NEXON Korea announced on July 23 that the MABINOGI ETERNITY PROJECT, the Unreal Engine version of the MMORPG Mabinogi, will hold an alpha test in Korea from September 3 to 6. It is the first test aimed at a large number of players. Applications run July 23 to August 12 at 23:59. Players experience early stages with newly appearing characters, with movement and hit feel improved from past trial play feedback.
Nexon announced its booth lineup for Tokyo Game Show 2026, featuring Project RX, a new subculture game from Blue Archive developer IO DIVISION, and Mabinogi Mobile, the cross-play mobile remake of the classic MMORPG. A teaser site is live, with more details to come.
At NEXON's NDC26, DevCAT developers Kim Hye-jin and Cho Sol-bin presented how Mabinogi Mobile's main quest is designed for players who skip text. They cited South Korean data showing average screen focus has dropped to 47 seconds, and described a philosophy of making story content function as gameplay rather than text to be read.