Krafton Pearl Abyss

Krafton Pearl Abyss (: 크래프톤펄어비스 - Keulaepeuton Peol-Eobiseu) is a South Korean video game corporation, based in Gwacheon, South Korea, and mostly owned by Styhon Entertainment through Styhon Games. They are a world-leading publisher and developer of mobile, casual and strategy titles as well as MMORPGs.

Krafton Pearl Abyss also holds an annual convention under the name NCCon, which has been open to the public since its foundation as PDXCon in 2017.

They have satellite studios in the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Japan and Russia, their mobile division NC Plarium residing in Israel, their publishing division En Masse residing in Venice Beach, and Keywords Studios residing in Dublin.

Their portfolio includes games and franchises such as Black Desert Online, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Sniper Elite, World of Tanks/World of War War Thunder, Raid: Shadow Legends, Eve Online and Guild Wars 2; and the portfolio is a huge part of their successes in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. They are also helping build the eSports scene within Africa.

Their rivals include, , , and Tencent's own studios  and. KPA owns most of THQ and Atari's former franchises that aren't owned by THQ Nordic/Deep Silver or Atari SA respectively.

History
Krafton Pearl Abyss was born in November 3, 2020, out of a merger between South Korean video game publishers, and , American video game developer , Belarusian video game publisher , Swedish game publisher  and Russian video game publishers  and , under Styhon Games & Interactive Ventures. With these, Styhon Games also integrated Gameforge and newly-acquired studios FunPlus, IGG (I Got Games), Rebellion Developments, BlitWorks, Demiurge Studios, Platinum Games, Nixxes Software, Phoenix Labs, Hardsuit Labs, Abstraction Games, Grinding Gear Games and Klei Entertainment.

They acquired PDXCon from their then-sister company on November 30, 2020. They arranged to hold one more PDXCon in 2021, before rebranding to NCCon.

In December 2020, 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.

Before January 1, 2021, Gung-Ho, Sumo, PPH and Zynga shareholders sold and absorbed Gung-Ho Online Entertainment, Sumo Digital, Pole To Win and Zynga respectively into KPA, with SoftBank receiving 3% stake on the venture and the shareholders getting minor stakes in Styhon's parent company Styhon Battersea.

On January 2, 2021, Krafton Pearl Abyss acquired Keywords Studios, from which some studios became the basis for Pearl Abyss's new studio Redshirt; Bohemia Interactive, which became part of Paradox; and Asmodee, which became the basis for NC En Masse's board games division.

Marketing
Krafton Pearl Abyss is one of the few gaming companies to stand out, when it comes to press conferences and game announcements. NCSoft's first conference at NCCon (then-called PDXCon) was taken to a new direction, similar to Devolver Digital's "Big Fancy Press Conferences", though it is much more controlled in terms of graphic violence and gore. The presenter of NC's press conferences in NCCon is KPA's CEO, Cho Mee-Kyong.

Problems during formation
During its formation, which was finished around December 31, 2020, their revenue, after paying for development staffs, services used for moving locations, server maintenance and setups, was exactly $0. After the formation, they became profitable again.

Cross-studio events
After the formation of Krafton Pearl Abyss, they started holding an annual company-wide multi-sport event in Seoul, nicknamed "Kraftolympics" which was streamed on their Twitch channel KraftonPearl. Team California, consisting of employees from NC En Masse, Rumble Games, Jam City and the NC Plarium studios from Palo Alto, San Mateo, Oxnard and San Diego, won the most medals during the first Kraftolympics.

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

Strategic partnerships

 * In December 2020,  arranged a deal with Styhon Games & Interactive Ventures to distribute most of KPA's PC games within South Korea; some Krafton Pearl Abyss games will still be published through NC Korea.
 * Since the formation, KPA and their sister company Styhon Web Services have worked closely together, as SWS reserved some servers in their locations exclusively to KPA's titles under a special agreement.
 * Krafton Pearl Abyss acquired a minority stake in in April 1, 2021, starting a working relationship between the two companies which would see free memberships for NC Krafton titles bundled as part of deals offered by KT's carrier services.
 * NC Asia Pacific co-distributes titles with inside Mainland China; in exchange, NC Plarium sometimes releases titles by Tencent's in-house studios (,, Tencent Boston,  and NExT Studios) internationally.
 * NC Entertainment and announced a partnership, which would see two KPA properties get adapted into webseries.
 * KPA and  currently run a partnership, which would see KPA be responsible for marketing and supporting WayForward's titles, with the option to buy the studio after 2 ½ years.
 * KPA also entered a partnership with recently.
 * Since 2021, (A Pearl Abyss Studio) and NC Aspyr both work closely with DigiPen's international campus in Singapore on a program to foster local talent for video game development, a la.
 * KPA licensed some IPs from for more games to be released in the mid-2020s.

