SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK), South Korea’s premier professional esports league, is broadening its reach by boosting fan engagement in Vietnam, where viewership has recently surged. According to the LCK secretariat on July 16, the Vietnamese broadcast of the 2024 LCK Spring Finals in April reached a peak [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Nexon, a leading South Korean game developer, is ramping up efforts to launch its blockchain-based game MapleStory N, which has been in development since 2022. The company has begun recruiting testers, signaling a move towards the game’s official release. According to industry sources on July 4, NexSpace, a Nexon subsidiary, [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean gaming giant Krafton Inc. will showcase its new titles at one of the largest global gaming events in Germany next month, the company said Wednesday. Krafton will unveil its extraction role-playing game, Dark and Darker Mobile, and life simulation game, inZOI, at gamescom 2024, which will take [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Game Rating and Administrative Committee of South Korea has intervened to stop a controversial promotional event by a domestic game developer that offered a luxury car as a prize for its newly launched online game. According to sources familiar with the matter, the committee recently rejected a content modification [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – In a notable turn for South Korea’s videogame industry, long dominated by mobile and online multiplayer titles, domestic developers are finding surprising success in the global console market, potentially heralding a new era of diversification and growth. Shift Up, a rising star in the Korean gaming scene, recently disclosed in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean game developer NCSOFT Corp. said Wednesday it will begin global service of its latest game title, Throne and Liberty (TL), in September. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game will be distributed in partnership with Amazon Games first in North and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – As he was inducted into the League of Legends Hall of Legends on June 6, Lee Sang-hyeok, known as “Faker,” the celebrated professional gamer for the T1 team, spoke about the profound impact his career has had on fans worldwide. “Throughout my professional life, I’ve faced many ups and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – In an ongoing copyright battle over the “Legend of Mir” intellectual property jointly owned by game developers Actoz Soft and WeMade, South Korea’s Supreme Court has ruled that the case should be re-examined based on Chinese law, not domestic regulations. On June 6, it was reported that the Supreme Court’s [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Samsung Electronics announced on June 4 the launch of its 2024 lineup of gaming monitors called Odyssey OLED featuring cutting-edge technology, as well as new high-resolution ViewFinity monitors. The new OLED gaming monitor series includes the Odyssey OLED G8 (G80SD) with 4K UHD resolution and the Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SD) [...]
BUSAN, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The sale of illicit computer programs designed to cheat in online video games has morphed into a sophisticated organized crime operation involving separate development and distribution networks, according to South Korea’s game industry watchdog. Compounding concerns, some youths are even engaging in the promotion and sale of these “hacks” as [...]