Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle

Starting with "Legend of Mir 2", there were many Korean online games that hit Chinese gaming market successfully with millions of concurrent users(CCU) in games such as "Dungeon and Fighters" and "Crossfire". Yet there are many failed ones too.

DSOGaming writes: "Innova announced today that its new European free-to-play service for the popular competitive fantasy MMORPG Lineage II will officially launch in English on December 16th. Featuring the content-rich new expansion Goddess of Destruction, the new service offers hundreds of hours of unrestricted, action-packed gaming absolutely free."

DSOGaming writes: "Innova announced today the open beta launch for its new free-to-play European service for Lineage II, that comes complete with dedicated English language servers and the games biggest content expansion to date, Goddess of Destruction. Registration is now open at its official website, and all the latest information about Lineage II and Goddess of Destruction can be found there in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Turkish."

NCsoft are happy to announce that the Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction update is now live, which means the MMO is now officially free-to-play.

DSOGaming writes: "Innova announced today that the opening of its brand new free-to-play European service for Lineage II, featuring the highly anticipated expansion Goddess of Destruction, is planned for early December. Goddess of Destruction promises to be the largest update Lineage II has ever seen with stunning new graphics, 4x faster leveling and character advancement, eight powerful Awakening classes, hundreds of new weapons and armors, unexplored hunting grounds and legions of monsters a revamped world and over 400 hours of brand new Lineage II gameplay await European players on launch day, all without restrictions and completely free."

Its no secret that Lineage ][ will go free to play with its future Update &quot;Goddess of Destruction&quot;. <br /> The only Question is....when? <br /> <br /> Until now! <br /> NCSoft revealed that Goddess of Destruction will hit on November 30th. <br /> This means starting November 30 Lineage 2 will be completly free to play! <br /> <br /> Watch the newest Trailer while waiting. Only a few days left.

Kim Jong-il has found an unusual way to give the North Korean economy a boost. According to South Korean authorities, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has turned to gold farming - yes, that kind of gold farming. As The New York Times reported, North Korea has been using its top science universities to train hackers, who are then unleashed on popular South Korean MMOs, such as Lineage and Dungeon Fighter Online, to generate money for North Korea.

A group of five organizers were arrested Thursday in Northern China for drawing on the North Korean army of hackers to create a group of 30 “video gaming experts” to generate money by abusing MMOs. The experts were able to write software that infiltrated several games and allowed unmanned computers to operate in the game 24 hours a day...

DasReviews writes: NCsoft, the worlds premier publisher and developer of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs), is excited to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Lineage franchise with the announcement of the latest chapter in the Lineage II saga, Goddess of Destruction, a sweeping change to the series that revolutionises core gameplay and offers vastly improved content throughout the game...

NCsoft has announced the release of the latest addition to the Lineage franchise, the High Five update for Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne. Available from today, 15th February, with a slew of new improvements, the High Five update was developed entirely in response to player feedback.

NCsoft is preparing another leap of series in China. NCsoft has admitted it as we are looking for various publishers to the question from an analyst, is NCsoft preparing re-launch of and in China via Tencent? at the 2010 earning report conference.