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Nexon saw solid revenue and profit increases for the first quarter of its fiscal year, thanks to a major sales spike in Japan. The publisher reports Japanese net revenue of 9.9bn yen, a 222 per cent year-over-year increase from the same three-month period during the year prior. The firm’s increase …

South Korean game company boosted by Gloops acquisition

Former THQ VP to head live game operations for online publisher

Nexon America has hired former THQ VP Ron Moravek as its new senior VP of live game operations. The publisher confirmed the hire to Games Industry, following Moravek listing the new job on his LinkedIn page. Moravek worked at THQ for 15 years, before the publisher was forced to shut …

The video games industry saw record consolidation in 2012, with total spending on buyouts and mergers hitting $4.2bn. Games Industry reports on research from investment bank Digi-Capital that took a closer look at last year’s acquisitions. While there were 26 per cent fewer deals during the period versus 2011, a …

Partnership brings games to Japan through DeNA's Mobage platform

People don’t want to pay for games. That’s what MCV was told repeatedly at E3. And indeed many of this year’s high-growth or most controversial games – World of Tanks, League of Legends, CSR Racing amongst others – were absolutely free. Of course anyone that has followed this market as …

This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it is absolutely free. The issue is dedicated to the free-to-play games market and features the biggest names in freemium, including Wargaming, Nexon, Ubisoft, CCP, Crytek, InComm, Qinqo, Disney, EA, Gameloft, GREE, GameForge, Jagex, Trion Worlds, Square Enix, MarvelousAQL, Perfect …

Gloops developing ten new titles for Mobage platform targeted at Europe and North America

Discussions held in Hawaii yesterday over potential acquisition