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Monday, Dec 8
NCsoft Bids Farewell To The ESA [Ncsoft]
MMORPG publisher NCsoft is the latest game company to sever their ties with game industry trade group and E3 organizers the Entertainment Software Association. Game Politics spoke with the ESA, who...
Friday, Nov 21
NCSoft Doles Out Freebies to Tabula Rasa Subscribers [Tabula Rasa]
Shortly after they announced that they were pulling the plug on the Richard Garriott led massively multiplayer online game and that people who worked on the title were losing their jobs, NCsoft broke down some of the things they are going to try and alleviate the sting of playing on a soon t...
Tabular Rasa: Tabula Rasa Shutting Down, Team Hit by Lay Offs
Our sources tell us that only a handful of people from the original Tabula Rasa team will be sticking around to maintain the game until it is shut down. Update: NCsoft spokesman David Swofford confirmed to Kotaku that the game has been ...
Tabula Rasa Shutting Down, Team Hit by Lay Offs [Disturbance In The Workforce]
Sources tell us that today many of the Tabula Rasa team were let go. The plug has also been pulled on the game, according to both our sources and the official Tabula Rasa website: Before we end the service, we'll make Tabula Rasa servers free to play starting on January 10, 2009.
Tuesday, Nov 11
Beware the Dairy Goblin [Day Note]
Fat Princess Devs Working on Unreal Engine 3-Based MMO GameStop Has More Wrath Of The Lich King Collector's Editions Atlus Cosplayers Do Atlus Proud Richard Garriott Bids Farewell To NCsoft Frankenreview: Resistance 2 Mirror's Edge PC Version Plus Cross-Platform DLC In January
Thursday, Oct 30
City Of Heroes Goes Mac [City Of Heroes]
NCsoft and TransGaming Announce City of Heroes for the Mac The City of Heroes Mac Special Edition digital product will be sold at the PlayNC store and at GameTree Online. City of Heroes is rated "T" for Teen. For more information about City of Heroes go to http://www.cityofheroes.com.
Tuesday, Sep 9
NC Europe, NC Austin and ArenaNet Transform to Become NC West
NC West is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation, a world leading publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games including Lineage/Lineage II, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa®, and Aion®: The Tower of Eternity™. More...
Sunday, Apr 13
NCsoft Shuts Down Illegal Servers
BRIGHTON, England (10th April 2008) - NCsoft®, the world-leading, publisher of massively multiplayer online games such as Guild Wars®, Lineage® II and City of Heroes®, today announced that it was stepping up its fight against the growing menace of intellectual property theft. This ac...
Tuesday, Mar 25
NCsoft Readies Two More Unreal MMOs [Unreal Engine 3]
SEOUL, KOREA (March 25, 2008) - NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced that it has reinforced its relationship with Epic Games, Inc. by licensing Unreal Engine 3 to develop two unannounced, top-tier massively multi...
Tuesday, Feb 26
Guild Wars Sells 5 Million [Big Numbers]
Guild Wars Tops Five Million Units Sold Bellevue, WA. Feb. 26, 2008--NCsoft® and ArenaNet® have announced that the Guild Wars® franchise of online roleplaying games has surpassed five million units sold in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Wednesday, Dec 19
Aion Character Classes Revealed, Still Painfully Pretty [Gallery]
Wednesday 19th December/... Massively Multiplayer Online RPG fans can look forward to a wealth of career opportunities in NCsoft's forthcoming Aion: The Tower of Eternity next year, with gamers able to literally choose their destiny thanks to the game's two-tiered character class syst...
Saturday, Dec 15
NCsoft Releases New Lineage II Expansion [Lineage II]
NCsoft® today announced the release of Kamael, the newest and largest addition to the Lineage® II franchise. At more than 1 Gigabyte, Kamael is the largest expansion ever for the massively multiplayer online PC game and adds an entirely new playable race, new lands, ongoing fortress bat...
Tuesday, Dec 11
Dungeon Runners Blows Chunk 2 [In Game Advertising]
The hallmark of Chunk 2 is in-game advertising which will help fund future development of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) and keep it free for players. The in-game advertising will be visible to non-members in loading screens and in a banner that sits on top of the game window...
Tuesday, Nov 27
NCSoft: We Have No Intention of Leaving Games [Mmos]
If it turns out that they're exploring new ways to blend social networks and massively multiplayer online games, I'm so down with that. Seems like a potentially very cool idea and we all know that the world of MMOs could use a bit of a shake up.
Thursday, Nov 1
Tabula Rasa Is Live [Sweet Release]
Friday 2nd November/...NCsoft® Europe, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announced today that Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa™, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for the PC where players are thrust into an exciting intergalactic struggle,...
Thursday, Oct 4
NCSoft Grabs Dev Team
NCSoft today announced that Carbine Studios is working on an unannounced massively multiplayer online game for them. Carbine Studios is made up of 17 former Blizzard employees including the lead and senior developers from the World of Warcraft team. "This is a dev team made in heaven," sa...
Wednesday, Jul 11
E307: NCsoft Signs Exclusive Deal With Sony
Lineage on its way to the PlayStation Network? NCsoft struck an exclusive arrangement with Sony, but there are no details regarding the names or types of games in developement. Both existing and new IP are under consideration. Full release after the jump. NCsoft Signs Exclusive Game Devel...
Tuesday, Jul 3
NCSoft's E3 Line-Up [E307]
Joining the ever-expanding list of publishers bragging about their showing at the upcoming E3, NCsoft announced that Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, Aion, Guild Wars: Eye of the North and Dungeon Runners will be among their titles. Hit the jump for the full release with descriptions.
Wednesday, May 2
Ray Guns And Rat Tails: Tabula Rasa Closed Beta Begins
Austin, Texas, May 2, 2007--NCsoft® today announced that closed beta testing is beginning for the company's highly anticipated online computer game, Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa™. The start of closed beta marks the game's final development stages as Tabula Rasa approaches an anti...
Wednesday, Feb 21
Lineage II's Chaotic Chronicle Concludes
Wednesday 21st February/...NCsoft® Corporation is pleased to announce the impending conclusion to Lineage® II: The Chaotic Chronicle™, one of the world's largest and most popular massively multiplayer online role-play games (MMORPG) already enjoyed by 14 million gamers worldwide. T...
Monday, Jan 8
Guild Wars Holiday Draws Massive Numbers
NCsoft North America is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft, with its own development and publishing offices in Texas and California, also works with other NCsoft subsidiaries and third party developers through...
Sunday, Dec 31
My Darkest Moments of 2006 Video Game Reporting [Crecente]
Last week I posted a link to a piece Stephen Totilo wrote for MTV about his personal worst moments in video game journalism in 2006. The phone rings: Brian?" What's wrong?" An NCsoft rep flew in from Austin so she could sit down with me and the development team to talk about Auto Assault.
Friday, Jun 23
NCSoft Austin Sacks 23 Percent of Staff [Auto Assault]
Site f13.net, which first reported on the firings, blamed the firings on Auto Assault. The site, quoting an unnamed developer-only message board, wrote that the car-themed massively multiplayer online game has less than 10,000 subscribers. That compares to City of Heroes and City of Vil...
