Nexon, the parent company behind Embark Studios and its massive PvPvE extraction shooter hit ARC Raiders has long been a supporter of AI and Generative AI (GenAI) entering the game development workflow. It was Nexon's CEO, Junghun Lee, who last year said that players should assume all game makers are using GenAI, which got a rousing rejection from several game developers at the time. So it's no surprise that in the company's latest Capital Markets Briefing, Lee and the company's recently appointed executive chairman (and head of Embark Studios), Patrick Söderlund, both boasted about how Nexon's approach to AI and […]

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Nexon has published its capital markets briefing it presented to investors just days ago on March 31, 2026, containing a litany of thoughts and insights into the publisher, where it has seen success over the last year, and where it has stumbled. Those stumbles, according to president and chief executive officer Junghun Lee, include the company's third-person UE5-powered looter-shooter, The First Descendent, which Lee is very candid about in his thoughts on how the game is performing nearly two years after its launch. Speaking after Patrick Söderlund, the newly appointed executive chairman at Nexon, a new role that was created […]

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