SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Organized by KOTRA, the annually held “G-Star” gaming extravaganza in Busan will open on November 16. This year’s four-day event is expected to be the busiest yet, with 2,758 requests submitted for booths as of last September. Since it was founded in 2005, this year marks the first time [...]
YANGPYEONG, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A suspect in the murder of NCsoft President Yoon Song-yee’s father admitted to killing the 68-year-old man Friday, a day after he was found dead. Police in Yangpyeong, 55 kilometers east of Seoul, said the suspect, a 41-year-old man surnamed Heo, confessed to killing Yoon’s father over a parking [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is set to implement a new gaming law amendment which will scrap the limit on the height of barricades for virtual reality arcade machines and remove restrictions on internet gaming centers, widely known in Korea as PC bangs, that serve food. The [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – NCsoft Corp., a South Korean online gamemaker, unveiled the mobile version of its mega-hit “Lineage,” “Lineage M,” on Tuesday, with the official launch date set for next month. “Lineage M” will be officially available on both Android and iOS on June 21, bringing the original “Lineage” title to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 online game developer NCsoft , facing a possible hostile takeover by top player Nexon, joined Tuesday with a smaller local rival to protect its management control, as the dispute is about to reach a boiling point ahead of NCsoft’s crucial shareholders meeting slated for next month. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s native online game “Blade & Soul” has embarked on a mission to conquer Taiwan. NCSoft, the developer of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, announced on Nov. 26 that it had officially launched the game through its subsidiary NCSoft Taiwan. In the open version, contents up to 45th [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – At the ongoing global game exhibition G-Star in Busan’s BEXCO, mobile games are emerging as a new growth engine in the gaming industry. Although the main booths of the exhibition hall showcase blockbuster online PC games, mobile games, despite their lack of mainstream status, are increasingly gaining prominence. NCSoft, [...]
“Some in the industry are worried about us whether we are still remaining in the personal computer era. This is the time for us to do everything we can to get out of the crisis just like the crew in Apollo 13 faced with a life-and-death situation.” “The game industry today is undergoing a turbulent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s online game companies posted disappointing results for the second quarter. NHN Entertainment (formerly Hangame) said on August 7 it recorded an operating loss of 7.3 billion won(US$7.08 million) for the quarter. This is the first quarterly loss for the company since its founding as a gaming division of Naver in [...]
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 [...]