Pmang reforms as Global Social Platform

May 16th, 2012 by admin

Pmang, Game Portal from Neowiz Games, will reform as Global Social Platform and covers PC, Mobile, and Social as well.

Neowiz Games announced the renewal plan for Pmang at the first quarter earning conference call on the 15th of May. The company will combine Pmang in Korea and Gameon in Japan together as one and is preparing unified membership service for it. The brand new Global Social Platform is going to launch at the end of this year.

All games from Neowiz Games and Gameon will be serviced at the platform. To promote the platform, Neowiz Games will develop and release more than 20 PC and mobile social games.

CrossFire’s CCU record broke 3.5 million in China

Sales for 1st quarter recorded $169 million while operating earnings reached $31 million. Net profit reached $24 million. Each record is the best per quarter so far.

The big reason behind the excellent results is laid upon the revenue from abroad. It has been increased 65% comparing to the same period last year. The huge success of ‘CrossFire’ in China contributed to the result most. Its CCU reached 350 million in China alone. In addition, ‘A.V.A’ keeps growing in Japan.

FIFA Online

Neowiz Games keeps discussing with EA to renew the publishing contract for ‘FiFA Online 2’ and talking about ‘FIFA Online 3’ publishing with EA as well. But, The Company is approaching them with conservative perspective. Both games are completely different contents. Therefore, even though ‘FIFA Online 3’ is serviced by other publisher, Neowiz Games could ask EA to update the roaster. But, nothing has been settled with ‘FIFA Online 2’ and ‘FIFA Online 3’ for now.

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Blade&Soul is expected to launch in July

May 15th, 2012 by admin

NCsoft announced at the earning call on the 15th of May that there has not been any changes on the service schedule of Blade&Soul. NCsoft is working hard to have OBT during the first half of 2012 and predicting OBT in June and public service in July.

The 3rd CBT will be closed on the 22nd of May. With considering 3 weeks of OBT and public service on July, it is possible that OBT will start the middle of June.

NCsoft thinks of the launch of Diablo3 as a chance to increase a gaming user pool. The company will try to attract as many gamers as possible within the increased pool.

NCsoft has homework to do as well. The vitality system that was applied during the 3rd CBT period has made a huge controversy among users. The vitality system controls the experience points that users could gain along with playing time. The system is made for casual users. Therefore, complains from hardcore users are extreme now.

NCsoft is carefully looking at the vitality system during the 3rd CBT because they need to re-balance the system somehow before the public service. The goal of Blade&Soul is to attract as many casual gamers as possible, so NCsoft has made the game easy to play.

 

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More than 2500 fanatics lined up for Diablo3

May 14th, 2012 by admin

More than 1,000 Diablo series fanatics lined up at Wangsimni station even the day before the eve of Diablo3’s launching event. Fanatics who want to purchase Diablo3 collector’s edition kept increased over night and exceeded 2,500 in the morning. Fans stayed the whole night and kept the line in the rainy morning.

Blizzard Korea will hold the eve of Diablo3’s launching event tonight with several celebrities joining up. At the event, fans could purchase Diablo3 collector’s edition the day before it is launched and could have developer’s autographs on it.

Blizzard Korea did not expect that many people gathered at all and finally announced that fans who visit after 14th in the morning could not purchase the collector’s edition due to the shortage of it.

The collector’s edition could be purchased through online and several merchandise marts from the 15th of May as well. However, fans rushed to the eve event because the rumor told that the number would be very limited.

 

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Maze The treasure hunters is revealed

May 11th, 2012 by admin

‘Maze: The treasure hunters’ is revealed at ChangYou’s media press conference in Beijing.

Maze is a FPS based shooting RPG and sets up battles between Relic Chaser and Treasure Hunter. Relic Hunter is the secret group trying to use the power of ancient relics for its own purpose. Treasure Hunter is the one who would stop them. The purpose of the game is adventuring through ancient ruins all over the world and defeating ancient monster to acquire treasures.

Users would fight against ancient monsters as well as disassemble traps that protect treasures. To achieve goals, a user needs to cooperate with other users.

The weapons and classes in the game are familiar with most FPS game users. Classes would be categorized as Scouter, Assaulter, Sniper, Heavy Trooper. However, characters gain experience points after killing monsters and improve his/her skills just like you have experienced in RPG.

‘Maze: The treasure hunters’ is developed by Dream Execution, the creator of online FPS game ‘War Rock’.

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Game Center launches for Kakao Talk

May 10th, 2012 by admin

Wemade uses Kakao Talk, the largest smartphone messenger in Korea, as a smartphone game marketing platform.

Kakao Talk will launch ‘Game Center’ within it from the end of May. The main purpose of the game center will have users of Kakao Talk to play smartphone games from Wemade Entertainment. The game center is going to launch games from Wemade only until they secure stability of the service. Wemade will prepare special mini games only for Kakao Talk.

After launching the game center, smartphone games from Wemade will go abroad as well. ‘Chaos&Defense’ will be available in the U.S. as well as China, Japan. ‘Rhythm Scandal’ will be serviced through Shanda in China.

Wemade will release various smartphone games during the first half of the year – Chaos&Defense, Rhythm Scandal, Pet Island, Hero Square etc. Wemade is currently working on more than 40 smartphone game projects.

Wemade Entertainment is a share investor of Kakao Talk.

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