Nexon

NEXON Co., Ltd.
Native name
 주식회사 넥슨
Public[1][2][3]
Traded as TYO: 3659
Industry Video games
Founded 1994
Seoul, South Korea
Founders Kim Jung Ju and Jake Song
Headquarters

Formerly in Seoul, South Korea
Tokyo, Japan[4]

Global Offices
Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
El Segundo, California, USA
Berlin, Germany
Emeryville, California, USA
Bangkok, Thailand
Key people
 Can.C (dev)Owen Mahoney(CEO)[5]
Shiro Uemura (CFO)[6]
Ji Won Park (Nexon Korea Corp. CEO)[7]
Jungsoo Lee (Nexon America Inc. CEO)[8]
Keunwook (Kenny) Chang (Nexon Europe GmbH CEO)[9]
Revenue ¥183.128 billion (2016)[10]
¥40.661 billion (2016)[10]
¥20.133 billion (2016)[10]
Owner NXC Corporation in Jeju, South Korea
Number of employees
 5,525 (Dec. 2016)
Subsidiaries Nexon America Inc.
Nexon Europe GmbH
Nexon Taiwan Ltd.
Nexon Networks Corporation
NEXON M Inc.
Nexon Communications Co., Ltd.
NEOPLE INC.
NDOORS Corporation
Lexian Software Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Rushmo Co., Ltd.
Neon Studio Corporation
NEXON GT Co., Ltd.
gloops, Inc.
gloops Vietnam Co.,Ltd.
Nexon Space Co., Ltd.
THINGSOFT Inc.
Fantage.com Inc.
Boolean Games
Rushmo America, Inc.[11]
Big Huge Games
N Media Platform Co., LTD.
wellgames
NSC Corporation
Nexon US Holding Inc.
Nexon Thailand Co., Ltd.
Website http://company.nexon.com/

Nexon (Hangul: 넥슨; RR: Nekseun) Co., Ltd. is a South Korean global leader in online games for PC and mobile. It services over 100 titles in over 190 countries.[12] Nexon was founded in Seoul, South Korea in 1994 by Kim Jung Ju and Jake Song. In 2011, Nexon moved its headquarters from Seoul, South Korea to Tokyo, Japan.

History

Nexon Group was established in Korea on December 1994 and is currently based in Japan. It also has offices located in Korea, the United States, Europe and Taiwan.[12] Nexon developed and published its first title, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, in 1996, which the company continues to service.[13] Many title releases followed such as Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying, Elemental Saga, QuizQuiz, KartRider, Elancia, and Shattered Galaxy;[14] some of which are maintained by a company spun off of Nexon, Kru Interactive.[15] In 2003, Nexon developed MapleStory in Korea, which later became one of their most successful titles and has been serviced for more than a decade.[16][17] The game was localized in many locations such as Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, North America, Europe, Brazil, and Vietnam.[18] Nexon is also the developer of Dungeon&Fighter, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Neople.[19][20] Dungeon&Fighter is one of the most popular free-to-play online PC games in China.[20][21]

Nexon went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 14, 2011 in an initial public offering, the largest in Japan for 2011 and the second largest by a technological company for 2011 worldwide.[22]

On March 9, 2016, Nexon acquired Big Huge Games, a mobile game developer in Maryland.[23]

Nexon currently has the following subsidiaries: Nexon America Inc., Nexon Europe GmbH, Nexon Taiwan Ltd., Nexon Networks, NEXON M Inc., Nexon Communications, NEOPLE, NDOORS, Lexian, Rushmo, Rushmo America, Neon Studio, NEXON GT, gloops, gloops Vietnam, Nexon Space, THINGSOFT, Boolean Games, Fantage, Big Huge Games, wellgames, N Media Platform, NSC, Nexon US Holding, and Nexon Thailand (former iDCC).[11][24]

