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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Entertainment
Matthew Cooper

K-pop superstars BTS are releasing their own mobile game next week

BTS are the K-pop superstars who have taken over the world and you potentially didn't even see it happening.

They're dubbed the world's biggest boy band and the South Korean 7-piece have sold millions upon millions of albums worldwide since their debut in 2013.

Just last month, BTS became the first Korean act to ever score a number one album in the UK with their new EP Map Of The Soul: Persona.

According to the Official Charts Company, the South Korean boy band shifted 26,500 copies in combined sales, 68% of which were physical sales.

Now the band is entering the highly-profitable mobile market. The game, titled - BTS World is set to be released on June 25 in the U.S. (June 26 in Asia), according to Billboard .

The game will be rolled out globally region by region similar to how Pokemon Go! was in 2016 and how Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is currently being unveiled.

The game will be a story-based simulation and users will be able to manage the septet’s career and make their way through a variety of missions and activities in the game to foster the superstar act as it develops.

The game will feature original music by BTS, and ahead of its release a song by Jin, Jimin, and Jungkook - entitled Dreamglow - dropped on June 7.

A playable mini-game demo based around  BTS World  is currently available on the band's official  website , where fans can also pre-register for access.

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