Krafton, the Glossary
Krafton Inc. (주식회사 컴퍼니 크래프톤) is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company based in Bundang-gu, Seongnam.[1]
Table of Contents
97 relations: Ailee, Amsterdam, Android (operating system), App Store (Apple), Battle royale game, Battlegrounds Mobile India, Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News, Bundang-gu, Business development, Chair (officer), Chief executive officer, China, Devilian, Early access, Elyon (video game), En Masse Entertainment, Equity (finance), Esports, Forbes, Fourth Industrial Revolution, G-Star, Game Developer (website), Gameforge, Gamer Network, Glen Schofield, Google Play, Government of China, Government of India, Guild, Holding company, IGN, India, Initial public offering, Intellectual property, IOS, Japan, Korea Exchange, Krafton, Liquidation, List of Advance subsidiaries, Madison metropolitan area, Wisconsin, Massively multiplayer online game, MCV/Develop, Mistover, Mobile game, Moonbreaker, National Pension Service, Natural Selection (video game), Neon Giant, ... Expand index (47 more) »
- Bundang
- Companies based in Gyeonggi Province
- Holding companies of South Korea
- South Korean companies established in 2018
- Video game companies established in 2018
- Video game companies of South Korea
Ailee
Amy Lee (born May 30, 1989), known professionally as Ailee, is an American singer and songwriter based in South Korea.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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App Store (Apple)
The App Store is an app marketplace developed and maintained by Apple, for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems.
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Battle royale game
A battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game genre that blends last-man-standing gameplay with the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game.
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Battlegrounds Mobile India
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), previously known as PUBG Mobile India, is a version of PUBG Mobile, available in India.
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Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.
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Bundang-gu
Bundang-gu is the largest and most populous district (gu) of Seongnam, a major city in the Seoul Capital Area, South Korea. Krafton and Bundang-gu are Bundang.
Business development
Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
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Chair (officer)
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.
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Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Devilian
Devilian was a fantasy massively multiplayer online action role-playing video game (MMOARPG) developed by Bluehole Ginno Games and published by Trion Worlds.
Early access
Early access, also known as alpha access, alpha founding, paid alpha, or game preview, is a funding model in the video game industry by which consumers can purchase and play a game in the various pre-release development cycles, such as pre-alpha, alpha, and/or beta, while the developer is able to use those funds to continue further development on the game.
Elyon (video game)
Elyon (formerly known as Ascent: Infinite Realm) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Bluehole and published by Kakao Games.
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En Masse Entertainment
En Masse Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Bluehole Interactive, Inc.) was an American video game publisher.
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Equity (finance)
In finance, equity is an ownership interest in property that may be offset by debts or other liabilities.
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Esports
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
"Fourth Industrial Revolution", "4IR", or "Industry 4.0" is a buzzword and neologism describing rapid technological advancement in the 21st century.
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G-Star
G-Star (sometimes also written G*STAR, G★or G★STAR) is an annual trade show for the video game industry presented by Korea Association of Game Industry and Busan IT Promotion Agency in November.
Game Developer (website)
Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.
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Gameforge
Gameforge AG is a German video game development studio headquartered in Karlsruhe that specializes in online games.
Gamer Network
Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.
Glen Schofield
Glen Schofield is an American video game artist, designer, director, and producer.
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Google Play
Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store or Play Store and formerly Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google.
Government of China
The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Guild
A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.
Holding company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.
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IGN
IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Korea Exchange
Korea Exchange (KRX, 한국거래소) is the sole securities exchange operator in South Korea.
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Krafton
Krafton Inc. (주식회사 컴퍼니 크래프톤) is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company based in Bundang-gu, Seongnam. Krafton and Krafton are 2021 initial public offerings, Bundang, companies based in Gyeonggi Province, companies in the KOSPI 200, companies listed on the Korea Exchange, holding companies of South Korea, South Korean companies established in 2018, Tencent, video game companies established in 2018 and video game companies of South Korea.
Liquidation
Liquidations is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end.
List of Advance subsidiaries
This is a list of subsidiaries of the American media company Advance Publications Inc.
