SEATTLE, June 11, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Learning financial skills is as easy and fun as playing a video game. Just in time for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Visa, Inc. has released Financial Soccer, a new version of its fast-paced multiple-choice question game. The updated game, which features improved graphics and new questions, tests players’ money [...]
Suwon, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Curling-themed mobile game application has been launched by Gyeonggi-do, the most populous province in South Korea on June 10. The curling game caught a nationwide popularity during the latest Winter Olympics in Sochi. With an aim to promote the organization’s advancement in policy planning — and attract the public [...]
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. June 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Today Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) officially launched EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR® King of the Course for mobile devices. The free-to-play game offers a fresh and unique blend of arcade-style gameplay with real PGA TOUR pros and courses, as players strive to become the King of the Course. EA [...]
TOKYO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, announced a strategic relationship with Socialspiel Entertainment GmbH (“Socialspiel”), a Vienna-based social and mobile game development studio. Led by industry veterans Mike Borras and Helmut Hutterer, Socialspiel is a highly-acclaimed European game development studio focused on high-quality, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — NTREEV SOFT announced the global launch of its combat strategy game Second Earth. Simultaneously released in more than 130 countries around the world, Second Earth is available for free on iOS and Android devices. Second Earth is a sci-fi strategy game in which players have to grow and [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading game companies are changing the direction of the business from game development to game publishing. As large game companies focus more on supporting smaller game developers or fostering subsidiaries, the games developed on their own are beginning to represent a rapidly decreasing share of total revenue. WeMade [...]
LOS GATOS, Calif., May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Zepp Labs, a leader in sports sensor technology and new leader in tennis data, today released the first ever consumer technology that enables tennis players and coaches to capture and analyze serves in 3D on their smartphone or tablet. Simply attach the Zepp™ multi-sport sensor to the handle of any racket, serve [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – NCSoft is determined to recruit investment specialists. The company’s investment target is a non-game industry which can have a synergy with the game industry. Nexon and NHN Entertainments are also vying to make investments in non-game industries. Such moves by Korea’s most respectable game companies are interpreted as attempts to [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “Most game makers that succeeded in the world market analyze data on each national market’s users and their live time value constantly. Domestic game publishers and developers must do the same to raise their winning possibilities in the global market.” This is what Lee Chang-soo, president of 5Rocks, Korea’s mobile [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “FIFA Online 3M” has become the first mobile-dedicated game application to surpass the million-download mark on Naver App Store. “FIFA Online 3M,” the mobile version of famous online game “FIFA Online 3,” is a football game which features all the real players and clubs in major football leagues all around the world and [...]