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Krafton Development “Dark & Darker Mobile” and “Black Budget”
Nexon also produces “Paradise” and “Ark Raiders”… Hive IM also joins
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Joo-hwan = The “mining” genre, in which players compete with other users to collect items and escape, is emerging as a mainstream gaming industry after the success of “Dark & Darker” by Iron Mace. .’
According to the gaming industry on the 14th, Nexon and Krafton[259960]Action Square[205500] Domestic game companies like these are producing mining genre games as their next works coming out this year.
The essence of the Extraction game is for multiple players to enter a specific area alone or as a team, compete against artificial intelligence (AI) enemies or other users, and escape with valuable items.
The items you obtain can be carried with you into the next game, but it features a “high risk, high reward” gameplay system where almost all items are lost if you die during the game.
The reason why the mining genre, enjoyed only by a select group of enthusiasts, became famous in Korea was when ‘Dark & Darker’ by Iron Mace, a new developer who is in Copyright dispute with Nexon. both at home and abroad.
“Dark & Darker” is a unique game that combines medieval dungeon exploration and elements of the mining genre, and the number of paying users exceeded 460,000 within a month of its release.
This is a very high sales volume considering that ‘Dark & Darker’ was removed from Steam, the #1 PC gaming platform, following a copyright lawsuit with Nexon.
Krafton, who noticed the potential of “Dark & Darker”, signed a publishing contract with Iron Mace and decided to provide the mobile version, “Dark & Darker Mobile”, by year.
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Separately from this, Krafton is also developing an extractive genre shooter based on the “Battleground (PUBG)” worldview, aiming to release it within the year.
Krafton recently introduced “Black Budget” as a major next-generation product line in its 2023 Q4 and annual performance announcement and explained, “We will popularize the shooter genre and inherit Gun Play, which is the core value of PUBG”.
Nexon is also developing the mining action survival game “Paradise” as its next effort at Min Rocket, a sub-brand of the New Development Division.
The test version, which the production team released late last year to test the game’s core elements, received high praise for its vivid look of the Seoul cityscape, gameplay with improved stealth elements, and Unique background setting.
Additionally, Embark Studio, Nexon’s overseas affiliate and creator of “The Finals,” is also making the draw shooter game “Arc Raiders.”
Action Square, a domestic game developer, recently introduced a trial version of the genre game “Dungeon Stalkers” at Steam’s new gaming event “Steam Next Fest”.
hive[352820]Hive IM, a gaming and content affiliate of Hive IM, recently signed a publishing deal with Action Square for “Dungeon Stalkers” and is set to serve the game domestically and internationally.
Given that most of the mentioned games, including “Dungeon Stalkers”, are expected to be released this year or next year, competition in the gaming industry on the newly emerged mining genre is expected to intensify.
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