On the Road: NCsoft Brings Ground-breaking Titles to the 2004 Wizard Worldand Gen Con Shows
Best selling City of Heroes and epic player-versus-player adventure
Lineage II featured at both events
Austin, TEXAS, August 10, 2004 – NCsoft? Corporation, the world’s leading
developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced plans to
attend this year’s Wizard World show in Chicago, Ill., and the 2004 Gen
Con show in Indianapolis, Ind. The company will be showing two titles
released in April 2004: the critically acclaimed and best selling City of
Heroes?, and the popular player-versus-player game, Lineage? II: The
Chaotic Chronicle.
At both shows attendees will be able to meet the development teams, see
live demonstrations of the games and participate in giveaways. Antharas,
the Earth Dragon in Lineage II, will make daily in-game appearances and
City of Heroes fans will be able to create their own superheroes using the
game’s character creation tool in the NCsoft booth.
Additionally, Jack “Statesman” Emmert, creative director at Cryptic
Studios? and lead designer of City of Heroes will speak at Wizard World
and will conduct comic book hero and villain trivia contests at both shows.
Wizard World will be held at the Rosemont Convention Center from August 13
to August 15 and Gen Con will be held at the Indiana Convention Center
from August 19 to August 22. Attendees can find NCsoft in booth 715 at
Wizard World and booth 1439 at Gen Con.
About NCsoft ? North America
NCsoft – North America (NC-NA) is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is
part of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NC-NA, with development and
administrative offices in Texas and California, launched two
ground-breaking titles in the first half of 2004, Lineage II and City of
Heroes. The company also works with NCsoft subsidiaries and third party
developers throughout North America to develop and publish innovative
online entertainment software products. More information about NCsoft ?
North America can be found at [a]