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NCSoft was founded in March 1997 by Kim Taek Jin. In September 1998, NCSoft launched its first game Lineage.In April 2001 the company created a US subsidiary under the name NC Interactive (based in Austin, Texas, and would later become NCSoft West) after acquiring Destination Games, headed by Richard Garriott and Robert Garriott. [5]
Netmarble produces role-playing mobile games. As of 2015, it had more than 3,000 employees and served over 120 countries worldwide. In May 2017, Bang took the company public, raising $2.4 billion. [4] Netmarble has developed mobile games including Seven Knights, Raven (Evilbane in the U.S.) and Everybody's Marble.
NCSoft officially announced Lineage Eternal as the sequel to the first Lineage, released in 1998, in November 2011. [4] The first gameplay videos debuted at the G-Star 2011 gaming convention in South Korea on November 9. [5] In August 2013, NCSoft was preparing to roll out the beta schedule of Lineage Eternal by the end of that year. [6]
Lineage 2: Revolution is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Netmarble for mobile platforms under license from NCSoft, taking place 100 years before the events of NCSoft's Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction storyline. [1] It is part of the Lineage series.
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 ...
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.
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.
The original En Masse leadership team had extensive experience in the video game industry at leading companies, including Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft, NCsoft, ArenaNet, and Electronic Arts. [1] In January 2013, Chris Lee and Soo Min Park became chief executive officer and chief operating officer, respectively. [2]