SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Netmarble Games, a South Korean mobile game developer and publisher, said Thursday its new highly anticipated mobile game inspired by K-pop boy band sensation BTS will be launched later this month. BTS Universe Story, an interactive mobile game featuring 3-D characters of the seven members, will be available both [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming company Kakao Games Corp. set a record subscription rate and deposits for new shares from retail investors Wednesday, heralding the country’s most popular initial public offering (IPO). Three IPO managers said Kakao Games shares were oversubscribed by 1,524.85 times by general investors as of 4 p.m., [...]
Samsung announced its all-new smart projector, The Premiere which gives you a big picture cinematic experience in the comfort of your own home. (Image courtesy of Samsung Elecs) SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled a set of new home appliances and gadgets for the European consumers that highlight human-centered [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming company Kakao Games Corp. said Wednesday it will go public next month to become a global leading game producer. The game affiliate under Kakao Corp., which operates the country’s most-used mobile messenger KakaoTalk, plans to issue 16 million new common shares at a price range of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Wednesday it launched a subscription-based game streaming service, joining other telecom operators to capture the local cloud game market. The service, named GameBox, streams PC and console games on smartphones using cloud technology and offers around 100 games at launch, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday it will launch Microsoft’s Xbox cloud game service here next month. South Korea will be the only Asian country for the xCloud service’s global launch across 22 countries on Sept. 15, according to SK Telecom. The game streaming service allows [...]
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 [...]