Darkness Rises has really big swords.
Darkness Rises has really big swords.
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Nexon’s Darkness Rises RPG hits 10 million downloads in 6 weeks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nexon‘s third-person action role-playing game Darkness Rises has been downloaded more than 10 million times on mobile devices since its June 20 debut.

Nexon is making its bid to create hardcore role-playing games on mobile devices that are becoming powerful enough to display outstanding graphics. That plays well in markets such as South Korea and Japan, but the launch of Darkness Rises bodes well for that strategy in the rest of the world.

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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.