[ Com2us Corporation ]
Com2us Corporation (www.Com2us.com), established in 1996and incorporated in 1998, started its mobile internet game servicefirst in Korea in 1999. They also developed a Java based game forthe mobile phone which was a first in the world back in 2000.So far, Com2us has serviced more than 70 kinds of mobilegames through three mobile service providers including SKTelecom, KTF and LG Telecom. Besides, it has strengthened itsposition as the global mobile game specialist supplying mobilegames to more than 40 countries including Japan, China, Europeand the US.Com2us has devoted itself to the belief in technology anddevelopment with its 50 game developers out of 90 of its totalemployees. The company's representative mobile game is itsoriginal "Fish Bread Tycon 2", which had recorded 700,000downloads in less than a month after its launching.
"Fish Bread Tycon2", which was launched in April, 2003, isthe first local business simulation game, in which a street vendormakes "Fish Bread", fish-shaped small breads to save money byselling the breads, and, then getting another vendor to sell thebreads with the saved money. Users can enjoy the game bypressing the numbers from 1 through 9 like dialing a mobilephone. Users can find an efficient method by themselves whilethey are playing the game with its convenient User Interface (UI).This ability within the game is what stimulates interest in thegame. "Fish Bread Tycon2" is still popular with a record of morethan 1 million downloads in January of 2004. By dint of the popularity,it made a new genre of the Tycon type and made theTycon series games all the more popular. It is the first and original game of all the Tycon series games.Thanks to these popular games, Com2us has become theleading mobile game specialist in Korea with a sales of 12billion won last year.This company has been exploring overseas markets since 2000,not to mention of the local market. It is now penetrating into 40countries including those in Asia, Europe, as well as the US. It setup a branch office in London. Com2us is now servicing a mobilesports game, the Korean League of Pro Baseball, and a Westernstyle four-stick game, Backgammon via Vodafon Global, TMobile, Orange and Telefonica to 21 countries in Europe, such asthe UK, Germany, France, Spain, Greece and Egypt. This Koreanfirm is scheduled to launch a tennis mobile game called "AndreAgasi" a bowling game entitled "Bowling2". The company isalso scheduled to supply eight kinds of mobile games including"Andre Agasi" through Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless and TMobile U.S,A., sooner or later, in the US market.
Com2us establisheda branch office wihinte in Japan in March, 2002. Thecompany is now providing its mobile games via the Japaneseleading mobile service providers, KDDI, NTT within theJapanese market. In particular, it ranked 1st at the Java portal inJapan last year based on its technical capabilities of servicingJava based downloading mobile games and being the first in theworld to do so. Its technology is accepted even in the Japanesemarket, a very strong mobile game country. The company hasbeen supplying its mobile games to China Telecom and ChinaUnicom since 2003.
¡ñ URL: www.com2us.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-6292-6018 battlesagainst other players.
[ Web ENG Korea ]
Web ENG Korea (www.webengkr.com), established in June,2000, is a specialized mobile game company with a capital of510 million won and 45 employees. It was registered with LGTelecom as the contents provider (CP) in October of the sameyear, and it supplied two kinds of mobile game contents.In March, 2001, it was registered as LG Telecom's official CP.In May of the same year, Web ENG Korea was awarded with the"grand prix" in the category of digital contents with its "wire &wireless linkage virtual avatar chatting" for Information &Communication Minister's trophy. It was supplied to NTT incooperation with SK Telecom in July, and they shipped 12 kindsof the Virtual Machine (VM) associated contents to Japan inAugust.Web ENG Korea supplied to KTF in January, 2002, andshipped three kinds of its mobile games to the UK and Germanythrough "Midlet" of Europe in June of the same year.This Korean firm succeeded in entering into the Chinese andthe US markets in February and March, 2003, respectively.This year, 2004, the company also supplied three kinds ofmobile games to Telsta, a 1st tier mobile service provider ofAustralia.
