Krafton has announced its participation in Gamescom 2024, one of the largest global gaming events which takes place in Cologne, Germany.
From 21 to 25 August, Krafton will showcase extraction RPG Dark and Darker Mobile, PC life simul inZOI and new content for battle royale shooter PUBG: Battlegrounds, offering visitors a firsthand experience of its upcoming titles and updates.
Gamescom is the world’s largest event for computer and video games and Europe’s largest business platform for the games industry. It is jointly organised by Koelnmesse and game – Verband der Deutschen Games-Branche e.V.
In anticipation of the global event, Krafton has released a teaser trailer on YouTube. The trailer provides a sneak peek at the gaming giant’s booth concept, themed around the “Scale-up the Creative” strategy, which aims to discover new excitement in games. Visitors to the company’s booths will have the opportunity to experience hands-on demos of the featured game sand participate in various events.
Featured titles:
- Dark and Darker Mobile: The upcoming extraction RPG mobile game Dark and Darker Mobile challenges players to escape from dungeons where they’ll face fearsome threats and try to escape with their treasure. The game combines the “survival” aspect of the battle royale genre, the “exploration” of dungeon crawlers and various elements of RPGs. A global test is set for early August in key markets including Korea, the United States, Japan, and Türkiye, with a planned global launch later this year.
- inZOI: inZOI is a life simulation game where the player takes on the role of a god, creating anything they desire to live out their ideal life while engaging in different stories. “Comprehensive public simulation” of every character in the city, who all act of their own free will, allows events like sickness, trends, and gossip to occur, giving the player a realistic experience. Recently, inZOI highlighted upcoming features such as Cars, Group Activities, Karma, City Edit, Studio, and Photo Mode.
- PUBJ: Battlegrounds: Celebrating its 7th anniversary, PUBJ: Battlegrounds continues to captivate players worldwide. Since its Steam early access release in 2017, the game has achieved milestones, including a daily peak of 760,000 concurrent users on Steam, surpassing the numbers at the time of its transition to free-to-play in 2022, and maintaining Platinum rating in the Steam categories for best-selling and most-played games for seven consecutive years.