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Nexon - the Korean company responsible for MapleStory and KartRider - has been expanding (quietly) beyond its home borders. With MapleStory already in the US and KartRider due to launch sometime in the near future, Nexon's been making a quiet-but-succesful entry into Western markets. Worlds In Motion has an interview up with Min Kim of Nexon America talking about MapleStory, KartRider, the Nexon recipe for success, and what's next for the company. Not surprisingly, great swaths of his thoughts are pretty sensible (in a market glutted with free-to-play games, yours better be fun or else no one's going to play it), but sensible and game company plans do not always go hand in hand. More »
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Another week, another Korean MMO heading to foreign shores: this time, it's South Korean company Nexon's Mario Kart knock-off, KartRider. A casual racing game, it follows the free to download, free to play model that's popular in Asia, making money off the assumption that people will purchase upgrades and modifications to their vehicle. The North American closed beta launched on 1 May. More »
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Nintendo's a little late getting into Korea. Scratch that. Nintendo is WAY late. The company didn't have an official branch until last summer, and before that, gamers had to buy products at inflated prices from shady distributor Daewon C.I. Not only that, Nintendo is going up against online gaming, which is huge in Korea. Says the branch's new president Koda Mineo: More »
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The country's most popular online racing game Kart Rider has fallen to *gasp* seventh place in Korean online game rankings last week. Traditionally, the title appealed to all gamers and has held strong at second place. World of Warcraft came in at first, followed by FPS Sudden Attack, Lineage and Lineage II. The real question is when is Korea gonna get sick of StarCraft? Brian Ashcraft More »
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iRiver's PSP killer (almost dead, sorry) has been kicking about since last fall. Dubbed the G10, the multimedia device has 3D graphics processing and a purdy 262k color screen. Korean electronics site AVING.net has pics up of a very slick working model. The portable drops in Korea this August. Bring on the Kart Rider! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175636&view=rss&microfeed=true Do American gamers still drink Jolt to get through those epic gaming sessions, or has some new fizzy elixir taken its place since I was last in the country? There should be more soft drinks that market to gamers, desperate for another surge of energy to get through the last leg of that WoW leg. In that regard, the Koreans have the right idea, as evidenced by this ad for Enerzen (pronounced Energen, apparently) that is specifically marketed to the racing fanatics who play the Korean MMOG Kart Rider. More »
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