Gravity Interactive
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Founded in March 2003, Gravity Interactive LLC was created to host games for North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 developed by GRAVITY Co., Ltd.
GRAVITY Co., Ltd.
GRAVITY Co., Ltd. is a South Korean videogame corporation primarily known for the development of the MMORPG Ragnarok Online.-History:...

. It is based in Marina del Rey near Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. Gravity was initially provided with several server
Server (computing)
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s from Gravity Co., and began beta testing of the International Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online , often referred to as RO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG created by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. It was first released in South Korea on 31 August 2002 for Microsoft Windows and has since been released in many other...

 (iRO) service in 2003. Commercial service subsequently began on June 1, 2003. In 2005, Gravity also began hosting the North American version of ROSE Online
ROSE Online
ROSE Online, or Rush On Seven Episodes Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game previously published by Korean company Gravity Corporation and developed by its subsidiary, Triggersoft...

 (naROSE). On January 1, 2006, Gravity Interactive LLC became Gravity Interactive, Inc.In February 2008, Gravity began beta testing its third MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

, Requiem: Bloodymare
Requiem: Bloodymare
Requiem: Memento Mori is a free-to-play horror-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Gravity.-Story:In the Ancient Times, the 8 Original Races left no record of times for our history books, only relics and pictures found in Ruins outside of Ethergia...

.

Games

Games which Gravity Interactive currently hosts include:
  • Ragnarok Online
    Ragnarok Online
    Ragnarok Online , often referred to as RO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG created by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. It was first released in South Korea on 31 August 2002 for Microsoft Windows and has since been released in many other...

  • ROSE Online
    ROSE Online
    ROSE Online, or Rush On Seven Episodes Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game previously published by Korean company Gravity Corporation and developed by its subsidiary, Triggersoft...

    (Developed In-House)
  • Requiem: Memento Mori
  • Dragon Saga
    Dragonica
    Dragonica known in North America as Dragon Saga, is a free-to-play 3D side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Barunson Interactive. Development has been ongoing since March 2006. Operation of Dragonica is relegated to different publishers for their respective...

    (Previously known as Dragonica)
  • Eternal Destiny
  • CrimeCraft
    CrimeCraft
    CrimeCraft is a free-to-play online Persistent World Next-generation Shooter dubbed "PWNS" by developer Vogster Entertainment and published at retail by THQ...

  • FreeStyle Street Basketball
    FreeStyle Street Basketball
    FreeStyle Street Basketball also known as FreeStyle or FSSB is a Sport MMO developed by JC Entertainment. There are several different versions of this game for different regions. It is free to play but supported with a microtransaction business model. Published in many countries...


L5 Games

In 2007, Gravity founded a new game developer
Game developer
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, L5 Games. Its employees consist of those formerly employed by Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...

. A subsidiary of Gravity Interactive, rather than GRAVITY Co., Ltd., L5 was formed to develop games for the North American market. L5 Games went into liquidation in August 2008.

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