SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Sony Computer Entertainment Korea said on September 4 that it has completed the construction of the PlayStation classroom at the Seoul campus of Sangmyung University on the 3rd and will begin the first class on the 5th. The PlayStation class was prepared for students taking game-related courses so that they could learn the [...]
BOULDER, CO, Sep 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Sphero, leaders in connected play, announced today the launch of their next generation app-controlled robot Ollie. Initially introduced as Sphero 2B at CES in January, Ollie takes connected play to the next level by combining the technology that Sphero 2.0 is known for with innovative controls and integrated [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment announced on September 2 that the company started to put forth its utmost effort to lead the global game market with its mobile game, Zombie Virus. In the game, players can conquer a virtual world by spreading zombie viruses to all over the world. The game launched through [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – NEOWIZ GAMES held a media showcase on September 2, preceding the first non-public exhibition test for ‘Asker,’ a blockbuster online action role-playing game (RPG) that NEOWIZ CRS, a subsidiary of Neowiz Games, is currently developing. For the first half of the year 2014, Neowiz Games has launched the online games [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean mobile game producer, PATI Games, announced it has successfully secured 20 billion won (US$19.7 million) of capital investment from Tencent, China’s largest Internet service provider. PATI Games announced on September 1 that Tencent would invest the amount through the third-party allocation of new shares. With this capital [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook has regulated access of Korean users to its game service, causing inconvenience to them. That is because the South Korean government has put a brake on its betting games Korean Facebook users have played. According to the Digital Times on August 27, the social networking company has blocked access of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Gamevil, a leading game publisher in Korea, is spurring to be a global one, as its mobile games are selected in the top ranking games in the game charts across the world. According to the game firm, its fishing game “Fishing Superstars” is gaining popularity in Southeast Asia and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Hellovision, CJ group‘s entertainment and media unit, will launch a mobile advertising service which will create maximum impact on marketing and be economical at the same time, for small-sized game development companies CJ Hellovision announced on August 20 that they have co-developed “Cross Shock”, a free mobile game advertisement [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mega-hit blockbuster K-drama “My Love from the Star“, which engulfed the entire China into a “Xing Ni” – a nickname for the show in Mandarin – syndrome last winter, will be re-created into a mobile game and is expected to once again fascinate the Chinese market. WeMade Entertainment, Korea’s mobile [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – On August 12, CJ Games announced that it is planning to merge with CJ Netmarble. In a board of directors meeting, it was decided that CJ Netmarble would be spun off from CJ E&M and merge with CJ Games effective on October 1. On the 26th, in addition, they will [...]