GStar 2008, game exhibition in Korea
Posted: November 14th, 2008, by Yunho Chung
GStar 2008, International Game Exhibition in Korea, is held from November 13th to 16th. This is its 4th year and includes show cases of game companies, IeSF invitational (International e-sports events), Korean Game Conferences 2008, and World Game Culture Conference 2008. More than 150 domestic and foreign enterprises, and over 3,000 possible buyers are participating GStar this year.
Last year I went to the GStar 2007 and posted my impression from GStar 2007. I thought the exhibition was biased to Korean game company and market. With this previous experience and with some additional information this year I get the feeling that GStar is still somewhat biased. Even though some global companies such as Microsoft and Intel are participating this year, no major western game company such as Blizzard or EA is present this year either. Diversity of game genres is another biased thing. Since Korean game market is mainly about online games, most of the products in this years exhibition are consequently also online games.
I’m not sure whether I will be able to attend GStar this year. However if I will have the chance to go this weekend, I will post more about the event soon.
