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Crazyracing KartRider (Korean: 크레이지레이싱 카트라이더) is an online multiplayer racing game developed by Nexon Korea Corporation. It is part of the Crazy Arcade franchise. It earns revenue by selling virtual items within the in-game shop, including different types of vehicles and spraypaints. KartRider features fictitious fantasy vehicles and branded game models based on real-life cars, developed in collaboration with companies such as BMW Korea.

Crazyracing KartRider
Developer(s)	Nexon Korea Corporation
Publisher(s)	Nexon Korea Corporation Tiancity Gamania
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	KOR: June 1, 2004 CHN: October 1, 2006 TW: December 19, 2006
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

The game offers a variety of game modes, primarily based around item races using power-ups (comparable to Mario Kart). Speed racing which requires the player to drift to gain boost items.[1]

Development

The initial South Korean service started on June 1, 2004. Localized releases launched in China as PopKart (Chinese: 跑跑卡丁車) on March 18, 2006, and Taiwan on January 4, 2007.

A closed beta for an English release of KartRider began in America on May 1, 2007, and ended on May 31, 2007.[2] The open beta began on October 2, 2007, and ended on March 19, 2008.[3] All references to the game were subsequently removed from Nexon America's website without further statement.

Later localizations, which are no longer serviced, were released in Thailand, Vietnam (as BoomSpeed), Russia, Indonesia, and Japan.

The Taiwan release shuts down on January 31, 2023.[4] The South Korean service is planned to end at a later undisclosed date, leaving the Chinese localization the only in operation.[5][6]

Other versions

On March 11, 2011, Nexon America released a mobile version of KartRider for the Apple App Store under the name KartRider Rush.[7][8][9] This version closed later on as well. A KartRider client released for Facebook called KartRider Dash has been shut down as of April 15, 2014.

On May 12, 2020, KartRider Rush+ was released on Google Play and the iOS App Store, the latter already having provided a Chinese version the year before.[10][11][12]

Reception

By 2007, about 25% of South Koreans had played the game at least once.[13] As of 2020^[update], the game has reached a total of over 380 million registered users worldwide on the PC platform, including over half of the Korean population and over 45% of the Taiwanese population.[14]

The mobile version KartRider Rush+ surpassed 10 million downloads globally after its first two weeks of release.[15][16][17] It has also topped the Google Play ranking of South Korea.

By 2020, the franchise had grossed over $700 million worldwide in lifetime revenue.[18] As of 2021^[update], it has grossed over $1 billion worldwide.[19]

KartRider: Drift

KartRider: Drift
Developer(s)	Nexon Korea Corporation
Publisher(s)	Nexon Korea Corporation Nexon America Inc.
Engine	Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One Android iOS
Release	WW: 2023
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

On November 14, 2019, Nexon announced an updated cross-platform[20] version under the name KartRider: Drift at Microsoft's X019 which will be released worldwide in 2022.[21][22] This is the first time the franchise is released on console and have cross-platform capability.

A first closed beta test began on December 6, 2019, and ended on December 9, 2019.[23] A second closed beta lasted from June 4, 2020, to June 10, 2020.[24] After an extended period of development, a third closed beta test was held between December 9, 2021, and December 15, 2021.[25] A fourth beta test was held in 2022.[26] Another pre-release version is planned for 2023, except for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox platforms.[27]

References

External links

• Official website
• KartRider: Drift website

На других языках

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- [en] Crazyracing Kartrider

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[fr] Crazyracing Kartrider

Crazyracing Kartrider (크레이지레이싱 카트라이더) est un jeu vidéo de course en ligne développé et publié par Nexon en 2004. Le jeu s’inspire de Mario Kart et est particulièrement populaire en Corée du Sud où son succès dépasse même celui de StarCraft, 25 % de la population du pays ayant déjà essayé le jeu[1],[2]. Au total, il comptait plus de 200 millions de joueurs dans le monde en 2011[3]. Le modèle économique du jeu est basé sur un système de microtransaction, innovant à l’époque de sa sortie, qui explique en grande partie son succès[1].

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[ru] KartRider

CrazyRacing KartRider (кор. 크레이지레이싱 카트라이더) — онлайновая многопользовательская гоночная аркада из серии Crazy Arcade. Она получает доходы от продажи виртуальных товаров в игровом магазине, включая различные типы транспортных средств и карточек для более быстрой прокачки персонажей. В игре KartRider существуют не только вымышленные транспортные средства, но и фирменные игровые модели, основанные на реальных автомобилях, разработанных при сотрудничестве с такими компаниями, как BMW Кореи.

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