The long legal battle between Korean megapublisher Nexon and Dark and Dark studio Ironmace appears to have come to a conclusion today. A South Korean court has ruled that Ironmace must pay Nexon 8.5 billion won - around $5.87 million USD - in damages over trade secret infringement.
Several developers at Ironmace, including CEO Terence Park Seung-ha, previously worked at Nexon on an unreleased game that was tentatively titled Project P3 - a project that Nexon argues was quite similar to the game Dark and Darker ended up being. Nexon filed suit against Ironmace in 2021 - years before Dark and Darker had become a breakout hit on Steam - accusing the studio of both copyright infringement and trade secret infringement.
