Press Releases
NCsoft's New City of Heroes and City of Villains Expansion
NCsoft® and Cryptic Studios™ have released the newest expansion to City of Heroes® and City of Villains® delivering greater depth to players with the inclusion of an innovative crafting system and auction houses. The expansion, “Issue 9: Breakthrough”, free to current subscribers, also includes new high-level adventures with the new Statesman™ Taskforce and an update of the Hamidon Encounter. Read More…
Closed Beta Testing for Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa™ Starts
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 anticipated launch this fall in North America and Europe. Read More…
NCsoft Launches New Era in Lineage II®
NCsoft® today announced the release of Interlude, an expansion to the massively multiplayer online PC game Lineage® II in North America and Europe. Interlude is the next step in the evolution of Lineage II, forming a bridge between The Chaotic Chronicle and the game’s next chapter, The Chaotic Throne. The Interlude expansion is free to all current Lineage II subscribers. Read More…
Original Lineage® Game Grows Even Larger with Episode 5
NCsoft® today announced the release of Episode 5, Temple of Shadows™, the latest free content update to its North American Lineage® service. The release is the latest for the original Lineage game, now nearly a decade old, which continues its leadership position in the online computer games space with a worldwide customer reach of more than 50-million people. Read More…
Guild Wars 2, Guild Wars Expansion Announced
NCsoft, ArenaNet reveal future plans for high-flying online roleplaying franchise; Guild Wars: Eye of the North scheduled for holiday 2007 release Read More…
NCsoft® Records KRW 338.7 Billion in Sales for 2006
NCsoft® reported fourth quarter sales of KRW 90.2 billion and net profit of KRW 18.7 billion, along with plans to service major game titles including Aion™ and Tabula Rasa™ in 2007. Read More…
Players Flock to Guild Wars® in Record-Breaking Numbers
The annual Guild Wars® Wintersday Festival kicked off on December 20, 2006, drawing new and existing players into the game in record-breaking numbers. Read More…
Guild Wars® Exceeds Three Million Sold
Fueled by sales of the hit game Guild Wars Nightfall™, the latest release in the award-winning Guild Wars® franchise, sales for one of the world’s leading subscription-free online roleplaying games have surpassed three million units worldwide in a little more than a year and a half. Read More…
Guild Wars Factions™ Wins Billboard’s DEMMX Award
Guild Wars Factions™, one of the year’s most-popular online games, took home the award for Multiplayer Game of the Year Wednesday at Billboard Magazine’s prestigious Digital Entertainment Marketing and Media Excellence (DEMMX) awards gala. Guild Wars Factions was honored as the best game played online by more than one player. Read More…
NCsoft’s Auto Assault® Hits Highway with New Content
NCsoft® today announced the release of another free update to Auto Assault® in both North America and Europe. Players will enjoy new instances, enhancements to the outpost token system and skills, two new weapon sets, and a few new bosses to test their mettle. Read More…
