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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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History has not been kind to MMOs in the last few months. After all, Hellgate: London is gone, Tabula Rasa went out with a bang earlier in the year, and Age of Conan has been merging servers in an effort to make sure that the player density is constant. It seems that only World of Warcraft from Blizzard, and free-to-... |
23 June 2009
04:20 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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Tabula Rasa no longer exists. The MMO, created by NCsoft, failed to attract enough players to be economically viable and was taken offline at the end of February. But the developer chose to go out in style.A post on the official site of Tabula Rasa details how humanity is getting ready to perform a last stand against... |
2 March 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Funcom, the developer and the publisher of the Age of Conan MMO, has presented its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 and they aren't good at all. The company says that it has lost no less than 23.3 million dollars, with the main reason being pointed out as the less than stellar performance of Age ... |
25 February 2009
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Age of Conan was one of the three big MMO launches of 2008, together with Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft. The game sold very well at retail initially and most players rather enjoyed the first part, which was more like a single player action adven... |
26 January 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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The gaming industry has quite a lot of emblematic figures, with plenty of them having gained worldwide fame due to their hard work and to the innovations they brought to the whole entertainment industry. One of these figures is reputed game designer and producer Richard Garriott, more fondly known as Lord British, th... |
7 January 2009
16:31 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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Namco Bandai, who now own the MMO, are saying that they plan to shut down Hellgate: London on January 31, 2009 because the Flagship Studios developed game is not attracting enough players to justify the day to day costs.Flagship Studios went down at the end of July and are in no way involved in running the game.... |
27 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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Ok, maybe gamers did not love Tabula Rasa, the latest MMO project from Richard Garriot, the guy who is better known as Lord British of Ultima fame. The game, a sci-fi shooter MMO with a touch of mystique, is said to have had some financial problems, but whether or not those rumors are true is not the issue now. Richa... |
31 July 2008
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Electronic Arts is betting big on online gaming, mainly MMOs and also casual games portals. A senior executive declared that while currently only 10-15% of the income from Asian markets is generated online, the company is expected to get more than 75% of its Asian revenue from the online market within five years.Also... |
23 June 2008
14:06 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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Huxley is a much delayed project and an MMO. So, the signs are not good for developer Webzen. A similarly late MMO, Richard Gariott's much troubled Tabula Rasa, has yet to make profit and create a niche for itself in the MMO market. Another champion of delays, Age of Conan, is also due to launch later this year.... |
7 March 2008
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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
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The Tabula Rasa fans that kept asking to be allowed to play alien races will now have a reason to be extremely happy: NCsoft has announced that the latest update for their MMO includes the Hybrids. These are DNA spliced human-alien cross breeds with enhanced attributes and distinct physical appearance and they are, a... |
5 February 2008
05:57 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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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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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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