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Publishers NCsoft and Gameforge have announced that their MMO Aion will be making the switch to the free-to-play business model in February 2012, allowing all interested players to download the full version of the game for free and then play it without any restrictions.The creators of the game have acknowledged that ... |
15 December 2011
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NCsoft has officially announced that Lineage II, its long running MMO, will make the move to the free-to-play business model on November 30, with the launch of the Goddess of Destruction expansion.The publisher says that everyone can access all the content that the game has to offer, calling it the Truly Free system,... |
15 November 2011
03:21 GMT |
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South Korean video game publisher NCsoft has announced that it is working on a new game in the long running Lineage franchise, called Eternal: Twilight Resistance, which will use a new and improved combat system.The MMO will offer three classes to play around with, the standard warrior and mage and an exotic elementa... |
9 November 2011
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City of Heroes Freedom, the new free-to-play strategy employed by the City of Heroes online title, is focusing on existing players, while catering to new gamers that can now experience it without having to pay for a monthly subscription.NCsoft, together with Cryptic Studios, announced earlier this year that its long ... |
17 October 2011
05:28 GMT |
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City of Heroes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, is dropping support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, according to its publishers.Developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft, City of Heroes has gamers using an extensive character creation system to select ... |
26 September 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher NCsoft has announced that in order to celebrate the two years anniversary of its MMO Aion it will be launching a new game update and will offer a number of activities for those who are interested in coming back to the game.All players who log into Aion can take part in the Ascension Festival, whi... |
23 September 2011
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ArenaNet, the developer of the upcoming Guild Wars 2 massive multiplayer online role-playing game, has talked about bringing the game, currently a PC exclusive, to consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 and how this is quite hard, considering social aspects found on the PC aren't available on home consoles.... |
2 September 2011
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NCsoft is ready to celebrate the winter holiday events in all the MMO video games it publishes, inviting players to experience the magic of the season while also taking part in quests that can net them some very interesting rewards. In Guild Wars, the celebration goes from December 12 to January 2, 2011 with four po... |
16 December 2010
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The decreasing number of players in massively multiplayer online role-playing game Aion has forced NCsoft to decide the merging of some of the game's servers. This will happen in both North America and Europe. While no official dates have been made public, producer Chris Hager promised in his latest letter to th... |
20 May 2010
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NCsoft has announced that it plans to introduce a new significant update to its superhero-based MMO, City of Heroes/City of Villains. Issue 17 will be named Dark Mirror and is set to arrive in April in order to deliver a better graphics rendering engine to the game, called Ultra Mode, which will introduce significant... |
12 February 2010
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Aion was one of the success stories of last year. The MMO developed and published by NCsoft managed to translate its Korean appeal into popularity on Western markets and the creators are hard at work on offering new content for the player base. And it seems that the capacity to alter the look of the in-game model of ... |
26 January 2010
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The economy may be slowly getting back on its feet, but it looks like some are a lot luckier in the money department than others. After all, it's not every day that money falls from the sky and ends up in their mail box by the trillions. True, it's a virtual sky, a virtual mailbox and virtual money in a MMO... |
6 January 2010
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NCsoft, the creator of the MMO Aion, has announced that it is going to offer three weekends during which players will be earning twice the normal experience in the title, in an effort to make it easier for newcomers to actually get into the game and reach a high enough level to be competitive. During the next three w... |
17 December 2009
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The new Guild Wars 2 trailer has captured a lot of attention, and the sequel to one of the top-rated massively multiplayer online role-playing games has players everywhere looking for more details on the upcoming release. One site that managed to get hold of some of the game's developing staff is mmorpg.com and,... |
9 December 2009
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NCSoft's Aion Vision trailer has been up and about the Internet for quite some time now and, like any good trailer, it has stirred a lot of commotion. The quality of the graphics, as well as the visual detail involved look like something no other MMORPG could ever compete with at this point, but the trailer also... |
7 December 2009
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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
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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
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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
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Paragon Studios is celebrating the launch of Issue 16: Power Spectrum, but it's not doing so in-house, over a bottle of wine and party crackers. It's doing it with the gamers of City of Heroes. All inactive accounts in good standing along with the rest of the active players will be able to enjoy a free Reac... |
1 October 2009
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NCsoft might be doing notably well on its big-budget market, but it seems the lesser project won't stay afloat without the proper attention. The casual market for MMOGs isn't as indulging as one might think, and halfhearted games just don't seem to cut it. As such, NCsoft had to let go of five of the D... |
21 September 2009
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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
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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
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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
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City of Heroes/City of Villains, the super hero MMO developed by Paragon and published by NCsoft, has received another free content update, named Issue 15: Anniversary, which brings in new features, missions and customization tools for the niche MMO that has been going for five years now.Brian Clayton, who is the gen... |
2 July 2009
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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
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NCsoft, the current publisher, and Paragon Studios, the developer, have announced that they plan to release a major new expansion for City of Heroes, called Going Rogue. It's the biggest addition of content for the MMO since the 2005 launch of City of Villains. The main concept behind Going Rogue is the idea tha... |
13 May 2009
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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
