Krafton Pearl Abyss

Krafton Pearl Abyss is a South Korean video game developer and publisher, based in Gwacheon, South Korea, and mostly owned by Styhon Entertainment through Styhon Games.

They have satellite studios in the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Japan and Russia, their mobile division NC Plarium residing in Israel, and their publishing division En Masse residing in Venice Beach. Their portfolio includes games such as Black Desert Online, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Sniper Elite, War Thunder, Raid: Shadow Legends, Eve Online and Guild Wars 2.

Their rivals include, , , ,  and Tencent's own studios  and.

History
Krafton Pearl Abyss was born in November 2020, out of a merger between South Korean video game publishers Krafton Game Union, NCSoft and Pearl Abyss, American video game developer Machine Zone, and Russian video game publishers Nival and Gaijin Entertainment, under Styhon Games & Interactive Ventures. With these, Styhon Games also integrated newly-acquired studios Rebellion Developments, BlitWorks, Demiurge Studios, Platinum Games, Nixxes Software, Phoenix Labs, Hardsuit Labs, Abstraction Games, Grinding Gear Games and Klei Entertainment.

In December 2020, Kakao Games arranged a deal with Styhon Games & Interactive Ventures to distribute their PC games within South Korea, with the exception of some Krafton Pearl Abyss games.

The same month, KPA entered board games publishing by establishing a board games division within NC En Masse. It will also absorb Rebellion Unplugged and White Wolf Publishing to form board games divisions within NC UK and the newly established NC Nordic.

Linux support
Krafton Pearl Abyss has dedicated itself to, amongst other things, developing Linux versions for all of its current and upcoming games.

Studios
The company is divided into three internal divisions: North Division (located in Moscow), West Division (located in Anyang) and East Division (located in Seongnam), with their publishing division NC En Masse being the fourth.

NC En Masse
NC En Masse is an American video game and board game publisher founded and owned by Krafton Pearl Abyss. They are headquartered in, with satellite offices in Austin and Seattle, and a customer service office in Aliso Veijo. They release all Rebellion and Krafton Pearl Abyss titles in North America, mainly the United States.

NC En Masse was formed, when, during the merger of Krafton Pearl Abyss, the following were merged into one: En Masse Entertainnment, NC West, Pearl Abyss America and PUBG Global Publishing. The new company retained the offices, except for the Manhattan Beach (Pearl Abyss) and Santa Monica (PUBG) offices, as the staff from those offices were moved into the new headquarters in Venice Beach.

NC En Masse also serves as a holding company for KPA's international distribution operations, such as NC Southeast Asia (which currently runs Garena), NC UK and NC Japan.

International offices

 * NC Southeast Asia - Singapore; born out of a merger between SEA Group, Pearl Abyss SEA and Garena
 * NC Taiwan - Taipei; integrated with Pearl Abyss Taiwan Corp
 * NC Hong Kong - formerly Pearl Abyss HK Limited
 * NC South America - Buenos Aires; handles the Latin American and Carribean distribution of KPA games
 * NC Brazil - formerly PUBG Corporation's Sao Paulo office
 * NC UK - headquartered in Oxford, with an office in London; formed out of a merger between NC Europe and Rebellion Developments's publishing operations
 * NC UK Board Games - formerly Rebellion Unplugged
 * NC Nordic - Stockholm
 * NC Nordic Board Games - formerly White Wolf Publishing
 * NC Japan - Tokyo; integrated with PUBG Corporation's and Pearl Abyss's Japanese operations
 * NC Australia - East Melbourne; formerly Madman Interactive
 * NC Germany - headquartered in Munich, with offices in Karlsruhe and Berlin; formed out of a merger between ProSieben.Sat1 Games, Gaijin Europe and Wargaming Mobile/Wargaming Berlin
 * NC Russia, CEE & CIS - headquartered in Moscow, with locations in Riga, Budapest and Nicosia; formed out of a merger between Gaijin Entertainment LLP (Latvia), Gaijin Distribution Kft (Hungary) and Gaijin Network (Nicosia)

Gaijin Entertainment (North Division)

 * Gaijin Entertainment - integrated with Nival's Moscow studio
 * Nival - integrated with Gaijin Entertainment's studio in St. Petersburg
 * Nival Limassol - Cyprus
 * Dagor Technologies - Moscow

Pearl Abyss (West Division)

 * Pearl Abyss - Anyang
 * - Reykjavik, London and Shanghai
 * Pearl Abyss Capital - South Korea; investment and management consulting
 * Pearl Abyss Iceland hf - investment and management consulting
 * RedFox Games - San Jose, unknown stake acquired by Pearl Abyss in June 2017
 * Grinding Gear Games - Auckland; 80/20 joint venture with the company founders
 * Pearl Abyss Canada - Vancouver; acquired by Garena as in 2020; integrated into KPA
 * - Osaka
 * PlatinumGames Tokyo
 * AudioMotion Studios - motion capture studio in Oxford; acquired by Rebellion in 2003, integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Rebellion Developments
 * Rebellion North - Wakefield
 * Rebellion Warwick
 * Rebellion Liverpool
 * Rebellion Productions - Oxford; 50/50 joint venture with Styhon Filmed Entertainment Group
 * Rebellion Film Studios
 * Rebellion VFX

NC Krafton (East Division)
NC Krafton itself is formed out of a merger between NCSoft and Krafton Game Union, with the brand styling adapted from Krafton. It consists out of NC, NC Plarium, PUBG Corporation, four development studios and five support studios.

PUBG Corporation
In addition to these studios, NC Krafton also owns PUBG Corporation, with offices in Seoul, South Korea and Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
 * PUBG Corporation
 * PUBG MadGlory - New York
 * Striking Distance Studios - California
 * PlayerUnknown Productions - Amsterdam

Unified Gaming Platform Project
Inherited from the Plarium, Gaijin Entertainment and Machine Zone acquisitions, the MZ platform, Gaijin inCubator and Plarium Play, as well as the En Masse launcher and Garena, are in process of combining into one new gaming service. NCSoft's Purple will also serve as part of the platform, giving access to mobile games to PC players; same goes with Garena+, which will provide the social gaming elements, and Gaijin.Net, which will provide better authorization amongst other game service features.

"The KPA Platform", internally referred to as the Unified Gaming Platform Project, will launch in the summer of 2021, after all games are finished being migrated into the platform. It will be available for iOS, iPadOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux.