Thanks to Donald Trump, the world has been getting a crash course in antiglobalism from a populist-right perspective. Perhaps the singular merit of Ian Kumekawa’s “Empty Vessel” is to remind us that, ...

NCsoft has made a "strategic equity investment" in Texas-based studio Empty Vessel. The South Korean developer and publisher made the investment through its North American subsidiary, NC West. It ...

This incisive study from Kumekawa (The First Serious Optimist), an economic history professor at Harvard University, uses an oceangoing barge as a window onto the global economy. The barge, which ...

Empty Vessel has closed its initial Series A funding. While it has not disclosed its seed round funds, the studio stated it puts the total raised at $11 million. The round was led by NCSoft and 1AM ...