SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Netmarble Games, South Korea’s No. 1 mobile game developer and publisher, is expected to seek listing on the country’s main bourse instead of on the tech-heavy KOSDAQ or overseas, sources said Friday. The company’s market capitalization is estimated at approximately 10 trillion won (US$8.57 billion), putting it nearly on par [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) - Netmarble Games, South Korea’s leading online game developer and publisher, has landed a hit in Japan with its “Seven Knights,” marking a success in its localization strategy, the company said Tuesday. “Seven Knights,” released in Japan on Feb. 5, ranked No. 7 in sales as of Friday on the App [...]
SEOUL, Feb.3 (Korea Bizwire) – The promise that Netmarble chair Bang Jun-hyuk made in September 2011 when he first stood in front of his staff has become reality. He set a goal to exceed 1 trillion won in sales by 2016, which seemed impossible at the moment, but was achieved a year before the self-imposed [...]
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, South Korea, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Netmarble Games today announced the release of the first major update for its blockbuster mobile action RPG game, MARVEL Future Fight, featuring characters from the Guardians of the Galaxy. The update will see the introduction of new heroes and villains, a new mission stage as well as [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Marvel Future Fight, the blockbuster Mobile Action RPG from leading gaming company Netmarble Games has officially hit the Top 10 ‘Top Free’ Apps, surpassing 10 million downloads across 118 countries in two weeks. With rave customer reviews in the App StoreSM and Google Play™ Store, the game [...]
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. [...]