Nexon Corporation
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3758190007 |
| founding | December 1994 (Nexon Korea), 2002 (Nexon Japan, today's headquarters) |
| Seat |
Tokyo Seongnam (Nexon Korea) Berlin (Nexon Europe) |
| management | Owen Mahoney (CEO since 2014) |
| Number of employees | 6441 |
| sales | 253.7 billion yen (2.1 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Software development |
| Website |
nexon.com (Nexon Korea) nexon.net (Nexon America) nexoneu.com (Nexon Europe) nexon.co.jp (Nexon Japan) |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Nexon is a South Korean developer and publisher of computer games. Nexon is one of the pioneers of the free-to-play business model and the company's more than 50 games worldwide are based almost exclusively on this concept. The company's best-known product is the game MapleStory . Nexon has had its European office in Berlin since August 2015.
history
Nexon was founded in December 1994, and in 1995 work began on the first product, the multiplayer game The Kingdom of the Winds , which was published in South Korea in April 1996. August 1997, Nexon Inc., the forerunner of what is now Nexon America, was founded in Silicon Valley . In January 1998 the next multiplayer game, Legend of Darkness, followed in Korea . In July of the same year, The Kingdom of the Winds was published in the USA .
In 2003, MapleStory, the company's best-known product, was released in South Korea. It has reached a worldwide community of players to date, is constantly being developed and has been translated into numerous languages. Combat Arms, a free first-person shooter for the United States, followed in 2007. In 2008 it finally appeared in Europe.
On December 13, 2011, Nexon went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange . It was the largest IPO in Japan in 2011.
On April 26, 2012, the information service Bloomberg LP announced that Nexon had submitted an offer to Electronic Arts to acquire it.
Products
- Audition
- KartRider (Only available in Asia. No longer available after the beta of the USA version.)
- War Rock (worldwide version until August 2017)
- MapleStory
- Mabinogi
- TakeDown
- Elsword
- Point blank
- The Soul Master
- Atlantica Online
- United Eleven
- Vindictus
- Decaron
- Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies
- Combat Arms: Line of Sight
- Dungeon Fighters Online
- Dirty bomb
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex- First Assault Online
- Riders of Icarus
- MapleStory 2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Owen Mahoney becomes new Nexon CEO as revenues rise 43%. February 13, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
- ↑ About Nexon. Nexon, June 26, 2016, accessed June 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2018. Nexon, February 12, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
- ^ Nexon, Asia's Freemium PC Game Pioneer gets more mobile. August 21, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Nexon slips after Tokyo IPO, may sting Zynga debut. Reuters, December 14, 2011, accessed April 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Eric Savitz: EA Spikes On Report Japan's Nexon Makes Takeover Bid. In: Forbes. April 26, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 .