Krafton
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KRAFTON, Inc. () is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company based in Seoul. It was created in November 2018 to serve as the parent company for Bluehole, founded by Chang Byung-gyu in Seoul in March 2007, and its subsidiaries. The company has published several notable video game titles including TERA, PUBG: Battlegrounds, and inZOI.
Key facts
- Company.name
- KRAFTON, Inc.
- Company.native_name
- 주식회사 크래프톤
- Company.logo
- KRAFTON Logo New Red.svg
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.industry
- Video games
- Company.hq_location_city
- Bundang District, Seongnam
- Company.hq_location_country
- South Korea
- Company.revenue
- ₩2.7 trillionUS$1.9 billion (2024)
- Company.num_employees
- ≥3400
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- holding company
- Has part
- Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Country
- South Korea
- Headquarters
- Seongnam
- Owned by
- Tencent
- Subsidiary
- Tango Gameworks
- Industry
- video game industry
- Legal form
- public company
- Official website
- www.krafton.com
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- inception
- 2007-03-26
- product or material produced
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
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Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- History
- Subsidiaries
- Bluehole Studio
- PUBG Studios
- Striking Distance Studios
- RisingWings
- Dreamotion Inc.
- Thingsflow
- Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- 5minlab Corporation
- Neon Giant
- Krafton Montreal Studio
- ReLu Games
- Flyway Games
- Tango Gameworks
- InZOI Studio
- JofSoft
- Eleventh Hour Games
- Defunct subsidiaries
- L-Time Games
- Maui Games
- Pnix
- Squall
- Red Sahara Studio
- Delusion
- En Masse Entertainment
- R&D
- Supported studios and companies
- Games
- Games developed or published as "Bluehole Studio"
- Games developed or published as "Krafton"
- Further reading
- References
- External links
KRAFTON, Inc. () is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company based in Seoul. It was created in November 2018 to serve as the parent company for Bluehole, founded by Chang Byung-gyu in Seoul in March 2007, and its subsidiaries. The company has published several notable video game titles including TERA, PUBG: Battlegrounds, and inZOI.
==History== Following the success of PUBG: Battlegrounds, which had led to both investment from Tencent Holdings, and expansion and acquisition of studios, Bluehole opted to establish Krafton on November 5th 2018, to serve as a holding company for its video game properties. "Krafton" was selected based on the names of craft guilds of the Middle Ages. Kim Chang-han, the CEO of the PUBG Corporation (current PUBG Studios) that developed ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds'', was named as CEO for Krafton.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Krafton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.