Football And Fighting
Nexon predicts doubling of mobile revenue following Q1 2022 financials
Record year for FIFA ONLINE 4 M and launch of Dungeon&Fighter Mobile bolster Nexon's mobile confidence
Company Profile
Nexon
Website
www.nexonm.com
About
A pioneer in the world of interactive entertainment software, Nexon Mobile introduced the world to the first graphic MMORPG, The Kingdom of the Winds, back in 1995.
Related People
Kieran Kyunghoon Park
Corporate Investment Division
Kim Jung-ju
Founder
Owen Mahoney
CEO
Lee WooChang
Team Manager, UA Department
Min Kim
Dennis Bernardo
Producer
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Accolades
Articles featuring Nexon
No Change In Nxc Leadership
Correction: no change in CEO responsibilities for Nexon or NXC
No change in CEO responsibilities for Nexon or NXC
Offering Condolences
Nexon founder Kim Jung-ju passes away at 54
Cause currently undisclosed
Fallen Fiscally
Nexon mobile revenue falls 20% following a year of "building and investment"
Looking ahead at upcoming games pipeline in 2022 to boost revenue
Fighting On
Nexon to bring Dungeon & Fighter to mobile on March 24
Will feature iconic "arcade-style" RPG action
Total Divestment
Update: Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201 million, buys out Nexon's 34.8% stake for $93 million
Purchasing 26.5 million shares from Nexon
Diversification
Nexon branches out with $400 million investment into Russo Brother’s AGBO
A further $100 million set aside
Left Perchance
Nexon launches real-time probability monitoring system
Nexon Now to be implemented in all upcoming games
Agglutination
Nexon to Merge subsidiaries Nat Games and Nexon GT
Will rebrand as Nexon Games
Socially Interactive Experience
Nexon partners with Games Workshop to develop Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
Bringing Warhammer to a "socially interactive" player-versus-environment world
Quality Inbound
Nexon highlights new games as Q2 2021 sales decline 21% to $510 million
Waiting for new blood to emerge
Live And Kicking
How Nexon adapted KartRider Rush Plus for mobile
23 million players and counting
14th Year
Nexon announces schedule for Nexon Developers Conference 2021
Running 9-11 June 2021
Doubling Down
Nexon's 2021 Q1 revenue grows 7% to $806 million
Generating $420 million profit
Harder Gold
Nexon buys $100 million Bitcoin
Spent 2% of its cash reserves
Splash The Cash
Nexon invested $874 million in Sega Sammy, Konami, Bandai Namco and Hasbro
Best use of spare money
Welcome Aboard
Nexon brings Kevin Mayer to its board of directors
"Kevin is an outstanding addition to our board"
Not A Fantasy
Nexon ceases development on Final Fantasy XI's mobile reboot
Two new Final Fantasy games will be released later this year
Money Money Money
Nexon experiences great year as it generates $2.8 billion in 2020
"Nexon looks forward to multiple catalysts in 2021, including new games, on new platforms, coming to new markets"
Dynamite
MapleStory collaborates with BTS
In-game items are availabe from December 16th
Financials
Nexon experiences its best Q3 ever with $754 million in revenue
"Despite a delay in the year's biggest launch – Mobile Dungeon&Fighter – Nexon delivered our best Third Quarter ever"
Welcome Aboard
Nexon nominates former TikTok CEO Mayer to join its board of directors
"We are thrilled to have Kevin join Nexon's Board of Directors"
Best Of 2020
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020
Revealed: The movers, shakers, and moneymakers
Three Minutes With Nexon
Three minutes with Nexon
Bango speaks to Nexon team manager Lee WooChang about the studio's UA strategy
All Your Bases
Why the best is yet to come for Asian powerhouse Nexon
CEO Owen Mahoney talks geopolitics and secular shifts
Financials
Nexon has its best Q2 to date as it generates $610.4 million
"Nexon is performing exceptionally well"
Milestone
MapleStory M tops 16 million downloads
In time for its second anniversary
The Four V's
Nexon opens worldwide pre-registrations for V4
Already a big success in South Korea
Penalty!
FIFA Mobile scored 1.2 million downloads a day after launching in South Korea
Nexon signed an agreement with EA to launch the game
Full Throttle
KartRider Rush+ zooms to 10 million global downloads in two weeks
3.57 million daily active users
China Hit Worst
Nexon's revenue and profit falls year-on-year in Q1 due to Covid-19 pandemic
"Nexon has been spared the turbulence due to minimal physical contact with consumers"
Round The Track
Nexon's KartRider Rush+ races through three million pre-registrations in one week
Due to launch in Q2 2020
Back Of The Net
Nexon signs deal with EA for a new FIFA mobile game in South Korea
Beta testing begins in April
Nexon Financials Q4 Fy19
Nexon profits grow to $1.03 billion as MapleStory M sees impressive revenue growth
Q4 was also successful for the company
Better Pay Check
Nexon Korea offers a 6.8% pay rise to its employees
Last year 600 employees protested for increased wages
Cut Losses
Nexon sells off mobile developer Gloops for one Japanese yen
Japanese studio was purchased for approximately $470 million in 2012
Killzone
Social Point's Legend at War, Nexon's MapleStory Blitz, and Space Ape's Rumble League all canned
Soft launch games don't make it
No Sale
Update: South Korea's Nexon no longer up for sale following lack of buyers
CEO Jungju Kim apparently wasn't impressed by the list of companies who stepped forward
Stakes Are High
Nexon acquires majority stake in Embark Studios
Former EA chief design officer and DICE founder Patrick Söderlund heads up the studio
Nexon Acquisition Battle
Netmarble, Kakao and others submit final bids for Nexon
KKR & Co, Bain Capital and MBK Partners also join the fray, but there's no direct deal from Tencent
Financial
MapleStory and Dungeon & Fighter shatter expectations to drive Nexon’s Q1 2019 results
Nexon predicts further growth as it heads into the next quarter
User Acquisition
Your checklist for commercial success starts with knowing your game profile
MobileGroove's Peggy Anne Salz speaks with Nexon M senior UA manager Robert Garfinkle to provide insights on user acquisition
Downloads
Nexon’s empire-builder DomiNations hits 50 million downloads
Mobile strategy hits the major milestone just in time for its fourth anniversary
Acquisition Battle
Nexon shortlists five bidders including Kakao and Tencent
Formal bidding process starts in early April
Interview
MapleStory M director on the challenges of bringing a 15-year-old MMORPG to mobile
Nexon's mobile MMO helped drive the Japanese publisher to one of its strongest years yet
Bidding Battle
Report: EA, Amazon and Comcast all submit acquisition bids for publisher Nexon
New challengers join a growing collection of suitors
Nexon-marble
Netmarble on Nexon acquisition: "With some leverage we could do the funding ourselves"
Been execs remain coy on exactly how a deal might be structured
The Saga Continues
Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in bid for Nexon
Deal could be made official as soon as February 21st
Maple
Maplestory M’s massive success is only part of Nexon’s record-setting financial results
Nexon’s highest full-year performance across both PC and Mobile made FY2018 one of the publisher’s strongest years to date
China Vs South Korea
South Korea’s Kakao considers $9bn Nexon bid
Potentially one of the companies biggest acquisitions