Blade & Soul beats Diablo 3

By Cho Mu-hyun

NCsoft’s latest release Blade & Soul has kept its lead over Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 following the game’s commercialization last week.

The massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) secured 17.16 percent of Internet cafe user occupancy compared to Diablo 3’s 15.64 percent on Wednesday, according to game research firm Gametrics on Thursday.

The Korean offering emerged as the victor over the weekend after commercialization,