LOS ANGELES, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SGN, the fastest growing major U.S. mobile games studio, announced today an investment of $130 million from Netmarble Games, the number one mobile games publisher in South Korea. With this investment, Netmarble will become the largest shareholder in SGN. In this strategic partnership, SGN looks to grow their [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Game Rating and Administration Committee said on October 31 that it would allow mobile game users to recharge their game money credit within a certain limit in the same way as desktop computer games. Accordingly, each user will now be able to choose either the mobile or computer platform within [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment released its hexagon-based puzzle game “Line Pop 2” through its Line Game platform on both Google Play and Apple’s App Store worldwide on October 29. The new release is a follow-up of Line Pop, which hit the record of 47-million downloads. Launched in November 2012, the mobile [...]
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, South Korea and CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)– One of South Korea’s leading mobile gaming companies, FiveThirty, Inc., is bringing their acclaimed Origami game “Let’s Fold” to the United States. “Let’s Fold” revolutionizes the ancient art of origami by giving players the ability to have fun and challenge themselves with each new [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean game companies are eyeing the Chinese market as they experience a limited growth in the domestic market due to cutthroat competition. The volume of the Chinese mobile game market is estimated to reach about 3.9 trillion won (23 billion yuan) this year, an 80-percent increase from 1.85 trillion [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The mobile game industry is raising the stakes to come up with high-quality games with splendid graphic effects that can hitherto be shown on environments like desktop computers or video consoles. According to the industry, casual mobile games which became popular since the take-off of Anipang in 2012 have [...]
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 [...]