EA and Nexon team up to deliver online soccer in Korea
Electronic Arts and Nexon are launching their most authentic online title ever, setting a new gold standard for soccer games.
Dragons, dinosaurs, and Transformers: RuneScape’s CEO on the future of free to play
Free to play is the future of gaming, even for traditional game publishers, according to Jagex Games Studio CEO Mark Gerhard. He talks to GamesBeat about the rush to the free-to-play model, Jagex's potential market value, and the development of upcoming MMO Transformers Universe.
Korean game togetherness: Nexon acquires 14.7 percent of NCsoft for $688M
Nexon said today it has acquired a 14.7 percent minority stake in Korean online game publisher NCsoft for $688 million. Nexon, which was started...
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Nexon to publish A Bit Lucky’s Lucky Space in South Korea (exclusive)
Nexon, the online gaming giant that went public in December, plans to publish A Bit Lucky‘s Lucky Space social game in Korea. The move is...
EA stock spikes on rumor that Nexon will buy it (not likely)
Shares of Electronic Arts rose today on a rumor that Japan’s Nexon has made a bid to purchase EA. The odd thing is that...
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 to focus on crossover strategies
GamesBeat 2012 is going to be all about crossover strategies. The game industry as we know it is changing. We’re seeing established companies cross...
The DeanBeat: The top 12 trends from the GDC
Too often, I flit from one conference to another like a wayward butterfly, trying to catch up with all the news. But the Game...
Nexon’s Daniel Kim plots move into social and mobile games
For the better part of a decade, Korea’s Nexon has been making online games that users can start playing for free. If they want,...
Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game (exclusive)
Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in a bid to launch a downloadable online game called Hawken. Aimed at hardcore gamers who battle each other...