How China’s Perfect World plans to be a player in mobile games — and the West Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 26, 2013 11 min Robert Xiao's Perfect World has 4,500 employees working on online and mobile games. But will he make a brand in the West? Continue Reading 11 min
Ex-Zynga exec John Schappert starts new game startup with investment from Nexon Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 9, 2013 4 min Zynga's former No. 2 executive has gone back to his roots as a game developer at Shiver Entertainment. Continue Reading 4 min
GamesBeat 2013 speaker highlight: Nexon CFO Owen Mahoney on Asia’s move into Western games Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 6, 2013 3 min Mahoney will talk about migrations across barriers in the coming Battle Royal of games. Continue Reading 3 min
London goes radioactive in free-to-play shooter Extraction from Nexon Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 27, 2013 2 min Developer Splash Damage originally debuted Extraction as Dirty Bomb in 2012. It's changing the name now that it found a publisher. Continue Reading 2 min
PC and mobile games drive 60% revenue growth for Nexon Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 9, 2013 2 min Big growth in China and Korea is fueling the Asian game giant's growth. Continue Reading 2 min
Rumble’s Greg Richardson on building games that last forever (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 4, 2013 11 min With cash from Nexon, the CEO of Rumble Entertainment says he has time to get game quality just right. Continue Reading 11 min
Westward bound: Asia’s Nexon takes a stake in game maker Rumble Entertainment Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 30, 2013 3 min Nexon is expanding into the Western game market with its second investment in two weeks. Continue Reading 3 min
Nexon invests in Brian Reynolds’ SecretNewCo game startup Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 17, 2013 2 min Nexon has formed a strategic relationship with the former chief game designer at Zynga Continue Reading 2 min
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Used games for Xbox One, PS3 update fail, and possible shared games on Steam Posted byby GamesBeat June 21, 2013 3 min If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. Continue Reading 3 min
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