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Smilegate

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Smilegate Group
스마일게이트
IndustryVideo games
FoundedJune 2002 in Seoul, South Korea
FounderKwon Hyuk-Bin
Headquarters
Pangyo, Seongnam
,
South Korea
ProductsCrossfire
Lost Ark
Epic Seven
TalesRunner
Revenue1.577 trillion KRW (2022)
643 billion KRW (2022)
63.3 billion KRW (2022)
OwnerKwon Hyuk-Bin (100%)[1]
Number of employees
~3,300 (2023)
ParentSmilegate Holdings
SubsidiariesSmilegate Entertainment
Smilegate RPG
Smilegate Megaport
Smilegate Stove
Smilegate West
SmilegateRealies
Smilegate AI
Smilegate Investment
Smilegate Asset Management
Orange Planet
Smilegate Foundation
Websitewww.smilegate.com/en

Smilegate (Korean: 스마일게이트) is a South Korean video game company. It is headquartered in Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea. It develops, publishes, and services online games on mobile and PC platforms. Established in South Korea in 2002,[2] it is the creator of Crossfire, an FPS game with over six million concurrent players across the globe.[3] Smilegate is a corporate group owned by Smilegate Holdings.

As of 2022, it was the third largest game company in South Korea, according to The Korea Economic Daily.[4]

History

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Smilegate's yearly revenue in 2021 was 1.43 trillion KRW ($1.08 billion) with 593 billion won operating profit.[4] It was estimated to be worth $7.55 billion in 2022.[4] In 2018 it had about 2,200 employees.[5] Smilegate subsidiary Stove, which operates a store platform of the same name that digitally distributes video games, is dedicated to indie game developers.[6][7][8][9]

Crossfire

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Crossfire is an FPS that has reached more than 8 million concurrent users around the world. Crossfire is being serviced in 80 countries worldwide including China, Brazil, Vietnam, Northern America, and Europe.

Every year, Smilegate organizes an international Crossfire tournament with a prize pool of approximately 1 billion KRW titled CFS (CrossFire Stars). CFS has the largest scale among all tournaments held by video game companies in South Korea.

Smilegate made a tremendous amount of revenue from Crossfire ever since its release. With the success of Crossfire, Smilegate was nominated as one of <THE TOP 30 DEVELOPERS>[10] by Game Developer.

According to a list[11] made in 2014 by SuperData Research, Crossfire made the most revenue among all F2P games worldwide.

Crossfire was the world’s most played game until League of Legends took the first place in 2017.

Lost Ark

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Lost Ark is a PC MMORPG developed by Smilegate RPG. Lost Ark was first released in South Korea in 2018 costing approximately 100 million KRW during the 7 years of development. It became increasingly popular in 2021 and became one of the top trending games in South Korea.

In February 2022, the game was launched in Northern America and Europe via Steam. Lost Ark reached more than 1.32 million concurrent users on Steam, becoming the most played game on the platform. The record of 1.32 million concurrent users is the second place in the entire history of Steam, the first place being 3.25 million concurrent users of PUBG: Battlegrounds. Considering that Lost Ark was only released in North America and Europe, some argue that Lost Ark was more impactful than PUBG: Battlegrounds, which was released in China as well.

Epic Seven

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Epic Seven is a mobile turn-based RPG game developed by subsidiary Super Creative and released in 2018.[12][13][14] It became Smilegate's first successful title in the West, with the United States at one point accounting more than half of its revenue.[13] In June 2023, it released in China through Chinese publisher Zlong Games.[15] By August 2023 it had reached $650 million in global sales.[14] Epic Seven utilizes an in-house game engine designed to support older devices and improve loading times.[16][17]

LORDNINE

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LORDNINE is a mobile MMORPG developed by NX3GAMES and published by Smilegate Megaport. It was released in July 2024. The game experienced emergency maintenance and client instability issues during its initial launch period. Within a week of release, it reached No.1 in revenue on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.[18]

Games

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These are the games developed or published by Smilegate. Publisher and release dates are for South Korea unless otherwise noted.