Studios
The company is divided into three internal divisions: North Division (located in Stockholm), West Division (located in Anyang) and East Division (located in Seongnam), with their publishing division NC En Masse, their sports management division KPA Sports and work-for-hire division Keywords Studios being the fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.

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. They release and maintains 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 Entertainment, NC West, Pearl Abyss America,, Zynga ATX, GungHo Online Entertainment America, Aspyr Publishing and PUBG Global Publishing. The new company retained the offices, except for the Manhattan Beach (Pearl Abyss), El Segundo (GungHo) and Santa Monica (PUBG) offices, as the staff from those offices were moved into the new headquarters in Venice Beach.

They also work to help independent designer/developers be financially and creatively successful in a highly challenging video game and board game markets. Their services include a full suite of publishing support, including brand marketing, community, social, public relations, creative, production, legal, distribution and other general business support; with studios such as Redshirt providing the help needed. As of 2020, they plan on changing the strategy to get more game developers to develop games for NC Core.

NC En Masse also serves as a holding company for KPA's international distribution operations, such as NC Southeast Asia (which currently runs Garena and Playpark), NC Germany (Gameforge), NC UK and NC Japan. While the non-US video game related operations owned by En Masse is branded as just NC, the board game publishing operations bear the En Masse name.

Offices and locations


 * NC En Masse Amusement Games LLC - Baltimore and Chicago; a publisher focused on indie titles, formed out of a merger between, and , the latter two of which saw the move of equipment and employees into a new studio; is a spiritual successor to Midway Amusement Games LLC
 * NC En Masse Las Vegas LLC - their office and network operation/secure data center in Las Vegas, Nevada; merger between Jam City Las Vegas and Machine Zone's Las Vegas studio
 * NC En Masse CS LLC - a customer services office in Aliso Veijo, California; merger between and NC West's Aliso Veijo office
 * - San Antonio; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Toyetico - brand for toys and collectibles
 * Piko Studios - an experimental game development company focused on games developed for "retro" consoles such as Sega Genesis and Neo Geo, with studios located in Sheffield, Southampton and Toronto; merger between Big Evil Corporation, Bitmap Bureau Ltd and Songbird Productions
 * NC En Masse Board Games LLC - Roseville, Minnesota and Hunt Valley, Maryland; merger between Asmodee North America, Z-Man Games and Alliance Game Distributors; also distributes board games from other publishers
 * Fantasy Flight Games - Roseville, Minnesota
 * Plaid Hat Games - Addison, Texas
 * Catan Studio - Charlottesville, Virginia
 * Atomic Mass Games - Seattle, Washington
 * NC Asia Pacific - formerly PUBG Corporation's Shanghai office
 * NC Southeast Asia - Singapore, also publishes in Singapore and Malaysia; born out of a merger between SEA Group, Pearl Abyss SEA, Garena, GungHo Online Entertainment Asia Pacific Pte.Ltd., IGG (I Got Games) and Asiasoft divisions AS Online Sdn Bhd, Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd and PT Asiasoft
 * NC Taiwan - Taipei, also publishes in Macao and Hong Kong; integrated with XPEC's publishing operations, FunPlus Taipei, Pearl Abyss Taiwan Corp and Gravity Communications
 * NC En Masse Asia - formerly Go Kids
 * NC Gamania - joint venture with Gamania Online Entertainment, also based in Taipei; formerly GungHo Gamania
 * NC Thailand - Bangkok; merger between Gravity Game Tech, IGG Thailand and Asiasoft Corporation PCL
 * NC Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi; merger between IGG Vietnam, Asiasoft Co Ltd, PTW Vietnam, Pit Crew Vietnam, and Trilight Cove's Vietnam operations
 * NC Indonesia - Jakarta; merger between Gravity Game Link, IGG Indonesia and Asiasoft's Indonesian operations
 * NC Indochina - publishes in Burma and Cambodia; formerly Trilight Cove Enterprises
 * NC Hong Kong - merger between IGG Hong Kong, Bigben Interactive (HK) Limited/Nacon (HK) Limited and Pearl Abyss HK Limited
 * NC Philippines - Makati City; merger between, FunPlus Philippines and Asiasoft's Philippines operations
 * NC Korea - Seoul; merger between Nettention (Pearl Abyss) and Gravity's publishing and maintenance operations
