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XLGAMES: studio profile, history and games

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Südkoreanisches Studio von Lineage-Erfinder Jake Song, bekannt für ArcheAge. Gehört seit 2020 mehrheitlich zu Kakao Games.

XLGAMES: studio profile, history and games is a studio (Entwickler, Publisher) based in Seoul, Südkorea, founded in 2003. PlayInsider covers 1 game by XLGAMES: studio profile, history and games: ArcheAge Chronicles.

XLGAMES is a South Korean developer based in Seoul. It was founded by Jake Song, one of the fathers of the MMORPG, and is best known for ArcheAge.

Table of contents

  1. Founded by Jake Song
  2. ArcheAge and other games
  3. Part of Kakao Games

Founded by Jake Song

Jake Song co-founded Nexon, built The Kingdom of the Winds there and went on to create the legendary Lineage at NCSoft. He left NCSoft in April 2003 and set up XLGAMES with former colleagues. Its first release, the online racer XL1, flopped commercially.

ArcheAge Chronicles – A character in front of a wooden village with a pagoda tower
Settlements double as guild hangouts.

ArcheAge and other games

Work on ArcheAge began in 2006. The sandbox MMORPG launched in Korea in January 2013, won the Korea Game Award and reached Europe and North America in 2014. The mobile MMORPG Moonlight Sculptor, ArcheAge War and ArcheWorld followed.

ArcheAge Chronicles – A swamp with gnarled trees and a wooden boardwalk
Three regions are available at the start of Early Access.

Part of Kakao Games

In February 2020 Kakao Games took a roughly 53 percent stake and with it control of XLGAMES. Its current project, ArcheAge Chronicles (originally announced as ArcheAge 2), is an Unreal Engine 5 action RPG that hits Steam Early Access in November 2026.

ArcheAge Chronicles – A fighter among glowing spirits in a meadow
Combat is action-based instead of tab-targeting.

Games by XLGAMES: studio profile, history and games

ArcheAge Chronicles – Beitragsbild mit Titel-Schriftzug64ArcheAge Chronicles