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Hangame’s mobile game growing up 738%

May 10th, 2013

Hangame announced the financial report for 1^st quarter of 2013. The revenue is $142 million, which is up 5% compared to the previous quarter. But it is 4.7% low compared to the same period of last year.

Web board game has gone down a bit, but Mobile and PC game has grown quick. Especially, mobile game revenue grew up 738% compared to the same period of the last year. Mobile game revenue is $12.4 million. The revenue of LINE, a mobile messenger, is $62.1 million that is more than a half of the total game revenue. 80% of the revenue is from Japan. NHN is publishing 24 mobile games through LINE in Japan. Total number of registered LINE users has been reached 150 million.

PC division has grown 32% compared to the same period of the last year because TERA and KRITIKA have been performed well.

Hangame will be separated from NHN from August.

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Dungeon Striker revealed OBT contents

May 3rd, 2013

Dungeon Striker, Action Online Game from Eyedentity Games, OBT will be started from 15^th of May with tons of new contents including 5 new classes. Total of 4 new dungeons for high level contents will be included as well.

An update for the game will be added every month after OBT starts. Each update will include a new class and dungeons. In addition to the existing 9 classes, War Priest, Blade Dancer, Warlock, Mystic and Dreadnought will be introduced.

A person from NHN told “We are focusing on providing contents that users wants for a long term continuously.”

You can watch the movie that introduces 5 new classes at the following link:

http://www.thisisgame.com/board/view.php?id=1521972&category=102

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CJ Games sold all of Softmax shares

April 5th, 2013

CJ Games, a subsidiary of CJ E&M, sold all of Softmax shares at 6,300 million Korean Won (about $5.57 million. They had 7.73% of Softmax shares. The analysts said it would be a decision for focusing more on mobile games.

When CJ Games bought shares of Softmax and became the 2^nd largest stockholder, analysts said it is for MMORPG The War of Genesis 4.

It has been known that CJ Games has not made a decision on how to use this extra funds in the future.

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Clash of Online Soccer Games

March 22nd, 2013

2 most well-known Online Soccer franchises are about to clash – FIFA Online 3 Vs. Winning Eleven Online. NHN made a partnership with Neowiz Games to make Winning Eleven Online better. Neowiz Games will provide a channeling service for Winning Eleven Online and promote the game based on their experience from publishing FIFA Online.
NHN told “Behind of Success of FIFA Online, Neowiz Games were there. We would like to learn their know-how by cooperating with them.” Neowiz Games also need a substitute for FIFA Online because they had to shut down FIFA Online service with the expiration of the publishing contract with EA. NEXON is a publisher for FIFA Online 3.
NHN also plan to improve Winning Eleven Online as well. After 1st CBT, NHN decided to change the game engine to improve graphics and the movement of athletes. The previous engine will be replaced by the same version that used for Winning Eleven 13. The changing process has been done more than 6 months already.
NHN plan to reveal new Winning Eleven Online between May to August this year.

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Hangame hiring experienced mobile game developers

February 27th, 2013

Hangame, separated and independent from NHN, starts reconstructing the organization as a developing focused company. The company starts the open competitive employment and will hire about 100 experienced developers.

According to the posting of a job opening, Hangame will focus heavily on developing mobile games. Hangame released mobile games from the last year. Fish Island achieved $3.23 million monthly revenue without KAKAO Talk.

This move is an action from Hangame in response to the recent platform change in the game market – PC online to mobile. The mobile game revenue of Hangame was $6.92 million, which surpassed the revenue from PC online games and Web based games. Hangame also has a brother company OrangeCrew, a mobile focused developer.

With the success of LINE, mobile messenger, Hangame is expecting a great synergy effect.