The University of Florida is a 150-year-old comprehensive university with more than 45 thousand students. It ranked as No.50 of the authoritative universities in the world. Recently, Nate Polling, a doctor student at UF business school, came up with the idea that teaching business studies of resource mangement skills and analysis of human weaknes based on Blizzard’s RST Starcraft 2. He said, students can learn business skills that academic and MBA course doesn’t have. His school accepted this idea and set a optional course. The students who chose this optional course must have some knowledge. Its online teaching will be available next semester.

This is not the first university to offer an optional course based on Starcraft. California-Berkeley Business School offered a course on competitive Starcraft and Psychological analysis. 

Today, Blizzard’s BlizzCon 2010 virtual tickets channel is open. the price is 39.95 dollars. Players who bought a virtual ticket can watch BlizzCon2010 Live through the Internet. Meanwhile, they can get a virtual pet in World of Warcraft and a virtual props in Starcraft2. It is confirmed that he pet given away was a Baby Morloc named Deathy. Its appearance and name is poking fun at Wings of Death. The props of Starcraft12 hasn’t been released yet. It is estimated that it is an in-game specops model or something like achievement

On August 24^th, 2010, Blizzard Entertainment and NASDAQ: NTES jointly announced, MMORPG World of Warcraft Second Trailer”Wrath of the Lich King”, with numerous awards, will be released on August 31th, 2010 in China Mainland.

NTES CEO William Ding said, “World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG players in China. We believe that Wrath of the Lich King will bring them a bigger surprise. We have made a omnibearing preparation with great care for to better serve and support the old and new players all over China.

Not long ago, FPS MMORPG Battery open its advertising page and released its game video and screenshots.

Meanwhile, its graphics are finer than that of its first closed beta seen from the screenshots released.

BATTERY is a 3D FPS shooter developed by WebZen with the unreal engine 2.5. Since being developed in 2007, it sets in the near future with the theme of resource seizure between the major powers centered in the arctic ocean.

Blizzard Entertainment confirmed that the third trailer “Cataclysm”will be released at the end of this year. Meanwhile, it released the packing box of trailer and the content in the special collector’s edition. The price of “Cataclysm” Collector’s Edition is 79.99 dollars.

Because of Lineage’s rising momentum, NCSOFT created the highest operating profits during the corresponding period of Q2. By region, its sales were 108 billion won, 14.9 billion won, 8.5 billion won, 17.8 billion won and 5.5 billion won respectively in South Korea, North America, Europe, Japan and Taiwan. And its Sign-up fee was 12.8 billion won.

By game, its sales were 51.2billion won,29.9billion won, 62.4 billion won, 3.5 billion won, 5.1 billion won and 2.7 billion won respectively for Lineage, Lineage 2, Aion, City of Villians, Guild Wars and others.

On August 13th, Goorm announced that MMORPG<<Keroro RPG>>will start its first closed beta from August 26th to August 29th in Korea.

Keroro RPG is the end edition of Keroro series followed Keroro Fighter、Krpang、Keroro Racing.

Recently, “Aion” train appeared in Seoul Metro Line 2.

In Seoul Metro Line 2, a train equipped with more than 10 LG 3D Laptops and digit cameta will let passengers experience the 3D technology.

On the “Aion”train, passengers can see Aion videos and movies through NCSOFT’s popular MMORPG Aion and 3D XNOTE R590 series laptops.

The surface of “Aion” train was sprayed with advertisements of NCSOFT Aion and LG 3D laptop.

Initiated by TVA, the Seventh World Cosplay Summit will end at Nogoya at the beginning of this month. COSPLAY fans Luca Buzzi from Ital and Di Pierro from Zelda won the champion. Several hundreds COSer from 15 countries and tens of hundreds of COSPLAY fans attend this summit. here are some photos from the spot and in the preliminary round. Here we will choose a small part because of too many photos.

On August 9^th, NEOWIZ Games announced that they got the overseas publishing right of FATEN developed by NJ Interactive.

FATEN is a MMORPG with a fantasy world view. In the game, players can open stores and participate in the economic activities. Its biggest feature is the “City Construction” system. Seizure of cities and war between guilds to protect cities will further improve its pleasure. Besides, aerial and underwater combat without limit and character’s good and evil system will offer a distinctive pleasure.