Nexon's results for the six months to June 30, 2026 show a company whose newest global hit is doing much of the heavy lifting. Consolidated revenue rose 17.4% year-on-year to ¥273.3bn, and net profit attributable to shareholders jumped 101.9% to ¥86.9bn, a figure already close to the ¥92.1bn Nexon earned in all of 2025.
The lift came chiefly from ARC Raiders, the extraction shooter Nexon launched worldwide last October, and from an expanded MapleStory line-up. Nexon sold roughly 800,000 additional ARC Raiders copies in the second quarter alone, taking cumulative sales past 16.3 million units. MapleStory revenue hit a quarterly record, helped by two user-built worlds inside MapleStory Worlds that launched in April and a half-anniversary update for MapleStory: Idle RPG.
Not every franchise cooperated. Dungeon&Fighter, Nexon's long-running mainstay, lost ground in every market it operates in: the mobile version fell despite a May anniversary update, the China PC release stumbled after a weak April season launch, and the Korean release slipped against a strong prior-year comparison. EA Sports FC Online also declined, missing the World Cup traffic bump and failing to convert new-user marketing spend.
Geographically the swing was strongest in Europe, where restated segment revenue rose to ¥60.5bn from ¥2.8bn a year earlier, turning a ¥3.5bn segment loss into a ¥31.1bn profit. Nexon began reporting Europe as its own segment this period rather than folding it into "Other," and it restated the prior year on the same basis for comparison. North America revenue rose 58.9% to ¥22.4bn with profit up 342% to ¥5.1bn. Korea, still Nexon's largest market, produced ¥186.6bn of revenue, down 12%, with segment profit down 31.5% to ¥57.3bn.
| Segment | Revenue (H1 2026) | YoY change | Segment profit/loss (H1 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | ¥2.3bn | -13.3% | -¥1.7bn |
| Korea | ¥186.6bn | -12.0% | ¥57.3bn |
| China | ¥1.1bn | +31.4% | ¥183mn |
| North America | ¥22.4bn | +58.9% | ¥5.1bn |
| Europe | ¥60.5bn | +2,033.3% | ¥31.1bn |
| Other | ¥447mn | +54.6% | -¥601mn |
Nexon also moved on its balance sheet. It cancelled 36.49 million treasury shares on February 28, and its board approved cancelling a further 13.24 million shares, 1.7% of shares outstanding, effective August 31. The interim dividend, declared August 13, was set at ¥30 per share, the same rate as February's payout, for a total of ¥23.6bn to shareholders of record on June 30. Saudi Arabia's Ayar First Investment Company disclosed an 11.17% voting stake as of January 9, making it a major shareholder alongside parent NXC Corporation, which still controls 46.72% of the stock.
Nexon's representative director and president, and its representative director and chief financial officer, also signed a separate confirmation letter attesting that the interim filing complies with Japanese securities law, with no special items to flag.