SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment Corp. said Wednesday it will develop more intriguing Go games based on its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, following its successful match held between its program and South Korea’s top players. The entertainment unit of Naver, South Korea’s largest portal, unveiled the AI development plan as it was [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Big-spending Chinese game companies armed with significant financial resources are rushing into the Korean market. As the ‘allies’ are engaged in strategic collaboration followed by equity acquisition, some industry officials are concerned that Korean game developers might fall into the hands of Chinese gaming companies. However, some consider the [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment, a renowned mobile game publisher, is transforming itself into a composite IT service company by introducing Internet of Things products as well as a payment solution. On July 16, NHN Entertainment introduced a cloud-based IP camera called TOAST Cam. With its cloud technology sending images to data centers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment has launched a new cloud platform for the nation’s mobile game ecosystem. The company said this in a press conference held on December 17 at its Play Museum headquarters building in Pangyo located in the southern outskirts of Seoul. The all-inclusive cloud solutions “Toast Cloud” consist of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment said on December 11 that it has unveiled “The Soul,” a mobile 3D action RPG, on Google Play Store. The game will be made available in the Japanese market during this month, followed by worldwide launch in 150 countries including North America and Europe in early next [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A mobile management game dubbed Idol Dream: Girls has been launched, according to NHN Entertainment on December 4. Real images of Korean K-pop girl groups including Miss A, Girl’s Generation, Secret, Sistar, After School, f(x) and Rainbow are featured in the game. Players can become producers, sign contracts with [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment said its ten popular web board games out of 13 have been given warnings from the government regulators for possible rating cancellation. The Game Rating and Administration Committee had notified the company on November 6 that it would withdraw the rating approval for ten web board games that it services [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – NHN Entertainment released its hexagon-based puzzle game “Line Pop 2” through its Line Game platform on both Google Play and Apple’s App Store worldwide on October 29. The new release is a follow-up of Line Pop, which hit the record of 47-million downloads. Launched in November 2012, the mobile [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — NHN Entertainment, a leading mobile game publisher and developer, released its latest game title, “Top Tank: Last Tank Standing.” The military-based FPS game is supported by three languages including Chinese, English and Japanese version will be added soon. Especially, the game was selected as “Google Play New & Updated Games [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of its forthcoming mobile flying shooting game, “Bug Princess,” NHN Entertainment is promoting a pre-order event. The “Bug Princess” is a mobile version of “Bug Princess Futari: Black Label,” a popular online game made by a Japanese game developer CAVE and the mobile version is in response to the [...]