News: PangYa on Revolution

February 15, 2006, 03:04 AM

by chazumaru, via Tecmo -
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It's been just a bit more than a year since we first talked about the game.For a while now, a few of us hoped Microsoft would use PangYa as a strategic element of the Xbox360's asian policy: Xbox Live! seemed to fit the game nicely, the japanese division needed a reputed golf game to attract more clients and it would have been a nice killer app for the korean market as well. It never happened for some reason. Until now! PangYa will finally see the day on the next generation of hardware via a little expected Revolution port from Tecmo, which the company discretely announced today through a PDF report on their website. In a bit less than two years and through successive korean, japanese and western versions, PangYa has established itself as a compelling and highly popular online multiplayer golf game. Korean producers Ntreev and HanbitSoft based their business model on the local trend of proposing a free game with customizations you buy. It will be interesting to see how Tecmo adapts it to the system's peculiar controller, and if players' customization will be managed with microtransactions or via a different system. SkattoGolf Pangya Revolution is announced as part of the launching line-up.