SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — NCsoft Corp., a South Korean online game developer, said Monday that it has launched “Lineage M,” the mobile version of its mega-hit game “Lineage,” in Taiwan. The mobile game is available to users in Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong through the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store, NCsoft [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three major game developers are expanding their workforces in artificial intelligence (AI) as they consider the technology as the future of the industry, company officials said Friday. The nation’s longtime online game giant Nexon Korea Co. said that it will expand a department dealing with core technologies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean gaming industry is urging the government to take action against Chinese video game rip-offs. “Chinese game makers are not only copying graphics and gameplay styles but also characters and the names of skills and abilities and releasing new games. The South Korean government needs to come [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — NCsoft Corp., a South Korean online game developer, said Tuesday it will roll out its mobile version of its mega-hit game “Lineage,” “Lineage M,” in Taiwan next month. The mobile game will be available in the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store in Taiwan on Dec. 15, the [...]
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 [...]