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Richard Garriott is one of the best known game designers in the world. He is the one who created the Ultima series and provided one of the main characters of Ultima Online, under the name of Lord British.His latest videogame adventure, the futuristic MMO Tabula Rasa, was not as successful, being shut down by NCsoft e... |
8 May 2009
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Comic books, or graphic novels as a lot of fans call them, have shaped a lot of our daily lives and dictate quite a few ways in which we spend our free time. Being the basis for TV shows and movies among other things, comic books are present in our lives everyday. Video games haven't escaped the influence of th... |
29 April 2009
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Online games have become some of the most profitable titles currently found on the gaming market. One needn't look farther than Blizzard's massively successful World of Warcraft MMORPG, which is making a huge amount of money for the company. But another very popular MMORPG is Guild Wars, which is developed... |
27 April 2009
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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
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Comic books have played an important part in a lot of people's lives, especially for gamers, who have been offered a wide variety of titles based on popular comic book characters. From Marvel, DC or any other comics company, the market is filled with them.But NCsoft, the publisher of titles such as Guild Wars or... |
13 April 2009
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The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) genre is a very outstanding one, with almost each and every title having a very loyal fanbase that supports it wholeheartedly and is eager with anticipation when it comes to the release of new updates or even new iterations. While Blizzard's World of W... |
18 February 2009
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Guild War is set to be sustained in the new year by a Live team established in 2008 that will use its time to deliver both monthly updates and bigger content packs. Still, the game is not getting a straight up expansion as ArenaNet, the developer, seems to be hard at work on Guild Wars 2.The monthly updates are set t... |
20 January 2009
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Worlds.com, a company specialized in virtual world development, says that it has filed a suit against NCsoft, a MMO publisher best known for operating City of Heroes/City of Villains, related to the way it has implemented technology in its multiplayer games. The law suit is for patent infringement and the main proble... |
30 December 2008
04:52 GMT |
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The bad news is that Tabula Rasa, the NCsoft developed MMO that drew on the experience of Richard “Lord British” Garriot, of Ultima fame, is closing down. The good news the publisher announced is that the game would be playable for free until then. Initially, the MMO was supposed to become free to play on... |
28 December 2008
12:41 GMT |
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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
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We initially missed this, but City of Heroes/City of Villains is now running a Halloween event that is due to continue until November 2. The developers are saying that the extended period for the event is a special thank-you move addressed to all those who have been playing the MMO and supporting it.Because it is Hal... |
24 October 2008
04:27 GMT |
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NCsoft says that the Issue 13 update for City of Heroes, its superhero based MMO, will no longer include the Architect, the editor which will allow players to make their own adventures.Issue 13 is now named Power and responsibility and will feature things like The Leveling Pact, Multi Builds and a lot of rebalancing.... |
1 October 2008
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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 |
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City of Heroes is set to get another update, in the form of Issue 13, dubbed Architect. The new offering from NCsoft comes with one of the features most requested by fans, the ability to create custom made missions and even entire custom made story arcs.The developers say that they are practically offering players of... |
27 August 2008
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NCsoft, the company specialized in creating hit MMORPG games (such as Lineage or Guild Wars) has announced a brand new title to be released in early 2009. Named Aion: The Quest for Wings, the game is said to be prepared so as to come and "blur the lines between what has typically been considered the realms of dark an... |
19 August 2008
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The new MMO from ArenaNet, called Guild Wars 2, will not make it to open beta in 2008, representatives from the company have said. With a beta early in 2008, the game might be out by the end of 2009, but the developers are not making any promises.They say that "Although we publicly alpha- and beta-tested the original... |
2 July 2008
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NCSoft was planning to release a sci-fi, space MMORPG called Blackstar, but that project never got to live and it seems that the entire IP was considered to be dead weight by NCSoft, since they have decided to sell all the right to Spacetime Studios. The company, an independent game development studio made up of game... |
8 May 2008
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NCsoft has recently announced that it would be introducing a new monetary system in its MMO Exteel. Dubbed NCcoin, the system allows each player to pay real world dollars to obtain NCcoin which them can be used to purchase objects, from armor to potions.Because the initial announcement and the name make NCcoin a glob... |
23 April 2008
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NCsoft has announced a deal with ad supplier Double Fusion on the option to advertise within the City of Heroes/City of Villains universe. The advertising that Double Fusion selects and adapts is to be presented using the billboards that are present within the game universe, which until now only have used fake advert... |
7 April 2008
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Probably there are some statistics hidden on the Internet, but for this issue we don't even need them: the Unreal Engine 3 is probably the most licensed engine on the market. As a further proof stands this new announcement from NCsoft which says that the company has licensed Epic's engine for two yet to be ... |
26 March 2008
03:28 GMT |
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We've recently talked about the Issue 12 update for the popular superhero MMO City of Heroes/City of Villains. The update brings some interesting additions to the game, such as Evil character archetypes and a new Midnight Squad super hero team that will challenge players to travel back in time to the Roman Age t... |
21 March 2008
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It's been a busy late 2007 for City of Heroes/City of Villains. On November 6th, NCsoft, the original publishers of the game, bought the intellectual property rights from developers Cryptic and then created a new NCsoft studio, called NorCal, with a clear mandate to further develop the game both in terms of bala... |
13 March 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Starr Long, who is producer of the science fiction MMO Tabula Rasa, has released a statement responding to recent speculation about the game's performance on the NCsoft website. Long said: "the game has not taken off as quickly as we had hoped," although he reassured players that the company will offer new conte... |
7 March 2008
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