"PUBG" developers unveil new work plans Two are expected to be in preparation

A few days ago, PUBG developer KRAFTON held a conference call to disclose the new game release plan and financial reports for the whole year of 2021 and the fourth quarter.

1. New work release plan

Krafton is preparing two anticipated games this year.

First, Project M is under development by Unknown Worlds, an American game development company acquired last year. The company said that "M Plan" is difficult to say as a simple strategy game, but a new type of game that is similar to a strategy game, but adds a variety of elements.

Secondly, the spiritual sequel to Dead Space, The Callisto Protocol, is a high-quality next-generation horror novel created by the development team Skinning Distance Studios. Although the U.S.-based development team is currently working from home due to the pandemic, game development has not been affected and is negotiating with the video game platform company to choose the best time to market.

In addition, KRAFTON is also preparing a number of games, including, real-time strategy simulation games, Road to Valor: Empires, strategic defense games Defense Derby, open-world PVP shooters Project Biringam, PVPVE shooters Project Black Budget, high-quality collectible RPG "FF Project", and the novel of the same name based on the "FF Project" Birds Drinking Tears" and so on.

The left and middle games in the previous row are the focus

2. The company's 2021 financial report

In 2021, the company's sales reached 1,886.3 billion won (equivalent to approximately RMB10.03 billion), an increase of 13% over the previous year, operating profit reached 639.6 billion won (equivalent to approximately RMB 3.4 billion), and net profit for the current period reached 519.9 billion won (equivalent to approximately RMB 2.76 billion), setting a new sales record. The company's overseas sales accounted for 94%.

Sales in the fourth quarter reached KRW 444 billion (approximately RMB2.36 billion), an increase of 26% year-on-year.

Among them, sales of PC games reached 114.9 billion won (equivalent to about 610 million yuan), an increase of 92% year-on-year. Mobile game sales reached KRW 303.7 billion (approximately RMB1.61 billion), up 10% year-on-year. Sales of video games reached 6.1 billion won (equivalent to about 32.43 million yuan), down 34% year-on-year.

3. Acquisition of the developer of Smash Legends

In addition, KRAFTON also announced that it has spent 53.8 billion won (equivalent to about 286 million yuan) to acquire all the shares of South Korean game development company 5minlab and make it a part of the company. For this acquisition, KRAFTON said that it is to expand the power of game development.

The representative game of 5minlab is the multi-platform action PVP game Smash Legends. "Smash Legends" has a variety of personalized game characters and casual style of 3D game screen, in about 3 minutes of game time, players can experience the fun of the game through intuitive gameplay and simple operation.

Founded in 2013, 5minlab's name means "a laboratory that makes the world happy in 5 minutes".