Nexon snaps up Arc Raiders’ Patrick Söderlund as government chairman to “lead the following section of development” for the corporate

Patrick Söderlund – founder and CEO of Arc Raiders studio, Embark – has been appointed as government chairman at Nexon to “speed up international technique, rework artistic route, and lead the following section of development” for its guardian firm.

Contemporary from the success of Arc Raiders, Söderlund will now be working “carefully with [Nexon] CEO Junghun Lee and the chief management group”, setting the “strategic route” that Lee will then implement.

It is not solely clear if this place comes along with Söderlund’s already fairly meaty position main Embark – which is owned by Nexon – or is instead of it, but it surely seems to be the previous.

“Nexon has all of the belongings to unleash dramatic development – extremely gifted individuals, iconic franchises, giant and dedicated participant communities, and best-in-class dwell service capabilities,” Söderlund mentioned through a press assertion.

“This is a gigantic alternative, however one that may require deep focus and self-discipline. [Nexon CEO] Junghun and I are aligned on what must occur, and I am able to get to work.”

It is an enormous appointment for Nexon, which – though bobbing alongside simply tremendous with its immensely common cellular titles like MapleStory – has didn’t get a chunk of the live-service sector, and mainly dabbled in informal and cellular gaming till subsidiary Mintrocket launched the vastly profitable Dave the Diver in 2023. It additionally printed Embark Studios’ inaugural title, The Finals, that very same 12 months, and the middling The First Descendant in 2024.

As we reported earlier this week, Arc Raiders continues to impress, nearing nearly 1m concurrent gamers on PC alone and pushing onwards with occasions and common updates deliberate out till April.

It has additionally began to grapple with the implications of that huge duplication glitch that allowed cheeky gamers to double something they have been holding of their arms, confirming it has completed a big investigation into how the latest exploits and glitches got here to be and the way to take care of offenders now and sooner or later.