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For everyone that was declaring NCsoft "weak" after Richard Garriott's declaration of fraud, you need to have a look at the company's latest earnings report. With Tabula Rasa now gone and buried,...

Officials at NCsoft have sent over the companies fourth quarter and year-end earnings report for 2008. While the company posted an increase in sales, it also shows a loss in income compared to the...

A variety of news has been spreading across the Internet this morning regarding NCsoft West and their continuing drive towards reorganizing their staff in the North American and European...

Lineage stokes the fires by releasing two episodes.

Nothing is closing, merely moving

Generally good numbers, across the board

Fans Get Answers!

The developers of Lineage II have heard your pleas for answers. They have compiled questions that were submited and now you can see the answers!

Players submitted questions about Chronicle 5: Oath of Blood, the future of Lineage II, and more to the Lineage II development team. Read on for the answers to your pressing questions.

Read this Q & A to learn more. Did you find your question answered? Tell us what you think of the answers in the forums here at Ten Ton Hammer.

I'd love to see a Lineage version of the Citibank Commercials. Give me a Dark Elf with a redneck Bubba's voice and I'm a happy girl.

Apparently, a number of individuals with access to various individual's personal information from their companies' databases leaked lists of various citizens' resident registration numbers to people who operated 'game rooms'. Then...

The seven gameroom operators reportedly hired about 100 part-time game players and made about 14.2 billion won ($15 million) in offline profits by selling cyber items obtained in the process of game-playing. Such items usually take long hours of play and a certain degree of luck. They are sold over Web sites to players for "real" money.

But even though NCSoft knew all about this, including senior NCSoft executives, they didn't actually do anything to stem the tide of stolen identities being used. They covered it up, afraid their profits would go down if it was common knowledge that their system was so insecure.

You can read the rest here.

More Lineage News.

It's not goovin tunes, but still it's a step in the right direction.

TMSBroadcasting and NCsoft North America are proud to announce the creation of Lineage Radio, the official online radio station devoted exclusively to supporting the Lineage® II gaming community in North America. LineageRadio.com will feature a 24/7 audio stream, with exclusive Lineage II interviews, news and features you won't find anywhere else.

Lineage Radio will set a new standard for Internet radio especially for gamers, calling on the expertise and success of TMSBroadcasting's Radio Network. The agreement between TMSBroadcasting and NCsoft will bring listeners contests, podcasts, events, and access to the development process, as well as interviews highlighting key members within the Lineage II community, including both fans of the title and NCsoft staff alike.

More information about Lineage Radio will be posted to the official website in the coming weeks at http://www.lineageradio.com.

More Lineage II news.

I call this a Duh! case. It isn't easy to follow the case. I'll sum it up like this. NCSoft got sued last year. The case was over a potential account hack at a cyber cafe. Their login data had been stored in a file.

Now, with that said, there were no damages reported. This was a case of "something could have happened." The courts in Korea ruled that NCSoft would pay these five people a whopping $530 each.

I understand that NCSoft is appealing on principal, but c'mon! It's $530 bucks. You can read the entire story here.

More Lineage 2 news.

The Grand Olympiad is a one-on-one PvP competition held to determine the Hero. It is held in one month periods, and at the end of each period, the Noblesse with the most Olympiad points in each class is appointed Hero. Only Noblesse who have completed the third class transfer can participate in the Olympiad competition. Read More Here.

More news and info on Lineage 2.

Scions of Destiny has launched. You can take a look at the events that will run from February 8 to March 7.

Chronicle 4: Scions of Destiny is here! Adventurers' Guides and Event Gatekeepers are in the towns of Aden and Elmore to help new and old players experience the largest Chronicle yet.

From February 8 to March 7, all players can take advantage of the new Noblesse teleport locations, and characters under level 25 can receive special weapons for no charge.

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The fourth expansion pack to be released free to the Lineage 2 subscribers is now available.

Chronicle 4: Scions of Destiny is now available for download! Please visit the Game Download section of the official web site to begin your download of the full game. A kit to convert your Public Test Server client to a live client is also available.

An additional download of the Chronicle 4: Scions of Destiny client is also available from FilePlanet.

Please note that if you install Chronicle 4 before it launches, you will not be able to log in to Chronicle 3.

So have fun with that non-consensual PVP.

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NCSoft has blessed us with 13 New Pieces of Concept Art at MMORPG.com. This art depicts scenes from the upcoming Chronicle 4. You'll have to go take a look. It's absolutely stunning.

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