According to a report from Korean news outlet JoongAng (translated by VentureBeat), one of the country’s biggest media outlets, Asian gaming giants Nexon and NCsoft are pooling resources in an attempt to purchase Valve. Apparently executives from both Korean
companies, meeting in Hawaii this week as part of an annual summit, discussed the proposal both before and after the event.
While Valve runs a lucrative publishing business, being the studio behind series like Half-Life and
yono arcade Team Fortress, it’s their Steam publishing platform—which has arisen in recent years to dominate the PC game distribution market—that makes them such an appealing target for rumours like this.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5946830","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Nexon, the Korean giant behind MMOs like MapleStory, owns a
majority stake in NCsoft, which most recently published Guild Wars 2 This rumour of course
only applies to Nexon and NCsoft’s rumoured offer to purchase Valve. Whether Valve, a privately-held company, would ever sell
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We’ve contacted Valve for comment, and will update if we hear back. UPDATE – Nexon tells Polygon “There is no truth to this rumor”. UPDATE 2: Valve spokseperson Doug Lombardi tells us this is “Just another rumor.”
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