Nexon, the Tokyo-based maker of Maplestory and other online games, has invested $874 million in Hasbro, Bandai Namco, Konami, and Sega Sammy.
Nexon said it has made an unrealized gain of $279 million on the long-term investments, but it has no intention of acquiring the companies or making activist shareholder proposals with the investments.
Nexon made other investments as well, but the amounts…
RPGs in 2021 and beyond: The Nexon take
March 27, 2021
The flavor and mechanics of role-playing games are all over the industry these days. The way you build skills, statistics, gear, and even worlds borrow from the ideas we first saw in tabletop war games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, and Dungeons & Dragons.
But I know where…
Twitch and Microsoft’s ID@Xbox event today confirmed that 20 new indie games are coming to Xbox Game Pass the same day they hit Xbox. That includes anticipated and stylish games like The Ascent, Stalker 2, and Recompile. Here’s a look at all 20 games that ID@Xbox talked…
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GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti got his first COVID-19 vaccine shot, so he’s feeling a little loopy. He also ripped off his bandage live during this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast.
Beyond their adventures in public health, Mike and fellow editor Jeff Grubb talk about more Super…
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PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1 billion in lifetime sales, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
This comes as Tencent itself touts that the battle royale game has passed the 1…
It’s a new day for the Roman empire. Sega Europe and Creative Assembly said that Total War: Rome Remastered is coming on April 29.
The remaster of the original 2004 game (known as Rome: Total War before the company got its branding right) will be developed in a…
Nintendo is preparing to release a Super Switch this holiday, according to original reporting from the Nate the Hate podcast on YouTube. This revision will likely feature a new system-on-a-chip (SOC) that will enable the system to bring in extra performance, improved efficiency, and Nvidia’s Tensor cores to power deep-learning supersampling. Now, a Bloomberg report is echoing what Nate the Hate…
Valve published a list of Steam’s February 2021 top 20 new releases, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the early access megahit Valheim is on the list. But the company also highlighted a trend toward games with puzzle-heavy mechanics. Those include The Room 4: Old…
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Microsoft recently announced that Minecraft Earth will shut down in June. It stated that it wants to “reallocate” limited resources due to the pandemic in order to serve the…
I’m not the biggest Monster Hunter fan in the world … although, ironically, I did enjoy Monster Hunter World. Something about the boost in presentation and graphics made it more appealing to me. I was worried that a Switch version of Monster Hunter would be disappointing.
Much to my surprise, I like Monster Hunter Rise for Switch even more than World. This newest iteration in Capcom’s…
