Alliance of Giants

The largest companies in the Far East market, DeNA and Nexon, announced the formation of a "global business alliance," through which Nexon's games will be distributed via DeNA's social-mobile platform both in Japan and other countries.

Nexon's main focus used to be MMOs, but now it is aggressively entering the mobile gaming market, with special attention to free-to-play model products. It's worth recalling that in October of last year, the Korean company acquired the Japanese studio gloops, which specializes in mobile games, for $470 million.

Establishing a partnership with DeNA was a logical step, since gloops already had strong relationships with the company.