Kru Interactive (now known as Nexon Inc.) is among the pioneers of online gaming and

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s. Its headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California.

KRU or Kru Interactive

The South Korea-based game company made a name for itself in the early 1990s. Kru launched '' Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds'' in 1997, Dark Ages in 1999. Shattered Galaxy, the award winning and first massive online RTS game, was introduced in 2001. The company has recently expanded into other Asian countries, notably

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, Malaysia, and Singapore; along with the United States. For a short time, ''

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'' was sold in stores in the United States but never sold well because it was offered for free in a long-term open beta and then made available as a pay for play, only four months after commercial launch, from the ''

'' website. ''

'' has also been awarded the

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Grand Prize, Audience Choice Awards, Technical Excellence Award, and Best Game Design at the 2001 Independent Games Festival Awards. Nexon has also released a few unsuccessful games to the

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n audience in beta form which have since been dropped. They include ''Elemental Saga'', '' QuizQuiz'' and ''Elancia''. '' QuizQuiz'' never left beta stage in North America but was later released through the Singapore division of Nexon, NexonAsia in an English version. '' QuizQuiz'' has since evolved into the exclusively Korean and Japanese online game ''Q-Play'', while ''Elemental Saga'' was eventually cancelled. NEXON has several games exclusively available to Korean players such as ''Elancia'' and ''Crazy Arcade''..

External links

Kru Interactive
* http://www.kru.com/about.html * http://www.nexon.net/corporate/about-nexon/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Kru Interactive Video game companies of the United States Nexon Companies based in Santa Clara, California Video game companies established in 1994 Video game development companies