Blueside

Blueside is a game company with strong focus on the development of games combining Hack and Slash with elements of Real Time Strategy.

Overview

Blueside is the Korean development studio behind the franchises Kingdom under Fire (with Phantagram) and has been involved in the development of Ninety-Nine Nights. Since 2003 Blueside collaborates with Phantagram on their developed franchise Kingdom under Fire which had its first release called Kingdom under Fire: A War of Heroes in 2000. Since the two development studios joined forces they developed every iteration of the Kingdom under Fire franchise together. Blueside no longer works on games of the Ninety-Nine Nights franchise.

According to their website Blueside is ...

...only focuses to develop and deliver high-end games in multi-platforms for a worldwide market. (09/02/2010)

History

A year after its foundation in 2003 Blueside released Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders in 2004 for PC and Xbox and marks the first ever Xbox game (2nd Party) from Korea published by Microsoft. In 2005 the worldwide launch of Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes followed, garnered critical acclaim and won Gamespot's Special Achievement award Most Metal. This is the category's description:

The following are the four games of 2005 that most made us want to throw up the horns and bang our heads while caught in their throes.

In 2006 the first party Microsoft Xbox 360 game Ninety-Nine Nights was released worldwide. Sticking to their tradition of releasing a game a year, the 2 party Microsoft Xbox 360 game Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom was globally released in 2007. Since then Blueside has been working on a new iteration of the franchise in form of an MMO called Kingdom Under Fire II which is being developed for PC and consoles.