games

Blackpink, the female K-pop idol group, will hold an in-game concert, the first such event by Korean pop artists, in collaboration with Krafton Inc....

Shiftup Co., a South Korean mobile game developer, has joined the ranks of unicorns, or private companies worth $1 billion or more.The studio behind...

A battle over play-to-earn (P2E) games in South Korea between the government and the industry has yet to show any signs of abating as the authority ...

Planetarium Labs raised $32 million in a Series A funding round, led by Animoca Brands, and joined by Samsung Next, WeMade, and Krust Universe.The s...

NCSOFT Corp., a leading South Korean game developer, has published its second annual sustainability report using a playbook map concept. The re...

Rhee Chang-yong has made a big splash in less than two months as the Bank of Korea governor and I’m not the least bit surprised. Over the l...

South Korea’s major display panel maker LG Display Co. aims to attract 3 billion gamers worldwide by fostering products dedicated to gaming as...

South Korea’s big companies are rapidly embracing environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards by launching a dedicated ESG team to me...

NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s leading game developer, surprised investors with stronger-than-expected profit in the first quarter as Lineage W, ...

South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and its spin-off SK Square Co. have together invested 50 billion won ($40 million) into a loca...

South Korean game developer and publisher Pearl Abyss announced Tuesday the mobile version of its cross-platform MMORPG Black Desert has claimed f...

Kakao Games Corp., a game publishing unit of Korea’s web service giant Kakao Corp., has invested $15 million in US game studio Playable Worlds...

NEW YORK – Hyundai Motor Co.'s all-electric IONIQ 5 crossover has been named the World Car of the Year following a series of recent indus...

South Korea’s HYBE Co. plans to accelerate the development of its game business by separating the unit as the entertainment giant aims to cut ...

Lionheart Studio Corp., the firm behind South Korea’s popular mobile game Odin, is preparing to go public as early as this year, with its ente...

South Korean game developers are scurrying to release their versions of play-to-earn (P2E) games, which have been growing at a rapid pace despite be...

Nexon Co.'s Dungeon & Fighter Mobile has elbowed out NCSoft Corp.'s Lineage W to rank as the most popular Korean mobile game in the week since i...

South Korea’s online game developers are intensifying their efforts to build and incorporate their own payment systems to wipe out hefty commi...

South Korea’s leading game developer Krafton Inc. announced Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with San Francisco-based Solana ...

Naver Z Corp. invested in more than eight companies so far this year, according to people familiar with the deals. Naver Z is the operator of Asia...

South Korea’s gaming behemoth NCSoft Corp. released trailers for two new titles named Throne and Liberty and Project E on Thursday. The c...

WeMade Co., a pioneer in South Korea's play-to-earn (P2E) game industry, revised its 2021 operating profit downward by 70% after excluding 220 billi...

South Korean game developer and publisher Pearl Abyss set a China release date of April 27 for its cross-platform MMORPG Black Desert on the App Sto...

Kim Jung-ju, the founder of global gaming giant Nexon Co. died in late February. He was 54.NXC Corp., the holding company of Nexon, announced on T...

WeMade Co., a South Korean game developer, plans to retire 2% of its cryptocurrency WEMIX in the next two weeks to bolster its value for investors, ...

Game shares in South Korea and the United States have plunged, hit by worse-than-expected earnings. Online game developers in Korea have also b...

South Korea's NCSoft Corp., the publisher of the popular mobile game Lineage series, on Tuesday reported a worse-than-expected operating profit in 2...

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and SM Entertainment Co. signed a memorandum of understanding last week to collaborate across different musical genres....

Smilegate Entertainment Inc.’s Lost Ark has become the second most played game within a couple of days after its launch on Steam, the world&rs...

Shares in South Korean gaming companies have been on a losing run since the start of the year, giving up about half of the gains they enjoyed late l...