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Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney: Game companies say they love innovation but resist creators at every turn

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 25, 2021
16 min

Owen Mahoney has grown skeptical of people who say they love innovation but fail to support creative people. The Nexon CEO brought this up...

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Boom Corp. raises $1.8M to make social games like Boom Slingers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 25, 2021
3 min

Boom Corp. has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to develop social games that bring people together, much like the company’s first title, Boom...

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Overwolf will pay out $29M to mod and app creators in 2021

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 25, 2021
4 min

Overwolf rebranded itself this week as a guild of in-game creators. And it is announcing today that it expects to pay out $29 million...

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NIS America is making fan translations official with Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 25, 2021
2 min

NIS America today announced localizations for four games in Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes series, and it is turning to a dedicated group...

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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 HD is almost a great Nintendo Switch game

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 24, 2021
2 min

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was always a wonderful fit on handheld gaming devices. That was true even before portables were powerful enough to replicate...

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Crossplay will be the key to the $42B double-A market

Posted byby Jason Wilson
June 24, 2021
4 min

Binary is back in the video game industry — not for coding, but for development strategy, with the focus being on super-hits or indie...

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Magic: The Gathering’s Adventures in the Forgotten Realms delves into Dungeons

Posted byby Jason Wilson
June 24, 2021
6 min

I once feared Magic: The Gathering would kill Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards of the Coast ended up saving it, and now, the granddaddy of...

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Icarus breaks up the survival genre into smart session-based gameplay

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 24, 2021
2 min

Icarus is the new game from developer RocketWerkz, which DayZ creator Dean Hall founded in New Zealand following his time at Bohemia Interactive. The...