The first commercial final release of Hello Kitty Online is now live in Indonesia! GOGAME, the exclusive publisher of Hello Kitty Online in Indonesia, announced the game’s commercial launch on July 1, 2009. Fans in the region can now enjoy all the features of Hello Kitty Online, including the Item Mall system, in the final launch build of the game.

Congratulations to GOGAME for a successful launch, and we look forward to Hello Kitty Online Indonesia winning over the entire country with its cuteness! You can keep track of the latest news about Hello Kitty Online Indonesia on their official website and news blog.

If you are not in Indonesia, do not despair: Hello Kitty Online will be launching across more territories in the near future!

They are cute, cuddly, a handful at times and energetic. Your pets will accompany you throughout your travels and quests.  Aside from being good company, they can help you by providing bonuses such as added defense, stamina, health, inventory space and much more!

In the upcoming release of HKO, everyone will be getting more choices into what kind of pet they want to keep.  Each creature in Sanrio Land now drops pet cards allowing users to tame any creature in the game.

In addition to pets that you can get from Sanrio Land’s wildlife, you can now combine certain pets to form hybrid pets.  These hybrids provide much higher boosts and gives you more benefits than what a normal pet can give.

That’s about it for this week. There’s more to come so see you around!

They’re onto us! The clever folks at Massively have put the puzzle pieces together, and uncovered our plans of world domination! And yes, it’s true: Hello Kitty Online is working on conquering Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brazil, Europe, and North America. And, soon, the rest of the world!

There’s no hiding it now, so we invite you to get the scoop from the Massively article, a true example of peerless investigative journalism. It was only a matter of time before our secret was revealed, but it’s too late to stop us now! Onward, Hello Kitty Online!

Hello Kitty Online is on today’s edition of My Paper, a popular cosmopolitan newspaper in Singapore.  The article features an interview of one of our SanrioTown users, Starfirre7.

“I’m very excited to see the game played here! It’ll be a dream come true for fans” Starrfire7 said.  She added: “The best thing about the game is that you get to interact with Sanrio fans from all over the world.”

The article continues to highlight the positive buzz HKO has been receiving in Singapore.

Click here to view the article in the My Paper site.  The article is on page 6.  Click on the arrow buttons to flip through the pages.  You can zoom into the article by clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the upper right corner of the site.

Hello Kitty Online will be brought to Singapore and Malaysia by Sanrio Digital and Oriented Games.   They will be holding their first beta tests on July of this year.

Hello Kitty Online is covering even more ground, as Sanrio Digital and Oriented Games announce the upcoming Closed Beta launch of the game in Singapore and Malaysia in July 2009! Players from the said regions will soon get to experience the new and improved version of the popular and highly-anticipated MMORPG featuring Hello Kitty and her friends.

HKO will be made available through the game portal Gloot.net, where players from Singapore and Malaysia can register and download the Closed Beta version of the game.  For more information on this upcoming launch, check out the press release at the Sanrio Digital blog.

Some more good news, this time for our friends in Brazil!  In a recent press release, Sanrio Digital and online games publisher GameMaxx announced that they will be bringing Hello Kitty Online to Brazil!

GameMaxx will be managing online publishing, Internet cafe distribution and game service operations for users in Brazil.  A Brazilian edition of SanrioTown will also be coming soon.  For more information regarding this, check out the press release at the Sanrio Digital blog.

Quests and maps aren’t the only new things that you would find when the game comes back.  The next release of Hello Kitty Online will feature hundreds of new items and customization options!

From the start, players of the game will find new hair styles, faces and skin tones to choose from when they create their characters.

Once they are in game, they will have hundreds of items to choose from to improve their stats or to customize their avatar’s look.  These items are available through NPC shops, quest rewards or through crafting and some will be available through the item mall.

We’ve got more coming up so keep checking back here often!

We’ve been spending a lot of time reworking many aspects of Hello Kitty Online but we’ve been paying particular attention to the quests.  After many hours of brainstorming and hundreds of lines written, we’ve come up with completely new quests that you’ll be sure to enjoy!

More of your favorite Sanrio characters are now in the game.  These characters will give you quests that are now closely tied to the game’s story.

We’ve also added some new exciting elements to quests.  New kinds of tasks await you.  Go surfing, try your skills in brewing coffee or find your way through a labyrinth to get to safety.

We’re bringing the game to new levels of fun!  It’s still a work in progress, but we will be showing you more of the new stuff soon!

Hello everyone! As you know, the Hello Kitty Online Team has been working to improve the game based on your feedback, and thanks to you HKO has come a long way since its first Closed Beta. So, starting today, we’ll be walking you through some of the major changes and improvements to the game, the ones you’ll be seeing for yourself soon when the game launches!

To start things off, we’d like to showcase the new, never-before-seen city that’s been added to the game: Beijing! In it you’ll see some narrow streets, red lanterns, unique buildings, and walls surrounding the heart of the city.

Hello Kitty Online’s Beijing is full of interesting detail. If you’re into aquatic life, you’ll enjoy a visit to the Bubble Dome, and if you’re into cultural relics, the Forbidden Museum might just be the place for you.

The city also has its very own sports stadium!

We also have 14 new adventure maps, 8 of which make up Beijing’s surroundings. Each of these adventure maps is sprinkled with new resource nodes and roaming creatures. Of course, new content and new Sanrio characters also come with the opening of Beijing. In fact, this new city is especially important because in it you’ll come across a major piece of the puzzle required to solve the mystery surrounding Sanrio Land.

We’ll take you through more of our updates over the coming days and weeks, so stay tuned!

In a press conference held at Club XXI Djakarta Theater last April 22, 2009, Sanrio Digital and GOGAME announced the launch of Hello Kitty Online and SanrioTown in Indonesia, signing a symbolic cooperative agreement to mark the official start of their partnership in developing Hello Kitty Online in the country. The event was attended by partners, friends and media, while selected users from SanrioTown were also invited.

During the event, GOGAME introduced Hello Kitty Online to the Indonesian market, highlighting features such as the minigames, housing system and farming system. They also shared information about future updates to the game. The press conference was received well by the media, and was covered on several Indonesian game sites including Kotak Game and GameQuarters.

Click here for more details on the press conference.

Hello Kitty Online is currently in its Founders’ Beta testing phase in Indonesia, the first ever publisher-run HKO. The event began last April 15, 2009, after which the servers will be taken down for further work. SanrioTown Indonesia, which was soft-launched last April 2, 2009, is already gaining much activity in terms of sign-ups, blog and forum content.

Congratulations to GOGAME for the successful launch! SanrioTown and HKO are certainly off to a great start in Indonesia. Watch out for more updates on HKO Indonesia through their official news blog!