Our latest coverage of NCsoft.
NCSoft has released its Q4 2021 financial report hot on the heels of yesterday’s new game announcements. The company’s revenues are up by 51% compared to Q3 2021 and 35% compared to Q4 2020 with total sales amounting to ₩757.2 billion, or roughly $632.6 million. A big chunk of the total sales was generated by mobile games which saw an [...]
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It’s going to be a busy year for NCSoft as the South Korean video game publisher and developer announces five new additions to its portfolio. These include Project TL, the Lineage Eternal reboot first announced in 2017, and a new Blade and Soul game called Blade and Soul S. The announcement also includes several unannounced games including Project E, a [...]
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It hasn’t been a good year for NCSoft as the South Korean video game company reports a slight dip in sales revenues. The company’s Q3 2021 Earnings Report show a drop from KRW 538.5 billion in sales in Q2 2021 to just KRW 500.6 billion, or roughly $424.6 million, for Q3 2021. That’s a 7% quarter-over-quarter decrease in revenues and [...]
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South Korean gaming giant NCSoft reported its Q2, 2021 earnings today and the financial highlights were as follows: Quarterly Revenue: 538,542 Million Korean Won (approx. $465M USD) vs 538,567M KRW in Q2 2020 (flat year over year) Quarterly Operating Profit: 112,769 Million KRW (approx. $97M USD) vs 208,984M KRW in Q2 2020 (down 46% year over year) Perhaps more interestingly [...]
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While other video game development studios have no qualms about ordering mandatory overtime for their employees, NC (formerly NCSoft) is literally turning them away at the door if they’ve worked too much. As part of NC’s new “Gate Off” policy, an electronic system tracks the number of hours an employee has worked for the month and prevents them from passing [...]
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NCSoft has just released their Q3 2020 financial report which saw a 16% increase in PC online games sales thanks to strong performance by Guild Wars 2 and Lineage. Guild Wars 2 also saw an increase in revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2020, their best since Q3 2018. The Korean gaming company’s revenue also increased by 47% year-over-year [...]
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NCSoft is reportedly dropping the “soft” in their company name and is currently working on rebranding themselves as simply NC. This is in line with the company’s more widespread and diverse business focus. The new company logo that was revealed earlier this year that can now be seen on the company’s official Twitter page. The name-change doesn’t seem to indicate [...]
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The South Korean gaming giant NCSoft reported recording breaking Q1 revenues and profits this last week led by the incredibly strong performance of Lineage 2M (which launched late last year). Total sales came in at 731,111M KRW ($593M USD) with operating profit at 241,424M KRW ($196M). More interestingly though is the company's breakdown of sales by game. Lineage 2M had [...]
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Over the past few years, mobile gaming has steadily gained popularity as more and more AAA developers started releasing and porting games over to mobile devices. For those who’d rather play mobile games on their PCs, emulators like BlueStacks and Nox have been the popular choice. Apparently, NCSoft wants a piece of the pie and have developed their own in-house [...]
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The 2019 Industry bloodletting continues. Leaks of a massive round of layoffs at ArenaNet were leaked on February 20th and were confirmed by NCSoft which owns ArenaNet, on February 21st. The layoffs are likely due to stalling revenue across NCSoft's PC lineup, and ArenaNet's inability to finish several projects which have been under development for a number of years. The [...]
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