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Fine Art: The Works Of NCSoft Artist Park Jong Won

Park Jong Won is a Korean concept artist who currently works for NCSoft, the MMO giant behind games like Lineage, Aion and Guild Wars. The art you’ll see below are my favourite pieces from his portfolio, because, to me, they’re the covers to books I’ve never read, but if I saw them staring back at me from a shelf, I would buy in an instant.


City Of Heroes’ Studio Fought To The Bitter End To Save The MMO, Designer Says

Gamasutra‘s postmortem of City of Heroes and Paragon Studios says the MMO’s development staff did everything it could to keep the game running — including trying to buy it from publisher NCSoft. Apparently, plans for one final update were shot down right before the game was closed on December 1.


Lineage Cosplay Needs Fancy Outfits And Giant Swords

In Asia, especially South Korea, the Lineage games are quite popular. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t fans in the West. That doesn’t mean that at all.


Do You Remember All The Game Developers Bought Out In 2012?

The division and sale of THQ into smaller, more manageable portions has served as a full stop on the wheeling and dealing of 2012. True, the sale itself occurred in 2013, but it was last year that the industry at large and perhaps more so gamers, became fully aware of the dire straits the company was in.


New York Bans Another 2000 Sex Offenders From Online Gaming

The US state of New York, whose “Operation Game Over” earlier this year banned more than 3500 registered sex offenders from services like Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, has booted another 2100 from online gaming after bringing THQ, Funcom and NCSoft to the cause.


City Of Heroes Goes Out With A Roar And A Bang

Last night NCsoft shut down City of Heroes, a landmark game that eight years ago brought the thrills of super powers and comic book crime-fighting to an MMO role-playing world.


The Two Superhero MMOs Not Facing Imminent Death Are Doing Just Fine

As fans gather in a desperate attempt to save the doomed City of Heroes from its announced closure, DC Universe Online unleashes mystical forces with its latest expansion and Dr Destroyer’s army of Destroid robots rises in Champions Online in celebration of the game’s third anniversary.


Dinner’s On Us, Grateful Fans Say To City Of Heroes Developers

Last week’s vigil in Paragon City was misunderstood (including by me) to be a protest against the announced shutdown of City of Heroes, the eight-year-old superhero MMO. It was intended as a statement of support and tribute, particularly to the Paragon Studios development team that, let’s not forget, is seeing the end of something it cares for, as well as the end of all their jobs.


City Of Heroes Protest Takes Its Case To City Hall

The City of Heroes community has called for a massive demonstration at 5pm EDT in Atlas Park to protest the MMO’s shutdown. [Update] But apparently it’s already begun.


MMO Developer Paragon Studios Closing, City Of Heroes To Be Shut Down

Paragon Studios has announced that effective immediately, all work on superhero-themed MMORPG City of Heroes will be ceasing, and the game will be shut down by the end of the year. In a post on the official City of Heroes site, community manager Andy Belford wrote the following.


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