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Madison metropolitan area, Wisconsin
The Madison, Wisconsin, metropolitan area, also known as Greater Madison, is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Massively multiplayer online game
A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players to interact in the same online game world.
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MCV/Develop
MCV/Develop (formerly MCV and Market for Computer & Video Games) is a UK trade magazine that focuses on the business aspects of the video game industry.
Mistover
Mistover (stylized as MISTOVER) is a 2019 roguelike dungeon crawler role-playing video game developed and published by Krafton for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4.
Mobile game
A mobile game is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone.
Moonbreaker
Moonbreaker is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment and published by Krafton for Windows.
National Pension Service
The National Pension Service (NPS) is a public pension fund in South Korea.
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Natural Selection (video game)
Natural Selection is a modification for the video game Half-Life.
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Neon Giant
Neon Giant AB is a Swedish video game developer headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden. Krafton and Neon Giant are video game companies established in 2018.
Neowiz MUCA
Neowiz MUCA or Neowiz Music Cafe (formerly known as Pentavision and Pentavision Studio) is a South Korea recording studio and video game developer. Krafton and Neowiz MUCA are video game companies of South Korea.
New State Mobile
New State Mobile (formerly PUBG: New State) is a multiplayer online battle royale video game developed by PUBG Studios and published by Krafton.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
PC Gamer
PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.
PCGamesN
PCGamesN is a British website with articles about PC gaming and hardware.
PlayerUnknown
Brendan Greene (born March 29, 1976), better known as PlayerUnknown, is an Irish video game developer.
Polygon (website)
Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.
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PUBG Mobile
PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play battle royale video game co-developed by LightSpeed & Quantum Studio and PUBG Studios.
PUBG: Battlegrounds
PUBG: Battlegrounds (previously known as Player Unknown's Battlegrounds) is a 2017 battle royale game developed by PUBG Studios and published by Krafton.
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Public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.
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Rock Paper Shotgun
Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.
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San Ramon, California
San Ramon (Spanish: San Ramón, meaning "Saint Raymond") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located within the San Ramon Valley, and east of San Francisco.
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Seal Beach, California
Seal Beach is a coastal city in Orange County, California, United States.
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Search engine
A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query.
Seongnam
Seongnam is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country.
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Shacknews
Shacknews is a website that hosts news, features, editorial content and forums relating to video games.
Shooter game
Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is on the defeat of the character's enemies using ranged weapons given to the player.
Sledgehammer Games
Sledgehammer Games, Inc. is an American video game developer company formed in 2009 by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey.
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Song Yuqi
Song Yuqi (송우기; born September 23, 1999), known mononymously as Yuqi (우기), is a Chinese singer-songwriter, dancer and record producer.
Stock swap
In corporate finance a stock swap is the exchange of one equity-based asset for another, where, during the merger or acquisition, the swap provides an opportunity to pay with stock rather than with cash; see.
Subnautica
Subnautica is an action-adventure survival game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
Survival horror
Survival horror is a subgenre of horror games.
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Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen.
Tencent Games
Tencent Games is the video game publishing subdivision of Tencent Interactive Entertainment, the digital entertainment division of Tencent Holdings.
TERA (video game)
TERA (short for The Exiled Realm of Arborea), also known as TERA Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Bluehole Studio, a subsidiary of Krafton.
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The Ascent (video game)
The Ascent is a cyberpunk-themed action role-playing video game developed by Swedish indie game studio Neon Giant and published by Curve Digital for Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One on 29 July 2021.
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The Callisto Protocol
The Callisto Protocol is a 2022 survival horror game developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by Krafton.
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The Chosun Ilbo
The Chosun Ilbo, also known as The Chosun Daily, is a newspaper of record for South Korea and the oldest active daily newspaper in the country.
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The Dong-A Ilbo
The Dong-A Ilbo is a daily Korean-language newspaper published in South Korea.
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The Game Awards 2019
The Game Awards 2019 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2019.
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The Investor
The Investor is an English online business news service launched on June 14, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea.
