SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — NCsoft Corp., a South Korean online game developer, said Monday that it has launched “Lineage M,” the mobile version of its mega-hit game “Lineage,” in Taiwan. The mobile game is available to users in Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong through the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store, NCsoft [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Netmarble Games said Friday its latest game “Lineage 2: Revolution” has been given Google Play’s “Best Game of 2017″ award in South Korea and five other Asian countries. South Korea’s No. 1 mobile game developer and publisher said Lineage 2: Revolution, a mobile MMORPG game licensed by NCSoft and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The e-Sports industry is expanding at a torrid pace. From 60.2 billion won in 2014, the industry is growing by more than 10 billion won every year. According to a study commissioned by the Korea Creative Content Agency and the culture ministry, last year’s growth was measured at 14.9 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean game makers have contributed greatly to the recent boom of the country’s secondary stock market as their stock prices are on an upswing on hopes of rising earnings, industry sources said Wednesday. Driven mainly by strong earnings momentum, the tech-laden KOSDAQ market has been recently on a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A record number of gamers visited this year’s global gaming convention G-Star, marking a successful year for the South Korean gaming industry. G-Star 2017 wrapped up on Sunday after four days of successful events attended by over 225,000 people, the biggest audience since the game exhibition was launched in 2005 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced on November 8 that it has drafted a standardized list of terms and conditions for the mobile gaming industry that has been passed into law. Mobile gaming is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds, but its steady rise has also been accompanied [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Shanghai-based South Korean businessman Kim Hae-soo has won this year’s ‘Next Generation Rising Venture Conference’ with his business of virtual reality-based room escape cafés. During the event, which was jointly held by the World Federation of Overseas Korean Traders Association and Yonhap News Agency to help young South Korean businessmen [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Games Co., the mobile game subsidiary of Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app, plans to launch an initial public offering next year, a company official said Thursday. The planned IPO is part of Kakao Games’ strategy to make inroads into global markets and develop [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Netmarble Games, South Korea’s top mobile game developer, on Wednesday rolled out its mega-hit title, “Lineage 2: Revolution,” in Japan. The mobile role-playing game immediately became the most popular free app both in the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. The game — which has gained huge popularity [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean messaging giant Kakao announced on Thursday it is incorporating all of its gaming business divisions into Kakao Games, its gaming affiliate, in a strategic move that will boost its competitiveness and expertise in the gaming industry. The decision, which was made by the board of directors the [...]