Kim Dong-gun, head and director of DevCAT Studio, delivers his acceptance speech after Mabinogi Mobile won multiple honors at the 2025 Korea Game Awards held at BEXCO in Busan on November 12. The game took home three awards — the Presidential Award, the Technology and Scenario Award, and the Sound Award — emerging as the night’s biggest winner. (Yonhap)
BUSAN, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nexon’s Mabinogi Mobile was named the best Korean game of the year, winning the Presidential Award at the 2025 Korea Game Awards held Tuesday in Busan.
Developed by Nexon’s internal studio DevCAT, Mabinogi Mobile is a mobile and PC MMORPG released on March 27. The title reimagines Mabinogi, Nexon’s 2004 classic online role-playing game, for modern platforms and audiences.
At the ceremony, held at BEXCO in Busan’s Haeundae District, Mabinogi Mobile took home three honors — the Presidential Award, the Technology and Scenario Award, and the Sound Award — becoming the night’s biggest winner. It marks Nexon’s first Presidential Award at the Korea Game Awards since Dungeon & Fighter Mobile in 2022.
The Korea Game Awards, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Association of Game Industry, is the nation’s most prestigious event recognizing excellence in domestically developed games.
Last year’s top prize went to Solo Leveling: Arise, developed by Netmarble Neo and serviced by Netmarble. This year’s ceremony was attended by lawmakers from both the ruling and opposition parties, including Cho Seung-rae and Kim Sung-hae of the Democratic Party and Jeong Yeon-uk of the People Power Party, alongside leading figures from the game industry and cultural institutions.
Kevin Lee (kevinlee@koreabizwire.com)
