Our latest coverage of Nexon.
Nexon has taken its ongoing copyright dispute with Dark and Darker developer Ironmace to court as it officially files a copyright infringement lawsuit against its fellow South Korean studio. The lawsuit makes the same accusations as its earlier copyright complaint which claims that Ironmace stole codes and assets from a scrapped Nexon game codenamed Project P3 for use in their [...]
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The ensuing legal battle between Nexon and Ironmace has spiraled into a convoluted mess after the latter fired shots at the South Korean video game giant on Discord. For context, Ironmace is a newly founded studio made up of former Nexon developers who are currently working on a PvPvE dungeon crawler called Dark and Darker. Last month, Nexon filed a [...]
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Nexon reported Q3 earnings earlier this week and revenues were up 28% year over year largely driven by the strong performance of MapleStory, FIFA Online 4, Dungeon Fighter Online Mobile, and HIT2 (Heroes of Incredible Tales 2). Q3 Revenues were a record breaking 97.5B Yen (~ $680m) with profit clocking in at 43.3B Yen (~ $300m). South Korea performed particularly [...]
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ARC Raiders, a free to play co-op shooter, has been delayed to 2023. The official notice posted on twitter states the the extra time will be used "to expand the experience, and allow it to reach its fullest potential." Originally scheduled for a 2022 release, the game was positioned as Nexon's big Western release for the year. Nexon is the [...]
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If you’re a big fan of siege PvP, then Nexon’s new cross-platform title might just be right up your alley. Wars of Prasia, formerly Project ER, is an ambitious UE4-powered PC and mobile MMORPG that features large-scale medieval siege PvP combat in a seamless open-world. That’s pretty much all that we know about the game, although Nexon promises to reveal [...]
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Information about Neople’s upcoming Dungeon & Fighter game, Project BBQ, has been few and far between since it was first announced in 2018. The last time we heard about the game was in 2020 when the studio talked about the game’s parallel universe and showed off snippets of actual in-game combat. The good news is that the game is still [...]
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Nexon reported their Q4 and full year 2021 earnings report earlier this week and while company wide revenues were largely flat year over year at $2.37B USD, the North American business continued to lose money. The division reported $29.5M in revenue and a loss of $6.8M. The division has been reporting yearly losses for over a decade. The vast majority [...]
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Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind MapleStory and Dungeon Fighter Online, announced today that they partnered with BitPay to accept crypto payments (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge, etc) for in-game microtransactions across most of their games. “Nexon listens closely to feedback from our players, including the many who have requested we include cryptocurrencies as a form of in-game payment,” said Nexon [...]
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Nexon has partnered with Games Workshop to develop a new game based on the British board game manufacturer’s Warhammer Age of Sigmar miniature wargame. “It is an era of war. The Mortal Realms have been despoiled. Ravaged by the followers of the Chaos Gods, they stand on the brink of destruction. Players will command the war hosts of the God-king [...]
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Nexon announced today that they partnered with Games Workshop to license their fantasy Warhammer franchise to launch a new PvE social multiplayer RPG called Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This new Warhammer game will be available on PC, consoles, and mobile devices sometime in the future. While not much information is available, this will definitely be an MMO of sorts. No [...]
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