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New Action MORPG Dungeon Striker is announced!

April 5th, 2012

NHN announces Dungeon Striker, a brand new Action MORPG from EYEdentity Games, publishing schedule today. NHN schedules its first OBT on the 27^th of April through Hangame.

Dungeon Striker is designed for everyone. It eliminated the complex control system, limited classes, and requiring long play hours. Instead, it has ultra-speed combat such as hitting 10 times per second, unlimited transferring class system etc.

4 Classes for the 1^st OBT

The game will provide 4 classes for the 1^st OBT: Warrior, Ranger, Mage, and Cleric. A user could create his own character like a cloak-able warrior or a mage with healing abilities by combining each class.

Users could apply for the 1^st OBT from today at the official site: http://ds.hangame.com

For more in-game screenshots and teaser movies, please click here.

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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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Deputy CEO of NHN Hangame Resigned

December 16th, 2011

NHN Hangame’s deputy CEO Wook Jung resigned.

NHN is to reshuffle the organization structure in line with his resignation. The position of Hangame CEO and game director will remain empty for a while as he leaves the company on December 30.

Hangame seems to be reformed into such areas as smartphone, RPG, non-RPG, and others and each director would have working level authority while final decision would be made by SangHun Kim the CEO of NHN.

Jung’s resignation is purportedly due to his personal excuse. An official from NHN said “He made the hard decision for his passion for a new business and to take a break.”

Wook Jung has worked for NHN since 2005 and has been appointed as the deputy CEO of Hangame for last 2 years. He has published big online games including <TERA>, <Metro Conflict>, <Kingdom Under Fire 2>, <Project R1>, and <Winning Eleven Online> and has expanded game business through founding Orange Crew, a smartphone game developer of NHN Hangame.

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Hangame Overestimated TERA

May 19th, 2011

Hangame reduced the expected revenue from AAA MMORPG <TERA> in 2011 by about US$9.2m. Balance issues and slow updates are the cause.

NHN reported its 2011 Q1 earning on 19th. Game business contributed 33%(US$154m) of the total revenue of NHN.

Most of the game revenue are from <TERA> in Korea and <Dragon Nest> <El Sword> in Japan. <TERA> was, of course, the main driver which boosted the online game revenue up to 33.8% in the early year.

Nonetheless <TERA> could not meet the expected revenue. Wook Jung the CEO proxy of Hangame said “As massive updates are being late, the revenue is decreasing. It started like <Aion> at the beginning but it became <WoW> now.”

In Feburary, Hangame was expecting minimum US$73m and maximum US$92m from <TERA> but it lowered it down to about US$60m. Due to this adjustment, Hangame’s expecting growth for this year also decreased to 10~15% from 15~20%.

“Every three months a big update of <TERA> will be done and we will make 50:50 of web/board game to online game by encouraging revenue from new games until the end of the year,” said Mr. Jung.