SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government is set to bolster the game industry, which it sees having great potential to become the next growth engine, as economic growth remains sluggish. On Friday, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning announced a set [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has shown that 9 out of 10 smartphone users aged between 20 to 40 enjoy mobile games. According to NBT, the company managing the mobile lock screen application Cash Slide, among 1,202 smartphone users aged between 20 to 40, 93.8 percent answered that they currently play [...]
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 [...]
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON, Mar 31, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) - SEGA® of America, Inc., SEGA® Europe, Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products today announced that Alien: Isolation™, the hugely anticipated survival horror title, will be available from October 7, 2014. Developed by Creative Assembly™, the game will be available on Xbox One, the all-in-one [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Actoz Soft, in conjunction with PlayPieGames, app developers based in Seoul, South Korea, are excited to announce the release of a new shooting game for iPhone and iPad called In a Space. The game is designated to be released on February 17th and will be available for the [...]
Tapastic Closes $2.0 Million in Series A Funding to Bolster American Webcomics Market — First American English-Language Launch of “Like A Wolf,” One of the Most Popular Webcomics in South Korea SANTA CLARA, CA, Jan 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Tapastic, the online portal for webcomics is bolstering its American webcomics market by today, announcing [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The NCsoft Cultural Foundation said on October 16 that it would release a new mobile game “Mobile Free Rice” free of charge, in commemoration of the World Food Day under the sponsorship of the United Nations World Food Program. The game allows the user to play quiz games [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 7, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Ubitus Inc., the worldwide technology leader in cloud gaming solutions, today announced it has enabled LG Uplus to bring the latest game-changing football classic title Konami’s Winning Eleven 2014 to C-games. The game, which has been nominated for Best Sports Game at Gamescom, will first be available [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Sep 13 (Korea Bizwire) – King, the cross-platform casual game developer famous for the wildly popular game “Candy Crush Saga,” said on September 13 that it has launched a KakaoTalk version of the game “Candy Crush Saga for Kakao.” This is a meaningful move for King as KakaoTalk has more than 110 million users [...]
NEW YORK, July 12, 2013 (Press Release) – DK Publishing announced today the upcoming release of the World of Warcraft®: Ultimate Visual Guide, an in-depth companion to Blizzard Entertainment’s acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft. Arriving in stores in October 2013, this book serves as a definitive guide to the enthralling [...]