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Typical Korean game companies start recruiting new people

September 16th, 2011

Typical Korean online game companies like Nexon, NHN starts recruiting new people.

Nexon will hire more than 100 new talented people this year. Nexon has subsidiary companies like Neople(Dungeon&Fighter), Nexon Mobile, Gamehi(Sudden Attack). About 10,000 people applied to Nexon last year for 100 opened jobs.

Dragonfly, best known for the developer of Special Force, Karma Online and Soldier of fortune Online, recruit new people for the first time since the company was established in 1995.

JCE, best known for Freestyle, is also looking for new talented people for programming, designing, Marketing&PR as well as Global business.

NHN is recruiting new people for software developments, IT service, e-Biz etc. Ncsoft will announce recruitment soon as well.

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Special Force2 ranked 2nd in FPS genre

August 22nd, 2011

The sequel of Special Force, Service name in U.S is Soldier Front, ranked 2^nd place on FPS game ranking in Korea. Special Force2 is developed by Dragonfly and published by CJ E&M. The #1 FPS game in Korea is Sudden Attack. It has not changed for a few years.

Special Force2 started the commercial service on 11^th of August. The start is pretty good so far. Because the game was built upon Unreal3 engine, differences between 1 and 2 are huge including better graphics and better game system. Of course, it requires better hardware to run the game smoothly. For example, Duel Core CPU and Geforce 8600GT above graphic cards are required to play Special force2.

Usually, new games are ranked in high when they start OBT and the commercial service. Therefore we need to keep paying attention on Special Force2 for a while to confirm 2^nd. However, So far Special Force 2 seems just fine.

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Special Force 2 Ready for Alpha

April 15th, 2011

The most anticipated FPS <Special Force 2>, published by CJ E&M Games and developed by Dragonfly, begins the first alpha test.

Tester recruitment takes place from April 14 to 17 at its alpha test site(http://sf2.netmarble.net). Anyone over 15 years old can apply it. The announcement will be made on 20th and the actual test is scheduled from 21th to 23th for 3 days.

“<Special Force 2> is highly expected by fans of <Special Force> and Dragonfly. We are looking forward to getting lots of positive feedback since it is brand new game just started the first step,” said SunHo Kim the director of publishing business team of CJ E&M Games. “We will do our best to introduce what fans expect from us.”

Unreal engine 3 has successfully renderd <Special Force 2> more detailed graphics and animations. I will be likely the fastest FPS ever with dash function.

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Dragonfly Recorded +US$9.5m Last Year

February 23rd, 2011

FPS Leading developer Dragonfly announced its massive surplus thanks to healthy revenue from home and abroad.

According to its earning report for 2010, the total revenue, profit, and net income were US$31.6m, US$13.8m, and US$9.5m respectively.

<Special Force> gave stable profitability to Dragonfly and the M&A recovered the short term distortions in profit and loss.

Dragonfly is looking forward to another leap from new 6~7 titles with <Soldier of Fortune Online> first in order, followed by <Special Force 2> <Kingdom Under Fire Online: Avalanche> and so on within the first half of the year.

“With the foundation of stable profitability of <Special Force>, enhencing profit by launching in the foreign market aggressively was the driving force of the stable revenue last year. We will continue releasing new titles of various genres including FPS and will continue to grow with distingushing accomplishment by expanding the foreign markets,” said ChulWoo Park the CEO of Dragonfly.

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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.”