Taiwanese WoW sirens calls out to Hong Kong Gamers.
We’re still going through all the photos snapped at the recent Asian Game Show X Online Game Show a couple weeks back, and today we’re bringing you a bunch of photos from a party of Chinese Amazons at the World of Warcraft booth.
If you think the hottest Chinese models are only from Hong Kong, check out this bevy of beauties hailing from Taiwan and, rightly so, was quite the attention getter at the show. The four models were also accompanied by a very leggy “Mistress of Ceremonies” whose long slender legs were quite bewitching. Luckily Neonpunch was able to get some one-on-one and group shots of the lovely vixens for all our readers to thumb through at their leisure.
The happiest-to-receive Christmas gift to Hong Kong gamers.
Even though we’ve passed Christmas, we’re still unwrapping more photos and coverage from the annual Asian Game Show X Online Game Show(December 24-26).
At the yearly event, tens of thousands of local gamers descend upon the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to play and buy games. Due to last year’s poor attendance, AGS organizers decided to team up with the Online Game Show in the hope that more people would be drawn to the double bill event.
Canto Pop idol and spokesmodel for the event, Joey Yung (容祖兒), was on hand at the AGS X OGS to start proceedings, in what looked like a cyber samurai outfit! Weilding a katanna, Joey posed for the paparrazi while screaming fans swooned behind the metal barricades.
Sony rolled out a few models of their own to add to the festivities:
MMO’s with criminal aspects shut down on the Mainland.
Everyone loves gangster movies, music and television, sometimes we here at Neonpunch need to blow off some steam and live our secret gangster life…through video games.
Unfortunately, Xinhua announced that the Chinese Ministry of Culture has banned websites that host, distribute or feature gangsters or glorify mafia-like activity such as gambling which can “undermine morality and Chinese traditional culture…!” We’re no historians ourselves, but how long have gangs traditionally been on the Mainland?
We don’t know if this mandate is only for Massive Multiplayer Online games or any game featuring online content (or how far this will extend) and while the U.S. created Grand Theft Auto comes to mind immediately or the accredited Japanese import Yakuza, the only games who have been ordered to shut down are Chinese-language MMO’s.
This makes sense as most gamers in China are still net-bar based and even though there is an 18+ age limit to these, it’s often ignored completely. Some notable online sites affected include Kaixin.com’s Godfather, Mop.com’s Jianghu (‘gangster community’), and Xiaonei.com’s Guhuozai. Further violators face undefined “severe punishment” from the government. Several of the listed games have voluntarily closed for probable obvious reasons.
“Severe punishment” definitely doesn’t sound like brunch with Zhang ZiYi.
As if you didn’t spend enough time with WoW as it is!
World of Warcraft players can stay connected and updated anywhere they go, with the help of Blizzard’s new free iPhone application: World Warcraft Mobile Armory. Information that once could only be accessed by the official website can now be accessed from anywhere in the world at any time. This massive multiplayer world now lets you leave the trapping of your computer without losing the ability to stay in contact to the game. You can download the application here.
Some of the major features include:
Character information, including gear, achievements, and specs
PvP leader boards
Talent calculators
Official Blizzard news
An integrated item browser
In-game calendar
The app requires version 2.2 or later of the iPhone OS:
There are some good animations with the app. When you move to a new page, the current page flips away, like a book page.
You have a button to immediately return to one of your characters.
You can easily bookmark other characters for quick viewing.
Just when you thought you were Star Wars’d out, they pull you back in.
Bioware is really staking their territory at E3 this year with both, Mass Effect 2 footage and this amazing trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO, which to us looks better than the last 3 films combined:
Sony shows-off its Wii-killer with its new PS3 Motion Controller – motion capture tools to make your gaming go to the next level. You just have to watch the 10-minute demo to see:
And how can any true gamer not feel a tingle of nostalgia when you see Telltale Games bringing back Monkey Island for a 5-episode game for PC and WiiWare starting on July 7th:
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