 * NC Japan - headquartered in Tokyo; integrated with PUBG Corporation's and Pearl Abyss's Japanese operations, RAD Game Tools's Japanese sales office, CrossFunction Co Ltd, Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings, FunPlus Tokyo
 * NC Japan (Chiyoda Office) - merger between Gung-Ho Online Entertainment and Pit Crew Co Ltd
 * NC Japan Network Services - Sapporo, Kitakyushu, Nagoya, Ogaki, Hachinohe and Sendai; merger between Pit Crew Co Ltd and Pit Crew Core Ops.
 * DATE Interactive Co Ltd (branded as NC Data East) - established with the acquisition of all Data East and Technos Japan IPs and franchises, as well as all rights to the Neo Geo game library, from Tactron Corporation,, ,  and ; also acquired rights to the library and also most of the FM Towns, NEC/Turbo, Amstrad, Sinclair, ColecoVision, Vectrex, 3DO, N-Gage and Casio game libraries
 * NC Australia - East Melbourne; formerly Madman Interactive
 * - Taylors Beach; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * NC New Zealand - Auckland; formerly Ninja Kiwi's publishing operations
 * NC India - Bangalore and Gurugram; merger between FunPlus India and Zynga India, also works as a large-scale infrastructure/backend development office
 * NC Turkey - Istanbul; formerly IGG Turkey
 * NC Europe SAS - Paris; merger between IGG France, Asmodee Digital, Asmodee,, Bigben Group, and Gravity Europe SAS
 * Nacon - publishing brand for gaming accessories
 * NC En Masse France - Buc; merger between Space Cowboys, Days of Wonder, Ystari and Zygomatic
 * Edge Entertainment - Saint-Jean; formerly part of Asmodee
 * NC UK - headquartered in Oxford, with offices in Cambridge and London; formed out of a merger between NC Europe, Jagex's publishing operations, IGG UK, and Rebellion Developments's publishing operations
 * NC En Masse UK - Alton (Hampshire) and Oxford; formed out of a merger between Asmodee UK and Rebellion Unplugged
 * - Nottingham, UK; formed out of a merger between Games Workshop Group plc and its divisions Citadel Miniatures and Forge World
 * NC Ireland - Dublin; formerly Zynga Ireland
 * NC Nordic - Stockholm; newly-established with integration of and Paradox Interactive's publishing operations
 * NC En Masse Nordic - Stockholm and Hvidovre; merger between White Wolf Publishing and Asmodee Nordics
 * NC Western Europe - Helmond and Hilversum, Netherlands & Waterloo, Belgium; merger between Pearl Abyss EU BV and Bigben Interactive Nederland BV/Bigben Interactive Belgium SA
 * NC En Masse Netherlands - Helmond; formerly Enigma Netherlands
 * NC En Masse Belgium & Luxembourg - Kortenberg and Frasnes-lez-Anvaing; merger between Asmodee Belgium and Pearl Games
 * NC En Masse France - Guyancourt; formerly Asmodee France
 * NC Iberia - Barcelona and Madrid; merger between Bigben Interactive Espana/Nacon Gaming Espana and FunPlus Barcelona
 * NC En Masse Iberia - Madrid; formerly Asmodee Spain
 * NC Southern Europe - Rome and Milan; merger between IGG Italy and Bigben Interactive Italia
 * NC En Masse Italy - Corregio (RE); formerly Asmodee Italy
 * NC Greece - Athens; formerly Atari Hellas EURL
 * NC Germany - headquartered in Munich, with offices in Karlsruhe, Düren, Bergheim and Berlin; formed out of a merger between ProSieben.Sat1 Games, Gaijin Europe, Gameforge, IGG Germany,, Bigben Interactive GmbH and Wargaming Mobile/Wargaming Berlin
 * NC En Masse Germany - Ingelheim, Essen and Ratingen; merger between Asmodee Germany, ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH and Look Out Games
 * NC Russia, CEE & CIS - 90/10 joint venture with Mail.ru Group, headquartered in Moscow, with locations in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Riga, Budapest, Prague, Krakow and Nicosia; formed out of a merger between IGG Russia, Techland Publishing, FunPlus Moscow, Gravity CIS Inc, Gaijin Entertainment LLP (Latvia), Gaijin Distribution Kft (Hungary), Bohemia Incubator, and Gaijin Network (Nicosia)
 * NC En Masse Russia, CEE & CIS - Prague and Bucharest; formerly ADC Blackfire Entertainment
 * Rebel - Gdansk
 * NC Canada - Toronto
 * NC En Masse Canada - Rigaud; formerly Asmodee Canada
 * NC South America - Buenos Aires, handles the Latin American and Carribean distribution of KPA games; formerly Level Up! Games's Latin American operations
 * NC En Masse South America - Santiago; formerly Skyship Distribuidores
 * NC Brazil - Sao Paulo; merger between Level Up! Games Brazil, IGG Brazil and PUBG Corporation's Sao Paulo office
 * NC En Masse Brazil - formerly Galápagos Jogos
 * NC Africa - Johannesburg; formed out of a merger between Koodoo and Gamefinity

