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MMO- NCsoft is scheduled to announce its new MMORPG Blade & Soul on July 31. Blade & Soul is under development by Lineage II development team, and the characters in this oriental style MMORPG are designed by the well-known illustrator HyungTae Kim. It is set in an oriental fantasy w...

NCsoft has announced that nearly a million copies of PC MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity have been sold in the West. Over 500,000 units have been shifted in North America, while the figure for Europe stands at around 470,000 units. The game was released in the West during the last week of Septem...

NCsoft has made its first move towards addressing the overcrowding on its freshly-launch MMO Aion in Europe: opening two new servers. One, Deltras, is for French-language players and the second, Kahrun, is an English server. NCsoft said it would open up character transfers between serv...

By Colin Brennan At NCsoft our commitment is to making the MMO player experience the best it can be. And while Aion has seen a very successful launch that has exceeded our expectations in many ways, we are aware of the longer than usual queue times that players have experienced on some of the servers. This is du...

By Colin Brennan Tomorrow (this Tuesday) is the highly anticipated launch of NCsoft's newest contender in the MMO ring, Aion. Of course, many of you Aion fans are already playing in the pre-order head start that began yesterday, but tomorrow is the official launch for the game.

By Krystalle Voecks With highly polished graphics, over two million words of quest text, and a series of tweaks to make Aion more Western-friendly, NCsoft seems to have finally hit the right stride with Western MMO gamers. That said, as we've learned from all the other games that have come before it, the real n...

By Kyle Horner So remember that announcement NCsoft made a few years back about working with Sony on a console MMO for the PS3? After many months of silence, VG247 has pried the news from an NCsoft Europe head has finally revealed that said project has long since been shelved. Apparently, the game was of a c...

NCsoft has given a comprehensive list of changes that will take place in the latest patch 1.5 for the MMO, Aion, which will feature in the upcoming open ... and more »

NCsoft has announced two programs that will attract players to its newest MMO, Aion, in the coming weeks, as the game is ... Aion open beta not very openAtomic all 2 news articles »

Opportunities to play throughout September. NCsoft has put firm dates on the open beta and early access phases for its big MMO launch of the year in the West, Aion: The Tower of Eternity.

By Lesley Smith There have been rumblings for weeks about an open beta for Aion, NCsoft's latest MMO and the company has finally confirmed details about what we can expect. North American and European gamers who may not have gotten access to the Closed Beta Tests will get an opportunity to sample Aion, exp...

The MMORPG genre spreads its wings and takes flight in Aion, the latest title from developer NCsoft. Aion is a visually stunning massively multiplayer ... NCsoft's new MMO Aion wins "Best Online Game" at Gamescom 2009 ...Examiner.com MMOs And How They Can Succeed: Part IIIZam News

By Lesley Smith GamesCom is in full swing with NCsoft taking full advantage of social networking, from twittering about their activities to streaming video on Facebook in order to promote their newest MMO. Aion has been the talk of the show with everything from an eye-catching booth and drool-worthy sw...

NCsoft has been very busy with their highly anticipated MMO Aion coming out in the next month and now even more so as Guild Wars 2 info begins to spill. ... NCsoft Has No Plans to Bring Aion or Guild Wars to PS3PlayStation LifeStyle MMORPG News -1UP.com -Destructoid

By Lesley Smith Lee also focused on the character customisation, discussing the concepts of beautiful and ugly characters in MMOs like World of Warcraft, where Korean players often favour the Alliance over the Horde. He also explained why the devs chose to create Aion as a zone-based MMO over a seamless...

In a GDC Europe talk, ncsoft's Yongchan Jee intriguingly discussed the creation of Aion, the upcoming subscription MMO from the City Of ... ncsoft's Aion MMO seeks to compete with World of WarcraftExaminer.com NCsoft Reveals Cleric Class in Highly Anticipated MMO AionIGN

NCsoft, creators of City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and other popular MMO titles, is preparing to launch its newest MMO, Aion, on September 22. ... GDC Europe: NCSoft's Jee On Aion's GenesisGamasutra NCsoft Reveals Cleric Class in Highly Anticipated MMO AionIGN

In my opinion, if NCsoft really wants Aion to be a fierce competitor in the North American MMO industry, they need to figure out a way to make Aion a little ...

Shortened list copied from Aion's E3 2006 fact sheet. NCsoft's Aion is quite similar to Huxley, actually. Both games were announced within months of each ... NCsoft Plans for Aion MMO to Take Second Place, 'Erase the Memory ...Shacknews Aion TowerVe3d.com

South Korea-based Guild Wars house NCsoft reported a 451 percent profit rise for fiscal Q2, thanks in part to the release of the MMORPG Aion ... A Visit to NCsoft Headquarters: the Korean MMO TycoonMMORPG News Escapist Magazine -GamesIndustry.biz -Gamasutra

By Krystalle Voecks If you, like us, are always looking for a way to save a few dollars in your monthly MMO budget, then you may be glad to hear this news. After all, replacing all those robot minions when they get trashed can be really expensive - or maybe that's just us. In either case, if you're an avid City of Heroe...

