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Smilegate Group
스마일게이트

Industry	Video games
Founded	June 2002 inSeoul,South Korea
Founder	Kwon Hyuk-Bin
Headquarters	Pangyo, Seongnam , South Korea
Products	Crossfire Lost Ark Epic Seven TalesRunner
Revenue	1.577 trillionKRW (2022)
Operating income	643 billion KRW (2022)
Net income	63.3 billion KRW (2022)
Owner	Kwon Hyuk-Bin (100%)[1]
Number of employees	~3,300 (2023)
Parent	Smilegate Holdings
Subsidiaries	Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate RPG Smilegate Megaport Smilegate Stove Smilegate West SmilegateRealies Smilegate AI Smilegate Investment Smilegate Asset Management Orange Planet Smilegate Foundation
Website	www.smilegate.com/en

Smilegate (Korean: 스마일게이트) is a South Koreanvideo game company. It is headquartered inPangyo,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 ofCrossfire, anFPS game with over six million concurrent players across the globe,^[3] and many more titles. Smilegate is acorporate group owned by Smilegate Holdings. As of 2022, it was the third largest game company in South Korea, according toThe Korea Economic Daily.^[4]

Smilegate's yearly revenue in 2021 was 1.43 trillionKRW ($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 thatdigitally distributes video games, is dedicated to indie game developers.^[6][7][8][9]

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 internationalCrossfire 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 fromCrossfire ever since its release. With the success ofCrossfire, Smilegate was nominated as one of <THE TOP 30 DEVELOPERS>^[10] byGame Developer.

According to a list^[11] made in 2014 bySuperData Research,Crossfire made the most amount of revenue among allF2P games worldwide.

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

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 onSteam, 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 ofPUBG: Battlegrounds. Considering thatLost Ark was only released in North America and Europe, some argue thatLost Ark was more impactful thanPUBG: Battlegrounds, which was released in China as well.

Epic Seven is a mobileturn-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-housegame engine designed to support older devices and improve loading times.^[16][17]

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]

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

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