Netmarble’s Simon Sim on Hollywood licenses, mobile’s future, and cloud gaming
Netmarble has a knack for coming up with mobile game hits, including titles such as Lineage 2: Revolution, Marvel Future Fight, and BTS World. It...
How Netmarble recruited influencers for Lineage 2: Revolution
Netmarble scored a huge hit in South Korea with its launch last year of Lineage 2: Revolution, a massively multiplayer online game on Android...
Marvel: Future Fight just got a slew of Spider-Man: Homecoming content
Marvel and Netmarble‘s hit mobile game, Future Fight, is celebrating the release of the superhero factory’s latest movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming. This bit of cross-promotion...
Netmarble to raise $2.4 billion in IPO for it mobile gaming business
Netmarble Games has filed papers to raise $2.4 billion in an initial public offering (IPO). The Seoul-based company is South Korea’s largest maker of mobile...
Netmarble acquires Kabam’s top studio in Vancouver, will launch Transformers in Q2
South Korean mobile game publisher Netmarble has agreed to acquire Kabam’s Vancouver studio, which has produced the lion’s share of Kabam‘s revenue with the...
South Korea’s Netmarble uses Marvel to bring its mobile games to the West
Netmarble Games has grown to nearly $1 billion in sales. That’s a long way from its humble beginnings in 2000, when Jun-Hyuk Bang started the...
Jay Ong describes Marvel’s return to blockbuster games with Spider-Man
Marvel has been licensing a lot of games in the mobile and online space, and it has been cooking some good hits in partnership...
‘Captain America: Civil War’ gives Marvel’s games and media a big spike
Marvel’s latest film is one of its most critically acclaimed releases ever, an it’s also pushing gamers to the company’s games and other digital products....
Marvel’s Peter Phillips reveals the secret for making superheroes work in games
Warner Bros. has invested heavily in superhero console games like Batman: Arkham Knight. But Marvel Entertainment has taken a different approach. Rather than use...
As free-to-play mobile games go global, so does South Korea’s Netmarble
Netmarble Games grew up in the shadow of South Korea’s Nexon, but it moved to free-to-play mobile games in a timely way. Last year, it...