Games

Nexon America games

Game Launched Genre Developer Status Official Website
MapleStory May 11, 2005 (North America)Fantasy MMORPGWizetLive maplestory.nexon.net
Mabinogi March 27, 2002[25]Fantasy MMORPGdevCATLive mabinogi.nexon.net
Combat Arms July 11, 2008 (North America)[26]First-person shooterDoobic StudiosLive combatarms.nexon.net
Vindictus October 27, 2010 (North America)[27]Action MMORPGdevCATLive vindictus.com

List of PC games

Game Name Nexon Korea Nexon Japan Nexon America Nexon Europe Nexon Thailand
MapleStory
2003 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Yes Merged with GMS Yes
(Upcoming 1 October 2017)
MapleStory 2
2015 (Korea) 		Yes No No No No
Sudden Attack
2004 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Closed No No
Mabinogi
2004 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Yes Closed No
Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds
1996 (Korea) 		Yes Closed No No No
Talesweaver
2003 (Korea) 		Yes Yes No No No
Everplanet
2009 (Korea) 		Yes Closed No No No
Shaiya Online Yes No No[28] No[28] No
Legend of Darkness
1999 (Korea) 		Yes Closed No No No
Asgard Yes Yes No No No
Elancia Yes Closed No No No
Elsword
2007 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Closed (Now serviced by KOG Games) No Licensed to PLAYPARK
Dungeon Fighter Online
2005 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Closed (Now serviced by Neople) No No
Vindictus
Known in Asia as Mabinogi: Heroes
2010 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Yes Yes Licensed to Garena Online (Thailand)
Eve Online No Closed No No No
Crazy Shooting Bubble Fighter
2008 (Korea) 		Yes No No No No
Crazy Arcade BnB
2001 (Korea) 		Yes Closed Closed No No
Crazyracing Kartrider
2004 (Korea) 		Yes Closed Closed No No
QPlay Yes Closed No No No
Counter-Strike Online Yes Yes No No No
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies No No No Yes
(via the Steam platform)[29] 		No
War Rock Moved to
DreamExecution 		No Yes Yes No
Combat Arms Yes No Yes Yes No
Atlantica Online Yes Closed Yes Yes No
Dekaron Yes[30] No No Yes No
Luminary: Rise of the GoonZu No Yes No No No
Chaos Online Yes No No No No
Counter-Strike Online 2 Yes No No No No
FIFA Online 3
2012 (Korea) 		Yes No No No Licensed to Garena Online (Thailand)
Cyphers Online Yes No No No No
LOST SAGA Yes No No Closed[31] Licensed to Garena Online (Thailand)
Epic of the Three Kingdoms Yes[32] Closed No No No
Tales Runner Yes[33] No No No Licensed to PLAYPARK
Closers
2015 (Korea) 		Yes[34] No No No No
Dirty Bomb
2015 (North America) 		No No No
(now serviced by WarChest) 		No No
Tree of Savior
2015 (Korea) 		Yes Yes Yes
(via the Steam platform) 		Yes
(via the Steam platform) 		Yes
Sudden Attack 2
2016 (Korea) 		No No No No No

Game Pipeline (In-house and through publishing agreements)

