SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean video game giant NCSOFT Corp., stricken with criticism over newly released game and a plunging share price, is yet again facing a sexual harassment case. An anonymous whistleblower at the company posted on Blind, an anonymous community of employed workers, that “certain individuals notorious for committing sexual [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s video game powerhouses are eyeing new grounds, from K-pop to TV shows, in search for new audiences as they become increasingly outshined by a new generation of game companies. Earlier this year, NCSOFT Corp., the creator of the hit fantasy series “Lineage,” launched a K-pop fan platform [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in South Korean video game giant NCSOFT continued to sink Monday on disappointment over its new title “Blade & Soul 2.” NCSOFT’s shares closed at 591,000 won (US$505), down 29.39 percent from Aug. 25, a day before the game’s launch, with 5.4 trillion won cleared from its market [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. on Friday rejected U.S. game maker Epic Games Inc.’s request that its hit title “Fortnite” be rereleased in South Korea in a case that highlights a tug-of-war over lucrative payment systems on the app market. The video game maker earlier tweeted that it asked Apple to restore [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of games are introducing Korean backdrops, instead of the more common western or Japanese settings. Last month, South Korean game developer Pearl Abyss introduced a new game “DokeV” at the German game exhibition “Gamescom 2021.” The game’s teaser, which has already surpassed 7 million views on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A handful of South Korea’s popular game developers have launched cloud services, raising expectations that the cloud gaming market, which has struggled to attract attention, is likely to grow significantly in the near future. Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce NOW game streaming service, which is operated by major telecom operator LG [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean game developer Pearl Abyss said Friday it will roll out the mobile version of its megahit online game Black Desert in China. Preregistrations for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for the mobile platform began earlier in the day, Pearl Abyss said. The game, which features [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The gaming environment is one of the most rapidly changing fields in the information technology industry, and it took less than a decade for mobile phones to replace personal computers as the main access channel for online gaming. The new landscape moved the South Korean government to abolish the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — NCSOFT Corp., a South Korean video game giant, is set to log improved earnings next year on the back of launches of new titles, analysts said Friday. The company is set to launch its highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) “Blade & Soul 2″ on Aug. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Video game developer Krafton Inc.’s initial public offering (IPO) drew lukewarm responses from retail investors, with their deposits for IPO subscriptions just at 5 trillion won (US$4.35 billion), its IPO managers said Tuesday. During the two-day subscription, the subscription rate stood at 7.79:1 for shares allocated for retail investors. [...]