SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming giant Nexon Co. has announced plans to terminate its racing game “KartRider,” launched in 2004, provoking protests from gamers. Some KartRider users on Thursday parked a mobile billboard truck displaying their protests against Nexon’s decision in front of the company’s headquarters in the Seoul suburb of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean game companies are expanding their scope of business towards content like TV dramas, webtoons and web novels, encouraged by the success of local cable channel JTBC’s corporate drama “Reborn Rich” that was invested in and produced by a Com2uS Corp. affiliate. RaemongRaein Co., which participated in the production [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has great potential for the booming online gaming industry thanks to its high-speed internet infrastructure like the fifth-generation (5G) network service, a senior Google official said Tuesday. “In Korea, cloud gaming is poised for success on account of the country’s globally renowned internet speeds and 5G infrastructure,” [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) recently recommended restricting some sub-culture games to an adult-only level, raising disputes over unfairness in its deliberations. Such disputes are now threatening the existence of the committee. The office of the Rep. Lee Sang-heon of the main opposition Democratic Party on Saturday [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s game developers are competing to promote their own metaverse platforms as Naver Corp.’s Zepeto dominating local metaverse market. NCSOFT Corp.’s Miniverse, up for release next month, is a platform where users can engage in a variety of online meetings in a 3D space through avatars. The company [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp. has been sued by South Korean players of “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” a popular Japanese-developed mobile game, with hundreds of users demanding refunds of their in-game microtransactions over the company’s purportedly neglectful management of Korean users. Kim Sung-soo, a user representing 201 players of the game, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp. has been caught up in a storm of user complaints over questionable management of the South Korean version of Japanese mobile title “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” with many gamers threatening to sue the company over purported neglect of Korean users when compared with Japanese players. First [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming company Com2uS Corp. said Thursday it plans to launch a metaverse platform for consumers and enterprise clients, including SMEs, in 2024. The company announced its plans to open a beta service of its Com2Verse metaverse platform for a select number of enterprise clients next year and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Corp., the gaming unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., said Wednesday its second-quarter net profit skyrocketed over 165 times from a year earlier thanks to the success of its blockbuster mobile title “Odin Valhalla Rising” and “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” its latest Japanese licensed game [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The culture minister on Friday pledged to lift the country’s strict regulations on the computer gaming industry, saying “games are not a disease.” Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Park Bo-gyoon made the comment during a meeting with industry leaders at the Korea Association of Game Industry in southern Seoul. [...]