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What Korean Game Companies Do in the End of the Year

December 16th, 2010

Every end of the year, Korean game companies voluntarily?do welfare service for the low-income brackets or kids with difficulties.

Hands, the welfare service team of Nexon, visited Seoul Asan hospital and National cancer center to celebrate the full recovery of childhood cancer patients and donated them Nexon character gifts. Moreover, Nexon visited Seoul and Jeju island and had year-end events with the neglected class of kids and teens.

Neowiz has continued helping?delivering?30,000 briquets to people who need them since last year. Besides, they also participated in ‘Knitting hats for African infants’, ‘Renovating study room for local children’, and so on.

Mgame also donated and delivered 5,000 briquets to low-income?neighbors.

NCsoft volunteered rice worth US$ 100,000 for school lunch to Cambodia kids and their families who are suffering in starvation in?cooperation?with WFP(World Food Programme).

CJ Internet donated US$ 51,400 which is a portion of net income from pro baseball fans?to support CJ Donors Camp, an online sharing place.

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New Features Are Coming to Sudden Attack

December 3rd, 2010

GameHi and CJ Internet announced new features of <Sudden Attack> under a name of ?’Reversal’ on Dec. 2nd. The Reversal adds new game mode, big head house and vampire mode, and improves game play.

The big head house is what used to be available at the beginning of the service and now it is returned with better features on last 23rd. Players will have bigger head as they kill and have smaller head as they get killed. This feature will reduce the gap between skilled players and new players.

On Dec. 7th, the vampire mode will be updated. It is somewhat similar to the usual zombie mode. The vampires cannot equip any weapons but are very fast and powerful. Human players who get sucked by vampire players will become vampire as well.

Besides the major updates, CJ Internet plans to update various game mode such as ‘dust at war’ which is similar to the popular map of <Counter Strike>, ‘AI defence mode’ which players?defense?against tons of enemies, and ‘taco match’ that will automatically team up the players in game for 3v3 battle by next March.

“Since <Sudden Attack> is an old game, there are many things to be tuned. We will improve the game in detail so new players can enjoy with skilled players,” said TaeHwyun Kim the director of GameHi.

▶ Click to watch big head and vampire play video.

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CJ Internet Owns GameHi Dev Studio

November 30th, 2010

CJ Internet acquired GH Hope Island which is a development studio of GameHi.

CJ Internet purchased the 49.2% share of Hope Island with US$ 13m and took over its ownership.

Hope Island is a development studio founded in April 2009 and is developing 5 games include MMORPG and browser based game.

This acquisition is in line with the announcement of Hoon NamGoong the CEO of CJ Internet, “We will show new publishing business model by investing prospective dev. studio.”

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Dragonfly Profits 4 Quarters in a Row.

August 17th, 2010

Dragonfly announced on Aug. 16 that they achieved US$?7m in sales and US$3m for profit for the 2nd quarter of 2010 which is 4th quarter that profits consecutively.

The 2nd quarter earning is about the same compared to which of last year, US$14m and US$6m respectively, and the net income during the term is increased significantly.

This is?analysed?that as the expense needed for M&A in order to enter KOSDAQ market is resolved Dragonfly recovered its own profit structure.

“Our brand new games <Soldier of Fortune Online> and <Bolts and Blip Online> will increase the sales in the next half of 2010,” said ChulWoo Park, CEO of Dragonfly. “Especially, <Special Force 2> which drew the best publishing agreement among the industry so far will also be introduced with CJ Internet within 2010, and 4~5 games will be launched for continues growing.”

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Prius Online Goes to North America.

August 16th, 2010

CJ Internet has agreed with Gala-Net for publishing <Prius Online>?in North America.

<Prius Online> has also been published in Thailand last month and in Malaysia this month.

“We hope this contract be a bridgehead as a matter of CJ Internet’s?first publishing in North America,” said Hoon NamGoong, CEO of CJ Internet. “As <SD Gundam Capsule Fighter> published in Japan through CJ Internet Japan is having a good time and <Uncharted Water> is up for Europe and North America, CJ Internet is ready to hit the global market.”

“We are glad that we can publish <Prius Online> to North America with Gala-Net,” said JikHan Jung, CEO of Gala-Net. “We are looking forward to get great feedback from our own NA users who meet <Prius Online>’s unique visual and emotion.”

<Prius Online> North America Publishing Agreement Ceremony

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