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Nexon launches retro arcade mobile game Evil Factory

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Asian publisher Nexon and developer Neople Games are launching Evil Factory, a new mobile game that combines a retro ’80s style with top-down arcade gameplay.

The game comes from a team of creators who previously built Dungeon Fighter Online, the the hit side-scrolling beat-’em-up arcade game that has been a staple revenue producer for Nexon for years. Neople is a subsidiary of Nexon and is based in South Korea. Nexon is a big publicly traded free-to-play game publisher with headquarters in Tokyo.

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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.