Author: The Korea Herald

The landscape of South Korea’s game industry has been shaken up in the past year, as newcomers took the market by storm while traditional powerhouses slipped. Krafton, developer of online multiplayer shooter PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds, and Kakao Games, maker of massively multiplayer online role-playing game Odin: Valhalla Rising, saw their sales soar year-on-year, as the two games gained popularity around the world. Meanwhile, the country’s big three game makers – Nexon, NCSoft and Netmarble, also known as the “3N” that had ruled the industry for years – faltered with the sluggish sales of their games in the absence of new titles.…