Feb 22nd, 2013   The winners of “2012 Game Star Awards” hosted by Gamebase are honored at the Taipei Contemporary Art museum today (the 22nd). This year, over 700 games pitched in to participate for the title for the Game Star Award, including our very own “CS Online”, “KartRider Dash” and “Web Koihime † Dreams”, who snatched up three awards in total! GOBU Manager of GTW, Steve Liu, and GOBU Manager of GTW, Ryan Hsu, accepted the honor on behalf of Gamania. The current no. one FPS game in Taiwan, <CS Online>, wins the title of “Best Annual Distributed

  Thanking the Gods on the First Day of Work With the rumbling roars of lucky firecrackers, Gamania drives off the old and greets the new. With Albert in the lead, the corporation starts the first day by offering their appreciation to the gods, and wish that this year will bring ever more fortune and success!   ▲According to Taiwan’s customs, Gamania Headquarters are to gather and pray to the gods on the first day of work after CNY.  ▲One incense for each to send a prayer for a prosperous new year.    ▲Red firecrackers are set off in the

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

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

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

Winners for the first WebGame Cup were out! Vincent personally conferred the certificate of merits and prizes to the winners.    What is WebGame?  Actually WebGame is the so called webpage games, which are games that could be run independently. You don’t need to install programs, just click on the webpage to enjoy the game. These games are good for killing time and they have been sprung up on community platforms such as Facebook and Google +. Words and phrases that emerge from these web games, such as ‘stealing vegetable’, ‘feeding fish’, ‘opening shops’ have also become the ‘hit’

    1. The Promise   “Let’s go to Tibet!” This was a pact made by 3 junior high students that sat together in class. We were fascinated by the map of Tibet in our textbooks, and were measuring the Yarlung Tsangpo River with rulers. After a decade, I became one of those “migrating” backpackers. I am standing here alone on Mt. Chomolungma (Mt. Everest), fulfilling a promise 10 years too late. In 2010, from Qamdo, Nyingchi, Lhokha, and onto Lhasa and Shigatse, I have been wandering about in Tibet for over a month. Before leaving, I looking down

The 37th TCS Amsterdam Marathon was held on Oct 21st, 01:00 PM. Over the recent years, there has increasing attention directed to half-marathons. These races are held alongside with marathons with only half the mileage required, though equally in need of physical and mental tenacity. Ever more participants gather to join such a sport in the hopes of conquering 21 kilometers in one setting! This year, Bianca Alexiuc from GEU, challenged, and completed, the Amsterdam half-marathon! G-Voice is honored to celebrate Bianca’s spiritual journey and delight with all Gamanians on this special occasion.    ▲The event was held on

August 6, 2012   [Gama News] As part of beanfun! Summer Carnival, beanfun! National Open of first half year came to a perfect end on August 5th 2012. Players from all over Taiwan competed nearly 4 months and finally the champion team was born! The winners of regular match and sudden death match of CS online were AlphaForce and Pi-Li GoGoGo respectively. The winners of group speed match and individual speed match of 2.0 Crazy Racing Kartrider were Low-key club and oPTTo respectively. The intense competition carried on all the way to the final moment, everyone’s emotion was brought