[Digital Times, Kim Soo-yeon] The 2018 game industry is expected to take an accelerator pedal for sustainable growth.
According to the industry on January 1, 2018 domestic game companies are planning to expand into overseas markets, develop new technologies, and strengthen their intellectual property (IP) business.
Game sales top "big three" of Nexon and Net Marble Games, NCsoft will be the rate on the foreign service and the new release of popular game at the same time continuing to research & Development regarding the artificial intelligence (AI) technology to be incorporated into the game.
First, Nexon is expected to launch its research into applying contents and systems using AI to the game centered on Intelligence Labs, an organization dedicated to the research and development of AI-based technologies launched last December. The company plans to grow the organization to 300 by the end of 2018. Netmarble is developing a personalized AI service engine called `Columbus`, using Big Data derived from the game. The Columbus engine will play a role in providing the difficulty factor for each individual user. NCsoft is studying AI technology through AI center. We will continue to try to incorporate related technology into the game under development.
Besides, Nexon will showcase its own development games at home and abroad, including `Wild Land` Durango `,` Mabinogi Mobile `and` Maple Blitz X `. NetMarble will launch a number of new games in Korea and plan to expand its overseas service area for Lineage 2 Revolution. NCsoft plans to release new projects such as Project TL, Blade & Soul 2, Lineage 2M, and Aion Tempest.
Meanwhile, domestic game companies are also actively expanding their IP business. Com2uS, Emgame, and Smile Gate all expand their game IP business into animation, theme park contents, and movie. Com2uS is with author Robert Kirkman is a sky-bound establishment of `The Walking Dead`: will create an animation utilizing the "Summoner`s War of drilling Arena. Also you can meet the content end of 2018 yen Yu Joy World is open utilize the IP Em games such as "Scions of Fate `in VR theme park" World oil Joy` that. Smilegate is preparing a scenario to make `Crossfire` into a movie.
Besides, Gamevil, NHN Entertainment, Webzen and a variety of new game is scheduled to show.
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