Maple Story Set for DS

via ign

Korean online games super power Nexon announced today that it will be supporting the DS with one of its biggest PC titles. The company will be bringing Maple Story to the system for Korean release this September. A release in Japan, America and Europe has yet to be announced, but is being planned.

Nexon actually first announced support for the platform back at the G-Star games event in November of last year. Today's announcement marks the first specific mention of a game.

And what a big announcement it is. Since its release in May of 2003, Maple Story has spread throughout the world, building a large online community in the process. Different from many other online titles out of Korea, Maple Story is a side scrolling action game designed for casual gamers.

Details on the DS version were not revealed as part of this announcement. Nexon plans to cooperate with Nintendo Korea in working out what makes its way over.

This announcement comes a little over a week before the 1/18 Korean release of the DS Lite. With a major Korean franchise supporting it, the DS Lite could end up being just a hit in Japan's neighbor as it has been in Japan itself.

this game could turn out great or completely bad, I personally don't really know what to expect from this game, I have played the game on the PC for a while and thought that it was alright.. but I mean will it turn into an MMO?

I think, if the the game is made right, it will be a great game for the DS, and I would really hope its an MMO....

makign it portable would be awesome...

if it's online it'll prolly be full of hackers like the pc version...

isnt this going to be released in korea only.

I remember when they first announced it, they said it was going to be online. Well, they said they would try and get it online. The only bad thing I see is not being able to patch the game for online play, as far as I know with a DS cart. Losing out on new items and game expansion

it'd be nice if they sold it as 2 carts... using both the DS slot and the GBA slot, and they could have two Different releases, one for the Lite and one for the DS, (the lite would have the smaller gba cart, for convience) that would allow it to have the memory (in the gbaslot) to be updated for patches/expansions......
but sadly i doubt this will ever happen -,-.... it'd be nice though :D

can some1 please post link