Softnyx Ltd is a South Korean

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and distributor that was founded in 2001 by Jinho Kim in

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. The company first released the hit game GunBound in 2003, introducing Indonesian servers in April, Chinese servers in June and an International server in August. GunBound accumulated approximately 5 million registered players in the first year of release and soon turned on more servers intending to be used by players in a specific country in order to reduce the

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and improve latency between players. In 2004 Softnyx released a closed beta of the game Rakion which was later publicly released in March 2005 to Korean players and October to International Players. WolfTeam was launched 2 years later in October 2007 with an estimated 1.2 million players in 2011. Softnyx has participated in the

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