the company kru interactive split from see nexon corporation . kru interactive industry video game developer founded 1994 headquarters santa clara california website http www.kru.com kru interactive formerly known as nexon inc. is among the pioneers of online gaming and mmorpgs . citation needed its headquarters is located in santa clara california . nexon inc. edit the south korea based game company made a name for itself in the early 1990s with the name nexon inc. nexon launched nexus the kingdom of the winds in 1994 becoming one of the first large mmo titles released prior to ultima online and making a name for the company . the company has recently expanded into other asian countries notably japan malaysia and singapore ; along with the united states . nexus was released in the united states in 1996 along with dark ages in 1999 followed by shattered galaxy 2001 . for a short time shattered galaxy 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 shattered galaxy website . shattered galaxy has also been awarded the seumas mcnally grand prize audience choice awards technical excellence award and best game design at the 2001 independent games festival awards however all these awards were won under the old sister company nexon and not kru itself . nexon has also released a few unsuccessful games to the north american 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 edit kru interactive retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kru interactive & oldid 709923882 categories software companies of south koreavideo game companies of the united statesnexoncompanies based in santa clara californiahidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 march 2016 at 22 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view