Netmarble Corp. (

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: 넷마블 주식회사) is a South Korean mobile game developer. It is

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's largest mobile-gaming company which was founded in 2000 by Bang Jun-hyuk.

Overview

Netmarble developed ''Lineage 2 Revolution'' in 2015 and released to the public that same year. As of 2019 L2R became one of the highest-grossing mobiles in the market; exceeding 924 million dollars in 11 months since its release. Currently, Netmarble continues to update and bring new content to L2R''.'' Netmarble produces role-playing mobile games. As of 2015, it had more than 3,000 employees and served over 120 countries worldwide. In May 2017, Bang took the company public, raising $2.4 billion. Netmarble has developed mobile games including ''Seven Knights'', ''Raven'' (''Evilbane'' in the U.S.) and ''Everybody's Marble''. It also claims a large shareholder stake in SGN, a casual game developer, and has a strategic partnership with

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. Since 2015, the company has licensed

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-owned properties to produce games such as '' Marvel: Future Fight'' (2015), ''Disney Magical Dice'' (2016), and '' Star Wars: Force Arena'' (2017). In 2018, Netmarble named Park Sean as its new

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. Park, the former chief strategy officer of the operator of

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, co-headed Netmarble with incumbent chief Kwon Young-sik. In April 2018, Netmarble acquired 25.71% in

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, the agency of Korean boy group

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and TXT, becoming its second largest shareholder. As of 2021, Netmarble owns 19.31% of the

after it changed its name to

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Corporation Netmarble and Disney's partnership significantly deteriorated near the end of 2018 when the former announced that it can no longer support ''Disney Magical Dice'' and ''Star Wars: Force Arena'', and eventually shut down both games, leaving ''Future Fight'' as the only Disney-based game it supports. In February 2021, the company acquired Los Angeles based developer

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. As of 2021, Netmarble shareholders consisted of Bang Jun-hyuk (24.12%),

(21.78%),

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(Han River Investment Pte. Ltd.) (17.52%), NCsoft Corp. (6.8%) and Others (29.78%).

Games

References

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Netmarble Netmarble Corp. (Hangul, Korean: 넷마블 주식회사) is a South Korean mobile game developer. It is South Korea's largest mobile-gaming company which was founded in 2000 by Bang Jun-hyuk. Overview Netmarble developed ''Lineage 2 Revolution ...

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