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GStar2012 schedule is confirmed

May 31st, 2012

G-Star2012, the largest game event in Korea, will be held from the 8th to 11th of November. Korea Association of Game Industry announced the detail of G-Star2012 at ITS GAME 2012 in Seoul, Korea on the 30th.

The host for G-Star has changed from KOCCA(Korea Creative Content Agency) to Korea Association of Game Industry, which is a private organization from this year. Since it is hosted by a private organization, all regulations regarding the game show will be decided by game companies itself. G-Star has had several issues to solve such as too much noise, long waiting lines, too much exposure of promotion girls etc. These issues will be solved by discussing with game companies themselves.

Small venues have been expanded as well. Bexco now have the 2nd exhibition hall that is completed on the 29th of May. B2B area will be located at it separated from B2C area and will provide more quite business environment. With the completion of the 2nd hall, the whole Bexco building will be used for B2C. B2C and B2B areas are connected by a bridge. Bexco auditorium, which has 4,000 seats, has been completed as well for various purposes.

If you plan to have a booth, you should register before the 17th of July to get a 10% early bird discount fare. If you had a booth last year, you can get an additional 10% discount.

Bexco 2nd Hall is completed.

Bexco Auditorium

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Best booths and games of GStar2011

November 22nd, 2011

 

We had the  survey at GStar 2011 with the total of 496 gamers.

Best Booth

The most visited booth was Blizzard. 67% replied that they come to GStar2011 for visiting Blizzard booth. Nexon is 2nd by 66%, very close to 1st. (NCsoft 56%, Neowiz 53%, NHN 45%)

Apparently big 3 titles, SC2:HotS/Diablo3/WOW, plus Blizzard DOTA were as hot as they could get in Korea during GStar2011.

Cyphers, AOS game from Nexon, was the booth that 33% spectators visit first because of the game coupon. Blizzard was 21% and NCsoft was 8%.

The most favorite booth to visit was Blizzard booth by 27.4%. On the other hand, the worst booth to visit was also Blizzard booth because people needed to wait for a long hours to experience games. Nexon was 2nd by 15% and also for the worst by 38% because people struggle to receive a game coupon.

Best Game

The most favorite game of GStar2011 is Diablo3 by 48% and SC2:HotS by 36%. Lineage Eternal was 3rd by 32%. Other competitors were Cyphers and Guild War2. The game people play the most during GStar2011 was online FPS Dizzel from Neowiz Games by 20%. Neowiz prepared well to have many computers with Dizzel. SC2:HotS was 2nd by 19%.

The game people like the most after they are playing were Dibalo3. Especially, 79.1% ,34 out of 43, like the game after they were playing. Kingdom Under Fire 2 and SC2:HotS were the games people like as well.

Other Games

Among social, mobile, web games, people like Homerun Battle 2 for iOS from Com2uS, Rhythm Scandal from Wemade Entertainment.

Giveaways

There were many Giveaways in each booth mostly from in-game items, mug, mouse etc. The most preferable was an in-game item coupon for Cyphers. The giveaways that people don’t like was Guild War 2 paper bag from NCsoft.

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GStar2011 Held successfully

November 14th, 2011

GStar2011 was held from 10th to 13th of October at Bexco Busan, Korea.

289,110 spectators and more than 200 companies, both the new record, participated in the event. However, some issues were remained as the homework for the organization.

The first issue was the small B2C and B2B areas. The most inconvenience was that B2B areas were separated at 3 different locations; especially it took 10 minutes to walk from 1st floor to 2nd&3rd
floor. That won’t happen next year!

Bexco is under construction for expanding the exhibition space. The 2nd Bexco, which is located at the left side of Bexco, will be available for GStar2012 B2B only. The size of 2nd Bexco is similar to existing Bexco itself. It will be connected to the original Bexco by a bridge. Therefore, you can expect 2 times bigger B2B section for 2012.

B2C will use the entire Bexco spaces with the new auditorium, which is located at the right side of Bexco. The auditorium will be used for events for game companies as well as press conference.

The second issue was Wifi. Some booth has a problem with internet at the 2nd day of Gstar2011 and mobile game companies like Com2uS had a serious problem with using Wifi because the organization prohibited using Wifi inside of B2C section. The organization promised solving Wifi problem and preparing more internet supports for the next year.

Other than the issues above, everyone agreed GStar2011 is getting better and better, especially B2B section.

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ICON 2011 Take Place in Busan

September 15th, 2011

ICON 2011(International Content Creator’s Conference 2011) is going to take place at Bexco, Busan on November 8.

ICON 2011 is a networking place to share the latest content and technology trend in IT, game, video, etc. with a theme ’Open Knowledge Share Information’.

There will be about 40 speeches about game, next-generation, 3D video, and academy by experts in each industry.

For game session, the best session reviews from Nexon Developers Conference 2011 and experiential examples and know-how of design, programing, art, and business will be introduced.

Any one interested in ICON 2011, visit www.iconbusan.or.kr for more information.

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G-star 2011 at Where?

February 28th, 2011

The selection for the venue of G-star 2011 which was supposed to be done on last February 25 is postponed to March.

KOCCA delayed the selection in order to take a deeper look on the candidates with an actual inspection. The actual inspection usually takes place after the selection but it came first this time for careful selection.

The jury will consist of officials from KAOGI and game industry besides KOCCA and MCST will visit the 3 bidders, Ilsan, Daegu, and Busan, and hear the future plans.

The actual investigation will be held on March 10 and the final decision will be made on 14th.


Daegu EXCO



Ilsan KINTEX



Busan BEXCO


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