2015 and beyond

See also

References

  1. ↑ Online gaming giant Nexon raises $1.2B in Toyko IPO (updated) | GamesBeat. Venturebeat.com (2011-12-13). Retrieved on 2013-08-23.
  2. ↑ Kachi, Hiroyuki; Ho, Prudence (December 15, 2011). "IPOs Struggle in Asia". The Wall Street Journal.
  3. ↑ Nathan Layne and Isabel Reynolds (December 5, 2011). "Zynga rival Nexon's Tokyo IPO set at $1.2 billion". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on December 6, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Nexon America Second Quarter Revenues Increase 38 Percent over 2010". Business Wire. August 17, 2011. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ Eric Johnson (February 12, 2014). "Nexon Names New CEO: Ex-EA Exec Owen Mahoney". Re/code.
  6. ↑ Chris Shimamoto (May 15, 2014). "Nexon Surges as Online Game Maker Plans Share Buyback". Bloomberg News.
  7. ↑ Shin Ji-hye (February 13, 2014). "Nexon Korea names Park Ji-won as CEO". The Korea Herald.
  8. ↑ Suzie Ford (January 5, 2017). "UPDATE: Jungsoo Lee to Take Over Nexon America". MMORPG.
  9. ↑ Jason Imms (October 9, 2014). "Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies launches is a mod for CS1.6, we think?". games.on.net.
  10. 1 2 3 "Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2016 [IFRS]" (PDF). Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2014" (PDF). IRPocket. February 12, 2015.
  12. 1 2 Bruce Einhorn (August 21, 2014). "Nexon, Asia's 'Freemium' PC Game Pioneer, Gets More Mobile". Bloomberg Businessweek.
  13. ↑ Bruce Einhorn. "What is Nexus?". Nexus Atlas. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Nexon Holdings history". KoreanGameWatch.com. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  15. ↑ "Kru Interactive Profile". Kru Interactive. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
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  17. ↑ "Nexon Holdings(NXC)". Korea Game Watch. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Maplestory". Nexon Korea Corporation. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  19. ↑ Forbes Staff (April 24, 2013). "What Next for Kim Jung-Ju and Korean Online Gaming Company Nexon?". Forbes.
  20. 1 2 Lulu Yilun Chen and Jungah Lee (May 28, 2014). "Tencent $1 Billion Game Shows Global Hunt for Mobile Hits". Bloomberg News.
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  25. ↑ Leigh Alexander (2008-01-16). "Nexon Announces Mabinogi". Retrieved 2008-03-24.
  26. ↑ Combat Arms. Combatarms.nexon.net. Retrieved on 2013-08-23.
  27. ↑ [VIN] Vindictus to Officially Launch October 27 | The msupdate Blog. Msupdate.wordpress.com (2010-10-19). Retrieved on 2013-08-23.
  28. 1 2 Aeria, Nexon reach agreement over future Shaiya operations. Gamasutra (2012-03-14). Retrieved on 2013-08-23.
  29. ↑ Michael McWhertor (October 7, 2014). "The weird, free-to-play, zombie-filled Counter-Strike is out on Steam". Polygon.
  30. ↑ IGN Staff (June 4, 2008). "Dekaron Coming Soon to Southeast Asia". IGN.
  31. ↑ "Lost Saga". Nexon Europe. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  32. ↑ "Epic of the Three Kingdoms". NEXON. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  33. ↑ "Tales Runner". NEXON. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  34. ↑ "Korean Anime Action MOARPG Closers First Closed Beta Comes This August". 2P. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
  35. ↑ Ashar Ahmad (December 1, 2014). "MapleStory 2 Gets a Cinematic Trailer, Scheduled to Release in 2015". Segment Next.
  36. 1 2 "Q3 2014 Earnings Call" (PDF). NEXON. November 13, 2014.
  37. 1 2 3 Kim Jung-Yoon. "G-Star 2014 powering up in Busan". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
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  40. ↑ Matthew Kato (July 4, 2014). "Cliff Bleszinski Returns With Boss Key Productions". Game Informer. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  41. ↑ Jenna Pitcher (May 22, 2014). "Extraction renamed Dirty Bomb, beta registrations open". Polygon.
  42. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Nexon Korea revealed upcoming games in G-Star 2014". YuushaExa.com. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  43. ↑ Eugene (August 30, 2014). "This SRPG Might Look Like Disgaea But It's Not". silonera.
  44. ↑ Eddie Makuch (October 27, 2014). "Civilization, Rise of Nations Designer Revives Big Huge Games, Announces New Title". GameSpot.
  45. ↑ Arthur Gies (February 9, 2015). "Evolve Review: Monster Squad". Polygon.
  46. ↑ Justin Olivetti (May 28, 2014). "Meet Durango, Nexon's dino survival MMO". Joystiq.
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