Video Game Business

NOV. 7, 2011 • Nexon Co. Ltd. hopes listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange will raise as much as ¥100 billion yen ($1.3 billion) once the Nexon IPO is complete in December. According to the [...]

NOV. 4, 2011 • Sony Online Ent. announced that two days after taking its DC Universe Online MMO free-to-play more than 120,000 new registrations had flooded in – a four times concurrent increase. [...]

NOV. 2, 2011 • With the release of the Goddess of Destruction expansion, publisher NCsoft is transitioning Lineage II free-to-play. No restrictions on content access will be placed on free [...]

NOV. 1, 2011 • The Lego Group announced that its Lego Universe MMO would be shut down on Jan. 31. Any paid subscribers still in the game by Dec. 31 will get their final month of enhanced service [...]

OCT. 28, 2011 • Electronic Arts announced that it had signed agreements with Capcom Ent., THQ, and Warner Bros. Interactive Ent. to distribute their game content on the Electronic Arts Origin [...]