The Korea Herald
The Korea Herald (코리아헤럴드) is a leading English-language daily newspaper founded in August 1953 and published in Seoul, South Korea.
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The Korea Times
The Korea Times is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea.
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Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Unknown Worlds Entertainment is an American video game developer based in San Francisco.
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Uppsala
Uppsala (archaically spelled Upsala) is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.
VentureBeat
VentureBeat is an American technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Video game addiction
Video game addiction (VGA), also known as gaming disorder or internet gaming disorder, is generally defined as a psychological addiction that is problematic, compulsive use of video games that results in significant impairment to an individual's ability to function in various life domains over a prolonged period of time.
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Video game industry
The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization and consumer feedback of video games.
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Video game modding
Video game modding (short for "modification") is the process of alteration by players or fans of one or more aspects of a video game, such as how it looks or behaves, and is a sub-discipline of general modding.
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Video game publisher
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.
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Video games in China
The video game industry in Mainland China currently is one of the major markets for the global video game industry, where more than half a billion people play video games.
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Violence and video games
Since their inception in the 1970s, video games have often been criticized by some for violent content.
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Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
ZDNET
ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.
(G)I-dle
(G)I-dle (stylized as (G)I-DLE) is a South Korean girl group formed by Cube Entertainment in 2018.
See also
Bundang
- AK Plaza, Bundang
- Academy of Korean Studies
- Alone in Love
- Baekhyeon-dong
- Bundang
- Bundang Central Park
- Bundang Jesaeng Hospital
- Bundang-dong
- Bundang-gu
- Bundangcheon
- Geumgok-dong, Seongnam
- Global Mission Church
- Gumi-dong
- Imae station
- Imae-dong
- Jeongja station
- Jeongja-dong, Seongnam
- Krafton
- Migeum station
- NCSoft
- Ori station
- Pangyo Techno Valley vent collapse
- Pangyo station
- Pangyo, Seongnam
- Pangyo-dong
- Saetbyoul Middle School
- Sampyeong-dong
- Seohyeon station
- Seohyeon-dong
- Seongnam Arts Center
- Seongnam station (Gyeonggi)
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
- Shinbundang Line
- Smilegate
- St. John's Church, Seongnam
- Sunae station
- Sunae-dong
- Tancheon
- Unjung-dong
- Yatap station
- Yatap-dong
- Yuldong Park
Companies based in Gyeonggi Province
- Hancom
- Humax
- KD Transportation Group
- Kakao Entertainment
- Kaon Media
- Krafton
- Kyochon
- NCSoft
- Naver Corporation
- Ntreev Soft
- On-Media
- Ottogi
- Pandora TV
- Story TV
Holding companies of South Korea
South Korean companies established in 2018
- Air Pohang
- Krafton
- P Nation
- Studio N (company)
Video game companies established in 2018
- All in! Games
- Ascendant Studios
- Athlon Games
- Krafton
- Lillymo Games
- Luminous Productions
- Neon Giant
- Purple Lamp
- Skybound Entertainment
- Sweet Baby Inc.
- Telltale Games (2018–present)
- The Initiative (company)
Video game companies of South Korea
- 5Rocks
- Blueside
- Com2uS
- Com2uS Holdings
- Devsisters
- Dragonfly (company)
- ESA (company)
- Eyedentity Games
- Gravity (Korean company)
- HanbitSoft
- Hangame
- I.O. Entertainment
- InnoSpark
- Joymax
- KOG Studios
- Kakao Games
- Krafton
- NCSoft
- NDOORS Corporation
- Neolith (company)
- Neowiz MUCA
- Netmarble
- Nexon
- Ntreev Soft
- Pearl Abyss
- Phantagram
- SBS Contents Hub
- Smilegate
- Softnyx
- Thingsoft
- WeMade Entertainment
- Webzen
- Wizet
- YNK Korea
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krafton
Also known as Bluehole (company), Bluehole Inc., Bluehole Studio, Bluehole, Inc., Krafton Game Union, Krafton Inc., PUBG Corporation, PUBG Studio, PUBG Studios, PUBG Universe, Prologue (video game).
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