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Korean publisher Krafton just closed the first half of 2025 with its best numbers to date. The studio behind PUBG: Battlegrounds reported revenue of KRW 1.54 trillion (about USD 1.18 billion) and operating profit of KRW 703 billion. Both figures mark double-digit growth year-over-year, underscoring how the now-seven-year-old battle-royale continues to bankroll the company while new projects line up for [...]
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Krafton, the South Korean developer best known for PUBG: Battlegrounds, announced a new 5v5 top down tactical shooter today titled PUBG: Blindspot. The game was previously known as Project Arc and has officially been named today and is launching a playable demo on February 21. PUBG: Blindspot aims to compete with more traditional shooters like Counter Strike 2 while differntiating [...]
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Palworld, the quirky survival-crafting game that mashes up Pokémon-like creatures with heavy artillery, is coming to mobile devices, thanks to PUBG developer Krafton. Yes, the same Palworld that’s currently in the hot seat with Nintendo over some suspiciously familiar gameplay mechanics. Krafton announced that PUBG Corporation will be handling the mobile adaptation, promising to “faithfully reinterpret and implement the original’s [...]
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It’s been a rough quarter for Krafton as the South Korean video game developer and publisher sees its first quarterly net loss since the company went public in 2021. During its Q4 2022 investor call, the studio reported $1.47 billion in total revenue and a 15.5% increase in operating profit for the entire 2022 period despite a 1.7% drop in [...]
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Last month, PUBG developer Krafton announced that it’s working on an untitled project based on the popular Korean fantasy novels, The Bird that Drinks Tears by Yeongdo Lee. Unfortunately, the announcement was a bit slim on the details although we do get to see a new trailer today showing off a few minutes of Unreal Engine 5 cinematics. “The trailer [...]
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PUBG developer Krafton has revealed that its working on an untitled project based on the popular Korean fantasy series, The Bird That Drinks Tears, written by Yeongdo Lee. The four-part series is considered the to be one of the forerunners of the Korean fantasy genre and revolves around the story of the Human, Rekkon, and Tokebi races’ as they work [...]
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Krafton has joined the parade of video game companies that have started to embrace blockchain technology for their games. The PUBG: Battlegrounds and TERA developer has signed a deal with Solana Labs to jointly develop, design, and market blockchain games and services. “Through this agreement, KRAFTON and Solana Labs are poised to build a long-term cooperative relationship for the development [...]
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Another day, another NFT announcement from a gaming company. This time its Krafton, the South Korea gaming company behind Tera, Elyon, and PUBG (Playerunknown's Battlegrounds). Krafton announced today that they're working on an "NFT metaverse platform" in partnership with Naver Z (which runs ZEPETO, a social virtual world with 290 million users worldwide). Krafton will be handling the development of [...]
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The first TERA PC update of the year is now live, bringing with it the new Catalepticon instance in both hard and easy difficulty, and the return of the Ruinous Manor and Gossamer Vault instances. The update also introduces the weapon and armor pieces for the new Kaia’s Soul Gear set. Foot armor will be added with the next patch. [...]
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Krafton, the parent company of TERA developer Bluehole and PlayerUnknown’s Battlgrounds developer PUBG Corp., along with several other smaller studios that they’ve acquired over the years, has now consolidated its subsidiaries into 4 main studios. According to the official press release, the restructuring will give the studios a certain level of autonomy to pursue their creative visions and create their [...]
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