SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s major game developer and publisher Nexon said on October 24 that it has begun a global service of its MMORPG “Legion of Heroes” in North America and Europe. The game was launched on the same day on Google Play. For more successful global concurrent promotion of the game, [...]
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, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Nexon, Korea leading game developer, strengthened the partnership with mobile game maker Neptune by making a strategic investment. With the investment made on July 14, Nexon could gain the global publication rights of sports simulation games developed by Neptune. Neptune, founded by former NHN Hangame CEO Chung Wook, is a [...]
LOS ANGELES & VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Nexon America today announced it has entered into a publishing agreement with United Front Games, the Vancouver-based independent development studio behind the highly successful open-world action-adventure game Sleeping Dogs. Under the terms of the agreement, Nexon America will serve as the exclusive publisher for [...]
TOKYO, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”) (3659.TO), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, announced a strategic relationship with Socialspiel Entertainment GmbH (“Socialspiel”), a Vienna-based social and mobile game development studio. Led by industry veterans Mike Borras and Helmut Hutterer, Socialspiel is a highly-acclaimed European game development studio focused on high-quality, [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s leading game companies are changing the direction of the business from game development to game publishing. As large game companies focus more on supporting smaller game developers or fostering subsidiaries, the games developed on their own are beginning to represent a rapidly decreasing share of total revenue. WeMade [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) - Korea’s major game company Nexon recently launched a TV commercial introducing FIFA Online 3 Update that includes the legendary players in the 2002 World Cup Games. The latest episode featured Park Ji-Sung, the Korean footballer who just announced his retirement, following one featuring Ahn Jung-Hwan, another Korean player who [...]
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 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 [...]
TOKYO, April 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – NEXON Europe, subsidiary of NEXON, a leader in free-to-play online gaming, today announced its latest title, United Eleven. United Eleven is a browser-based, cross-platform real-time strategy and simulation game that combines names and faces of actual players with the most sophisticated match engine available. The game will be [...]