Paradox Interactive (North Division)

 * Paradox Interactive - Stockholm
 * Paradox Development Studio - Stockholm, Sweden
 * Paradox Arctic - Umeå, Sweden
 * Paradox Malmö - Sweden
 * Triumph Studios - Delft, Netherlands
 * Harebrained Schemes - Seattle, Washington
 * - Sofia; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Prague, Brno, Amsterdam, Mnisek and Pattaya; not to be confused with Bohemia Interactive Simulations
 * Gaijin Entertainment - Moscow; integrated with Nival's Moscow studio
 * Dagor Technologies - Moscow

Pearl Abyss (West Division)
Peal Abyss is a division focused on Black Desert Online, EVE Online, World of War, Path of Exile and mostly single-player focused/narrative games, as well as work-for-hire game co-development. It consists of development groups Pearl Abyss & Rebellion and the solo development studio PlatinumGames.
 * 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
 * Frostburn Studios - Kalamazoo, Michigan; formerly part of Garena
 * Grinding Gear Games - Auckland; 80/20 joint venture with the company founders
 * Pearl Abyss Canada - Vancouver; acquired by Garena as, merged with Virtuos's Vancouver office, IGG Canada, Descriptive Video Works and , integrated with ex- and employees, and integrated into KPA in 2020
 * AudioMotion Studios - motion capture studio in Oxford; acquired by Rebellion in 2003, integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Kythera - Edinburgh; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Lyon; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Portland and Irvine; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Middlesbrough; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Australia Pty Ltd - Sydney and Melbourne; merger between Intuitive Game Studios (ex-),,  and Wargaming Sydney/BigWorld
 * Pearl Abyss Kiyv - Ukraine; formerly
 * NorHo Audio (A Pearl Abyss Studio) - located in North Hollywood, legally known under the name KPA Game Audio LLC; formed out of a merger between , Binari Sonori America and Descriptive Video Works USA
 * Airship Images - Blackpool; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Frankfurt - formerly Das Werk's Frankfurt studio
 * The Forge Interactive - Encinitas, CA; integrated with Exigent Game Art USA into KPA in 2020
 * Rmory - Memmingen; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Cambridge; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Streamline - Kuala Lumpur, with additional studios in Tokyo and Las Vegas; merger between PTW Kuala Lumpur, Base FX Kuala Lumpur, Streamline Media Group, Allpixels and
 * - Richardson; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Sofia; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Minneapolis, with additional offices in Alameda, California; Mason, Ohio; Hallbergmoos, Germany; Helsinki, Finland; Sydney, Australia; Uppsala, Sweden; and Wokingham, England; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * InstaLOD - Stuttgart; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Santa Monica; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Finland - Turku; formerly Rival Games Ltd.
 * - Helsinki; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Ostrów Wielkopolski, Wrocław and Warsaw; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Warsaw; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Nival (A Pearl Abyss Studio) - St. Petersburg; merger between, , and Playgendary's, Gaijin Entertainment's & Sperasoft's studios in St. Petersburg
 * Pearl Abyss India - Hyderabad; merger between PTW Hyderabad and Griptonite Games's art and development outsourcing studio in Hyderabad
 * Pearl Abyss Baltimore - formerly PTW Baltimore
 * Pearl Abyss Hangzhou - a co-development studio consisting of ex- employees, established in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Abu Dhabi - founded in collaboration with at twofour54 in 2020; they will work with nearby universities and colleges in training future game developers as a co-development studio
 * 4DMax - a 3D scanning company for VFX, located in Surrey; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Limassol, Yekaterinburg and Munich; integrated with Nival Limassol studio and Das Werk Munich
 * - Taipei, Kaohsiung and Suzhou; integrated with PTW Taipei into KPA in 2020
 * SummerTimeStudio - Ginowan; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Boston - acquired Standing Stone Games (ex-) in 2020
 * - Chicago; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Redmond - established with the team from Microsoft in 2020
 * Tabletop Towns (A Pearl Abyss Studio) - headquartered in Paris; formed out of a merger between, , EKO Software and , integrated with former employees
