Epic Games In South Korea

@Kamatari+:

curses... the internet in the middle of a dark room has failed me again.

PunkyChipsAhoy

@Char Aznable says, Hail to the King of Pop: You can't. I love living here.

@Kobun: He won't give a shit. There is no beef between North and South.
North's most hated country is Japan, and then America not too far afterwards, but he isn't stupid, or reckless, just media hungry.

@You Are My Friend!: OMG "WIN Software" ... i like it, i'm totally registering that! POW!

@hazelnut - RIP Michael Jackson: That, soccer ads, and Korean wives. How to lose?

@Char Aznable says, Hail to the King of Pop: I don't know that phone card deal is looking mighty hot right about now.

@bobtheduck: According to a baby naming book, konami means "little southern beauty"

Are there really girls named Konami? Why was the company name written in Katakana, then? Anyhow, didn't want people to think I'd let it go thinking it was just made up without looking more into it.

@You Are My Friend!: Nintendo means "a bit of heaven"

It started as a toy company that primarily made playing cards... Not my idea of heaven, for sure.

Capcom was someone communicating to astronauts... I guess that's actually pretty cool, but they turned it into "CAPtain COMmando" which is NOT very cool.

Konami... I have no idea where that name came from. It's written in Katakana on the wiki, so it's, no doubt, a made-up word just like Sony(though I guess it could mean... small wave? No, still not getting it)

Microsoft doesn't sound pretentious, but boring and maybe even self effacing. I mean... Micro AND soft?

@undefined: Double Fine has always sounded weird... Quantic Dream sounds like a progressive math rock band. And Grasshopper Interactive sounds like a successor to the Robosapien.

orijimi

@RamsesLutherSmuckles: ...sorry

RamsesLutherSmuckles

Epic's got Seoul

RamsesLutherSmuckles

@jeezy103:
"Darth.......Maul.." >

Ray Park??? as in Dart Maul??

@spannu: "We're going to shoot Hawaii!!"

"This just in: Hawaii is now the safest place on Earth. Nebraska though. Watch your backs man."

Black-Dog-Howls

@Kobun: Considering how good their aim is, being in a territory that North Korea hates may be the safest way to go. If I lived in Norway, you bet your ass I'd be building my bunker (as useless as they are).

spannu

What do they need that for?
Unreal-time Strategy Tournament 3?

asymptotic

@You Are My Friend!:
I just realized how dumb any name sounds when your looking for it ... Lucas Arts ... Atlus ... Bungie ... hell just about anything

JimJamz

@Char Aznable says, Hail to the King of Pop: QFT.

SuprShin

The next nuclear test North Korea conducts will be codenamed "Dude Huge".

@silentstriderm: Tubular, wicked, and a lot of other buzzwords have older, more significant meanings to them as well. Doesn't make them sound any less silly as a company name now-a-days though. =P

Kanji08

@Ashcraft:

Would i be making a huge leap of logic if I said Huxley (I don't know why my mind is thinking this and I could be totally wrong) using the UE3 technology, might have forged some relationships that led to this event?

Again, I apologize... I honestly don't know how I even went down this path... it's probably a corrupt piece of memory I have :(

@Kanji08: When the company was founded almost 20 years ago, that appeal didn't exist. I think they'll be fine.

@You Are My Friend!: They were called "Epic Games" before hollywood & the internet raped the word "epic."

yargh

@You Are My Friend!: Well, in their defense, they were called Epic years before the word "epic" became as overused in pop culture as it is today.

Furthermore, back in the 90s they were originally called "Epic Megagames", so the current name is actually a step DOWN on the ridiculous pretentiousness scale...

@Kanji08: Epic may be a buzz word right now, but the word has been around a long time. The Illiad, The Odyssey, both Epics.

hmmm.. you've got me thinking... Maybe Cowabunga Enterprises isn't the best name...

Google Ads has offered to hook me up with Korean Singles because I visited this page. Thank you Kotaku! My dream has finally come true.

@You Are My Friend!: Also, "Extraordinary Develoments",
& "Crazy-F**king-Awesome! IPs"

They are house-hold names, folks!

@You Are My Friend!: I personally feel it fits the current time period and the gamer mentality. I know in my social circles, we use the term "epic" the same as we could awesome, cool, or any other variant. Granted, it may not hold the same appeal 20yrs. down the road (imagine a current day "Tubular Inc." if you will), but for now it seems fitting.

Kanji08

@PunkyChipsAhoy: Haha, in chargne.

darth maul is going to be the boss? Maybe he can fix the lag with the darkside. Lol

@You Are My Friend!: I just realized what a lame name "Electronic Arts" is.

It's like "Computerized Simulation!" or something.

@You Are My Friend!: Better than
"PWN Programming"

@You Are My Friend!:

It used to be Epic MegaGames that any better?

There is a company called Chair :D

@PunkyChipsAhoy:

*charge

PunkyChipsAhoy

@Kobun: Probably the same way he reacts to everything else: launch nukes over it to get more money.

Who will they put in chargne of this branch? Cory Ahn? Badum-psh!

PunkyChipsAhoy

Cool, I guess. Spread that gaming love. Aion looks cool with the CryEngine. Maybe some Korean game will look good with the Unreal Engine.

@ToastyUterus: The first thing that came to mind was UT3 for the ps3. I only bought it because of the mouse + keyboard and mods... but.. I was never a UT fan to begin with.

I just noticed what a lame name "Epic Games" is.

It's like "WIN! software" or something.

You can smell the out-sourcing.

RedStar - Workers of The World Unite

Hopefully the Koreans will do better on Gears of War 3 than the original Epic did on Gears 2.

Good luck with that...

ppppp

I guess Dude Huge doesn't watch the news much. Not sure how Kim Jong-il will react to news of South Korea hosting a Gears of War developer.

so, now there will be unreal powered free to play games that suck just as much as they do now? i mean,. some are good, some are fun, but loss of interest usually happens after the first day, and i find my way back to playing the games i payed for, and enjoy far more.