NC Dragon Labs

NC Dragon Labs is NC Krafton's technology research division and incubator, using tools like deep learning and neural networks to bring in player experiences and other external factors to help them develop more immersive narratives and games. They're also the main development team behind the NC Dragon engine. Their offices are located at San Francisco, Helsinki, Encinitas, Dublin, Vancouver, Shanghai, London, Moscow, Sofia, Alameda, Mason (Ohio), Hallbergmoos, Sydney, Uppsala, and Wokingham (UK).

History
In November 2020, Krafton Pearl Abyss acquired nine technology companies to form a new studio: Perforce, Moon Collider, Dakor Technologies (in turn part of Gaijin Entertainment), Geomerics (or specifically the team under the name, acquired from ARM Holdings), InstaLOD, The Forge Interactive, NaturalMotion, Coherent Labs and Umbra Software.

Coherent Labs's work-for-hire division Hivemind is set to become a new studio within NC Krafton before February 2021. During the merger of the companies into a new unit, NC announced to support its acquired software as is, until 2023.

The former Dublin, Shanghai and Vancouver studios (Demonware) were sold to Activision in 2021, while the former Helsinki studio (Umbra) was sold to Amazon the same year. The ex-Geomerics team were also laid off in 2021. Also, the InstaLOD and Moon Collider teams were sold to Epic Games, while the NaturalMotion team were sold to Take-Two Interactive.

Current products

 * NC Dragon Engine

Supported until 2023

 * InstaLOD Studio XL, InstaLOD Grid, InstaLOD Pipeline, InstaLOD SDK, as well as the InstaLOD addon for Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, VRED, Unreal Engine, Blender and Unity
 * Demonware State Engine and Matchmaking+
 * Enlighten technology - co-developed with Silicon Studio
 * Umbra software, Umbra Occlusion Booster and Umbra Cloud
 * Endorphin (for the film industry) and Euphoria (for the gaming industry) - acquired through NaturalMotion
 * Helix Core, ALM and QAC - acquired through Perforce
 * Perforce products:
 * Helix TeamHub is a code and artifact hosting and developer collaboration tool that supports development in Git environments, in addition to Apache Subversion and Mercurial.
 * Helix Swarm is a development tool integrated with Helix Core, that allows geographically dispersed developers to coordinate their code review.
 * Hansoft is software used to support agile software development.
 * Perfecto is software for testing web and mobile apps.
 * TestCraft is an automated Selenium-based web application testing solution.
 * Rogue Wave Software products acquired through Perforce:
 * Akana - a provider of computer software products for application programming interface (API) management
 * CodeDynamics - a software tool for dynamic code analysis
 * Gliffy - software for diagramming via an HTML5 cloud-based app
 * HostAccess - a suite of terminal emulation products for Windows[citation needed]
 * HydraExpress - a framework for creating C++ Web services from existing C++ code
 * IMSL Numerical Libraries - a commercial collection of software libraries of numerical analysis functionality for computer programming
 * PV-WAVE - an array oriented fourth-generation programming language used to build and deploy visual data analysis applications
 * JRebel and XRebel - Java development and performance management tools for software developers
 * Klocwork - a static code analysis tool
 * SourcePro - software that enables developers to build C++ apps using common APIs that can be migrated from one platform to another
 * Stringray - a tool for developing object oriented front ends for Windows programming
 * TotalView for HPC - Debugging software for C/C++, Fortran, and Mixed-Language Python Applications
 * Visualization - data visualization tools to assist with application development, including a GUI builder and data management abstraction capabilities
 * Zend Server - a web application server for running and managing PHP applications
 * Zend Studio - a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP