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From 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, 29 August, players and representatives from the NCsoft community relations and game development teams will gather at the Gordon Biersch Brewing Co. at 600 Pine St., Suite 401 for some fun, food, and epic story telling about your gaming experiences.

Community members of City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa, Exteel, Dungeon Runners, Lineage I & II, and Aion are all welcome to attend.

Included in the $15.00 event price is an assortment of cold and hot food platters including appetizers, salads, and housemade, oven-fired pizzas. Sales tax and gratuity are also included, however beverages are not.

Admission must be pre-paid through Brown Paper Tickets, walk-ins may be accepted dependent upon cancellations. For further information, please contact Ex Libris, Community Relations Coordinator for City of Heroes.

We would like to thank members of the CoH community for setting up this event and hope to see you there!

The Aion team in Korea announced that Aion will be entering Open Beta in Korea on November 11th. This is exciting news for us as well! Since the game has entered its next phase in Korea, we thought we’d take a few minutes to explain the status of Aion in the west. We are currently in the process of localizing and culturalizing the game for the western market in order to reach the same level of quality that the game provides and are in heavy planning for our testing phases in North America and Europe. We are taking the utmost care in the localization process and we’re dedicated to releasing the very best product in NCsoft West territories. With the ball now rolling, expect to hear much more, and see much more out of Aion in the coming months.

October 23, Hanbok “aion Tower,” a public presentation of the contents of the page, open new shots, the original painting, wallpaper and other new content. 1-9 Down:Here:

The following is the “eternal tower,” the latest wallpaper, the screen is divided into the standard version (1600 * 1200) and the widescreen version (1920 * 1200) are two.

In addition, players around the world for “AION” expectations, NCsoft has also made public for the first time in the future of the global game. Known in the program, in the future “AION” overseas operation will be for China to start and gradually extended to the United States, Europe, Japan, Russia, Taiwan and other regions. This, NCsoft, a subsidiary of the Taiwan Jien Li said, has begun preparations for an active agent for the Taiwan players, please be patient.

“AION” the Korean version of the test will be open on November 11, 2008 to open a formal run, on October 30 to November 10 will be open to players in advance to choose the “game servers” and the “role”, the follow-up to update the information base News Center will continue to report for the players.

In addition, Taiwan’s Jien Li today provides a more exclusive “AION” video game; this film will be opening a lead Atreia view of the world, the second half of the game is combat footage and vocational skills to appreciate, the unique level of Behind In recent years, said leading online games

Every day of Games Convention for one hour, the NCsoft stand turned into an impromptu theatre, as we had characters from Aion (Alma, Namiya) and Guild Wars (Gwen, Reyna) perform the winning scripts for our Set the Stage competition. Now you can see the best of these scripts, our ultimate winners of Set the Stage, on video.

After going through all the initial entries we chose three finalists, but left the final decision on who would get the main prize and who would be runner ups. Based on feedback from our performers, the crowd and our video footage, we’ve now picked our winners:

First Place
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‘Captive’ by Will Carpenter
Download the Script (PDF)
Watch the Video
Watch the subtitled Video

(Please note when watching the video, a packed Games Convention is not the best place to film! As the performances were done live in front of an audience, we were limited in camera angles and sound. We hope you enjoy regardless.)

Runner ups
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‘Dusk’ by Felix Buck
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‘Wandering’ by Chrome Shiel
Download the Script (PDF)

Join us in congratulating all of the winners – it was a tough choice for us to make, but we were really happy with what they produced!

If you’re interested in seeing the winning entry for Guild Wars, visit the official Guild Wars European site.

By your powers combined, NCsoft Int, Austin, EU, and Arenanet have become…NCsoft West! Press release time, baby. Previously discussed in this thread. What does it all mean? Hopefully someone from NCsoft itself can drop by and fill us in. I hope it’s a positive move for everyone involved with AION.

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NCsoft Announces Formation of “NC West”
CEO Taek Jin Kim Promotes Chris Chung, Jeff Strain, David Reid, and Patrick Wyatt

SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 10, 2008— NCsoft ® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS), the world’s leading publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), including award-winning franchises Lineage ®, Guild Wars ® and City of Heroes ®, today announced the formation of “NC West™”. A wholly-owned subsidiary of NCsoft with operating responsibility for western regions including the US and Europe, NC West will be led by Chris Chung as CEO, Jeff Strain as president, product development, David Reid as president, publishing, and Patrick Wyatt as CTO as well as yet unannounced European executives.

NCsoft’s existing subsidiaries NC Interactive, NC Europe, NC Austin, and ArenaNet will be led as a unified organization under NC West with a dedicated focus towards becoming the world’s premier western publisher of MMOs. NC West is the tentative name for the organization, and the company expects to announce final naming and corporate structure in the near future. NC West’s headquarters is planned to be established in Seattle, WA by the end of 2008.

Chris Chung, previously CEO of NC Interactive, has a long history with NCsoft. He began his tenure at NCsoft’s ArenaNet® studio, where he managed that studio’s business and helped launch the multi-platinum selling Guild Wars franchise. Chung later went on to become the chief publishing officer for NCsoft’s Seoul headquarters. Prior to NCsoft, Chung spent more than five years at Microsoft and later co-founded a marketing research firm. As CEO of NC West, Chung will continue to report directly to NCsoft CEO Taek Jin (TJ) Kim.

“We are confident that by combining our subsidiaries into a unified global organization under Chris Chung’s leadership, NC West will become a more powerful force to be reckoned with in the western MMO market,” said TJ Kim. “Chris has become a guiding force within our company and has been extremely successful at every position he has held with us. His detailed first-hand knowledge of all aspects of our business is invaluable and will help establish NC West as a global leader.”

Jeff Strain was formerly the president and co-founder of ArenaNet, a company he formed with Patrick Wyatt and Mike O’Brien when they left senior roles at Blizzard Entertainment in 2000. Additionally, Strain held the position of executive producer of Guild Wars 2™ prior to taking this new role. Strain will report directly to Chung and manage all NC West development studios across all existing and future products. Strain will also direct the production of NCsoft’s Asian-developed titles for NC West territories.

David Reid began with NCsoft in March 2008 as vice-president, marketing for North America. Reid came to NCsoft from Turner Broadcasting’s GameTap, where he served as vice-president, marketing. Prior to that, he worked at Microsoft as director of global platform marketing, where he launched the Xbox 360. In his new role, Reid will continue to report to Chung and will lead franchise management, marketing, public relations, sales, and customer support for NC West.

As a founder of ArenaNet, Patrick Wyatt led the development of the network and server technologies for the Guild Wars franchise, and directed the architecture and deployment of ArenaNet’s global game network infrastructure. Before co-founding ArenaNet with Strain and O’Brien, Wyatt was the vice president of research and development for Blizzard Entertainment, where he led programming for the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises. As CTO for NC West, Wyatt will report to Chung and will focus on platform technology development, network operations, and systems engineering.

“There is an unparalleled opportunity for growth in the massively multiplayer online market,” said Chris Chung. “By combining the strength of our US and European teams, NCsoft has the best global infrastructure to win in new and existing markets, and the best developer talent capable of creating blockbuster MMO franchises.”

About 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 information about NCsoft can be found at http://www.PlayNC.com .

NCsoft, ArenaNet, Lineage, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Tabula Rasa, Aion, The Tower of Eternity and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.