SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — In collaboration with Unity Korea, the SmileGate Studio of Hope hosted the 2015 Global Game Jam Korea, in order to foster game creation passion and promote development of the gaming industry. The gaming festival was held at the Orange Farm Seocho Center for 2 nights and 3 days until [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Gamers who buy pets in World of Warcraft will now be able to donate money to help Ebola victims in West Africa. Blizzard Entertainment released a game-pet named Argi, and announced that proceeds from the adoption of the pet would be sent to the U.S. Red Cross, to be used in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – At the ongoing global game exhibition G-Star in Busan’s BEXCO, mobile games are emerging as a new growth engine in the gaming industry. Although the main booths of the exhibition hall showcase blockbuster online PC games, mobile games, despite their lack of mainstream status, are increasingly gaining prominence. NCSoft, [...]
TAIPEI, SEOUL, and BUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Ubitus Inc., the worldwide cloud gaming technology leader, is proud to announce the partnership with NC SOFT, the leading South Korean online game publisher and developer to bring its most anticipated new MMORPG game LINEAGE ETERNAL to the cloud during Korea’s largest game show [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment said its ten popular web board games out of 13 have been given warnings from the government regulators for possible rating cancellation. The Game Rating and Administration Committee had notified the company on November 6 that it would withdraw the rating approval for ten web board games that it services [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency have published the Game Industry White Paper 2014 which summarized the domestic and international game industry statistics for the year 2013. According to the White Paper, the total size of Korea’s game market in 2013 was 9,719.8 billion [...]
![[Quote] Korean E-sports Games Have Been Sold down the River at World Tournaments](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/riotgames.jpg "[Quote] Korean E-sports Games Have Been Sold down the River at World Tournaments")
“Although Korea is hosting major world-class e-sports competition events, all of the e-sports games are made abroad, not at home, which is detrimental to our games in advancing into the world market. What is more serious is that it is too heavy a burden that small games developers are responsible for the entire prize money [...]
Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced that its official camera app, LINE camera, has surpassed the 100 million global download mark as of September 22. LINE camera is LINE’s official camera app, and provides users with the functionality to [...]
![[Quote] It is Time for G-Star to Explore New Way to Make Profits](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/G-Star.jpg "[Quote] It is Time for G-Star to Explore New Way to Make Profits")
“Even though G-Star might not make the best return on investment in terms of marketing aspect, it could offer a good opportunity for startups to make a breakthrough, and could also be a festivity sort of for game players and game businesses as a whole.” Choi Gwan-ho, chief of executive committee of G-Star and chairman [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment took the first step to enter the e-commerce market in Korea. The game company announced on September 4 that it would purchase 5.1 million shares of Korea Cyber Payment at the cost of 64.19 billion won, or about US$62.7 million. After its paid-in capital increase, the Korean game publisher [...]