Monday, February 10, 2014

Korean News and Beta Test Announcements

  • Aurora Games MMORPG “Hench” starts OBT on February 13.
  • KOG field action MMORPG “AIMA” holds 2nd CBT tester recruitment from February 7 to 16, holds 2nd CBT from February 20 to March 5.
  • Nexon FPS “Sudden Attack” starts Naver Game channeling service.
  • YD Online “Soul Master” opens teaser site, starts CBT on February 13.
  • XL Games sandbox MMORPG “Civilization Online” to enter CBT phase this year.
  • GameHi currently developing a new FPS using Unreal Engine 3.
  • Neowiz Games and OG Planet sign North America contract for TPS “Dizzel.”
  • SEGA football management game “Football Manager Online” holds CBT from March 13 to April 6.
  • Neowiz Studios Bless MMORPG “Bless” 1st CBT registrations reach 100,000, CBT starts on February 20.
  • Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technologies established Korea branch Xunlei Korea.
  • Com2us signs investment contact with Ace Project.
  • CJ E&M 2013 sales: 1,716,100,000,000 won, operating income: 58,500,000,000 won, 2013 4Q sales: 484,000,000,000 won, operating income: 26,400,000,000 won.
  • Webzen establishes game development subsidiary Webzen & Play.
  • Bon Anels Venture Partners invests 300,000,000 won and 400,000,000 won in Indian and Indonesian game service companies Funizen and Five Jack, respectively.
  • Com2us baseball management game “KBO Card Baseball” released in Apple Appstore.
  • Colopl smatphone quiz RPG “Magician and Black Cat Whiz” released in T-store.
  • YOU Communications puzzle game and social dating game “Ting Game” released in Google Play store.
  • Chukong Korea mobile RPG “Chaos Fighter” released in Google Play store, T-store, N store, and Apple Appstore.
  • Rekoo Korea 3D RPG “Honest” teaser image revealed, planned to be released in Android market in March.
  • Androday mobile web TCG “SNS Hero” released in T-store.
  • NHN Entertainment signs Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, SEA region publishing contract with SEGA Networks for RPG “PuyoPuyo!! Quest.”