Web ENG Korea is famous for the "Blue Marble," which waslaunched in July, 2003, among its quite numerous mobile gamesin service.It is a mobile version of the master piece of a board game alsoentitled "Blue Marble." Multi-users throw dice at the same timeto move their horses and its users play business games of realestate, hotel and tour targeting on major cities in the world. Thismobile game is far improved from the existing "Blue Marble."Users can now buy items at stores to destroy other user'sbuildings and villas, make other user's horses fall into a sleep orcoma and the players can increase the points on the surface of theother user's die. Adding a variety of events, this popular gamestimulates an user's interest even more.
Web ENG Korea is drawing attention with its latest 3D associatedmobile games, "Paengdori's Dream" and "DanceFactory." Paengdori's Dream" is a flying action game in whichflying penguins in the sky and missile attacking effects areexpressed in 3D and it displays excellent visual effects.
"Dance Factory" is a rhythm game, in which users arepressing the buttons corresponding to directions of arrowscoming out according to the melody of the music like "DDR",an arcade game. Users can enjoy the exciting rhythm of thedance music while watching a dancing girl's rhythmic movementsin 3D.
¡ñ URL: www.webengkr.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-576-6505
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[ Pocketspace ]
Pocketspace (www.pocketspace.co.kr), established inMarch, 2000, is a specialized mobile game company.The company has focusedon the development of onlysports mobile games. Itsmajor games are all about sports including baseball, football,tennis, boxing and golf. The baseball game is among "long run"mobile games that has registered 600,000 users only in Korea.
Asthe company devoted itself only to a single sector, sports, thenumber of games launched by Pocketspace is less than other's.But, its product quality is accepted all over the world.Pocketspace games are serviced not only through local threemobile service providers, but also, through the KDDI of Japan.The Korean firm's games are serviced not only by a single sppotsgame, but under the title of "Pocket Space Zone" that combinesall the sports. Besides, the company's games are serviced as anexample via J-Phone, T-Mobile and Verizon in Japan, the USand Europe.In particular, PocketSpace, whose technical capabilities are recognizedby overseas customers, is planning to set up corporatecompanies in Japan, Germany and the US this year and it will be incourse of developing mobile games to KDDI's platform, a mainbusiness partner with the Japanese outlet in the first half of 2004.
¡ñ URL: www.pocketspace.co.kr
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-566-5010
[ Entaz ]
Entaz (www.entaz.com), established in February, 2000, as aspecialized mobile game company, serviced two kinds of itsmobile games through local three mobile service providers inNovember of the same year of its founding. But, the company'smain platform is the Brew and it supplied 36 kinds of Brew associatedmobile games to KTF. Entaz is expected to record a salesof 5billion won from KTF.The football mobile game, "Gangster's Football," which wasdeveloped after the "2002 Korea-Japan World Cup FootballGames" was designed for its users to play games in real timeagainst each other using a network system.Using lovely gangster characters, this game shows playingfootball in a peculiar way and its user can enjoy the game in realtime together with other users due to the use of the networksystem. Besides, a user can play the game watching a PC levelgraphics and sounds because of the Brew system. After then,there were various Gangster series mobile games that had beenlaunched by Entaz.
¡ñ URL: www.entaz.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-525-6017
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[MjoyNet]
MjoyNet (www.mjoynet.com), which was established in May,2000, as a specialized mobile game company, succeeded in supplyinga mobile game version of the then popular comic book the"Fiery Veteran Warrior" to SK Telecom in November of thesame year of its founding, The game company gained its greatpopularity at that time."Fiery Veteran Warrior" is a Korean comic book series thatopened a new genre of comic chivalry which was beyond the traditionalgenre of the usually serious and grave chivalry, attractivelypopular among its readers. Users can meet lovely animatedcharacters expressed in 3D that practice and fight one another inthis mobile game version.This uniquely Korean game consists of its scenario and on-linemodes. The scenario mode takes the adventure method, by whichexisting readers of "Fiery Veteran Warrior" can become charactersin the story as they create an adventure.And, the on-line mode lets the characters raised in the scenariomode appear in the warriors' world, the cyber space, in which thecharacters fight each other and make themselves known to otherusers.As this game became popular through SK Telecom, so it isalso serviced through KTF from June of 2001.
