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 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – NCSoft is determined to recruit investment specialists. The company’s investment target is a non-game industry which can have a synergy with the game industry. Nexon and NHN Entertainments are also vying to make investments in non-game industries. Such moves by Korea’s most respectable game companies are interpreted as attempts to [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “Most game makers that succeeded in the world market analyze data on each national market’s users and their live time value constantly. Domestic game publishers and developers must do the same to raise their winning possibilities in the global market.” This is what Lee Chang-soo, president of 5Rocks, Korea’s mobile [...]