NCsoft is pleased to reveal an all-new selection of screenshots for Aion, the biggest MMO release of 2009! In Aion, players take to the skies as powerful ... NCsoft Releases Sorcerer ScreenshotsZam News Aion Class Spotlight: The SorcererKotaku Australia all 9 news articles »

It's hard to remember such a carefully controlled, ruthlessly organised, painstakingly cautious, generally locked-down and sewn-up MMO launch preparation as that currently being undertaken by NCsoft West for the US and European launch of Aion: The Tower of Eternity. That's because...

5th Column missions, Architect improvements. NCsoft has updated its long-running superhero MMO City of Heroes with Issue 15: Anniversary, so named to celebrate the game's five years in operation.

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.

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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.

 Romania The Limited Collector's Edition should be sold for the price of 54.99 dollars, including 30 days of playtime in Aion. NCsoft is saying that the regular edition of the MMO will cost 34.99 dollars. Extending the subscription for another thirty days ...

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 CA by Leigh Alexander Korean MMO publisher NCsoft's chief financal officer Jaeho Lee will now head up the publisher's new Western subsidiary as CEO, replacing Chris Chung, who remains with NCsoft West. Reached for comment, however, NCsoft tells Gamasutra ...

 Romania His latest videogame adventure, the futuristic MMO Tabula Rasa, was not as successful, being shut down by NCsoft earlier in 2009 because of low subscriber numbers. Before that, Garriott had gone up to the International Space Station, taking with him ...

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...

NCsoft celebrates the fifth anniversary of City of Heroes—the first and longest-running comic book-inspired MMO game. Developed by the recently renamed Paragon Studios, the team is celebrating this special occasion by reflecting on the game's ...

By Michael Lafferty It's been five years since NCsoft and Cryptic did what few said would work – they launched a superhero-based massively multiplayer online game. Not only did the City of Heroes franchise swell into an MMO phenomenon, but it showed ...

Celebrating 5 years with Anniversary. NCsoft has announced that the next major update to its superhero MMO, City of Heroes, is in development. It's to be called Issue 15: Anniversary. The title is a tribute to the fact that, earlier this week, the game celebrated its fifth birthday.

 Romania - Andrei Dobra, Andrei Dobra As NCsoft brought its MMO lineup to Steam last week, gamers were very thrilled and downloaded the Guild Wars Trilogy quite a lot of times, pushing it to the number five spot. Last week's number two, Zeno Clash, is now on a respectable seventh place, ...

NCsoft and City of Heroes fans celebrate the fifth anniversary of the first and longestrunning comic bookinspired MMO game. As part of the...

 India Recently, we saw NCsoft's MMO franchises available via Steam and before that we heard of Guild Wars 2 being delayed. Now NCsoft and ArenaNet, a completely owned subsidiary of NCsoft, have come forward and announced that the Guild Wars franchise has ...

NCsoft, with US headquarters located in Seattle, said today that City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage are heading to the Steam digital distribution platform. Over the coming weeks, Steam will have special offers on NCsoft products, the publisher ... NCsoft MMO titles on Steam Play.tm

NCsoft, a company specialized in online games, has decided to benefit from this popularity and release the City of Heroes MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game, which lets players create their own heroes and star in various adventures. ...

 Spain NCsoft acaban de anunciar que sus estudios internos NCsoft NorCal, actuales responsables del MMO City of Heroes, cambian su denominación, pasando a conocerse como los Paragon Studios. El nombre proviene de Paragon City, la ciudad donde transcurre el ...

 Ny NCsoft’s NorCal studio, the division that created the City of Heroes MMO, has been renamed Paragon Studios. In addition to the renaming, NCsoft announced that the studio’s first product would be City of Heroes: Architect Edition, which will include all ...

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 Germany NCsoft ist nicht erst seit gestern im MMO-Sektor unterwegs. Mit Spielen wie GuildWars, Lineage (vielen besser als Grindage bekannt) oder City of Heroes / Villains haben sie sich zu einer festen Größe im Business gemausert. Mit Aion kündigen sie einen ...

 Los Angeles NCsoft is close to releasing their latest update for their super hero MMO City of Heroes, one which will add something rare for the MMO genre: User created missions and content. However on this April Fool's Day the publisher has just announced a new ...

 Romania later this year on both the PlayStation 3 gaming console and the PC. If you are interested in playing a MMO, you should know that you need to look no further than City of Heroes/City of Villains, which was created by Cryptic and is now run by NCsoft.

Kotaku Australia NCsoft - or, we should say, NCsoft West - is in a rather odd position with Aion. Its first major MMO launch since the ill-fated Tabula Rasa has already debuted in Korea, and is proving to be a major draw. The company isn't talking total player numbers, ...

Kotaku Australia Q: We've seen other MMOs "go vertical" in terms of zone layout - the "Recluse's Victory" area in another NCsoft title (City of Heroes / City of Villains) is a great example. Now we see Aion bringing this paradigm shifting feature into a fantasy MMO. ...