¡ñ URL: www.mjoynet.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-3486-3910
[ Eznego Corporation ]
Eznego (www.eznego.com) established in2001 as a specializedmobile gamedeveloper, supplied Iapplication"Hockey" to the NTT of Japan inDecember of the sameyear of its founding inKorea. The companywas awarded specialrecognition at SKTelecom's MobileMultimedia ContentsContest Presentation n December, 2001, for its "Kill'em All" andthis game company supplied the the SK-VM associated game,"Harry2" to SK Telecom.After then, Eznego continually supplied mobile games to SKTelecom. This game firm launched KTF's multi pack associatedgame "Cartris" in March, 2002. At present, Eznego is providingmany kinds of network games such as "Fishing," "Poker" and"Go-stop" under the "ZENIO" brand to SK Telecom and KTF.Eznego's "Brain Survivor" was awarded with an "ExcellentGame for This Month" by the Korean Ministry of Culture andTourism in June, 2003.
¡ñ URL: www.eznego.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-3424-7772
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[Zio Interactive, Inc. ]
Zio Interactive (www.zio.co.kr), established in August, 1997,is a specialized mobile game developer that is now developingmobile games interfaced with various mobile phone platformsand PDAs.Displaying the PDA game "Zio Golf," which was interfaced toWindowCE, first appeared in the world market in 1999. Ziobecame famous and it established a branch office in April, 2000,because of the recognition of its development capabilities. Inaddition, the company succeeded in concluding an allianceagreement with Intel in the PDA sector in 2001, as well as,advancing into the Japanese market in September of the sameyear. The Korean game company started to supply its mobilegames to the KDDI in September of last year. And, it succeededin supplying its mobile games to China Unicom in October of lastyear.Zio Interactive has numerous licensed mobile games andgenuine games with its representative game being the famouswrestling match entitled the "WWE Mobile Madness." Itsplatform is GVM, while interfaced with 40 polyphonic soundsand 260,000 color pixels. This game, which is serviced throughlocal three mobile service providers, implemented famous prowrestlers' various techniques within mobile phones. Besides, thecompany is providing its service for the 3D associated mobilegame "3D Gunner."
¡ñ URL: www.zio.co.kr
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-3218-8237
[ GAMEVIL Inc. ]
GAMEVIL (www.gamevil.com), established in January,2000, is a mobile game specialistthat is now supplyingnumerous mobile games tolocal three mobile serviceproviders.The company completeddevelopment of the strategicsimulation game labeled"Quasi Three Ancient Kingdoms"by using the LBS technology, which GAMEVIL first didin Korea and it has been providing its services through SKTelecom since February.The basic scenario of this game is individuals battling againstone another between towns with key positions not located on theChinese continent but within SK Telecom's base stations.Making an alliance among users via a network like on-linegames, they attack others and defend themselves.A genuinely original mobile game called "Nom ( Male),"which has survived for more than one year period "long run" andlaunched in February, 2003, has continued to record a sales ofmore than 100 million won per month.This is the mobile game in which its user can play by turningmobile handsets, thus breaking from the fixed idea of the LCD screen, a first in the world, to escape a variety of obstacles andmonsters by pressing a single confirm button. It is servicedthrough local 3 mobile service providers.Besides, GAMEVIL has recently shown-off a 3D associatedgame entitled "Hyper Battle 3D." The company achieved a salesof 4.5 billion won on the Korean local market last year and a salesof 200 million won in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the US andEurope the same year. GAEMVIL set an export goal of 500million won.
