Epic Games Korea

Hi In June 2009 Epic Games launched Epic Games Korea, its wholly owned unit based in Seoul. The new subsidiary aimed to extend Unreal Engine 3 licensing services and dedicated support resources to game developers in Korea. Especially Epic’s award winning Unreal Engine 3 might serve the Korean game development community well and help make better [...]

Korean Social (Game) Networks

Without doubt online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are becoming increasingly popular. The technical nature of these websites allows games developers to create casual and light games such as Pet Society and Farmville to be played online directly on those networks. Such social networks are not new to South Korea. In fact [...]

The Heaven of Three Kingdoms

Korean company HanbitSoft introduces ”The Heaven of Three Kingdoms”, a Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game. It appears that it received quite positive feedback from the Focus Group Test and G-Star for its equestrian combat and instance dungeon system. The game features some creative elements such as a Wonder Bar system, an EXP item, and a party system. Wonder [...]

Korea Games Wire – website online

Howdy! Our more frequent updates are now available on a dedicated website www.koreagameswire.com We hope you enjoy the new site and send us some feedback here. Today’s updates were submitted by Nexon Europe about Maple Story, Gamevil and their new Baseball Superstars 2010 for iPhone, and a new member Min Communications with a unique game [...]

Twitpic Link

Howdy! It seems the convenience of Twitter and its picture service Twitpic has made me addicted to post Korea Games related images there directly. The link is: http://twitpic.com/photos/koreagames You will find over twenty individual picture posts with comments there. Yesterday I saw a real life car race in Seoul. A Mercedes vs Hyundai sports car [...]

Public Service Announcement

The sentence “this is a public service announcement” (PSA) established after the birth of public radio and the first commercial broadcasts around 1920. The sentence was intended to raise the public’s awareness, educate them and create interest about specific issues. So what does this have to do with my blog and Korean games? I enjoyed [...]

Games with Korean Scenario

Following the previous post with the title “Six Games Featuring Korea” here are two more promintent games set in Korea. The famous “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2″ and “Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction”. In Ghost Recon 2 the single-player campaign players experience the near-future North Korea, where a rogue military leader is trigger happy about a [...]

Six Games Featuring Korea

I recall that in the movie “James Bond – Die Another Day” 007 is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul who is funding the development of an international space weapon. Therefore I was wondering which videogames have featured Korea and, after some research, I put together the below [...]

Korean HanbitSoft to Bring Back “Hellgate:London”

According to Korean game publisher HanbitSoft,the company is interested in continuing Hellgate:London’s services in North America and Europe, as stated on their ‘Game Espresso’ weblog. The Korean company acquired the IP of Hellgate from the American PC MMO developer Flagship Studios years ago. Kee Young Kim, the CEO of HanbitSoft, states: “There have been many [...]

Korea’s #1 FPS “Sudden Attack”

Despite its late start in the Korean Online FPS market in 2005, ‘Sudden Attack’ earned Korea’s FPS throne. Followed by its competitor ’Special Force’ the two games appear to be market leaders in their segment in Korea. According to GameHi, the publisher of Sudden Attack, their title has now taken the first place in the Japanese online FPS market only one [...]