privately-held | |
Industry | Mobile game, Web game |
Headquarters | South Korea |
Owner | Bang Joon-hyuk (32.36%) CJ E&M Corp. (31.40%) Han River Investment Pte. Ltd. (25.26%) NCSOFT Corp. (9.80%) |
Website | www.netmarble.net |
Netmarble Games (Korean: 넷마블게임즈) is a mobile game company based in South Korea, run by more than 3,000 employees. As of November 2015, it has capitalized $9 billion of the market. It is a major mobile game publisher that serves over 120 countries worldwide as of 2015, racking up $900 million in profits for that year alone. The firm expects to earn $1.1 billion by the close of the 2016 fiscal year.
Netmarble has developed successful mobile games, including Marvel: Future Fight, Seven Knights, Raven (Evilbane in U.S.) and Everybody's Marble. It also claims a large shareholder stake in SGN, a casual game developer, and has a strategic partnership with CJ E&M Corporation. Recently, the company also enjoys a partnership with Disney and is licensed to produce games featuring some of its newly acquired properties, including Marvel and Star Wars.