Netmarble’s hit Soul King mobile game goes global

Netmarble Games is determined to make a big splash in the West. The South Korean mobile game company’s latest attempt is Soul King, a strategic role-playing game that launches globally today on iOS and Android.

Seoul-based Netmarble bills itself as a the fastest-growing mobile game company in Asia, and, like many other Asian companies, it has global ambitions in the $36 billion mobile game market. Netmarble has grown in Asia and globally with hits like Marvel Future Fight, and the company now has 3,000 employees. It was founded in 2000.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.