Gaming Addiction In South Korea

I found this article from Time magazine in April 2010 and thought I’d share it given Nexon Korea’s talk of implementing a Midnight Ban system for users under 18. Ever since Yoon Hyuk-joo, a 16-year-old in Seoul, started playing the popular computer game StarCraft eight years ago, studying has taken…

Poptag’s 10,000,000 Nx Giveaway!

Ok, everyone this is a legit Nexon Event, and this may be probably one of the most eye openers in Nexon Times, right next to the 1,000,000 Maple Points winner in the past. Poptag is hosting an event, you must log on to Poptag, and play, and there will be…

Blizzard Wins $88 million in lawsuit against WoW Private Server Company

On Thursday Judge Margaret M. Morrow in the California District Court ruled that Scapegaming, a private server company who ran World of Warcraft private servers, was infringing copyright and ordered the site run by Alyson Reeves to pay Blizzard Entertainment the hefty amount of $88,594,589 USDs. WoW.com reports $3,053,339 of…

Vindictus closed beta is live

Yep, the title mostly says it all. Sadly, most people were not accepted for the vindictus closed beta. I happen to be in the group of “not accepted”. There were thousands of people who applied for the vindictus closed beta and only a few got in. Most of the people…

Happy 4th of July from MNN

Wishing everyone at Maple-News a Happy 4th of July! Find the American flag or 4th of July face painting picture somewhere on the Maple-News website and win a free MNN request point if you find either one! Once you find one, comment on the article with the post URL that…

Former Nexon CEO John H. Chi To Create New Cutting Edge Gaming Company

Former CEO of Nexon America, John H. Chi, seems to have moved on to bigger and better things. Chi was the CEO of Nexon America from 2006-2008 and was responsible for establishing Nexon’s North American arm. In his 2 short years as CEO of Nexon America the company grossed over…

Dice Interview with Min Kim

Dice interviews with Min Kim to talk about the future of Nexon America; talking about Block Party, how the business is going, and new games coming soon. Link: http://www.gamepro.com/video/news/138003/nexon-america-dice-interview/ Credits to GAMEPro.

Nexon’s Nintendo?

Nexon has released a new game called PopTag. It has been in development for about a year now and it seems like Nintendo has something to say… (Well, not really, but this game does seem like Bomberman.) You know the very similar retro game back in the late 1990′s? Clueless?…

KartRider won’t return…

… because a new game is taking their place! It’s called PopTag, a new game made by NexonAmerica. Basically, it’s kind of like the hit game BomberMan, but replace the characters with KartRider characters. What do you think guys? Will this game be successful or will it be sent down…

Mabinogi Europe!

Yes! The fun started yesterday, but now already over 1500 beta-keys were obtained by Mabinogi fans in whole Europe. Links: Learn more about Mabinogi here The official site can be found here Beta-key give-away is here Events: Beta-key give-away! All beta-keys gone!? Don’t worry, we will give away 3 beta-keys….