 * Kylotonn Racing - Lyon
 * Big Bad Wolf - Bordeaux
 * Rogue Factor - Montreal
 * - headquartered in Singapore, with additional studios in Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi'an and Paris, with offices in Seoul; integrated with Sparx's studios in Shanghai, Chengdu, Xian & offices in Paris, and their parent company Virtuos Holdings Pte Ltd, and PTW Shanghai, into KPA in 2020
 * Black Shamrock - Dublin; integrated with Virtuos's development center & Sparx's studio, both in Dublin
 * - Ho Chi Minh City; integrated with Virtuos's development center in Ho Chi Minh City
 * Virtuos India - Bangalore; formerly PTW Bangalore, integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Massive Black - San Francisco; integrated with Virtuos's San Francisco office and PTW San Francisco
 * - Sheffield; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Sumo Leamington Spa - integrated with Electric Square's Leamington Spa studio
 * Lab42 - Leamington Spa
 * Sumo India - Pune; integrated with Lakshya's Pune studio
 * Sumo North West - Warrington; formed by ex- employees
 * Sumo Newcastle - formerly CCP Games's Newcastle studio
 * Sumo Nottingham
 * - Brighton
 * Red Kite Games - Yorkshire
 * Atomhawk - Newcastle and Vancouver
 * Redshirt (A Pearl Abyss Studio) - a technical and creative services provider to the global video games industry, headquartered in Montreal; born out of a merger between Keywords Functionality QA, Keywords Player Support and Keywords Localization QA, with VMC Consulting Montreal, Babel Media Montreal, PTW Montreal, Game On (audio production and motion capture studio), Fire Without Smokes Montreal,, Player Research Montreal, Enzyme (St-Jérôme) and Syllabes Studio
 * Redshirt Brighton - merger between Studio Gobo (Hove), Electric Square, Player Research and The Trailer Farm
 * Redshirt Quebec City - merger between Alchemic Dream (Shawinigan), VOLTA Creation and Sunny Side Up Creative
 * Redshirt Paris - merger between Synthesis Paris, DuneSound, Asrec, La Marque Rose and Around the Word
 * Redshirt Angoulême - formerly Piste Rouge's Angoulême studio
 * Redshirt Clichy - formerly Piste Rouge's Clichy studio
 * Redshirt London - merger between ICHI Worldwide London, PTW London, Spov, Liquid Violet, Fire Without Smokes and CORD Worldwide
 * Redshirt New Delhi - formerly Babel Media India, Exigent Game Art and Lakshya
 * Redshirt Hamburg - merger between Das Werk Hamburg and Synthesis Hamburg
 * Pearl Abyss Slovakia - acquired the now-closed Bratislava studio of in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Zagreb - acquired 's co-development studio in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Scotland - formerly PTW Glasgow
 * Pearl Abyss Bucharest - formerly PTW Bucharest
 * Pearl Abyss Naju - formerly PTW Naju
 * Pearl Abyss Novato - testing/QA studio in Novato, California
 * Pearl Abyss Las Vegas - testing/QA studio
 * SIDE - London, Los Angeles and Shanghai
 * Synthesis - Milan and Madrid; formerly owned by Keywords Studios
 * - Seoul; integrated with IGG Korea, PTW Seoul and  into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss USA - Kirkland; formerly RAD Game Tools
 * - Chicago; moved from Skokie to Chicago and integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Pearl Abyss Mexico - Monterrey; formerly CGBot's Mexico studio
 * - London; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Austin; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Wargaming - Minsk, Nicosia and Guildford; integrated with IGG Minsk and Playgendary Minsk
 * Pearl Abyss Fareham - founded in October 2003 as Living Pixel Games, sold to Vivendi Universal Games in 2005, renamed Travelship Studios, sold to THQ in 2007, then to Crytek and renamed Crytek Fareham in 2011,, acquired by Starbreeze Studios in 2013, then named to Starbreeze UK, then spun off under the Travelship name in 2018 due to financial difficulties, before being acquired by KPA in 2020
 * - Osaka
 * PlatinumGames Tokyo
 * Rebellion Developments - Oxford, Liverpool and Warwick; the Oxford studio is integrated with
 * - Chiyoda; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * Rebellion North - Wakefield; integrated with Exient's Leamington Spa studio
 * Rebellion Malta - Valletta; formerly Exient's Malta studio
 * Rebellion Malta - Valletta; formerly Exient's Malta studio

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, NC Entertainment, NC VR, PUBG Corporation, eight development studios and six support studios. They also own NCVR, Inc, the development team behind NCVR.

