Interesting article found by Giga at http://www.koreagamewatch.com/wp/2010/09/13/smile-gate-knocks-the-gate-to-publishers/
Interesting bits have been highlighted
A star developer of China-capturing FPS Cross Fire, Smile Gate now breaks into the monopolistic online game publishing market. On September 10, Smile Gate informed that its brand new publishing and sourcing division, led by pre-NHN Investment (NHN’s venture capital subsidiary) director Park, Jung-Pil, will go into hunting online games of any genre, be it casual or MMORPG. Smile Gate had already acquired the publishing rights for e-Magic’s MMORPG Sephiroth and laid the foundation as a service company. Hereupon, whether this medium-sized promising developer will become a successful publisher draws public attention.
Director Park, originally one of Cowell venture capitalists, vertically rose into a star publisher after launching Special Force at Neowiz and Dragonfly, Sudden Attack at CJ Internet, and FPS games at NHN. Such fickle movement among rival companies game him disgrace – “migrant.” However, such stigma did not matter for Smile Gate’s urgent metamorphosis into a publishing company: All Smile Gate needed was Park’s experiences and intuitions accumulated from publishing FPS masterpieces. That is, Smile Gate had to seize back the torn apart Cross Fire benefit to China-publishing Tencent and Global-publishing Neowiz Games.
Besides a countermovement to the publishers’ oligarchy, transformation into a publisher is a part of Smile Gate’s long-term (namely 4 to 5 years) master plan. In order to diversify its Cross Fire-dependent revenue structure, Smile Gate decided to source the game developing functions. Recently, Smile Gate acquired My New Children, a developer of My New Café serviced at NHN, into its subsidiary. Further acquisition of Go! Fishing’s developing team and renewal of Sephiroth will pile up know-hows for future product development. Smile Gate’s steps resemble the past growth of Dragonfly and Gamehi, now major companies grown on the basis of a single hit (Special Force and Sudden Attack, respectively) – except that both the games were successful in domestic market. Here, popularity in Korea remains a pending question for Smile Gate’s next big leap.
This confirms that Smilegate are well under way with development on their games. Whether we’ll see any specific news relating to Turfbattles soon or not is another thing unfortunately.
Would that mean that turf will be back soon???
not soon. just means it will be coming back. (: x
i will be looking forward to TB will be back ;D …. then i will kick your all at kando/duan ;D btw… i am your master Blow_Job and RedDeath and 1SHOT
i miss TB so much that i could Cry ;( … but when it will come back i will kick ya all ;D
at kando/duan ;D i miss to play with ya guys xD your loverboy Blow_Job
sry my net lagged double post ;(
I want to merchant this go around lol.
lol blow_job all u did was gang or trans ppl lower then u o_O
I miss Yuba.. and forming parties at bb for blue wiz land. 40+ only
I’ve missed turf battles but not as half as the old version………….
But my videos still reminds me of it . When it will back iam gonna be kicking yo asses in kando ! Justaman if u still remember me
when do turf come back???? i loved the game
Lovin this game wish it was back right now… hit me up”Anybody” with any new info at Dohnenko49@yahoo.com thanx… Btw I was the best In Tb haha
yes good yess
wow……game!
After almost a month, is there any more progress? just curious
cmon!! i wanna play tb
I just hope they don’t ruin the Powerleveling and the xp rate. Thats what made the game fun, the pvp skills not the lvling!
Hey dudes just try to put comment in koran gate abot turf battles thay are wana see howmeny ppl like to play turfbattles comment bomber Pls
when gona turf come back
Isn’t it about time for some more news? this was posted 2 months ago ;/
Yes it is time for some new news… but someone is lagging behind.. needs to be sorted alot of people are waiting.!!
I wanna play turf bring me some news plz
Hope u have new news soon..
come back TB
can you say when turf will be back ca.??
QQ still nothing!
hey guys i was wondering when it was coming back im tired of waiting i want it back now and ii_ranger_ii do ou remember me?
pls come soon… im going on homeschool and then i will be kickin everyones ass
Let’s hope they bring it out this summer, i still miss tb after all those years. I still can’t believe it I was about 12 years old when i first started playing, am 17 right now :p. sure you will kick my but Blow_Job, just like so many others tried in the old days.
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here i found it…
Smile Gate Knocks the Gate to Publishers « Turfbattles.co.uk – Official Turfbattles News and Updates…
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Smile Gate Knocks the Gate to Publishers « Turfbattles.co.uk – Official Turfbattles News and Updates…