South Korean mobile developer and publisher Com2uS earned $112.8 million in Q3 2017. The company’s main source of revenue remained the Summoners War buttler, as well as MLB 9 Innings 17 and Golf Star sports games.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has not abandoned its intentions to purchase Bluehole, which created the phenomenally successful PvP shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS.

In three months, the cost of Bluehole Studios, which released PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), has increased fivefold. Today, the company could be worth $4.6 billion.

Korean studio Pearl Abyss for the first time showed a gameplay teaser of the mobile role-playing MMO Black Desert Mobile, which can become a competitor to Lineage M from NCsoft.

The list of billionaire games has been replenished. The elite club includes Summoners War, a game from the Korean developer Com2uS.

The popularity and revenue of the mobile role-playing MMO Lineage M did not help the Korean publisher NCsoft cope with a 66% decrease in the company’s profit in the second quarter of this year.

The South Korean company Smilegate is looking for developers in the United States and Europe to expand its business in the Western video game market and promote the Crossfire shooter.

Com2uS stated that Summoners War was the first Korean game whose earnings amounted to ₩1 trillion (that’s $890 million). By the summer, the company expects that the total earnings of the game for all time will reach $ 1 billion.

South Korean publisher Netmarble has conducted an initial public offering (IPO). The company’s market capitalization was $12.2 billion.

South Korean presidential candidate Sim Sang-jung has released an election video in the style of the Overwatch game.

HP and MP carbonated drinks have appeared on the shelves of South Korean stores. The product names refer to health and mana recovery potions in a variety of games.

Mobile device users in South Korea mostly play on them for 46 minutes a day.

The largest South Korean mobile gaming company will enter the stock market. Netmarble expects to get up to 2.7 trillion won ($2.4 billion) as part of the initial public offering.

China has banned all new mobile games from developers from South Korea due to political and military differences between the governments of Asian countries.

Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) reported that the turnover of the South Korean gaming market in 2015 reached $9.3 billion and should exceed $9.5 billion by the end of 2016.

The Swedish company King has stopped operating its South Korean branch.

In the first month of sales, the Lineage 2: Revolution mobile game earned $176.6 million from 5 million users in its native market.

For using the name of the kingdom from a popular game – they can also sue. NCsoft has filed a lawsuit against a company using the name of the country from the Lineage series of games.

Almost a quarter of NAT Games, run by Yong-Hyun Park, the lead developer of Lineage 2 and TERA, was bought by Nexon.