Game Science
Scope
Date
~
-
Korean games
No Korean firms make it onto Korea’s top five mobile games list
No South Korean game titles developed by domestic game developers made it onto the list of the country’s top five mobile games last month, ind...
9 HOURS AGO
-
Electronics
Gloves off for Samsung, LG in high-end OLED display fight
Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., the global leading organic light-emitting diode panel makers, are fiercely competing in the professional OLE...
Aug 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
NCSoft to seek recovery momentum with open-world game
South Korea’s gaming giant NCSoft Corp. is set to develop an open-world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) while launchin...
Aug 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Com2us BTS Cooking On surpasses 1 mn global downloads
South Korea's Com2uS Corp. announced on Monday that its new cooking simulation game, "BTS Cooking On: TinyTAN Restaurant," reached 1 million downloa...
Aug 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
NCSOFT develops new game Doguri Adventure
South Korea’s major game developer and publisher NCSOFT Corp. has begun developing a casual game Doguri Adventure, featuring the character bra...
Aug 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
NCSOFT taps ex-Pearl Abyss US head to lead N.America unit
NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s major gaming company, said on Monday it has appointed Jin Jeonghee, former head of the US operations of local riva...
Aug 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
NCSOFT teams up with Vietnamese unicorn VGN to tap SE Asian market
South Korea’s gaming behemoth NCSOFT Corp. has set up a joint venture with Vietnamese tech unicorn VNG Corp. to tap into Southeast Asia starti...
Aug 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
PUBG’s Krafton taps ex-Apple, Samsung execs for global business
South Korean gaming giant Krafton Inc. has hired former executives of not only global game developers but also tech leaders such as Apple Inc. and S...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Companies
Kakao Games reports sharp drop in Q2 operating profit
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., reported a sharp decline in second-quarter earnings on Wednesday d...
Aug 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
NCSOFT invests in Swedish game startup Moon Rover Games
NCSOFT Corp., a South Korean game developer, said on Tuesday it has made an early stage investment of $3.5 million in Swedish game startup Moon Rove...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
Samsung, LG bet big on gaming monitors on esports boom
South Korea’s electronics giants Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are gearing up for a fierce battle in the gaming monitor mark...
Jul 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Uplus to feature in-car games to Kia EV3
South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. said on Wednesday that it will offer its web-based in-car game service Game Portal in Kia Corp's electric vehicle (EV) ...
Jul 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
LG UltraGear selected as official gaming monitor of EWC
LG Electronics Inc. announced on Friday that its UltraGear gaming monitors were selected as the official monitors of the eSports World Cup (EWC), th...
Jul 19, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean chipmakers
Samsung sets sights on next-generation memory CXL DRAM
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. is setting its sights on next-generation memory technology, dubbed CXL, to lead the artificial intel...
Jul 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Corporate bonds
Kakao Games to raise $203 mn in bonds convertible to Krafton shares
Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., is set to issue an estimated 280 billion won ($203.2 million) wort...
Jul 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Sports
Twentysomething women become mainstream Korean baseball fans
South Korea is a fast-aging country, where one in every five people is 65 years old or older. But it is a different story for the country’s pr...
Jul 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Nexon to see record sales on The First Descendant, DnF Mobile
Gaming giant Nexon Co. is set to enjoy record sales this year thanks to the strong debut of its new title The First Descendant and the success of a ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
Samsung OLED gaming monitor sales surpass 20,000 units
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Monday that its sales of the new Odyssey OLED gaming monitor series have surpassed 20,000 units in a month.&nbs...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Tencent-backed Shift Up to raise up to $313 mn in IPO
Shift Up Corp., the South Korean game developer behind the global hit game “Goddess of Victory: Nikke,” could raise up to 435 billion wo...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Netmarble's new RPG 'Solo Leveling' logs $70 mn sales in 1st month
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is enjoying growing sales of its new action role-playing game (RPG) “Solo Leveling: Arise,” ...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
Samsung unveils 2024 monitors at Summer Game Fest
Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its new 2024 monitor models at the largest North American game show Summer Game Fest, held at the YouTube Theater i...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Retail
Lotte Home Shopping to unveil Bellygom game
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it will release a mobile game called Bellygom Match Land, leveraging the intellectual pro...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
S.Korean IT companies partner with K-pop girl groups
South Korean game companies like Krafton Inc. and Nexon Korea Corp., and telecom firms such as SK Telecom Co., are collaborating with K-pop girl gro...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
Samsung releases 2024 lineup of gaming monitors
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it launched its new 2024 lineup of gaming monitors, Odyssey OLED, and high-resolution monitors, Vi...
Jun 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Line Games to launch The Play of Genesis in Taiwan, Hong Kong
South Korea's Line Games Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a publishing agreement with Vietnam's tech giant VNG for the mobile game The Play ...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Pearl Abyss, Tencent to release Black Desert in China
South Korea's game developer and publisher Pearl Abyss Corp. announced on Wednesday that it's preparing to launch its cross-platform MMORPG Black De...
May 29, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
IPOs
Tencent-backed Shift Up seeks June IPO at $2.6 bn value
South Korean gaming firm Shift Up Corp. is eyeing an initial public offering on the main Kospi in June, with an enterprise value of 3.48 trillion wo...
May 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Korean games
Netmarble leverages existing IPs, M&As to keep growth
Expectations are growing high that Netmarble Corp., South Korea’s second-largest game developer and publisher, will extend its growth streak t...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Entertainment
Netmarble sells stake in BTS label HYBE for $161 mn
South Korean game developer Netmarble Corp. is selling a stake in HYBE Co., the label behind global K-pop sensation BTS, for 219.9 billion won ($161...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
-
Electronics
Samsung tops global OLED market in one year
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it achieved the number one sales position in the global OLED monitor market one year after enter...
May 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
Latest News
- 1 No Korean firms make it onto Korea’s top 5 mobile games list
- 2 Samsung Ballie, LG Q9 robots steal the show at IFA 2024
- 3 Hanjin, China's AWOT set up e-commerce logistics JV
- 4 LG Uplus looks to lure foreigners with K-pop-themed stores
- 5 Pulley Campus, Yonsei Univ. to co-work on educational AI services