GOYANG, South Korea, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – KINTEX, the Korea International Exhibition & Convention Center in Goyang, is simultaneously hosting the Korea International Boat Show 2017 and the 2017 PlayX4, a videogame expo, from May 25 to 28. KIBS 2017 marks its 10th anniversary this year, and will feature the wares of 261 businesses [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Online live video game streaming is taking the world by storm, as the idea of sharing and enjoying the experience of playing and watching games becomes increasingly popular, and the impact is being also felt in South Korea where eSports have a huge following. As demand for video game streaming [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daejeon Global Game Center opened Monday at the city’s Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency headquarters, with the goal of supporting and nurturing the development of next generation AR, VR, and simulation videogames. Since last year, the agency, along with the metropolitan government, has been helping local videogame [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A new PC bang, an internet café for playing computer games, has opened in Hongdae, a trendy business district in Seoul popular with young people. But this new establishment has a unique hi-tech way of separating itself from its competitors – it features virtual reality games. VRIZ is the name [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The first middle and high school students to enroll in the Netmarble Game Academy, an education program offered by Netmarble and the Arts & Community Network, are presenting their final works at the Ganainsa Art Center in Seoul. The exhibition is themed “Turning the Dreams of the Future into [...]
BUSAN, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The biggest videogame fair Korea has to offer, the G-Star Global Game Exhibition, kicked off in Busan Thursday, attended by 653 developers and distributors from 35 countries. Highlighting this year’s exhibition, themed “Play to the Next Step”, was virtual reality technology, which is expected to become the “next big [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2016 white paper on the videogame industry from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency revealed that Korea’s videogame industry continues to grow, exceeding the 10-trillion-won mark for the first time in 2015 at 10.72 trillion won ($9.5 billion). The number, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The legendary Korean videogame Lineage is finally coming to the mobile realm. The game’s developer, NCSoft, announced Thursday that the game’s mobile version titled Lineage Red Knights is set for launch on November 8 in twelve countries. Lineage is a series of fantasy MMORPG videogames for PC, first released [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s largest festival for independent videogames, Busan Indie Connected 2016, took place from September 9 to 11 with almost three times the number of gaming enthusiasts in attendance compared to last year. Marking its second anniversary, the festival took place at the Busan Cinema Center, located near the city’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) revealed that the volume of Chinese capital invested in the Korean videogame industry – apart from back-door listings and securing intellectual property purposes – has plummeted to almost zero, after years of aggressive M&A efforts that shook up Korean [...]