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...
Star Wars: Force Arena hands-on — a remix of Clash Royale, Dota, and a galaxy far, far away
Star Wars: Rogue One debuts this week, and it will tell the story of how the Rebel Alliance stole the plans for the Empire’s...
Netmarble brings its San Francisco export ChronoBlade from South Korea to the U.S.
Made in San Francisco; played in South Korea — that sums up ChronoBlade, and the mobile gaming circle of life is bringing this beat-’em-up...
The DeanBeat: A report from the stormy seas of gaming at Casual Connect
Every year, I enjoy going to the Casual Connect USA conference in San Francisco. It’s a place to listen to talks, roam the hallways, gossip...
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...
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...
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...
South Korea’s Netmarble finally brings its near-$1B mobile gaming business to the U.S.
Netmarble Games has grown to nearly $1 billion in sales, but it hasn’t been well known as a game publisher in the West. That...
South Korea’s Netmarble preps launch of mobile role-playing game Evilbane in the West
South Korea’s big mobile game publisher Netmarble Games said it is launching a fantasy role-playing game Evilbane in the worldwide markets later this year. It’s one more example of an Asian game company expanding to the worldwide stage as it pursues a chunk of the $30 billion mobile games market.