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16,000 Aion Players Have Been Banned

Sometimes, companies decide that enough is enough, and, for one reason or another, they begin to dish out bans like it's the end of the world. Earlier this week, we saw Microsoft denying that the number of Xbox Live users banned was around one million, but the number still remained up there, on top of the charts...

24 November 2009
07:29 GMT

Guild Wars 2 Is Announced for 2011

NCsoft may have managed to break a few charts with Aion: Tower of Eternity, but it may just be that that's not the only thing it has broken. Guild Wars 2 was first announced in 2007, and the massively multiplayer online role-playing games-specialized company announced a beta-testing of the title for 2008. The be...

11 November 2009
06:59 GMT

Aion Grants NCsoft an 836-Percent Profit Boost

MMORPGs haven't really dared come out on the market very much this year. There is something about World of Warcraft that saps the courage from publishers and developers. But one company that was brave enough to make a stand did so with surprising results. NCsoft's Aion: Tower of Eternity has managed to rake...

9 November 2009
03:26 GMT

Aion Is the Best Selling PC Title of September

The PC video-game chart often gets overlooked when the NPD Group numbers for hardware and software sales are announced each month. After all, the big battle between the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii is much more interesting than the supposedly moribund market for PC titles. But a quick look at the ...

22 October 2009
04:36 GMT

CryEngine 3 Has Been Released

Crytek thinks it’s time for yet another change in game graphics so they've launched a brand-new engine. The company's third development platform is also the first natively multiplatform version of the engine, which has been officially released and is available to licensees. The engine supports the Dir...

15 October 2009
16:51 GMT

Halo 3: ODST Better than Need for Speed

Need for Speed: Shift managed to hold on to the top spot in the videogame chart compiled for the United Kingdom for just one short week. It seems that shooting Covenant aliens is more appealing than racing in a more simulation-like experience delivered by Need for Speed, as Halo 3: ODST, the latest Bungie videogame, ...

1 October 2009
13:01 GMT

Microsoft Plants Its Money-Tree on Korean Soil

As part of its marketing strategy, Microsoft plans to invest more than $19 million dollars in the online gaming industry of South Korea. The investment will be spread across four years, reports the Korea Creative Content Agency, and the money will go into training, marketing and development and will be received by 25...

29 September 2009
10:15 GMT

Aion, a Definite Mark on MMOG Market

Even before hitting the large, North American gaming market, NCsoft, the developer and publisher of Aion: Tower of Eternity, can relish in its success. Launched in Asia at the end of 2008, the game has already generated for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game company a 315- and, respectively, a 451-per...

18 September 2009
06:36 GMT

SteelSeries Announces New Aion-Themed Zboard Keyset and Mousepad

SteelSeries, a company that focuses on providing gaming and computer enthusiasts with high-end products that can enable them to improve their gaming skills and experience, has just announced an update to its line of products, with the introduction of the new SteelSeries Zboard Limited Edition Aion Keyset and SteelSer...

3 September 2009
10:54 GMT

Aion MMO Offers Details on Open Beta and Headstart

NCsoft has announced two programs that will attract players to its newest MMO, Aion, in the coming weeks, as the game is getting ready for its big North American and European releases.Aion is already a big success in South East Asia and, after having recently shut down another MMO, Tabula Rasa, is hoping that the new...

31 August 2009
03:40 GMT

Aion Will Be Second Only to World of Warcraft

NCsoft, the MMO-oriented developer and publisher based in South Korea, has announced that it has registered an increase in profits of about 450% mainly because of the Asian release of its newest videogame, called Aion, which is set to also arrive in the West shortly. The sales of the company also rose, by 70%, to 110...

13 August 2009
13:00 GMT

Aion Limited Collector's Edition Comes with Figurine and In-Game Items

NCsoft has announced what players are set to receive if they plan on getting the Limited Collector's Edition version of its upcoming MMO, Aion. The game will be coming to the West sometime in fall after already attracting a lot of interest from gamers in Korea, where it is playable at the moment. Aion tells the ...

2 June 2009
02:32 GMT

NCsoft Profit Rises Thanks to Aion

NCsoft is announcing that it has seen strong financial results for the first quarter of 2009, which ended on March 31. The reason for the bounce back for the company, which registered less than stellar results in late 2008, is the launch of its new MMORPG game, Aion which, at the moment, is only available for play in...

13 May 2009
02:58 GMT

NCsoft MMOs Come to Steam

It's clear that the “Age of Steam,” as some have called it, is here, as NCsoft, a publisher and game developer that has a proprietary digital store in the form of PlayNC, is turning to the Valve created digital distribution service to sell its videogames. NCsoft, which publishes a wide range of MMOs,...

23 April 2009
13:01 GMT

Aion MMO Beta Is a Huge Success

NCsoft, the company which is currently running MMO projects like Tabula Rasa and City of Heroes/City of Villains, is sending word that Aion: The Tower of Eternity has reached more than 170,000 beta subscriptions in the week since the game entered that stage. Bear in mind the fact that the beta is for now only availab...

18 November 2008
03:36 GMT

NCsoft In Trouble, Fires Employees

NCsoft, whose financial department is in big trouble, is on the verge of merging its United States and European subsidiaries into a new entity, called NC West, that is set to be headquartered in Seattle and that should handle all the activity of the company outside of Asia.NC West will incorporate NCsoft studios NC I...

11 September 2008
04:08 GMT

Q & A with 'Aion' Senior Game Designer

If you're a MMORPG fan then you're surely waiting for Aion: The Tower Of Eternity to be released. Don't worry, NCsoft isn't announcing a launch date, the game is still on for a 2008 release. What we have here is actually a Q & A with the game's Senior Designer, Kyoung Won Choi. The man has re...

6 December 2007
03:06 GMT


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