Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com November 12 news, this Friday, "PUBG" developer Krafton released the latest financial results. The company has acquired Neon Giant, the developer of Upstream Battlefield. It has been revealed that the newly acquired Swedish studio is currently developing a new open world FPS game.

In addition, Krafton plans to set up a large studio in Canada, which will lead the development of famous writer Li Rongdao's fantasy novel "the Bird drinking tears" IP. No further details have been provided.

Judging from the financial results, this year is the most financially successful year for PUBG since 2019. The company announced revenue of 433.8 billion won (2.3 billion yuan) in the third quarter of 2022, an increase of 2% month-on-month and a 17% increase in profit.

Krafton pointed out that due to the continuous influx of new players since the games were free, PUBG's revenue surged in the third quarter of 2022, with revenue on the PC side rising 48% over the previous quarter, while quarterly revenue from the mainframe platform increased 22% from the previous quarter, more than double that of last year.

As for mobile games, mobile platform revenue is about 1.482 billion yuan, but it has fallen 26% year-on-year since 2021. Krafton says most of the success comes from cross-border linkages, such as the cooperation of footballers.

In the future, Krafton will release the Callisto Agreement on December 2 this year. As one of the last large-scale games in 2022, it is not difficult to foresee that Krafton has high hopes for the project.

CTOnews.com learned that Neon Giant's first game was The Ascent, a cyberpunk-themed action role-playing game, which landed on Xbox and PC in July last year, and then on PlayStation in March this year.

Krafton's independent game development studio also includes PUBG Studios (PUBG: Battlegrounds), Striking Distance Studios (The Callisto Protocol) and Unknown Worlds (Subnautica).

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