So I was reading the posts of Hello Kitty Online coming to North America (whoo hoo! cheers and champagne!) and this post caught my attention, how come Kittynator is the poster boy? (Gratz Kittynator btw!)

The post is below for those to lazy to click on it!

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Aeria Brings Hello Kitty Online To North America

By Mike Fahey, 9:00 AM on Wed Mar 25 2009, 3,230 views

In the most exciting news out of the Game Developers Conference so far this morning, Sanrio Digital and Aeria Games are partnering to officially bring Hello Kitty Online to North America.

Aeria Games will manage the online publishing and day-to-day operation of Sanrio Digital’s Hello Kitty Online, a massively multiplayer online game with a built-in audience consisting of anyone who has ever professed a preference for the color pink. Currently in beta, Hello Kitty Online will launch later this year in North America with a free-to-play business model supported by microtransactions.

"Sanrio Digital is very excited to partner with Aeria Games, who will be our online publisher and operator for Hello Kitty Online in North America. With Aeria Games’ leadership position in the free-to-play casual MMO sector and Hello Kitty brand awareness among the underserved female gaming audience, Hello Kitty Online will grow into a leading social gaming destination for teens and female adults," said Robert Ferrari, Vice President of Publishing & Business Development of Sanrio Digital.

And there you have it! What could possibly top this news? Nothing. Nothing at all. GDC is now closed. You can all go home now.

The event results are out! congratulations to Founders for winning but a BIG BIG Congratulations to our Alliance that as a whole made most of the shirts and basically all the bags inside Hello Kitty Online!

Lookee at all them shirts and bags! That means our Alliance contributed 90 shirts and 81 bags in real life, that is so cool!

Total items submitted by players: 61 shirts, 28 bags
Triple-Boost Bonus: x3
Limited edition items donated by Sanrio Digital: 183 shirts, 84 bags

Valentine event inside Hello Kitty Online is officially over. I already miss hanging out with the Sailoria Gang! In the end we were farming and gathering like mad for the charity event and I think we did really well! As you can see below, I was drowned in dead coffee plants!

Carlos came to visit me and exclaimed in horror to what he witnessed, he had to look for me, luckily I wore a pink hat so I was easy to spot in the forest of brown.

I just enjoy hanging around talking to everyone about my MAD OBSESSION WITH POWER!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *furiously evil laughter*

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Anyway, here are two more screenshots (more to follow later) and one of them were Hello Kitty made a guest appearance a few days ago! I tried to hug her, but alas, no success.

Busy at the harbour when the game was opened on Valentine day!

the new interface shows the users differently than the green and red users.

Early on in the game we ended up helping build various guild members houses, like Tree and Carlos! Here Carlos was slave driving us cracking his wand while me, Yin and Otaku worked very hard to complete his wooden house! haha!

Sinniee’s farm was really very beautiful, captured the autumn feel, never did dying leaves look so good!

In the last minutes we were busy harvesting Sorosis, looking at that field, there were 6 of us crowding the fields (we are the ones in green and the star is me), we were busy farming and Otaku was the power mule going everywhere to collect last pieces of clay, sorosis and fragments.

and this is a screenshot of some of our last moments of the game! Sailoria

Some screenshots of the early experience this morning inside Hello Kitty Online when a flood of new players came in and crowded the harbour once more!

Welcome everyone! Everyone was so nice and helpful too, it was fantastic.

and here is the crowd, the new interface makes it more manageable, you can spot the concentration over right at the harbour front.

This announcement is special for many reasons.

First of all it’s of course a valentine event, and for hello kitty that’s always sweet, cute and most necessary.

But the thing that is most exciting is that it is a prelude to open beta, opening it for the whole world, if even for just for 3 days is really cool.

Why open it up for 3 days on valentines day? Maybe to invite that special someone to come play with you together on that day? hmmmm…. the plot thickens.

Happy New Year, may 2009 be a fantastic year for everyone and see you in HKO! The folks at Sanriotown gave us a nice HKO style 2009 countdown video!

Only 4 more days!

What does this mean? A snowy Harbour? a new york city? snowball fights? build a snowman contest?

Excited!!!

It is sad, yet very touching and reminded me of some stories inside Hello Kitty Online, particularly during CB. I wanted to share this with you all.

I got this one off the internet, credits from Onesound at thisisgame.com

One of the more suspenseful moments of constructing was the race to build New York, we won the Empire State Building Construction.

This screenshot is just minutes before we submitted. As you can see a real team effort, rotating out those who were out of energy, I passed out Tangerine Juice to everyone so they could keep working!

More details can be found here.