NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning ‘League of Legends’ Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea’s PC Bangs

<div id="bsf_rt_marker"></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled </span><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-microsoft-windows-pcs-agents-rtx-spark"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RTX Spark</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang </span><a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/korea-ecosystem-2026/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">headed to South Korea</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where he introduced RTX Spark to the nation’s passionate gaming community.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leading game developers — including Korea’s KRAFTON and NC — are already working to bring their titles to RTX Spark-powered systems. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Designed for local AI, creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings together 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and small, ultraefficient desktop PCs. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the superchip, gamers can play AAA games at 1440p resolution and over 100 frames per second with NVIDIA ray tracing, DLSS and Reflex technologies. In addition, RTX Spark supports all NVIDIA RTX technologies, including the recently announced </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss-4-5-ray-reconstruction-1000-rtx-games-apps-out-now/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which features a second-generation transformer model for realistic image quality. </span></p> <h2><b>RTX Spark Ignites Korea’s Gaming Community</b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Korea has played a major role in spearheading esports and driving the boom in PC bangs, or internet and gaming cafes. With longstanding collaborations rooted in the country, NVIDIA in October celebrated </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gamer-festival-korea-aion-2-cinder-city-pubg-ally/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">25 years of GeForce</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Korea with a free festival for gamers, highlighting the rich gaming ecosystem that has been built over decades.   </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Friday, Huang headed to T1 Base Camp — a PC bang owned by T1, one of Korea’s top esports teams. There, he met with T1’s reigning </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">League of Legends</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> World Champion team, including six-time World Champion Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok to unveil RTX Spark. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA and Riot Games — developer of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">League of Legends</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — are collaborating to bring the title as well as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">VALORANT </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">to RTX Spark, expanding gamers’ access to high-performance gaming on slim laptops. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To mark the occasion, T1 Base Camp attendees had the chance to win RTX Spark laptops, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">League of Legends</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and T1 merch signed by Huang and Faker, as well as GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs. </span></p> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-94172 size-full" src="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2048" height="1153" srcset="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-scaled.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-1680x946.jpg 1680w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-1290x725.jpg 1290w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-630x355.jpg 630w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/06.05.26-with-Faker-at-T1-Base-Camp_3-1-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></p> <h2><b>Surprising PC-Bang Gamers </b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Later, Huang headed to Seoul’s Gangnam district, where he surprised PC-bang gamers with a first look at RTX Spark with KRAFTON and NC. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the first stop, Optimum Zone PC, Huang and KRAFTON Chairman Byung-gyu Chang showcased </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subnautica 2</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on RTX Spark to a captivated crowd of gamers. </span></p> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-94195 size-full" src="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-scaled.jpeg" alt="" width="2048" height="1152" srcset="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-scaled.jpeg 2048w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-1680x945.jpeg 1680w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-1280x720.jpeg 1280w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-1290x725.jpeg 1290w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-630x354.jpeg 630w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/사진자료4-400x225.jpeg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gamers then got the surprise chance to play with the unreleased PUBG Ally, a co-playable character built with NVIDIA ACE technologies on RTX Spark laptops. PUBG Ally resulted from AI research and development at KRAFTON and NVIDIA, part of an initiative to create next-generation game characters that act like teammates and enable more meaningful, immersive engagements with players.</span></p> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-94155 size-full" src="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849.jpg" alt="" width="1536" height="867" srcset="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849-960x542.jpg 960w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849-1280x723.jpg 1280w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849-630x356.jpg 630w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849-300x169.jpg 300w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_2267-scaled-e1780813936849-400x225.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next, Huang stopped at another PC bang, Portal PC, where he showcased</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">NC’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CINDER CITY </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">AION 2</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on RTX Spark, with support from Taekjin Kim, co-CEO of NC. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NC and NVIDIA began working together in the early 2000s on the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lineage</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> franchise and have since collaborated to integrate RTX technology into many of NC’s flagship games, including </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lineage 2</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">AION</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blade &amp; Soul</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">AION 2</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CINDER CITY.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gamers at Portal PC were given the chance to play a demo of NC’s highly anticipated open-world massively multiplayer online tactical shooter </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CINDER CITY</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on GeForce RTX-powered PCs.  </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CINDER CITY</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will support the DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and Super Resolution features at launch. Plus, gamers will be able to experience the title on slim RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops when the game is released later this year. </span></p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-94175 size-full" src="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2.jpeg" alt="" width="2048" height="1152" srcset="https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2.jpeg 2048w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-1680x945.jpeg 1680w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-1280x720.jpeg 1280w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-1290x725.jpeg 1290w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-630x354.jpeg 630w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pc-bang-scaled-2-400x225.jpeg 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to KRAFTON, NC, and Riot Games, 100+ Windows software providers and game developers are embracing RTX Spark. These partners include NetEase, Remedy Entertainment and XBOX. </span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn more about </span></i><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-microsoft-windows-pcs-agents-rtx-spark"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">RTX Spark and its launch partners</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>