SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will land in Japan and Taiwan during the first quarter of this year, South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp. said Monday. The mobile version of the mega-hit game Lineage 2 will be simultaneously available on Google’s Android and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s video game market was the fifth largest in the world in 2019, falling one position from the previous year, a report showed Monday. The country’s video game market reached sales of 15.6 trillion won (US$14.2 billion) last year, up 9 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean game developer Pearl Abyss said Tuesday that it will roll out its first open-world game “Crimson Desert” globally in the fourth quarter of next year. The upcoming role-playing action adventure game will come out on PC and console platforms, allowing single-player narrative with online multiplayers, the company [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean game developers are increasingly turning to Taiwan as a ‘forward base’ before hitting the global markets in China and Southeast Asia. Kakao Games, the game developing unit of South Korean mobile giant Kakao, decided to launch “Odin: Valhalla Rising,” the company’s newest mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — China’s media regulator has approved a South Korean video game for the first time in nearly four years in what could be a relaxation of economic retaliation. China’s National Press and Publication Administration issued a license for “Summoners War” on Wednesday, paving the way for Com2uS Corp. to officially [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom operators are targeting wider market penetration of cloud gaming services by expanding availability, industry officials said Thursday, amid strong demand from mobile gamers. The country’s three major carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — have in recent months opened up their [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean gaming developers and publishers have been unveiling their latest titles featuring cutting-edge graphics and technology at an ongoing game expo. This year’s G-Star Global Game Exhibition is not operating offline booths due to concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak, and fans must participate in the Thursday-Sunday event through [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest game expo kicked off online Thursday for the first time amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, bringing together major gaming and tech firms from both home and abroad. This year’s G-star, the 16th of its kind, does not operate offline booths due to concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak, and fans are [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Video game giants Microsoft Corp. and Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. are eyeing an unclaimed territory in their latest battle for global console supremacy: South Korea. South Korea is among the major markets for the launches this week of their new devices — Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and Series X [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it released Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox All Access service for the local market, offering gamers the U.S. tech giant’s latest game console as well as its cloud gaming service. The new subscription service bundles Microsoft’s new console — the Xbox [...]