fact, in the process of design, it does not always come from a brand new concept, on the contrary, we seek for something that is already rooted in people’s subconsciousness. I believe no one has ever taken a serious look at the footer on the webpage. Footer design is the most easily ignored or underestimated part of the webpage design.

For the longest time, the Olympic Games, held every four year, have been the heart of global attention.  All the best athletes gathered in one place, aiming to be faster, higher and stronger. It is a fight for the individual as well as the country. During the Olympics, the world seems to become ‘flat’, there is no time difference and no linguistic, cultural or ethnic barriers. All the audiences cheer for exceptional performances done by the athletes, regardless of winning.  Do you know that there are 76 countries in the world that have not won any single Olympic medal?

Sportsmanship of Olympics, the spirit of daring to challenge, fight and never give up and the pursuit of glory, are thoroughly embodied within each unit in Gamania. Operation is the unit that stands on the front line and thinks about how to win a battle in the market. They are like elite soldiers of Gamania group, doing market observation, adjustment, strategy proposal and execution etc. In this article, G!VOICE interviewed the manager of BU4-GTW, Marco and asked him to talk about Maple Story, a game that rewrote the history of Gamania and the challenge and obstacles behind the successful

In the Olympics game, the athletes accumulated years of hard works, sweated in numerous accounts, and gained countless support and encouragement before they could win a precious trophy. In Gamania, each glory and accolade is the joint efforts and result of Gamanians across the units. R&D uses their creativity to design games; operation unit plans the strategy and product marketing; brand center controls the image of the brand etc. Gamanians are like a big family where everyone stands on the same line. We strive for glory and encourage each unit to participate in regional brand competition so that the

Chief editor of the website, Mmorpgitalia, Mattia Lehmann (right) conferred Best Combat System for Gamania’s Core Blaze to William (left).  The biggest game exhibition in Europe, Gamescom was held in Koln, German between 15 and 19 August, 2012 with over 600 companies from 40 countries participating. Gamania was also one of the participating companies. We did not overtly promote ourselves during the exhibition, but we received a pleasant surprise!  The biggest online game website, Mmorpgitalia (http://www.mmorpgitalia.it) ranked Core Blaze as having the ‘Best Combat System’ of all online games in 2012. The chief editor, Mattia Lehmann personally conferred the

12 rare warlords released all at once!   [Gamania News] Gamania’s own webpage game, Web Koihime†Musou received fervent feedbacks from players during closed beta test and was widely discussed among major online game forums. It was also ranked among top games on game billboard. Web Koihime†Musou is expected to host open beta test from September 5th to October 4th 2012. In addition to the original 46 beautiful warlords, 12 additional EX version rare warlords would also be released. Many players were very excited about the news and couldn’t wait for the fun of collecting various warlords! In addition, all

▲（Source of picture：http://www.psdgraphics.com/backgrounds/bulls-eye-target） More and more people asked me recently, “For brand owners, what exactly is brand marketing in the digital age?” The traditional marketing relies on T.V, newspapers, magazines, radio broadcastings or outdoor billboards so if we get our heads around the features of these media, we could market everything with flying color. However, in these past few years, these old tricks don’t work the same magic anymore.  Due to the rise of social networks in recent years, from blog, YouTube, twitter to Facebook and Pinterest, new media appear in alarming rate. These new marketing tools have their

“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world”                                                                                                              ─Karl Lagerfeld   Do you still remember the smell of a book? After the e-publication became popular, the scent of books has gradually been forgotten. If you’re an avid lover of