¡ñ URL: www.gamevil.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-876-5252 (204)
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[ M DREAM Co. ]
M DREAM (www.m-dream.com), established in February of2002, is a specialized game company.The company develops mobile games, on-line games and PCgames. M DREAM was designated as the excellent contentsprovider (CP) in the category of mobile games by KTF inDecember, 2001, and it was selected as the best partner in April,2002 by SK Telecom.M DREAM, which supplies numerous mobile games to SKTelecom and KTF, had developed and launched mobile versionsof such arcade games as "Raccoon" and "Bogulbogul" to create apopular following.The company launched a mobile version of the Japanese adultcomic book "Classmate," of which the scenes in the game arereproduced nearly the same as the original scenes. All five femalecharacters in the game each has one's framework of the story likethe comic book. It is serviced to those who are 18 years old orolder.M DREAM was designated as a promising export companyin July, 2002, by the Small and Medium Business Administration and it was awarded with a "2002 Venture Grand Prix"Commerce, Industry and Energy Minister's trophy sponsoredby the Korea Venture Business Association.The company incorporated M DREAM China inNovember, of 2002, and it is aggressively developingoverseas markets.
¡ñ URL: www.m-dream.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-543-0169
[ E3net Co., Ltd. ]
E3net (www.e3net.co.kr), established in May, 2000 as a specializedmobile game developer, supplied its first mobile game toKTF in December of 2002. "Stacking Coins" launched inFebruary, 2003, was a great success.This game is a "long run" mobile game serviced through threelocal mobile service providers that has survived for more thanone year. This is a game in which its users stack coins. The morecoins that are stacked, the higher the number of points areobtained. E3Net signed the contract with Nation Tips of HongKong in April of last year as its supplier to China, plus, E3netsupplies its wares to China Mobile through M. Net, NEC's subsidiarycompany. E3net concluded a supply contract with aTaiwanese contents provider (CP) in August of the same yearand it shipped its material to Hong Kong and the Philippines.Besides, the company made contracts with "Play Station","XBOX" and "Success" of Japan in September of the same year.This game is serviced via Vodafon and the NTT of Japan, aswell.E3net has supplied its "Stacking Coins" to China Telecom, thelargest mobile service provider in Taiwan since February of thisyear, 2004.
¡ñ URL: www.e3net.co.kr
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-565-1800
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[ Norigae Soft Co., Ltd. ]
Norigae Soft (www.norigaesoft.com) started businesson November 19, 2000, as aspecialized wireless internetsolution and mobile gamedeveloper, and it was incorporatedin June, 2001.Norigae is now supplyingits base business VM (VirtualMachine) game titles to local three mobile service providersincluding SK Telecom.Norigae Soft is now developing many types of mobile gamesin connection with existing network service providers. As it positivelyparticipated in the Government's task project, it was designatedas an "Excellent New Technology Company" by theKorean Ministry of Information and Communication. And, it wasdesignated as a promising export company by the Small andMedium Business Administration.Besides, the company was awarded with the "PreliminarySupport for Excellent Game" given by the Korea GameDevelopment Institute (KGDI) and with "Excellent Game for thisMonth" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.Its representative mobile game is a sports game entitled"Basketball" that interfaces with 4Gray and 256 colors. Thismobile game with convenient interfacing has a fast scrolling anda giant character's realistic action.This company is planning to export mobile game contents toEurope, U.S.A., Israel and China at present.
¡ñ URL: www.norigaesoft.com
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-712-3915
[ Entelligent ]
Entelligent(www.entelligent.co.kr), established inSeptember, 2001, has developedand supplied 11kinds of mobile games toSK Telecom since March,2002.Entelligent Inc. The representativemobile game ofthis company, which wasawarded with a "KoreaGame Grand Prix" consecutivelyfor the past two years(2002 and 2003), is the"Heroes of Three KingdomsUnlimited War."This game is an action RPG game associated with Networkand the game has a record of being ranked 1st for six consecutiveweeks (from end of December, 2003 to end of January,2004) by SK Telecom. It is ranked 2nd now with an accumulated300,000 downloads. The platform of this game is theGVM. Mobile phones with 256 colors or so can be used for thisgame.
¡ñ URL: www.entelligent.co.kr
¡ñ Tel: 82-2-928-9582
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