NC Plarium
NC Plarium is NC Krafton's mobile and casual games division, dedicated to games for iOS, iPadOS and Android games. Founded as in 2009, they develop mobile games, casual games and MMORPGs, as well as content related to Krafton Pearl Abyss's intellectual property for apps such as Facebook Messenger, WeGame and Line. Their games include Raid Shadow Legends, World of Warships Blitz and QuizUp.

During the formation of Krafton Pearl Abyss, Plarium - then owned by Styhon Games - absorbed Machine Zone, Miniclip SA, Wargaming Mobile, Gaijin Arts, Glu, Zen Studios and Jam City.

They are headquartered in, with its own development studios in Cedar Falls and Kiyv. They also own subsidiaries Rumble Games, Lillith Studios, Jam City and Griptonite Games; with multiple international development and localization branches, and the Glu platform.

The company includes the following:
 * NC Plarium - headquartered in Herzliya, with additional studios in Cedar Falls (formerly of Jam City) and Kiyv (of the original Plarium)
 * NC Plarium Ltd. - Vancouver; formerly This Game Studio
 * NC Plarium Toronto - merger between Glu Toronto/Blammo Games, Zynga Toronto/Five Mobile, and Jam City Toronto
 * OOO NC Plarium - merger between Gaijin Arts (Gaijin's mobile division), Plarium Krasnodar and Wargaming Moscow; headquartered in Moscow, with an additional studio in Krasnodar with support teams in Voronezh and Sevastopol.
 * OOD NC Plarium - Sofia; formerly
 * NC Plarium GmbH - Berlin; merger between Jam City Berlin and Wargaming Mobile/Wargaming Berlin
 * NC Plarium ApS - Copenhagen; formerly Wargaming Copenhagen
 * NC Plarium AB - Stockholm; formerly FunPlus Stockholm
 * - Malmö; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * TOV NC Plarium - headquartered in Kharkiv, with support teams in Lviv, Sevastopol and Odesa; formed out of Plarium's studios in Ukraine
 * NC Plarium Sàrl - Neuchâtel; formerly
 * NC Plarium Zrt - Budapest; formerly
 * NC Plarium SRL - Buenos Aires; formerly Jam City Buenos Aires
 * NC Plarium Ltda - Bogota; formerly Jam City Bogota/Brainz; which develops World War Doh among other projects
 * NC Plarium Oy - Helsinki; acquired as Small Giant Games by Zynga in 2018, integrated into KPA in 2020
 * NC Plarium SSC - Singapore (Singapore subsidiary company); formerly IGG Singapore
 * NC Plarium UK - Leeds; acquired and moved from Pontefract to Leeds in 2020
 * NC Plarium Thailand - Bangkok; formerly FunPlus Bangkok
 * NC Plarium Philippines - Manila; formerly IGG Philippines
 * NC Plarium Chicago LLC - a support studio in Chicago, Illinois; formed out of a merger between,  and Zynga Chicago
 * NC Plarium Michigan LLC - Portage; formerly Plarium Michigan Studio
 * NC Plarium San Mateo LLC - merger between Machine Zone's Palo Alto headquarters/studio and its subsidiaries Epic Action LLC and Epic War LLC (who work on Mobile Strike and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire respectively), Ncubate Games,, , Glu's San Mateo/Burlingame studios, , Paradox Tectonic and Iron Tiger Studios
 * NC Plarium San Diego LLC - merger between Jam City San Diego, Zynga San Diego, and, integrated with former /Concrete Games/ employees
 * NC Plarium Orlando LLC - merger between War Drum Studios and Iron Galaxy Orlando; integrated into KPA and moved from Gainesville to Orlando in 2020
 * NC Plarium Oxnard LLC - formerly, integrated into KPA and moved from Ventura to Oxnard in 2020
 * - San Francisco; integrated with Rumble Games (Plarium), Glu's San Francisco studio/HQ, Zynga's HQ, IGG San Francisco, Additing Games LLC, FunPlus San Francisco and the Jam City San Francisco/TinyCo assets
 * Lillith Studios - Shanghai, with additional studios in Shenzen, Beijing and Fuzhou; merger between, IGG Shenzen/Fuzhou studios and FunPlus Beijing/Shanghai studios
 * - Kirkland
 * XII Braves - Singapore and Jakarta; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - Auckland and Dundee; integrated into KPA in 2020
 * - headquartered in Los Angeles, with an additional studio in Burbank

NC Entertainment
NC Entertainment (formerly Gravity Game Arise) is a division of NC Krafton, dedicated to exploiting the intellectual properties owned by NC Krafton and Pearl Abyss divisions in such fields as animation production and film development.

