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To celebrate 5 years online, NCsoft and Paragon Studios have released Issue 15 Anniversary for City of Heroes/Villains.The launch trailer for this...

Last Friday, NCsoft opened Issue 15 Anniversary into the City of Heroes / City of Villains game world.The update promises an update to the game's...

By Lesley Smith There might be another week until the next stage of the Aion beta but NCsoft are ramping up the excitement surrounding their next big MMO. Today they released a video showcasing yet another part of the rich world of Atreia. Profiling the Asmodian zone of Beluslan, the short video offers an ea...

NCsoft's big hope just months away. NCsoft has announced that big-budget MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity will be released in Europe on 25th September.

By Brooke Pilley Just a couple months ago a friend told me that Aion was the biggest and baddest upcoming MMORPG that no-one in North America knew about. It broke records and won awards when it launched in Korea last year, yet hardly anyone over here was talking about it. Well, things can change quickly.

We're keeping an Aion this one. NCsoft has revealed the European pre-order program for Aion: The Tower of Eternity, its next MMO, due to launch in the autumn.

 Los Angeles Summary: Aion developed by NCsoft has won various awards in all kinds of international game grand ceremonies since it was born. And the first beta test for EU/NA players has been announced to start on June 5th. In this special moment, MMOsite made an ...

Having already tested the game extensively before its Korean launch last year, NCsoft is contenting itself with a series of short weekend tests in the West. The first phase of closed beta took place at the end of E3 week, which explains why we missed it. Sorry.

 UK and then in 2004 he returned to the forefront of the games business as the head of NCsoft Europe. He left that post earlier this year, following the company's restructuring - which combined the UK and US operations under the single NC West banner.

NCsoft, South Korea's biggest online-game maker, is gaining success in South Korea and China for its “Aion” game, and plans to market the product in other countries. The company has more than tripled in 2009, making it the 12th-best performer among the ...

 CA By Andrew Brandt | Posted at 5:14 pm on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 When NCsoft showed me a demo of their soon-to-launch, massively multiplayer fantasy game, Aion, at the E3 show, I saw a lot of reworked themes common to this fairly mature genre: A pair of ...

 Los Angeles In this first event, beta testers will play Aion as the Elyos, who occupy the bottom half of Atreia, known as Elysea. "It's almost time to spread your wings and take flight in Aion™! Soon, NCsoft will formally invite select players and members of the ...

 CA AION Momentum bolsters NCSoft results. NCsoft reported strong operating results attributable to robust AION sales and continued strength of the Lineage series. Operating margins came in at 32%, significantly exceeding the Companys guidance of 20%. ...

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Going Rogue lets Heroes turn Villain. NCsoft has unveiled the first major expansion for City of Heroes since City of Villains launched in 2005. It's called Going Rogue and is "coming soon".

By Lesley Smith NCsoft have revealed yet another new zone for its gorgeous and must-play MMO Aion. This time it's an area called Eltnen. The video tour gives a fly-by of the zone and is accentuated by some very beautiful Chinese-inspired music. However, the zone itself is filled with ruins and desert, but fo...

 South Korea By Kim Tong-hyung NCsoft, South Korea's leading online game company, has been rolling in recent months thanks to the record-breaking popularity of its new release, ``Aion.'' However, the brewing legal dispute with a certain, space-hopping employee may ...

Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott claims that he was forced out by former employer NCsoft, and the publisher subsequently "re-characterised" the move as voluntary. That's according to the suit for fraud Garriott brought against the Korean company this week. Gamasutra has obtained...

By Krystalle Voecks This morning, GamePolitics added their .02 to the mix and upped the ante with the legal documents involved - and boy, are they illuminating. According to Richard's side of the story, it goes like this: Richard & co form Destination Games, and are bought out by NCsoft in exchange for some...

Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott is suing his former employer NCsoft for fraud, to the tune of USD 24 million. Richard Garriott left NCsoft late last year after his 2007 science-fiction MMO, Tabula Rasa, failed to perform. Ten days later, the Korean publisher announced tha...

Unlike most MMORPGs, NCsoft charges no subscription fee for Guild Wars, deriving all its revenues from those four releases in as many years. The plan seems to have worked, although it's unknown if in-development sequel Guild Wars 2 will follow the same model.

 MI By Michael Lafferty Guild Wars was a bit of a trendsetter when it launched four years ago – while the game maps were a bit on the restricted side, the ArenaNet/NCsoft title was the first time that a major massively multiplayer online game offered a ...

By Kyle Horner Ever since Cryptic Studios sold the City of Heroes IP to NCsoft, the guys and gals left working on the game have been known as NCsoft NorCal. No longer! Nowadays, we'll be calling those fine folks Paragon Studios, according to a recent press release. Of course, the most obvious reason for the...

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By Kyle Horner Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, New titles, News items, Champions Online So some new developments have been made concerning allegations that Cryptic Studios was using the City of Heroes forums for Champions Online beta recruitment.

By Colin Brennan Localization is big, time consuming business, and NCsoft wants to make sure that they get it just right with the release of Aion: The Tower of Eternity. The US community manager, Liv, has just confirmed that NCsoft is seeking a fall 2009 launch date for the Western copy of the game that has al...

