Dorian is hiring Nix Hydra.
Dorian is acquiring Nix Hydra.
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Dorian acquires otome game developer Nix Hydra

Social storytelling platform Dorian has acquired Nix Hydra, a developer of interactive fiction such as “otome” games.

Dorian will pick up a couple of Nix Hydra employees along with their flagship titles, Fictif and The Arcana: A Mystic Romance, which was named by Pocket Gamer as one of the best otome-style games of 2022. These are sexless romance games popular in Japan — and elsewhere too.

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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.