They're headquartered in Tokyo, with additional offices in Rebellion Film Studios in Oxford, England. The group of companies includes:
 * NC Entertainment K.K. - located in Tokyo
 * NC Entertainment Ltd - located in Rebellion Film Studios in Oxford
 * NC Entertainment Development Ltd - film development
 * Rebellion Productions - 50/50 joint venture with Rebellion Developments
 * Rebellion VFX

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

KPA Sports
KPA Sports is an internal sports management, event agency, production, consulting and marketing division, specialised in the sporting preparation of professional sports teams and athletes, as well as the organisation and implementation of sports events and brand activation measures. They are headquartered inside KPA's headquarters in Gwacheon.

They also have offices in Silver Spring (formerly Discovery Golf), Los Angeles (formerly Mandalay Sports Entertainment and Independent Sports & Entertainment/Relativity Sports), Randburg, South Africa (established through intergation of MultiChoice Group's sports assets), Hamburg, Germany and New York City (formerly Match IQ), Unterföhring, Germany (formerly 7Sports), Cologne, Germany (formerly MMP Event), Leucerne, Switzerland (formerly TEAM Marketing), Sydney, Australia (formerly Beyond Action), and Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (formerly M6 Foot SAS). Their holdings include:
 * - South Korean baseball team, formerly owned by NCSoft
 * - e-sports team, formerly owned by FunPlus
 * DAZN Group
 * ​SuperSport​
 * Golf World - online brand
 * 12-year deal to license the PGA TOUR's international media rights
 * exclusive content partnership with Tiger Woods
 * - minority stake
 * WWE - minority stake
 * WWE - minority stake

Keywords Studios
Keywords Studios is an international technical and creative services provider to the global video games industry, established in 1998, and headquartered in Dublin. They also have offices in Rio de Janeiro, Portland, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Tokyo, Singapore, New Delhi, Pune, Rome, Barcelona, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing and Manila.

The studios owned by Keywords Studios are:
 * Keywords Art Services:
 * Mindwalk Studios - Beijing; integrated with XPEC's Beijing studio
 * Liquid Development - Portland (OR)
 * Lakshya - Seattle
 * RedHot Gameart - Shanghai with satellite studios in Chengdu, Dalian and Zhengzhou, with another in Yogyakarta (Indonesia); integrated with Exigent Game Art's and XPEC's Shanghai studios
 * ICHI Worldwide - Los Angeles
 * Keywords Game Development:
 * GameSim - Orlando
 * GetSocial - The Hague
 * D3T - Chesire
 * Sperasoft - San Jose (CA), Krakow (Poland) and Volgograd (Russia)
 * Snowed In Studios - Ottawa
 * Wizcorp - Tokyo
 * Yokozuna Data - Tokyo
 * Keywords Audio Services:
 * Sound Lab - Burbank
 * Binari Sonori - Cinisello Balsamo and Rome
 * LOLA - Mexico City
 * Maximal Studio - Sao Paulo
 * TV+Synchron - Berlin
 * Laced Records - London
 * Keywords Localization - with Binari Sinori:
 * Reverb Localization - Rio de Janiero
 * KantanMT - Dublin
 * Keywords Embedded Services - Redmond, Munchen, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Slough, Indianapolis, Las Cruces, Loveland (CO) and Burbank; formerly called VMC, also offers services such as Functionality QA, Player Support and Localization QA​​​​​​

Ventures, investments and other holdings
Aside from their internal studios and technologies, Krafton Pearl Abyss also own minority shares in, , , ,  and ; Tencent is also a shareholder in the companies. They also inherited Tencent Games's stakes in 4:33 Creative Lab, Milkytea, Shanda Network, Pati Games and Chinese game developers Ourpalm & Xishanju.

