Patrick Söderlund founded DICE .
Patrick Söderlund founded DICE .
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Nexon makes strategic investment in Patrick Söderlund’s Embark Studios

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Asian online gaming giant Nexon made a strategic investment in Embark Studios, a new game-development company that former Electronic Arts and DICE executive Patrick Söderlund founded.

As the sole strategic equity investor in Embark, Nexon (the maker of games such as MapleStory and Dungeon & Fighter) will also serve as worldwide publisher for titles that this new company developers. Additionally, Embark CEO Söderlund has been nominated to serve on Nexon’s board of directors; the nomination will be ratified at the Nexon annual shareholders meeting in March.

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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.