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Smilegate () is a South Korean video game company. It is headquartered in Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea. It develops, publishes, and services online games on mobile and PC platforms. Established in South Korea in 2002, it is the creator of Crossfire, an FPS game with over six million concurrent players across the globe, and many more titles. Smilegate is a corporate group owned by Smilegate Holdings. As of 2022, it was the third largest game company in South Korea, according to The Korea Economic Daily.
Every year, Smilegate organizes an international Crossfire tournament with a prize pool of approximately 1 billion KRW titled CFS (CrossFire Stars). CFS has the largest scale among all tournaments held by video game companies in South Korea.
Smilegate made a tremendous amount of revenue from Crossfire ever since its release. With the success of Crossfire, Smilegate was nominated as one of
According to a list made in 2014 by SuperData Research, Crossfire made the most amount of revenue among all Free-to-play games worldwide.
Crossfire was the world’s most played game until League of Legends took the first place in 2017.
In February 2022, the game was launched in Northern America and Europe via Steam. Lost Ark reached more than 1.32 million concurrent users on Steam, becoming the most played game on the platform. The record of 1.32 million concurrent users is the second place in the entire history of Steam, the first place being 3.25 million concurrent users of . Considering that Lost Ark was only released in North America and Europe, some argue that Lost Ark was more impactful than PUBG: Battlegrounds, which was released in China as well.
Lost Ark
Lost Ark is a PC MMORPG developed by Smilegate RPG. Lost Ark was first released in South Korea in 2018 costing approximately 100 million KRW during the 7 years of development. It became increasingly popular in 2021 and became one of the top trending games in South Korea.
Epic Seven
Epic Seven is a mobile turn-based RPG game developed by subsidiary Super Creative and released in 2018. It became Smilegate's first successful title in the West, with the United States at one point accounting more than half of its revenue. In June 2023, it released in China through Chinese publisher Zlong Games. By August 2023 it had reached $650 million in global sales. Epic Seven utilizes an in-house game engine designed to support older devices and improve loading times.
LORDNINE
LORDNINE is a mobile MMORPG developed by NX3GAMES and published by Smilegate Megaport. It was released in July 2024. The game experienced emergency maintenance and client instability issues during its initial launch period. Within a week of release, it reached No.1 in revenue on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.
Games
These are the games developed or published by Smilegate. Publisher and release dates are for South Korea unless otherwise noted.
2005 TalesRunner Rhaon Entertainment Smilegate Megaport Action game Microsoft Windows 2007 Crossfire Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate
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Lytogame (Indonesia)FPS 2010 ProBaseball Manager Online Sega Smilegate Megaport Sports game Mobile 2011 Freestyle2: Street Basketball JoyCity JoyCity (US),
Smilegate Megaport (South Korea)Sports Microsoft Windows 2012 MVP baseball online Smilegate Entertainment (South Korea) Sports Microsoft Windows 2013 Devil Maker: Tokyo Ncrew Entertainment Smilegate Megaport RPG Mobile Eastern Blade Smilegate Megaport 2014 Qurare: Magic Library Palmple, iO Studio RPG Mobile, PlayStation 4 (2016) 2015 Dragon Fate Lion Games Studios Smilegate Entertainment RPG Mobile Bunnypang Smilegate Smilegate Megaport Action Mobile AZERA Timber Games Smilegate Entertainment MMORPG Microsoft Windows Crossfire: Mobile Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate Entertainment FPS Mobile 2017 SoulWorker Lion Games Studios Smilegate Entertainment MMORPG Microsoft Windows Super Tank Rumble Lumidia Games Smilegate Entertainment Action game Mobile TAHN Tencent Games Smilegate Entertainment FPS ChaosMasters Neoact Smilegate Entertainment RPG WarReign Red Sahara Studio Smilegate Entertainment RTS 2018 Arcane Straight Gameplete Smilegate Megaport Card battle RPG Lost Ark Smilegate RPG, Tripod Studio Smilegate RPG MMORPG Microsoft Windows Epic Seven Super Creative Smilegate Entertainment RPG Microsoft Windows, Mobile 2019 ROGAN: The Thief in the Castle Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate Entertainment Stealth Action Adventure Microsoft Windows Focus on You Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate Entertainment Adventure Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 Final Assault Phaser Lock Interactive Smilegate Entertainment RTS Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 2020 Crossfire: Zero Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate Entertainment FPS Microsoft Windows Crossfire: Warzone JoyCity Smilegate Entertainment RTS Mobile 2021 Crossfire HD Smilegate Entertainment Tencent (China) FPS Microsoft Windows 2022 CrossfireX Smilegate Entertainment, Remedy Entertainment Smilegate FPS Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S Blackbird Interactive Koch Media Real-time strategy Microsoft Windows 2023 OUTERPLANE VA Games Smilegate Megaport RPG Mobile Crossfire: Sierra Squad Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate Entertainment FPS Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 (PlayStation VR2) 2024 LORDNINE NX3GAMES Smilegate Megaport RPG Mobile TBA Radiant Worlds Smilegate Entertainment Sandbox game MMORPG Microsoft Windows Chaos Zero Nightmare Super Creative Smilegate Entertainment RPG Microsoft Windows, Mobile
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