NC cruises toward brisk earnings recovery on AION2 success

Game studio NC on Wednesday reported a solid recovery in its first-quarter earnings, driven by the success of its signature massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) titles, including AION 2 and Lineage Classic. During its earnings call, NC announced 557.4 billion won ($372.25 million) in sales and 113.3 billion won in operating profit for the January-March period this year, up 55 percent and 2,070 percent, respectively, year-on-year. The numbers mark a solid recovery in the company’s profitability. In 2024, the company suffered an annual operating loss of 109.2 billion won. Since then, the company has pursued aggressive restructuring and efficiency improvements, returning to an annual operating profit of 16.1 billion won in 2025 and extending the momentum into the first quarter of this year. Driving the improvement were the company’s PC titles, whose revenue reached a quarterly record of 318.4 billion won, up 210 percent from a year earlier. AION 2 generated 136.8 billion won in revenue, as the title, released in November last year, full-quarter contribution. During thWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times