Award-winning South Korean RPG Blade: Sword of Elysion hits iOS in the U.S.

The popular South Korean hack-and-slash RPG Blade: Sword of Elysion is coming West, launching today on the iOS App Store.

Mobile gaming is quite large in South Korea — it’s over a billion dollar market — and Blade was the first mobile game to win the South Korean Game of the Year Award. To date, it’s been downloaded more than six million times. The Unreal Engine-powered game was also in one of the top four in-terms-of-revenue games on Google Play in May 2014 worldwide, just from its South Korea base. Now, Blade follows in the footsteps of other South Korean gaming companies — like NC Soft — eyeing the also profitable Western mobile market.