Smilegate () 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, it is the creator of Crossfire, an FPS game with over six million concurrent players across the globe. 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.

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

Crossfire 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> by Game Developer.

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

LORDNINE 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.

Games 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 2005 TalesRunner Rhaon Entertainment Smilegate Megaport Microsoft Windows 2007 Crossfire Smilegate SmilegateTencent (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 WindowsFocus on YouSmilegateSmilegateMicrosoft 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 Windows2023OUTERPLANEVA GamesSmilegate MegaportMobile Crossfire: Sierra Squad Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 (PlayStation VR2)2024LordnineNX3GAMESSmilegate MegaportMobile2025Chaos Zero NightmareSuper CreativeSmilegateMicrosoft Windows, Mobile TBA SkySaga: Infinite Isles Radiant Worlds Smilegate Microsoft WindowsCrossfire 2 Smilegate Smilegate Microsoft Windows Crossfire That's No Moon Smilegate Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

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