It has also secured the right to distribute Virtual Alchemy's role-playing game Band of Crusaders worldwide.“emptyvessel is a triple-A game studio founded by developers with proven success and expertise in the globally mainstream shooter genre, along with game art and sound experts with strong fandom,” said Park Byungmoo, a co-chief executive of NCSOFT, in the press release.“We will continue to invest in securing new global intellectual properties and build development pipelines by genre,” he added.
The latest stake purchase followed the Korean game publisher’s investments in Sweden-based Moon Rover Games and Poland-based Virtual Alchemy in 2024, as well as two Korean game startups Mistill Games and Vic Game Studio.NCSOFT poured $3.5 million into Moon Rover as the sole participant in its seed funding round.
NCSOFT Corp.has made an equity investment in emptyvessel, a US indie games studio, as part of efforts to expand into the first-person shooter genre, a mainstream category in the western gaming market, beyond massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs).
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