Categories Posted inin Business NCSoft invests big in new studio from Blizzard, Relic, and Sony Online veterans Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 24, 2013 2 min Molten is working on a triple-A free-to-play game, but it's not a MOBA or an MMORPG. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Nexon exec: the game war will be won in digital online markets, not consoles (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 15, 2013 15 min The chief financial officer of Nexon saw very little that would impact the future of the game industry at E3. Continue Reading 15 min
Categories Posted inin Business The top 6 MMOs you should be playing this year Posted byby GamesBeat May 18, 2013 8 min GamesBeat sifts through all the crap MMOs so that you don't have to. Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Business MMOs “don’t have to be serious to be epic,” says WildStar writer Posted byby GamesBeat February 6, 2013 3 min Is WildStar's Pixar influence enough to differentiate it from the hundreds of other MMOs on the market? Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 25, 2013 7 min The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped. Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Social media surfaces layoffs at game companies NCSoft and Petroglyph Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 5, 2012 1 min Layoffs are common at this time of year in the game industry. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Will Asian online game publishers Nexon and NCSoft buy blockbuster publisher Valve? Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 27, 2012 2 min Two online game companies may be putting a price on Valve. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Guild Wars 2: Console ports, subscription models, and making sure it works on launch day (interview) Posted byby GamesBeat August 9, 2012 5 min GamesBeat sat down with ArenaNet Content Designer Mike Zadorojny to discuss the final days before launch, console ports of MMOs, and the future of MMO subscription models. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Korean game togetherness: Nexon acquires 14.7 percent of NCsoft for $688M Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 8, 2012 1 min 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... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business ArenaNet president discusses careful monetization of Guild Wars 2, the least greedy Western MMO Posted byby GamesBeat May 21, 2012 8 min GamesBeat sat down with studio president Mike O’Brien to talk about making a sequel to the game that turned the AAA MMO model on its head. Continue Reading 8 min