SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp. said Tuesday it will release a cloud-based virtual reality (VR) gaming service later this year, taking advantage of its low-latency 5G network. The nation’s No. 3 mobile carrier said it will launch a wide range of VR games for head-mounted displays connected to its 5G network [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The fourth-biggest market for digital games in the world and an aspiring leader in the emerging VR technology, South Korea is at odds with the World Health Organization’s recent decision to put excessive gaming in the official list of disorders. The World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision-making body, unanimously [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Netmarble Games, a South Korean mobile game developer and publisher, said Wednesday that its new, highly anticipated mobile game inspired by K-pop boy band sensation BTS will be launched later this month. “BTS World,” a simulation game built around the idea of grooming BTS members to become global superstars, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., Netmarble Corp., and three private equity firms submitted final bids for the parent of South Korean gaming firm Nexon, in possibly one of the biggest gaming deals worldwide, financial sources said Sunday. In an auction that closed on May 31, mobile messaging app Kakao, Korea’s No. 2 [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to set up a body to address the World Health Organization’s decision to classify excessive gaming as an illness, while balancing the interests of the country’s high-profile gaming sector and growing concerns over gaming addiction, the government said Monday. The WHO last week defined problems caused [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp. said Thursday it will launch Nvidia’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform for Internet Protocol (IP) television services and upcoming 5G smartphones. LG Uplus said it has signed an exclusive deal with Nvidia, a U.S.-based graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturer, to give access [...]
BARCELONA, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. and Comcast Spectacor on Monday agreed to establish an esports joint venture tasked with global team operation, content development and marketing to cash in on the fast growing entertainment segment. South Korea’s leading mobile carrier and U.S. media and entertainment giant Comcast’s professional sports unit signed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest game publisher NCSOFT Corp. said Friday that the new version of its mobile mega-hit game “Lineage M” will overcome the limitations of its platform. The so-called master server will be adopted for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) starting for the first time in March [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will launch a virtual reality (VR) racing game for 5G smartphones in the first half of this year. SK Telecom said it has signed a licensing agreement with the nation’s leading game developer, Nexon Co., to use [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment Corp.’s artificial intelligence (AI) Go program beat the reigning global champion in a match on Wednesday, scoring a complete victory in a series of games against South Korea’s top five players. NHN’s AI player HanDol defeated Shin Jin-seo in the fifth and final match held at the [...]