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Nexon invests in Brian Reynolds’ SecretNewCo game startup

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The latest investment from one of the biggest players in online games in Asia brings together two of gaming’s pioneers to work on mobile strategy games.

Nexon announced it has invested in SecretNewCo, a game startup created by Brian Reynolds, the former chief game designer at Zynga and a noted designer of strategy games.

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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.