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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
04:26 GMT |
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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
02:41 GMT |
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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
06:36 GMT |
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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
03:40 GMT |
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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
13:00 GMT |
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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
03:29 GMT |
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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
02:32 GMT |
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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
18:11 GMT |
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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
02:58 GMT |
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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
02:34 GMT |
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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
11:01 GMT |
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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
02:29 GMT |
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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
13:01 GMT |
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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
02:35 GMT |
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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
02:57 GMT |
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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
02:21 GMT |
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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
03:36 GMT |
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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
14:11 GMT |
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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
21:16 GMT |
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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
15:06 GMT |
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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
14:06 GMT |
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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
12:06 GMT |
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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
16:06 GMT |
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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
16:06 GMT |
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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
05:56 GMT |
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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
03:11 GMT |
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With all the scandal around NCsoft, the Korea Times and the question whether Tabula Rasa is a success or a bust, it is fairly easy to overlook news about another NCsoft product. The Guild Wars series, made up of the original game, campaign add-ons Factions and Nightfall plus the recent expansion called Eye of the Nor... |
27 February 2008
02:37 GMT |
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Tabula Rasa is still going strong despite the rumors the MMOG is in so much financial trouble that its developer NCsoft has no other option but to shut it down and disband the Austin studio that created the game. NCsoft has hit back and described the news as wildly inaccurate and in no way based upon facts, going so ... |
20 February 2008
13:46 GMT |
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Aion: The Tower of Eternity is one of those MMORPGs that have something special, that no other game in the genre has. One of those things is the game's two-tiered character class system, which, courtesy of an NCsoft official report today, is disclosed in full. Practically, there are a total of eight character ty... |
20 December 2007
13:06 GMT |
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NCsoft Europe has announced Chunk 2 as available for download, for the company's free MMORPG. As its name implies, Chunk 2 is of course the second content update for Ncsoft's Dungeon Runners, which includes in-game advertising in non-member worlds, more bank space for members, item trading, increased acces... |
12 December 2007
03:35 GMT |
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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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It's official, MMORPG fans, Tabula Rasa is out and ready for the taking! NCsoft themselves made the official announcement yesterday, confirming that the PC game plunging you into a fierce intergalactic battle will be available in North America and Europe on November 2nd, 2007 - that's today. You can go for ... |
2 November 2007
06:24 GMT |
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Double Fusion has entered a partnership with video games publisher NCsoft to provide "in- and around-game advertising" into two of Ncsoft's titles, one of which is the upcoming giant robot action game, Exteel. The second one, currently available exclusively for PC, is Dungeon Runners. The agreement comes as a so... |
26 October 2007
08:37 GMT |
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There's a new development house in town, named Carbine Studios and its existence was announced last week. The company's owned by NCSoft and focuses on MMO titles, as the team of developers promises to change the world of MMORPGs forever. You might want to know that Carbine's staff includes ex-WoW desi... |
10 October 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Generally, when you hear "NCsoft has announced..." you'd expect a new game, an expansion pack and so on, but not a device, aiding you in your quest when playing Guild Wars, now would you? Didn't think so. Well, as it turns out, NCsoft Europe has just revealed to the press that a special Guild Wars edition o... |
2 October 2007
09:15 GMT |
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NCsoft and ArenaNet have officially launched Guild Wars' expansion, Eye of the North. Players of the subscription-free MMORPG who purchase the expansion can access it through Guild Wars, Guild Wars: Factions, or Guild Wars: Nightfall. But there's another important aspect to be mentioned about Eye of the Nor... |
31 August 2007
09:33 GMT |
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Today, the world's leading publisher and developer of online games, NCsoft Europe has announced its embracing paysafecard, a new way for players across Europe to pay for their favourite NCsoft games, without the need of a credit card. The official says that paysafecard will go into effect on this address startin... |
2 August 2007
09:00 GMT |
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Finally... NCsoft Europe and ArenaNet have announced that the pre-release bonus pack for Guild Wars: Eye of the North is set to hit retailers on July 20th (which is two days from now - Friday) and will include exclusive in-game items and access to the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Sneak Peek Weekend set for later this... |
18 July 2007
04:54 GMT |
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NCsoft has just revealed its lineup for the E3 Media & Business Summit July 11-13 in Santa Monica, where the company will provide a preview of its most anticipated online titles slated for a release in both 2007 and 2008. Below, you have a few words from Ncsoft's CEO of North America, Robert Garriott and a littl... |
4 July 2007
08:36 GMT |
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If you're a fan of the MMORPG genre, then you must be a fan of Ncsoft's Guild Wars. If so, you should know that the developer, ArenaNet and the game's publisher, NCsoft Europe have revealed that Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the first expansion to the subscription-free MMORPG title, will be released on... |
3 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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NCsoft North America has launched Dungeon Runners, the first in a series of free MMO titles from the developer. Players also have the option to upgrade to a membership level, but this one will cost them some $4.99 per month. However, the paid level features extra storage for items, log-in queue priority and "access t... |
30 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Guild Wars Prophecies started it all. During the two years since the campaign was released, the game's developer, ArenaNet and publisher NCsoft, launched two additional stand-alone games: Guild Wars Factions and Guild Wars Nightfall, thus selling 3.5 million copies of the Guild Wars series, making it one of the ... |
27 April 2007
05:40 GMT |
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This year's GDC hosted a lot of great events in the world of games, among which Sony's speech regarding their social service-the PlayStation Home, that looks an awful lot like the Second Life sim, Nintendo's Super Paper Mario in-game footage and many others. GDC also hosted the presentation of Ncsoft&#... |
8 March 2007
06:45 GMT |
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