Posts tagged with 'ncsoft'

  • Exteel is now live

    POSTED BY NEMO, DECEMBER 04 2007 06:57 PM | PERMALINK

    I think Exteel gets the record from going from open beta to live game in the shortest amount of time; it took only 20 days of open testing for the folks at NC Soft to say this game was ready for launch. Going live means that a full patch of the game was tested… and basically no changes were made. They added 3 new mechs, a boosters, and a new set of weapons that are just palette swaps of other weapons with slightly different stats. The one actual big change from the beta version is how all the new...

  • NC Soft DID come out on top from the Marvel lawsuit

    POSTED BY NEMO, NOVEMBER 16 2007 01:07 PM | PERMALINK




    NCsoft recently acquired total control of COH/COV as Cryptic Studios headed over to make the Marvel MMO. I made this post a week ago speculating on how this whole deal went about and how NC Soft came out basically untouched. Now, according to 1UP.com and Next-gen, the Marvel Universe MMO is looking like it's heading the way of the West African Black Rhino. This means that you are probably not going to find this game in your local game shop. Apparently the game is so fugly that if there isn't...

  • Exteel open beta launches!

    POSTED BY NEMO, NOVEMBER 15 2007 06:08 PM | PERMALINK






    Exteel is NC Soft's next MMO up to bat in it's very, very big lineup. According to their description it "blends the immersive thrill of an FPS with the furious and brutal intensity of Hong Kong gun-play mixed with the feel of classic robot anime." So this game should really be called Gundam Boiled Arena or something like that.

    I haven't jumped into the action yet but from the info on the site it looks like it's going to be a very fast pace version of the Armored Core games. So if you are a...

  • Tabula Rasa is out!

    POSTED BY NEMO, NOVEMBER 02 2007 12:42 PM | PERMALINK




    Richard Garriott's, a.k.a Lord British a.k.a General British, Tabula Rasa officially launches today. This futuristic MMO that takes place in the present brings on the new, and trademarked, cloning system that allows you to make copies of your characters at certain points of your advancement to give the choice to take a different path later on if you decided to.

    For some reason futuristic MMOs never really catch on even though everyone says that they are tired of the usual fantasy setting. Will this...