[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]BiCORE Co., Ltd (CEO Ji-Su Park) that has developed smart phone mobile game hits including ‘Demon Hunter’, ‘Bloomy’ and ‘Jewel Battle’ expressed that it attracted a large scale investment reaching up to 5 billion won from CJ Venture Investment. It is getting special attention from the related industry as this is based on successful advancement into the global market.
The recent investment is getting attention from the fact that the investment was accomplished by receiving positive evaluation on high technology and game characteristics under the difficulty of domestic mobile game environment that has game companies all over and the companies being incorporated into large corporations.
BiCORE Co., Ltd has quickly entered the global open market based on its technology and game characteristics starting with existing feature phone mobile games gaining a great deal of popularity from mobile game users throughout the world while especially getting a lot of favorable criticism from players throughout the world such as breaking through cumulative downloads of 4 million with ‘Demon Hunter’ and 2 million with ‘Bloomy’/‘Jewel Battle’ in the global open market.
Since the year 2010, the company has liquidated all game lineup for Feature Phone, changed all lineup to Smart Phone and currently released 4 kinds of smart phone games including ‘Demon Hunter’, ‘Bloomy’, ‘Jewel Battle’ and ‘Record of Arden War 2’. The company is planning to release various genres including 4 kinds of online games, 3D games and SNG’s until the end of this year while especially planning to show off differentiated mobile games from existing single mobile games by releasing online specialized games.