Dungeon Runners

Stephen Nichols, producer and lead programmer of NCsoft's free-to-play online RPG Dungeon Runners, has announced that the game is to shut down on January 1st 2010. Reason: it's not making money. Dungeon Runners just isn't cutting the mustard, Nichols confessed. If she were a ship, she'd be taking on water... The game just isn't profitable.

Dungeon Runners has just released its newest patch which introduces players to some exciting new features to this free-to-play NCsoft title. Build 147 (Chunk 4) has added posses to the game, which act much like a guild in other games. It's basically described as a persistent group of friends in-game who have their own entry on the social window and their own chat channels. Although this build will officially add this feature to the game, it won't be active for another week or so. This build also adds a brand new player blog system that tracks events via RSS. These events include login, logout, level up, quest completion, deaths, pvp match results and more.

Via TheGameReviews.com TheGameReviews.com was lucky enough to be able to speak to Jon Jones, art production manager at NCsoft Austin. During this interview, Jon spoke about upcoming updates for the free MMO Dungeon Runners and also get some details regarding the retail version of the game.

Kotaku reports: NCsoft's free-to-play hack and slash game Dungeon Runners is getting another update, only this time it isn't a full blown Chunk expansion - merely a Heave - there's that trademark highbrow Dungeon Runners humor for you.

MMO house NCsoft is adding a new revenue stream to its free titles in a deal with in-game ad firm Double Fusion. Free-to-play/download MMOs Exteel and Dungeon Runners will be getting in-game and around game advertising, as an increasing amount of online game companies enter the free model fray. While the two NCsoft games are free for anyone with an Internet connection, the game maker also offers low-cost subscriptions and virtual item sales, which will supplement in-game ad revenues.

Aug 30, 2007 NCSoft's MMO Dungeon Runners - which you can play for free - has received its first content update. At the top of the content pile in the new update stands the introduction of PvP worlds, which eliminates all player-versus-environment tasks and focus purely on player-versus-player combat in various maps and settings. Accompanying that, Dungeon Runners can now have three characters per account, and naturally there's the usual new quests, armour sets and skills that are pretty

Between now and next month's E3 Expo Dungeon Runner, NCSoft's free-to-play online dungeon crawler, is getting some major updates. The game will still look the same, but once the upgrades hits Dungeon Runners will feature voice chat, a new play control system, more quests and, the best part, some player versus player action. One thing though won't change, the game will continue to run on a split free and pay-to-play model.

NCsoft North America launched today the free-to-play MMO Dungeon Runners, the first of a series of free MMO games from NCsoft, the firm told Next-Gen today. Users can download Dungeon Runners for free via NCsoft's online destination, PlayNC Store, and then play it for free. There is also the option for players to upgrade to a membership level which costs $4.99 per month. The paid level adds features such as extra storage for items, log-in queue priority and most significantly, access to the most powerful items, weapons and armor.

Dungeon Runners, a multiplayer online RPG that can be download and played for free, has been launched by NCSoft. In a nutshell, it's a fantasy romp where you bash monsters and collect loot and features a classless character development system - although you initially select your character from a number of traditional RPG archetypes like fighter and mage. NCSoft explains that the game is very much action-focused "with limited death penalties and endless gold, weapons, armor and magic items