Ntreev Soft ( ko, 엔트리브 소프트) is a South Korean

video game development Video game development (or gamedev) is the process of developing a video game. The effort is undertaken by a developer, ranging from a single person to an international team dispersed across the globe. Development of traditional commercial PC a ...

studio primarily known for the development of the

online multiplayer A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or ...

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

game '' PangYa'' as well as the

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

-styled MMORPG, ''

Trickster Online ''Trickster Online'' (also known as Trickster: Links to Fantasy, Trickster Online Revolution, Trickster Online: A New Discovery and Trickster Online: Season 2) ( ko, 플레이 트릭스터) was a free, 2D isometric MMORPG developed by the Kor ...

''. The company first split off from the South Korean game developer in late 2003, and had the majority of its shares bought by iHQ in 2005. Those shares were transferred to the holding company of

SK Telecom SK Telecom Co., Ltd. ( or ) is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator and former film distributor and is part of the SK Group, one of the country's largest chaebols. It leads the local market with 50.5 percent share as of 2008. S ...

after they purchased the majority shares of iHQ in 2007, making SK Group the Parent company of Ntreev Soft until 2012. Ntreev Soft initially used to host the North American version of the MMORPG ''

Grand Chase ''Grand Chase'' ( ko, 그랜드체이스, lit=Grand Chase) was a free-to-play, two-dimensional side-scrolling MMORPG, developed by the South Korean company KOG Studios. Alternative names for ''Grand Chase'' included ''Three Young Heroes'' ( zh, ...

'' before transferring the rights to KOG's North American branch KOG Games, then known as Kill3rCombo, in 2010. On 8 July 2011, NCSoft Corporation started a contract with

to acquire Ntreev Soft Co., Ltd. from SK Group because NCSoft has never succeeded in launching casual online games. On 15 February 2012. NCSoft acquired Ntreev Soft from its parent company, SK Telecom.

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