Year Game Developer(s) Publisher(s) Platform Ref.
2005 TalesRunner Rhaon Entertainment Smilegate Megaport Microsoft Windows [19]
2007 Crossfire Smilegate Smilegate
Tencent (China),
Lytogame (Indonesia), Smilegate West (NA, BR), Smilegate Megaport (Philippines)
2010 ProBaseball Manager Online Sega Smilegate Megaport Mobile
2011 Freestyle2: Street Basketball JoyCity JoyCity (US),
Smilegate Megaport (South Korea)		 Microsoft Windows
2012 MVP baseball online Smilegate Microsoft Windows
2013 Devil Maker: Tokyo Ncrew Entertainment Smilegate Megaport Mobile
Eastern Blade Smilegate Megaport
2014 Qurare: Magic Library Palmple, iO Studio Mobile, PlayStation 4 (2016)
2015 Dragon Fate Lion Games Studios Smilegate Mobile
Bunnypang Smilegate Smilegate Megaport Mobile
AZERA Timber Games Smilegate Microsoft Windows
Crossfire: Mobile Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate Mobile
2017 SoulWorker Lion Games Studios Smilegate Microsoft Windows
Super Tank Rumble Lumidia Games Smilegate Mobile
TAHN Tencent Games Smilegate
ChaosMasters Neoact Smilegate
WarReign Red Sahara Studio Smilegate
2018 Arcane Straight Gameplete Smilegate Megaport
Lost Ark Smilegate RPG, Tripod Studio Smilegate RPG Microsoft Windows
Epic Seven Super Creative Smilegate Microsoft Windows, Mobile
2019 ROGAN: The Thief in the Castle Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows
Focus on You Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
Final Assault Phaser Lock Interactive Smilegate Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
2020 Crossfire: Zero Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows
Crossfire: Warzone JoyCity Smilegate Mobile
2021 Crossfire HD Smilegate Tencent (China) Microsoft Windows
2022 CrossfireX Smilegate, Remedy Entertainment Smilegate Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Crossfire: Legion Blackbird Interactive Prime Matter Microsoft Windows
2023 OUTERPLANE VA Games Smilegate Megaport Mobile
Crossfire: Sierra Squad Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 (PlayStation VR2) [20]
2024 Lordnine NX3GAMES Smilegate Megaport Mobile [21]
2025 Chaos Zero Nightmare Super Creative Smilegate Microsoft Windows, Mobile [22]
TBA SkySaga: Infinite Isles Radiant Worlds Smilegate Microsoft Windows
Crossfire 2 Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows
Crossfire That's No Moon Smilegate Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

References

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  1. ↑ Chung, Grace. "Online Hit Game CrossFire Mints South Korea's Richest Self-Made Billionaire". Forbes.
  2. ↑ Yoon Sung-won. "Smilegate vows to revitalize online game sector". Korea times. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lee Ji-yoon. "[Herald Interview] The woman behind success of 'Crossfire'". Korea herald. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Cha, Jun-Ho; Cho, Jin-Hyoung (Nov 14, 2022). "Corporate restructure inevitable at Smilegate as founder faces divorce". The Korea Economic Daily.
  5. ↑ Baek, Byung-yeul (6 September 2018). "Game firm workers setting up labor unions". The Korea Times.
  6. ↑ Smilegate. "Smilegate Megaport Launches Cooking Adventure Game 'BTS Cooking On STOVE: TinyTAN Restaurant' Worldwide". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  7. ↑ Sung-won, Yoon (4 June 2015). "Smilegate offers mobile game platform service". The Korea Times. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  8. ↑ "Smilegate to support small companies with $10 million of funding". Korea JoongAng Daily. 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  9. ↑ Jeong-yeo, Lim (2019-08-21). "Smilegate Stove brings VR games to Korean Army". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  10. ↑ UBM TechWeb (2012). GDM JuneJuly 2012.
  11. ↑ Tassi, Paul. "CrossFire: Tencent's Top Earning Free-to-Play Game You've Never Heard Of". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  12. ↑ Lee, Ju-Hyun (Apr 22, 2024). "Korea's Smilegate unveils new RPG Chaos Zero Nightmare". The Korea Economic Daily.
  13. 1 2 Sinclair, Brendan (27 September 2022). "Smilegate at 20: Growing beyond Crossfire, reaching beyond games". GamesIndustry.biz.
  14. 1 2 이승희 (24 August 2023). "에픽세븐 글로벌 매출 6억 5천만 달러 돌파, 중국 모바일RPG 매출 TOP10 랭크". betanews.net (in Korean).
  15. ↑ 원동현 (2023-11-02). "스마일게이트 '에픽세븐', 중국 출시로 제2의 전성기". gamevu.
  16. ↑ Byung-wook, Kim (23 March 2021). "Why develop in-house game engines?". The Korea Herald.
  17. ↑ 관리자, 스마일게이트 (October 11, 2018). "Everything about the YUNA Engine, the Heart of Epic Seven!". smilegate.
  18. ↑ 김태만 (25 July 2024). "SMILEGATE's "LORDNINE" Makes a Successful Debut Despite Various Issues". gamevu.
  19. ↑ An, Jeongbin (2009-07-10). "끈기와 열정으로 이룬 성공신화, 테일즈런너". ThisIsGame. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  20. ↑ Square, Push (2023-05-25). "Crossfire: Sierra Squad on PSVR2 Looks Seriously Impressive in Action-Heavy Trailer". Push Square. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
  21. ↑ An, Gyuhyeon (15 July 2024). "직업이 61개? 스마일게이트의 모바일 MMORPG '로드나인'". ThisIsGame. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  22. ↑ Hyeon, Namil (7 July 2026). "[AX 2026] 카제나 개발비화? 미래시 신규 정보? 미국에서 첫 공개". ThisIsGame. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
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