By Brooke Pilley Guild Wars 2 was originally announced in March 2007 alongside Guild Wars' first expansion titled Eye of the North. At the time, PC Gamer magazine confirmed that ArenaNet was hoping for GW2 to go into beta in the second half of 2008. When June 2008 rolled around, the official GW2 FAQ was update...

 - Feb 13, 2009 NCsoft attributed its profit shortfall to the November launch of Aion: Tower of Eternity in Korea, saying that the MMOG had not been on the market long ...

 UK - Jan 16, 2009 But with no new retail campaigns or expansions on the horizon either, all eyes must surely be on the sequel, Guild Wars 2. NCsoft and ArenaNet have been ...

 UK - NCsoft has released two new trailers for City of Heroes, this time showcasing the Mac version of this MMORPG available across all NCsoft West consumer ... City Of Heroes Mac Special Edition Released For Intel Macs Inside Mac Games City of Heroes Spoofs Mac/PC Ads Allakhazam

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 South Korea - NCsoft is one of the world's biggest online game companies by revenue, thanks to the success of titles such as ``Lineage'' and ``Guild Wars.''

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By gamepolitics On the very same day GamePolitics broke the news that NCsoft had dropped its membership in the Entertainment Software Association, Mike Gallagher, CEO of the game publishers trade association, predicted that new, "exciting" member companies would join the ranks of the ESA.

Korean MMOG publisher opts out of membership, taking wait-and-see approach to industry body's newly rejiggered E3.

 South Korea - NCsoft is worried that Lich King could do the same to Aion, which it touts as the heir apparent to ``Lineage,’’ its globally popular role-playing series ...

 South Korea - Nov 12, 2008 However, with Tabula Rasa tanking in the standings, it is now clear that NCsoft will never get a good bang for its buck on the Garriott deal. ...

Alongside the 50 per cent fall in profits for the July to September quarter, NCsoft reported that Tabula Rasa was responsible for only 2 per cent of its revenue, according to Gamespot. Subscriber numbers for Tabula Rasa were ...

NCsoft expansion plans to the rescue.

By Spaghett1 NCsoft has posted the patch notes for Deployment 13, the latest update for Tabula Rasa which features the game's new crafting system, new gear, UI changes, and more. Read More...

By Brian Crecente NC West is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation, a world leading publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games including Lineage/Lineage II, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa®, and Aion®: The Tower of Eternity™. More...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: Dungeon Runners, MMO industry, Tabula Rasa, RumorsMassively and Joystiq have learned that serious shakeups may be in the future for the Austin game development scene. The closure of Midway's Austin studio came as something of a surprise earlier this week, but we've now lea...

By Mike Fahey SEOUL, KOREA (March 25, 2008) - NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced that it has reinforced its relationship with Epic Games, Inc. by licensing Unreal Engine 3 to develop two unannounced, top-tier massively multi...

By Mike Fahey Guild Wars Tops Five Million Units Sold Bellevue, WA. Feb. 26, 2008--NCsoft® and ArenaNet® have announced that the Guild Wars® franchise of online roleplaying games has surpassed five million units sold in North America, Europe, and Asia.

By Matt Warner I believe monetary policy entered NCsoft's equation to cut-off Blackstar. NCsoft currently isn't in a great position to keep pumping money into their numerous development projects given Tabula Rasa's enormous failure. The numbers from NCsoft's last quarterly annual report are ugly. T...

By Maggie Greene NCsoft® today announced the release of Kamael, the newest and largest addition to the Lineage® II franchise. At more than 1 Gigabyte, Kamael is the largest expansion ever for the massively multiplayer online PC game and adds an entirely new playable race, new lands, ongoing fortress bat...

By Mike Fahey Friday 2nd November/...NCsoft® Europe, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announced today that Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa™, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for the PC where players are thrust into an exciting intergalactic struggle,...

By Brian Crecente NCSoft today announced that Carbine Studios is working on an unannounced massively multiplayer online game for them. Carbine Studios is made up of 17 former Blizzard employees including the lead and senior developers from the World of Warcraft team. "This is a dev team made in heaven," sa...

By Jerico G. JoyStiq managed to score an interview with NCsoft boss Richard Garriott and Executive Producer Brian Clayton. The talk revolved mostly around the MMORPG industry and their (NCSoft) plans to support the PlayStation 3 with MMO-type titles. Their latest project - Tabula Rasa - was also tou...

By Mike Fahey Guild Wars: Eye of the North is the first ever expansion to the subscription-free Guild Wars franchise of fantasy online role playing games, which will be released to the public on August 31, 2007. This expansion will provide new content accessible to players who have any of the previousl...

Austin, Texas, May 2, 2007--NCsoft® today announced that closed beta testing is beginning for the company's highly anticipated online computer game, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa™. The start of closed beta marks the game's final development stages as Tabula Rasa approaches an anti...

By Mike Fahey NCsoft North America is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft, with its own development and publishing offices in Texas and California, also works with other NCsoft subsidiaries and third party developers through...