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Sony Online Entertainment buys Pox Nora

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Sony Online Entertainment, the online games division of Sony, has bought the Pox Nora online collectible strategy game from Tucson-based developer Octopi.

As part of the deal, members of the Octopi development team will form SOE’s new Tuscon game development studio. They will support Pox Nora and work with SOE’s Denver, Colo.-based game studio on new trading card and strategy game products. The deal closed Jan. 16.

Pox Nora is a free-to-play game, but players who want to expand their own deck of cards will have to spend real money at the game’s item shop. See more at the Virtual Goods News site.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.