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 Send to email | NCSoft Ditching "Lighter" Games To Focus on Triple A Titles [Massively Multiplayer Online Games] in Massively multiplayer online games Nc austin Nc europe Nc west Ncsoft Original |  By Brian Crecente
el 10-Sep-2008 |  NCsoft's move today to a single new label for their studios marks more than just a shift in management teams and consolidation of subsidiaries. It's also the first step in the company's decision to refocus their efforts on large, triple-A massively multiplayer games, David Reid, NC West president of publishing told Kotaku today.
"This transition is really about ratifying a completely dedicated business to the triple-A titles," Reid said. "We would consider ourselves in the class of five-ish companies in the world that can be successful in this market. We are a leader here and we are doubling down in those efforts." "If you are successful in this business, you are fabulously successful." In so doing, NCsoft plans to shed some of their lighter fare, including "moving away from" Dungeon Runners, Reid said. He declined to say if that meant killing the free-to-play, humorous online game, saying only that there were no announcements about the game at this point. Reid says that another important step in the company's strategy is their deal with Sony to create several online games for the Playstation 3. "You can expect us to be a big player in the console space," he said, pointing to Electronic Arts' successful transition from a PC-only game publisher to a cross-platform company. The move to Seattle itself, though, will have little impact on the day-to-day operations of the company and its subsidiaries, Reid said. A total of 12 of the 250 to 260 positions in Austin are being cut to prepare for the move. NCsoft will continue to have a sizable presence in Austin, Reid said. In Europe, he said, there are 58 positions in product development that have been identified for possible cuts. The final decision about how many of those positions to cut has not yet been made. Reid said the cuts in Europe would come from an unannounced title and not affect any of the games the company has already announced they are working on. No cuts are happening at ArenaNet and, contrary to earlier reports, Tabula Rasa will not be affected at all by the reorganization or job cuts, Reid said. Reid said the move to Seattle is to make it more effective for the company to work with publishers on the West Coast and easier for executives to travel between the U.S., Korea and the U.K. "People who love these big scale MMOs should be thrilled to hear what we're talking about today," Reid said.
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| When EVE Online Textures Go Wrong [Not News] | | Hey, making massively multiplayer online games is difficult. Sometimes things slip through the cracks. But that doesn't mean we can't poke fun at EVE Online when it accidentally snatches the totally wrong texture from the hard-drive. Seems EVE Online likes [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Dec-2008 by Michael McWhertor in Not news Eve Online Mac OS X Mmo Oddities Oops
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| Smedley - MMOs To Sell PS3s [Playstation 3] | | John Smedley loves his massively-multiplayer online games, and well he should, being a co-founder of Verant Interactive and now President of Sony Online Entertainment. Is he taking this love a bit too far in sugge [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-May-2008 by Mike Fahey in MmoMmorpgNewsPlaystation 3SoeSony Online Entertainment
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| Rumor: Job Listing Outs "Star Trek Online" MMO? [Star Trek] | | There's about 15 hours left on a clock at Cryptic Studios' homepage, but an advertisement in the Game Career e-newsletter may have outed what the countdown is for. "Cryptic Studios, a leading independent developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online games, including the upcoming Champions [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jul-2008 by Owen Good in Star trek cryptic studios Mmo Pc Gaming
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| Asian MMO Players Love To Smoke And Grind [Bad Habits] | | As a connoisseur of the MMO genre, I've often noticed that your average Chinese and Korean massively multiplayer online games tend to rely heavily on the mouse, often foregoing keyboard movement altogether in favor of the dreaded click-to-move system that I completely despise. So why do Asian MMO game [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Aug-2008 by Mike Fahey in Bad Habits Asia MMORPGs News Perfect world international Smoking
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| 2K Games Tags Havok For Wii Games [2K Games] | | 2K Games is turning to the Havok physics engine to bring realistic motion to their upcoming lineup of Wii titles. The engine will first be applied to the Carnival Games' sequel Carnival Games: Mini-Golf before being applied to several as-of-yet unannounced Wii titles. Why should we care? Havok [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in 2K Games Carnival Games: Mini-Golf Cry Havok Engine News Wii
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| Game Power 7 Bringing MMOs To The Middle East [Mmoprg] | | Perhaps some of the strife in the Middle East can be attributed to the fact that they don't have any massively-multiplayer online role-playing games localized in Arabic and Farsi. New publisher Game Power 7 is looking to rectify that unfortunate oversight. They've just launched themselves as the fir [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Jul-2008 by Mike Fahey in mmoprg Game power 7 Middle East News Online Games
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| Korean MMO Gets Unreal Engine 3 License [T-Entertainment] | | T-Entertainment, creators of Korean massively multiplayer online role-playing games Laghaim and Last Chaos, licensed the Unreal Engine 3 for an upcoming MMO codenamed L2, the company announced today. ?We have a team of seasoned professionals devoted to L2 project, and we are confident that by integra [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Jun-2008 by Brian Crecente in T-Entertainment l2 Mmo PC Unreal Engine 3
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Mo' MMO news now, with Guild Wars publisher NCSoft announcing its licensing of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 for use in two upcoming, still unannounced massively multiplay [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Mar-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in EpicEpic-GamesNCSoftUnrealUnreal-Engine-3unrealengine3
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