PMCategories: MMO Gaming In its quest to pick up beta testers for the upcoming Champions Online, developer Cryptic Studios has begun soliciting MMO gamers in an unlikely place: A message board owned and operated by City of Heroes publisher NCsoft. ...

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It was recently reported by Silicon Alley Insider that Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin "absolutely" plans to sue MMO giant Blizzard should his company win its lawsuit against NCsoft, publisher of City of Heroes and Guild Wars. The subject of the suit is the ...

NCsoft's CryEngine-powered MMO Aion: Tower of Eternity is shown off in this brief trailer, highlighting the Poeta zone of the heavenly Elysea region. Poeta is "home to farmers and villagers who attempt to live in peace," according to NCsoft. ...

 CA Starting with subscriptions (including the world’s first million-subscriber MMO, NCsoft’s Lineage), the Korean industry eventually shifted to F2P games that made money from micro-transactions, such as Nexon’s KartRider and MapleStory. ...

 CA by Randy Nelson { Feb 26th 2009 at 10:45PM } While Cryptic Studios has its hands full with Champions Online, NCsoft is still very much supporting the developer's earlier superhero MMO effort, City of Heroes. The next major evolution of the ...

 MI By Michael Lafferty When it launched, NCsoft’s City of Heroes proved naysayers wrong and became a benchmark in the massively multiplayer online (MMO) gaming space. Not only did it buck the trend of the general failure of superhero games to connect with ...

Korean MMO giant NCsoft released this week its 2008 fiscal year results, reporting a 5% sales increase and a sharp 40% net income decline from '07 results, even with a 15% decrease in operating costs. Any mention to Tabula Rasa is of course missing ...

 Romania - By Andrei Dumitrescu, Games Editor The bad news is that Tabula Rasa, the NCsoft developed MMO that drew on the experience of Richard “Lord British” Garriot, ...

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 Romania - Dec 11, 2008 It has created City of Heroes and City of Villains for NCsoft, although the studio isn’t working on the MMO anymore. It is also developing its own superhero ... Atari Buys Cryptic Studios Tom's Guide all 65 news articles

By patlike GI’s reporting that Atari’s bought Cryptic Studios. The MMO developer’s working on Champions Online for 2009 and Star Trek Online for 2010. There’s an unannounced game in the works for 2011, the site reports. This is a big deal. Cryptic’s work is superb, with City of Heroes NCsoft’s saving gr...

By gamepolitics On Saturday, GamePolitics broke the news that MMO publisher NCsoft was the latest company to leave the ranks of game industry trade association the ESA. Swofford also told GP that trade show issues are very important for NCsoft, which exhibited at PAX this year, but not E3:

By gamepolitics Last month, NCsoft announced that it plans to shut down underperforming MMO Tabula Rasa early in 2009. Facing a difficult financial picture, NC Soft has laid off a number of employees at locations in both the US and UK. The publisher also recently parted ways with famed Ultima series desi...

Just a couple of weeks after Richard Garriott announced his departure, NCsoft confirms the end for his sci-fi MMO...

Tabula Rasa team to be 'scaled back' as failed MMO ceases service in February 2009 NCsoft has announced that it is to scale back the Tabula ...

By patlike Not a massive shock, but sad nonetheless: NCsoft’s confirmed that sci-fi MMO Richard Garriot’s Tabula Rasa will stop for good on February 28, 2009. Here’s the statement in full, taken from the official site: To the Tabula Rasa Community, Last November we launched what we hoped would be a g...

 Romania - Nov 19, 2008 It also seems that Aion: The Tower of Eternity is the most played game in Korea's cyber cafes. NCsoft describes Aion as an epic fantasy MMO derived from the ...

SEOUL, Korea -One of the most highly anticipated massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, Aion: The Tower of Eternity™ from NCsoft, is already showing signs of reaching hit status in only a matter of days since open beta testing kicked ...

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By astrotriforce We last reported on NCsoft’s Aion: The Tower of Eternity way back in July of 2007, and after years of development the game is now closer to release than ever. It launches in North America and Europe next year (as well as in Japan and ...

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By Brian Crecente Fat Princess Devs Working on Unreal Engine 3-Based MMO GameStop Has More Wrath Of The Lich King Collector's Editions Atlus Cosplayers Do Atlus Proud Richard Garriott Bids Farewell To NCsoft Frankenreview: Resistance 2 Mirror's Edge PC Version Plus Cross-Platform DLC In January

By Morvelaira Players will soon be able to join the battle of good versus evil in the most popular comic book MMO on both the PC and Mac platforms -- and in the same game world," commented Brian Clayton, executive producer of City of Heroes for NCsoft West. "Given Mac's fame as a platform for creative people...

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 Ross Miller Dark Sector demo spins into Xbox Live Hellgate: London programmer claims staff leaving 'in droves' Spyro, Guilty Gear coming to Xbox Originals Ubisoft wants to up its game: be on par with EA, Activision Blizzard NCsoft says Tabula Rasa is doing fine Turbine working on console MMO

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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 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...