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Line merges NextFloor with Line Games publishing division (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Earlier in July, Japanese mobile messaging firm Line Corp. acquired a majority stake in game developer NextFloor, and it has now merged the NextFloor brand into its Line Games publishing division. With NextFloor, Line Games plans to expand its business in publishing and pursue a global game business including console and mobile games.

Minkyu Kim will serve as CEO of Line Games, while Eunseon Hwang will serve as CEO of NextFloor. The name of the combined companies will be Line Games, and it will hold a 51 percent stake in NextFloor.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.