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Netmarble Reveals #1 Korean Mobile Game, Raven, Launching Globally Later This Year
[April 01, 2015]

Netmarble Reveals #1 Korean Mobile Game, Raven, Launching Globally Later This Year


Netmarble US, Inc., the newly formed North American gaming branch of the leading South Korean mobile game publisher, Netmarble Games Corp. ("Netmarble"), today announced the recently released Hack and Slash RPG hit, known as Raven in Korea, will launch globally later this year. In Korea, the recently released game shot to the #1 top grossing slot on both the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Market faster than any previous game. With three years of development to hone its high quality graphics and deep amount of action-packed content, the title was the most-anticipated game of 2015 in Korea. The North American version of the game will be released for iOS and Android (News - Alert) devices later this year.

Strong interest for Raven began building when a teaser was released in December, leading to a frenzy of downloads at launch. Within a day of release, the game was already ranked #1 in app popularity on the Apple (News - Alert) App Store. Within five days of release, Raven was the top grossing app in the Google Play Store. The game has already achieved over 3,000,000 accumulated downloads and 1,000,000 Maximum DAU (Daily Average Users) within ten days from its launch.

"With splendid action, dynamic real time battles and thousands of items to collect and upgrade, Raven has struck a resonant chord with gamers," said Seungwon Lee, Overseas President at Netmarble Games Corp. "We will leverage the record-setting success of Raven in South Korea as we look forward to bringing the game to players worldwide."



In the game, players can choose to adventure as multiple races/classes such as a balanced Human, fast-attacking Elf assassin and offense-oriented Vango berserker. There are five game play modes including epic Scenario mode, Adventure mode with 150 stages, Raid mode where players fight with friends against a Dragon, Arena mode with 1v1 arcade matches and Guild matches where 18 players fight for the honor of their guilds. With thousands of different items and equipment to collect and smooth virtual controls, Raven delivers a console-style experience for mobile devices.

The game is developed by Netmarble Games studio, STPlay. More details will be shared on the game at a later date.


The original Raven Korean trailer with English voiceover can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAss8BeeDU0.

The official Raven Press Kit can be access here: https://app.box.com/s/lrrs1ukjxyt0i85da1v8cdrc2jjxf8c7.

About Netmarble Games Corporation

Netmarble Games Corp. strives to enrich people's lives by providing great games to global audiences. The company rebranded in fall 2014 from CJ E&M Netmarble to Netmarble Games to reflect its new global gaming organization. Based in Seoul, Korea with North American operations in San Francisco through its newly formed division, Netmarble US, Netmarble Games Corp. services Netmarble, the largest game portal in Korea. Netmarble has over 70 PC online games, including Korea's top sports/Baseball game Magu Magu ("????"), and has produced some of the most successful mobile games such as Seven Knights ("?????"), Monster Taming ("???????")Race Cha-cha-cha ("??? ???")Everyone's Marble ("?????"), and the Magu Magu Series ("????2014"). Netmarble Games Corp. has more than 2,500 employees worldwide, numerous studios and consistently ranks as a top developer and publisher in Asia and globally with more than 160 games released. Netmarble Games Corp. has a strategic partnership with Tencent Holdings (News - Alert), Asia's largest internet company, and NCsoft, a prominent MMO company, as company shareholders. More information can be found at www.netmarble.com.

About Netmarble US, Inc.

Based in San Francisco, Netmarble US, Inc. is the newly formed US gaming branch of Seoul-based game publisher, Netmarble Games Corp. Netmarble US, Inc. is led by newly appointed CEO Chul Min Sim. Netmarble US, Inc. will oversee marketing and other services of titles from the numerous studios under the Netmarble Games Corp. Netmarble US, Inc. will support title releases across multiple genres in 2015 that target mobile gamers of all types. Follow us at: https://www.facebook.com/netmarbleus.


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