Aside from the shares held with or inherited from Tencent; they also hold around 12% of stakes in ​SK Group and minority stakes in Korean companies  and Naver Corporation. In December 2020, they acquired all of Tencent's stakes, and half of CJ Group's stakes, in, resulting in the ownership of a 35.49% stake, making KPA the largest shareholder. That same month, they also acquired a 20% stake in, buying out shares owned by minor investors, mostly foreign investors.

Their real estate holdings include:

They also own the following companies that do not belong in the KPA divisions:
 * NC Nippon Complex - Tokyo; under construction, will include recording studios, a data center and a motion capture studio, as well as the offices of NC Japan, as well as NC Entertainment KK, Yokozuna Data, Wizcorp, and the Tokyo studios of Streamline, NC Game Arts and PlatinumGames
 * Rebellion Film Studios - Oxford

KPA External Development Group
During the formation of KPA, the External Development Group was formed to outsource full titles, sometimes even certain assets, to external development studios (outside of Keywords Studios and the Pearl Abyss division). They re-hired former employees of (THQ) External Development Group, especially their managers Kevin Chu and Shiraz Akmal.

They're headquartered in Shanghai, with a satellite office in Burbank, California.

NC Core
NC (colloqually known as NC Core) is a full-fledged video game digital distribution service, online gaming, social gaming and digital rights management platform by Krafton Pearl Abyss. Internally referred to as the Unified Gaming Platform Project and formerly codenamed NC GG, NC 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.

NC Core will also feature the NC Arcade section for remakes and revivals of retro games, with most of the library consisting of the ones done by DATE Interactive (NC Data East), Piko Interactive (and its Piko Studios arm) and their close partners, and Intellivision Entertainment.

History
Inherited from the Plarium, Gaijin Entertainment, Wargaming, Feral and Machine Zone acquisitions, the MZ platform, Gaijin inCubator, Unified Premium Account/Wargaming.net, the Feral Store and Plarium Play, as well as the En Masse launcher, Gameforge, Playpark and Garena, along with Glu Mobile's technology assets, 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 & Asiasoft Passports, which will provide better authorization amongst other game service features.

NC Dragon
NC Dragon is a suite of middleware for cross-platform games, created by NC Krafton, Paradox Interactive, Pearl Abyss and Keywords Studios, with internet features development support from NC En Masse. It's meant to compete with and. It's compatible with NC Core and SWS data servers.

It's currently compatible with, , , , , , , , , , , , and , with upcoming versions planned to support  and .

Components
The middleware suite also uses Styhon Web Services technology.
 * NC Dragon Puppeteer - a combination of the animation engine,  modeling software, and the  motion capture suite, with some features brought over from Granny 3D
 * NC Dragon Foley - a re-build of sound effects engine, combined with
 * NC Dragon Engine - a combination of, , MAGE, Real Virtuality/Enforce, Torus, Silk Engine, PlatinumEngine and Dakor Engine, with the technology for virtual worlds and MMORPGs,  physics engine, the Coherent Labs UI technology, Umbra's occulsion culling and additional technologies, the Telemetry performance visualization system, InstaLOD 3D processing technology, Oodle data compression,  vegetation rendering and the Kythera AI technology; with the following addons:
 * the lighting technology (now called Tatsu)
 * NC Dragon Coder - an IDE, which is a rebuild of
 * NC Dragon Project - a cloud storage system for project and profile synchronization, integrated with rebuilds of:
 * the content management system for localization (as the "NC Dragon Localization" add-on)
 * the workflow pipeline system
 * the revision control
 * the application lifetime management system

Development team
NC Dragon's development team is housed inside:

NCVR
In December 2020, NC Krafton acquired and the consumer assets of  to form a new company in Shanghai called NCVR, in order to start development on their own virtual reality system. They hope to release it in the mid-2020s. They're also working on "quirky" motion controllers in collaboration with Swedish consumer electronics company.

Glu
The new Glu website (operated by NC Plarium under NC Plarium Sàrl, Ninja Kiwi and Rumble Games) is a free browser game platform. The new Glu was formed out of a merger between the Glu, PlayFirst, GluPlay, CrowdStar, Addicting Games, Shockwave, Ninja Kiwi and Miniclip brands and related technology assets.

Other events

 * League of Legends:

Films
Krafton Pearl Abyss produces films through NC Entertainment, which specializes in film adaptations and co-productions.
 * Frantic Royale Mayhem (TBA) - co-production with  and ; distributed by in the US & Canada, and by  outside North America

Series
NC Entertainment also produces TV series.
 * Eox (TBA) - co-production with A Murder of Crows and