Each game company is planning to release new works of various genres in the new year following last year. In the new year, attention is being paid to whether a new box-office work will be born and the market atmosphere will be heated.
According to the game industry on the 4th, major game companies will announce the release of new games from the first month of the new year, regardless of platform, such as PC and mobile.
Last year, while mobile games heated up the market atmosphere, new games aimed at the PC and console markets other than the mobile market will be released one after another in the new year to attract game fans.
First of all, NCsoft plans to bring out mobile games’Trickster M’and’Blade & Soul 2′, and PC masterpiece’Project TL (tentative name)’.
Trickster M is the beginning of inheriting the intellectual property rights (IP) of the PC game Trickster, and the release date is expected to be released as early as this month. This game is characterized by the concept of’cute lineage’ and embodying the original dot-like graphics and drill action.
In the market, Trickst M is paying close attention to whether it will perform more than expected after the mobile Lineage brothers Lineage M and Lineage 2M. In particular, as the number of pre-booked people exceeded 3 million as of the end of November last year, it is evaluated that it is highly likely to be successful in the short term after launch.
Blade & Soul 2 is the sequel to the PC game Blade & Soul. The game is still veiled with detailed content and support platforms, but it aims to be released in the first quarter of this year.
There is also a Project TL known to be available on PC and console platforms. This game is the latest in the Lineage series and a renewed version of Lineage Eternal. It is a new work in which NCsoft’s development capabilities are fully mobilized, and the point to watch is whether it will achieve results not only in Korea but also overseas.
Nexon Korea will sequentially service the PC game’Kurtspel’, the mobile game’Dungeon & Fighter Mobile’, and the console game’Kart Rider Drift’.
Among them, Kurtzpel is a new work by Cog, famous for Elsword and Grand Chase. This game is a dual-action genre from the perspective of a third-person preview that emphasizes cell animation-like graphic directivity, and its core fun is a battle method that competes with various combos and skill combinations.
In addition, Dungeon & Fighter Mobile, developed by Neople, a subsidiary of Nexon, targets the Chinese market. The game was scheduled to be available to local users in China in August last year, but the release was postponed to this year due to local system upgrades.
In addition, Nexon is attracting attention because it is expected to introduce new works using its own IP such as’Mabinogi Mobile’ and’Tales Weaver M’.
Netmarble, who laughed at’Seven Knights 2’at the end of last year, also brings out a masterpiece. These include’Second Country’,’Seven Knights Revolution’, and’Marvel Future Revolution’.
The second country that Level Five is planning and producing is a work that inherited the RPG’Ninokuni’, which was designed by Studio Ghibli and participated by master musician Joe Hisaishi, on mobile. It is known that the game has differentiated itself with Tori moving between two worlds, 3D graphics of cartoon rendering that looks like an animation, and high-quality cutscenes.
Seven Knights Revolution is the third new work following Seven Knights Time Wonder for Nintendo Switch and Seven Knights 2, a mobile game. The game supports unique combat customization, so that all characters can use it without distinction, and the company explained that it emphasized the fun of changing the skill and combat style according to the weapon.
Pearl Abyss, Com2uS, Kakao Games, and Wemade are also showing new works. Pearl Abyss is releasing’Red Desert’, Com2u’s’Summoners War: Hundred Years’ War’, Kakao Games”Odin: Valhalla Rising’, Wemade’s’Mir M’, and Line Games’ PC game’Origin in the Age of Navalry’.
Red Desert is a work aimed at the PC and console markets. Shortly after the in-game play video was released at the end of last year, the game also took an eye stamp of game fans and the director of God of War’s Corey Balrog. On December 11, last year, PD Cory Barlog posted a photo on his laptop with a message saying “I want to play Red Desert” and a picture with the Korean logo on the laptop.
Odin is one of Kakao Games’ new year’s masterpieces and raised expectations for the box office right after the video was released. This game supports high-level graphic directivity, open field implementation, and massive battles simultaneously on mobile and PC.
Mir M is a game characterized by optimizing the main contents of the famous PC game The Legend of Mir 2 for mobile devices. In particular, Mir M is attracting attention whether it will succeed after Mir 4, which was released in Korea last November and became a popular title.
Along with this, mid-sized or small and medium-sized game companies are trying to improve their earnings by releasing new titles that caught the attention of the market early.
Joy City announced that it will release character collection and nurturing RPG’Project M (tentative name)’, Play With’ mobile MMORPG’Seal M (tentative name)’, and YJM Games’ mobile MMORPG’Soul Walker Academy’.
The four thirty-three minutes plan to service the sports game’World Baseball Stars’ and the turn-based strategy game’Eroica’. Some Age, a subsidiary of four thirty-three minutes, and Royal Crow, a subsidiary of Some Age, are known to bring out mobile MMORPG’Dekaron M’and PC-based shooting game’Crows’, respectively.
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An official in the industry said, “Major game companies bring out new titles sequentially in the new year following last year.” .