NHN Entertainment Corporation

NHN Entertainment Corporation
Native name
 엔에이치엔엔터테인먼트 주식회사
Public
Industry Online game portal
Predecessor NHN
Founded Seongnam, South Korea (August 1, 2013 (2013-08-01))
Headquarters Seongnam, South Korea
Area served
 Worldwide
Products Hangame
Subsidiaries NHN Japan Corporation
Website www.nhnent.com Edit this on Wikidata

NHN Entertainment Corp. (KRX: 181710) is a South Korean developer, publisher and distributor of mobile and PC games founded in December 1999 under the name Hangame Communications, Inc. NHN Entertainment is well known for its mobile game Fish Island, Fish Friendsk and Wooparoo Mountain and its online PC game EOS(Echo of Soul), ASTA, Football Day, Tera, and Kritika. More than 40 different online games including RPG games, casual web board games and sports games are available in its game portal, hangame.com (Hangame). Currently, NHN Entertainment has more than 20 million total users and more than 0.3 million concurrent users.

History

It was founded in December 1999 under the name Hangame Communications, Inc. In July 2000, Hangame Communications officially merged with South Korea’s largest search engine company, Naver. Upon the merger, the name of the company was changed to "Next Human Network", or NHN, although the two divisions continue to operate under their original brand names. On August 1, 2013 NHN was re-split into NHN Entertainment Corporation and Naver Corporation for strategic reasons. On February 1, 2014, NHN Entertainment divested the assets of its personal computer (PC) online game business and mobile game business into three new wholly owned subsidiaries, namely NHN Studio 629 Corporation, NHN BlackPick Corporation and NHN PixelCube Corporation, which will be engaged in the operation of different games.

Games

TitleYearPlatform(s)Genre
Fish Island2012iOS, AndroidSports
Fish Friends2012iOS, AndroidSports
Wooparoo Mountain2012iOS, AndroidSocial
LINE POP2012iOS, AndroidPuzzle
LINE Dozer2013iOS, AndroidCoin Pusher
LINE Party Run2014iOS, AndroidRunning
Undead Slayer2012iOS, AndroidAction RPG
EOS (Echo of Soul)2013PCMMORPG
ASTA2013PCMMORPG
Football Day2013PCSports simulation
Tera2011PCMMORPG
Kritika2013PCMMORPG
Crusaders Quest2014iOS, AndroidMMORPG
Kingsman: The Golden Circle2017iOS, AndroidPuzzle

Studios and subsidiaries

  • NHN BlackPick
  • NHN Studio 629
  • NHN PixelCube
  • NHN Japan Corporation
  • NHN Entertainment USA
  • NHN Entertainment Singapore
  • Orange Crew
  • Funways
  • Wisecat
  • G Plus
  • Game Marketing and Business
  • NHN Investment
  • NHN Bugs Corporation (formerly Neowiz Internet Corporation, acquired from Neowiz Holdings in 2015), which trades under the Bugs! brand (often stylized as SUPER SOUND Bugs!) held a 15% share of South Korea's music streaming market at the end of 2016, according to an IFPI survey of Internet users.[1]


References

Specific

  1. ↑ Yoon, Sung-won (2017-04-24). "Paid music streaming services thrive in South Korea". The South China Morning Post. The Korea Times. Retrieved 2018-05-13.

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