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News: Nearly 1 million copies of Aion shifted
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...
Tuesday, Oct 6
News: NCsoft: Aion has plenty of space now
If the solution were as simple as rolling out new servers, we would no longer see queues today, given that we've already rolled out six new servers in Europe alone," Ryan James, PR director for NCsoft West, told us. "The reality is that there are servers today that have no queues in Europe.
Monday, Oct 5
News: NCsoft addresses Aion server issues
There's no doubt that we've done some things very well with Aion: the product is polished and incredibly fun. We managed to deploy to North America and Europe within the same week and have experienced strong demand. As most of you are aware, this has come at a cost in the form of queue times. This...
Thursday, Oct 1
News: City of Heroes wants you back
Big reactivation push next weekend. NCsoft is planning a major City of Heroes push for next weekend, hoping to rekindle the superhero flame with reactivation treats. Anyone returning to the game in "good standing" can play free from next Thursday, 8th October to Sunday, 11th October.
Tuesday, Sep 29
News: Aion opens two new European servers
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...
Friday, Sep 18
News: Aion trumpets 400,000 pre-orders
NCsoft has pumped itself up for next week's banner launch of Aion: The Tower of Eternity by telling the world that it has taken nearly 400,000 preorders for the massively multiplayer RPG. The game then launches officially in the US on the Tuesday 22nd, and here in Europe on Friday 25th. Pre-o...
News: Dungeon Runners to die at New Year
Stephen Nichols, producer and lead programmer of NCsoft's free-to-play online RPG Dungeon Runners, has announced that the game is to shut down on January 1st 2010. Reason: it's not making money. NCsoft will be compensating Dungeon Runners players with free game time and copies of City of...
Friday, Aug 28
News: Aion open beta and early access dated
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.
Wednesday, Aug 12
News: Guild Wars creator leaves NCsoft West
Jeff Strain... has chosen to leave NCsoft under amicable terms and NCsoft wishes him the best in his new endeavour," said NCsoft West in a statement." This does not change our plans or negatively impact our upcoming launch of Aion... These changes do not influence any other teams, development sc...
Tuesday, Jul 7
Hands On: Aion: The Tower of Eternity
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...
Wednesday, Jul 1
News: City of Heroes Issue 15 released
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.
Tuesday, Jun 23
News: Aion heads to Europe in September
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.
Thursday, Jun 18
News: Early and beta access for Aion pre-orders
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.
Wednesday, Jun 17
News: Aion open beta to run in August
Having already tested the game extensively before its Korean launch last year, NCsoft is contenting itself with a series of short weekend tests in the West. The first phase of closed beta took place at the end of E3 week, which explains why we missed it. Sorry.
Tuesday, May 12
News: City of Heroes getting second expansion
Going Rogue lets Heroes turn Villain. NCsoft has unveiled the first major expansion for City of Heroes since City of Villains launched in 2005. It's called Going Rogue and is "coming soon".
Thursday, May 7
News: Garriott says he was forced out by NCsoft
Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott claims that he was forced out by former employer NCsoft, and the publisher subsequently "re-characterised" the move as voluntary. That's according to the suit for fraud Garriott brought against the Korean company this week. Gamasutra has obtained...
Wednesday, May 6
News: Richard Garriott suing NCsoft for fraud
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...
Thursday, Apr 30
News: City of Heroes Issue 15 announced
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.
Monday, Apr 27
News: Guild Wars sells six million copies
Unlike most MMORPGs, NCsoft charges no subscription fee for Guild Wars, deriving all its revenues from those four releases in as many years. The plan seems to have worked, although it's unknown if in-development sequel Guild Wars 2 will follow the same model.
Thursday, Mar 12
News: Blizzard targeted in MMO patent dispute
WOW and Second Life next if NCsoft loses.
