SEOUL, Korea, Nov 26 (Korea Bizwire) –‘G-STAR 2013’, which was attended by 512 game-related enterprises from 32 countries in the world, ended in great success after 4 days of ‘dreamful game culture festival’ with 188,707 visitors, a record number of actual people viewing the exhibition. This year is the second year the K-IDEA(hereinafter referred to as ‘the [...]
TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 17, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of LINE, a free call and messaging app, today announced that LINE PLAY has surpassed 12 million users since its global release eight months ago. The service has also undergone a complete redesign to make more user friendly to users worldwide LINE PLAY is an avatar [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 7, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Ubitus Inc., the worldwide technology leader in cloud gaming solutions, today announced it has enabled LG Uplus to bring the latest game-changing football classic title Konami’s Winning Eleven 2014 to C-games. The game, which has been nominated for Best Sports Game at Gamescom, will first be available [...]
TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 25, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owners and operators of the free calling and messaging app, LINE, announced that it has added two new features, Video Call and Snap Movie, to its platform. The Video Call function is compatible with iPhone, Android devices, and PCs (Windows/Mac), enabling free 1-on-1 video calls [...]
ANYANG, South Korea, Aug 29, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Breeze & BridgeCo., Ltd, a company that attracted a lot of attention from the education industry three months ago after the launch of their active learning travel workbook ‘QR’s Jolly – Gyeongju’ has announced that they will release a Gongju/Buyeo and Jeju edition on August 23rd. The [...]
In Expanding Commitment to the Hyper-Growth APAC Region, App Annie Releases Special Index Reports For Japan and Korea and Opens New Office in Seoul, Korea SAN FRANCISCO and BEIJING, July 25, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – App Annie today announced two special indexes covering Japan and South Korea. Leveraging data from App Annie’s premium market data product, App [...]
TOKYO, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, has announced that Barbarossa, a mobile game serviced by Nexon’s consolidated subsidiary inBlue, Inc. (“inBlue”), has surpassed 1 million downloads on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Barbarossa is a free-to-play social card battle role play [...]
HONG KONG, July 18, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME, “Shanda Games”), a leading online game developer, operator and publisher in China, announced today that the iOS version of Million Arthur, a mobile game publishded by Shanda Games’ subsidiary Actoz Soft (KOSDAQ: 052790.KQ, “Actoz”), has become the 3rd Top Grossing App across all [...]
Makes Equity Investment and Agrees to Worldwide Publishing RightsExtends Nexon’s North American Gaming Presence and Mobile Content Offerings TOKYO, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced a strategic relationship with SecretNewCo, a Maryland-based game development studio led by 22-year industry veteran Brian Reynolds, who [...]