Posts Tagged ‘eyedentity’

Hangame designates Eun-Sang Lee as a new CEO

March 29th, 2012

Eun-Sang Lee, a former CEO of Eyedentity Games, is installed as CEO of NHN Hangame. He will be responsible for all of its online game, especially PC game such as online and web board games,  business and will be expected to go to the office before May,

NHN also has been reorganized a structure. P HQ take care Web board games and online games, while S HQ take care smartphone games including Orangecrew. S HQ will publish more than 40 smartphone game within this year.

P HQ is consist of RPG-FPS Game division, Sports game division, Casual game division while S HQ has Smartphone game division, Internal Smartphone game division and Orangecrew.

P HQ will launch a soccer game ‘Winning Eleven Online’ and a FPS game ‘Metro Conflict’. During the first half, MORPG ‘Kritika’ will have test phases as well.

Eun-Sang Lee was responsible for overseas business division at Webzen. In 2007, he established Eyedentity Games independently and left Webzen. Their first game ‘Dragonest’ was successful in Korea, China and Taiwan.

The game has reached monthly revenue $8.7 million in China. Shanda Games, the Chinese publisher for the game, take over the company 100%. He left the company in May, 2011.

He was connected with NHN when NHN Japan published ‘Dragonest’ in Japan. NHN was a rival of Shanda Games when both tried to take over Eyedentity Games in 2010.

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*Founder of Eyedentity DOES NOT Goes to NHN

March 13th, 2012

EunSang Lee

[UPDATE: The appointment is broken as EunSang Lee refused the offer.]

A founder of Eyedentity Games, EunSang Lee, has reportedly been appointed as a head of PC games of NHN Hangame, managing online games and web board games business.

In last December, NHN has restructured its organization into headquarter P and S, respectively managing PC games and smartphone games, in order to redouble smartphone games business that would introduce about 40 titles this year.

Headquarter P is preparing at least 10 new online games including <Winning Eleven Online> and <Metro Conflict> this year.

Lee had worked for Webzen and has founded Eyedentity in 2007, developing a hit MORPG <Dragonnest>. Eyedentity has been acquired by Chinese publisher Shanda Games in September 2010 and he has left his company last May for personal reasons.

NHN once had competed with Shanda Games in acquisition of Eyedentity in 2010.

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Shanda Direct Manages 2 Korean Subsidiaries

January 9th, 2012

Actoz Soft has designated Chien Tung Hai(全東海) as a vice president at a general meeting of stockholders on the 6th of January.

Chien Tung Hai is also the CEO of Eyedentity of <Dragonnest> and a vice president of Shanda Games. So he is working for 3 firms simultaneously.

He is recognized that he is quite familiar with Korean game industry since he had worked for number of Korean gaming companies such as Webzen and WeMade for a long time and has been appointed as the CEO of Eyedentity after Shanda Games took over it.

Meanwhile there is a rumor that Actoz Soft and Eyedentity will likely be merged as they alike share an executive and are subsidiaries of Shanda Games.

“I do not know anything about  the merger. It is totally up to Shanda Games’ policy but I guess it is highly unlikely because the two firms are in different fields of business and service, though some synergy is expected,” said an Actoz Soft official.

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Dragon Nest Reached 45,000 CCU in Taiwan

November 16th, 2010

Action RPG <Dragon Nest> developed by Eyedentity and published by Gamania in Taiwan has reached CCU 45,000 in 4 days from the release date.

According to the Taiwanese game portal site Gamer.com.tw, <Dragon Nest> is ranked first while <WoW> is ranked second.

“<Dragon Nest> has recorded the highest number of CCU of this year in where lots of games released in a year. We are so glad to introduce the excellence of Korean online game in Taiwan along with Japan and China. Thanks for the support from all the <Dragon Nest> fans,” said EunSang Lee the CEO of Eyedentity Games.

Famous model in Taiwan wears Dragon Nest costume

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