Posts Tagged ‘alicia’

NCsoft Acquires Casual Power Ntreev Soft

February 15th, 2012

NCsoft has wholly acquired Ntreev Soft after 7 months of negotiation with SK Telecom today, taking over 76% share of the firm at KRW108 billion(US$96.7M).

A popular online golf game <Pangya> and an online horse racing game <Alicia>’s Ntreev Soft has been a strong casual games developer while NCsoft has been known as a strong MMORPG company with <Lineage>, <Lineage 2>, <Aion>, <Blade&Soul>, and <Guild Wars 2>.

NCsoft has always been hungry for casual online games because it has had hard time with its past casual online games such as <Toy Strikers>, <Exteel>, <Point Blank>, <Atrix>, <Dragonica>, and <Punch Monster>.

Pro-baseball Manager

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NCsoft likely Take Over Ntreev Soft

July 8th, 2011

NCsoft is trying to acquire Ntreev Soft, the developer  of <Pangya> <Trickster> and <Alicia>.

NCsoft and SK Telecom, the holding comapny of Ntreev Soft, are talking about it and it would be concluded within this month.

SK Telecom has been trying to sell Ntreev Soft since last year. Major game companies like NCsoft, NHN, and Nexon has expressed their intention and NCsoft has recently been selected as the priority. SK Telecom owns 63.7% shares of Ntreev Soft and would sell all of them to the buyer.

Why NCsoft are so interested in Ntreev Soft?

Simplely, casual games and baseball.

NCsoft has always failed launching casual online games successfully and has recently established professional baseball team.

Ntreev Soft has successfully launched casual online games such as golf game <Pangya>, horse racing game <Alicia>, and baseball game <Pro Baseball Manager>.

Moreover <Pro Baseball Manager> makes more than US$ 2.8m monthly which is about 6% of Ntreev’s this year’s prospective sales.

So, why not?

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2011 April Fool’s Day Events

April 4th, 2011

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<Berkanix>

Its SF MMORPG <Berkanix> changed itself to enter the market for children. ?Check out the developing play video of <Berkanix Kids> in pursuit of succeeding the popularity of Pororo which is the best character ever to children.

The game that will create a game world that gives dream and hope to children changed the character into SD and the sound effect to childish sound.

“To correct the wrong notion that games are violent and bad for young children’s future, we just started making a brand new game,” said Choirock Games.

<Mabinogi Heroes>

One looks like Einstein appeared on April 1 and said “Do you know a portion that imitates others? It’s funny, but someone stole it from me. Who is it?”

Every NPC’s face turned into Geren’s face. Even a pig!

<Dungeon And Fighters>

New female character named Seria Kirmin was revealed for the first time in addition to a new <DNF> application for smart phone. Seria might be updated within April and the application would be released on April 7.

Moreover, a peice of artwork of White Wolf hinted new episode ‘Act.∞ It’s All Because of Liver’(it’s a famous phrase from a TV commercial in Korea).

Neople also changed its name to NoBrain which sounds similar to Neople in Korean.

<Elsword>

Shockingly, the characters of <Elsword> changed their genders. Well, not bad for some. lol

<Alicia>

Ntreev Soft applied motion technology to <Alicia>. You can see how to ride and race with your body. Believe it or not, even gamer’s hairs fly as the game goes faster.

<Dragon Nest>

Eyedentity Games founded the first game financial service with <Dragon Nest> in gaming history around the world. It is the first 5th financial institution ever.

It provides credit card, insurance, and loan.

The <Dragon Nest> credit cards offer maximum 30% of additional benefits on purchasing cash items and maximum 30 Won(=US$0.03) per a month for foreign tour.

The insurance guarantees the compensation from level 1 to 50 at monthly payment of 100 golds. It covers noobie control, disease from the enhancement stress, disconnection, errors, bugs, and so on.

It also burrows newbies GM equipments and items. However others will know you are loaned and it is controversial over sexual discrimination because female gamers are fine with only level 1 while male gamers need to prove all the coloseum test, avice play test, nest play test, npc favor test, and enhancement success test.

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Alicia Launches OBT with Top Singer IU

February 25th, 2011

Action horse riding <Alicia> launched its OBT on 24th. The developer?Ntreev Soft opened ‘Alicia Festival’ at the eSports stadium to celebrate the OBT.

160 gamers and the promotion model IU, the top singer in Korea, anttended to sing and to play the game. An event that gives gifts to 2 gamers who ranked just before and after IU also took place, and as she finished the race last the 1st and 6th players received her signatured album.

Want to see how well she does <Alicia> and her lovely performance? check it here.

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Build Your Own Ranch, Alicia

November 30th, 2010

We release new play video of the horse racing online game <Alicia>. The video shows new features like housing(building own ranch) and new maps introduced for the first time at the guerrilla test.

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