South Korean video game publisher Nexon leads $17.5m series B round of financing for US peer Rumble Entertainment.

Rumble Entertainment, a US-based publisher of multiplatform free-to-play (F2P) video games, has closed a $17.5m series B round of financing led by strategic partner Nexon, a Japan and South Korea-based publisher of F2P online games; also participating were venture capital firm TriplePoint Capital, Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of internet search firm Google, venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, and additional strategic investors.

The B round brings Rumble’s total funding to date to over $35 million.  Previously, in December 2011,…