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NCSoft Corporation (Korean: 엔씨소프트, stylized as NC, formerly stylized as NCSOFT) is a South Korean video game developer and publisher headquartered in Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea, primarily known for the distribution of massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as Lineage and Guild Wars.
Netmarble has its origins in the video game developer Ipopsoft (아이팝소프트).Around the late 1990s, that company was in crisis. As an outsider, Bang Jun-hyuk helped locate investors to support the company.
Openmaru studio is an Internet service development studio of game company NCsoft, which is well known for Lineage, Lineage II, and Guild Wars among other MMORPGs.Openmaru was established in August 2006 to expand on its business by entering the Web application and productivity field in developing and offering new Internet services instead of limiting the company's potential to just online gaming.
NCSoft expanded service to 19 countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. [19] After early access started on September 26, the game was released on October 1. [20] Within its first week, the game attracted over 3 million players worldwide, with over 24 million hours of gameplay recorded. [21]
Guild Wars 2 is a free-to-play, [2] massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by ArenaNet and published by NCSoft.Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the core game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, a disbanded guild dedicated to fighting Elder Dragons, colossal Lovecraftian-esque entities that have seized control of Tyria in the time since the original Guild Wars (2005 ...
ArenaNet, LLC is an American video game developer and subsidiary of NCSoft, founded in 2000 by Mike O'Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain and located in Bellevue, Washington. They are most notable as developers of the online role-playing game series Guild Wars.
Auto Assault was a massively multiplayer online game (or MMOG), developed by NetDevil and published by NCSOFT. It combined vehicular combat with role-playing elements, allowing the player to explore a post-apocalyptic future in customizable cars, motorcycles, semis, and tanks. It took inspiration, in part, from the Mad Max series of films.
In April 2009, NCSoft announced that 6 million units of games in the Guild Wars series had been sold. [10] The sequel and fourth major entry into the series, Guild Wars 2 , was announced in March 2007 and released on August 28, 2012.