June 26, 2013
- GMO GameCenter, Inc.
G-Gee Game, My Little Knight Surpasses 1 Million Downloads
My Little Knight Ranked Number 1 on Kakao Game Platform
June 26, 2013 – Seoul, Korea – GMO Internet Group company, GMO Game Center Korea, Inc. announces that smartphone RPG game My Little Knight, on June 4, 2013 surpassed 1 million downloads.(*1)
My Little Knight was launched through G-Gee Korea in February 2013, quickly gaining positions in the popular game rankings of both Google Play and Kakao Game in Korea. On May 8, My Little Knight became the top ranked game on Kakao Game, and after being featured as a Kakao Game recommended game several times, as well as maintaining its top ranking position, just four months after launch the game app has been downloaded over 1 million times.
(*1) Number of downloads via Google Play™ Korea
My Little Knight is the Korean version of Excalibur, developed by Bank of Innovation and published on Android by G-Gee. An RPG title featuring real time guild battles, the player takes their avatar on a quest, building weaponry and armor, raising creatures, and teaming up with comrades to fight battles.
With real time battles taking place four times a day, and high quality avatars, the game has achieved success in both Japan and Korea.
(*1) No. of G-Gee user IDs
About Kakao Game (Korea)
Kakao is Korea’s largest mobile social game platform. G-Gee Korea is the first Japanese company to partner with Kakao, distributing popular Japanese game titles in Korea since February 2013.
About G-Gee
Established in November 2010 by GMO Game Center, G-Gee is a smartphone game platform that features over 450 games from original, in-house developed offerings to well-know titles produced by global game developers. G-Gee was launched to the North American market in April 2011, and to Korea and Europe in October of the same year. As of March 3013 G-Gee has 30 million users worldwide. (*1) No. of G-Gee user IDs
About GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group is a comprehensive provider of industry-leading Internet solutions including domain name registration, cloud-based and traditional hosting, ecommerce, security, and payment processing services that each hold the top share of their respective markets in Japan. Other key business areas for the Group include online securities/FX trading, Internet advertising, search engine marketing, and smartphone game development and publishing. GMO Internet, Inc. (TSE: 9449) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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