SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of mobile games in South Korea soared to a record high in the first half of the year amid the coronavirus pandemic that has confined more people to their homes, industry data showed Monday. Combined sales of three app markets — Google’s Play Store for Android devices, Apple’s [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean game developers are targeting the rapidly growing North American gaming market for new releases. The global market research firm NPD Group reported that there were approximately 244 million gamers in the U.S. as of May, which is about 74 percent of the total U.S. population. More than [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A slew of highly-anticipated mobile games based on classic PC titles have been or are set to be launched during the second half of this year, as game publishers aim to attract more mobile game users. In the lineup is “The Kingdom of the Winds: Yeon,” by major game [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A subsidiary of South Korean online game developer NCSOFT Corp. on Wednesday disclosed three highly anticipated mobile games under development. Ntreev Soft Co. is currently developing the three games — Trickster M, Pangya M and Pro Baseball H3. “Trickster M and Pangya M are scheduled to be rolled out [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s hottest mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) “Lineage M” marked its third anniversary on Wednesday. It was developed by the nation’s leading online game developer and publisher NCSOFT Corp. “Lineage M” was created in June 2017 as a mobile version of the PC game Lineage, which [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday released its new curved gaming monitor to beef up its presence in the gaming equipment market. The South Korean tech giant announced the global launch of the Odyssey G9, which was first unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming giant Nexon Co. is making all-out efforts for the successful launch of a mobile edition of its flagship title “Dungeon & Fighter” in China, industry sources said Tuesday. Neople, a subsidiary under Nexon responsible for the development of the mega-hit game, has recently opened a new [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of the Nintendo Switch jumped more than 30 percent on-year during the first quarter of this year in South Korea amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, industry data showed Friday. A total of 82,848 units of the video game console made by Japanese gaming firm Nintendo Co. were sold [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people playing PC and console-based games jumped by nearly 50 percent globally this year as the new coronavirus pandemic has confined more people to their homes, an industry report showed Thursday. Daily active users of PC and console games spiked 46 percent on-year during the January-May [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp., was the highest grossing app on the Google Play Store during the first quarter of the year, industry data showed Monday. The mobile version of the mega-hit game “Lineage 2″ was [...]