Owen Mahoney, CEO of Nexon, believes artists should run the game industry.
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Nexon’s Owen Mahoney will tell how to craft a culture of inspiration at GamesBeat Summit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney will speak about creating a culture of inspiration and creativity at our next conference, titled GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic.

Mahoney gave a passionate talk at last year’s summit about how artistry is going to be key to cutting through the malaise of mediocre mobile games. Mahoney’s company, Tokyo-based Nexon, has been a huge player in online games, and it has been moving into mobile. To rise above the norm, Nexon has been signing deals with well-known creative developers. And Mahoney has tasked those developers with coming up with innovations, rather than games that fit a formula for success.

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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.