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Limited Edition… featuring me
Posted by Rockjaw in Gamey, Links of Others, Nerd Alert, Personal on September 22nd, 2008
(I almost wrote the subject line ‘Wearing Yellow Spandex’ but I get enough random weird search queries as it is…)
Limited Edition, the new podcast from John ‘Shuttler’ Nicholson, ex-host of TabulaCast, and his partner in crime Matt, has moved on to Episode 2 – and said episode has a brand new voice in the mix, namely me! Yes, after hearing episode one of the show I thought I could help these ‘babes in the wood’ on the subject of comics and superhero-type stuff, so I volunteered my services.
Did I completely take over? Are they regretting ever asking me to appear? Did I vent my spleen on the subject of NCsoft? Even worse, did I spill precious secrets about Issue 13??? Read the rest of this entry »
Winnerrrrrrr!
Posted by Rockjaw in Links of Others, MMO-related, Press on September 1st, 2008
I’m reliably informed that Onlinewelten – one of the biggest German fansites out there – awarded NCsoft and specifically Aion: The Tower of Eternity ‘Best Stand of GC‘, which legitimately allows me to run this pic:
Woo! We rule! Etc etc. Here’s what they had to say about us: Read the rest of this entry »
Early PAX impressions of Aion: good
Posted by Rockjaw in Links of Others, Press on August 30th, 2008
While it’s not a full-fledged preview, Shawn Schuster over at Massively gave special mention to Aion’s presence at PAX, which is holding its own against ‘MMOs With Three-Letter-Acronyms That Begin With W’:
With the NCsoft booth occupying some precious real estate in the middle of the exhibition floor, the Aion side of that booth faced the entrance, which worked well in their favor. Even the buzz around the booth and from passersby seemed very positive during the first ever public hands-on of this fantasy/flight MMO.
(Although of course, technically, PAX is hosting the first ever US-based public hands-on – as we debuted Aion at Games Convention.)
Let’s hope players like what they see (and play), eh?
Some Aion and GC-related links
Posted by Rockjaw in Community, Events, Links of Others, MMO-related, Press on August 29th, 2008
A few links ‘n’ things I thought you might be interested in….
Couple of Aion previews
Pre-Leipzig we gave an exclusive Aion preview to PCGZine, who visited the office and got loads of ‘stuff’ from us that they’ve put together into a six-page preview. In case you didn’t know, they’re a PDF-based online magazine, so you don’t even have to go to the shops to read it.
Anyway, you can grab the PDF file right here and have a peruse. It’s supposed to be ‘interactive’ with rollover videos and stuff, which might work in Acrobat, but I’ll tell you right now doesn’t work on a Mac.
If you’d prefer a preview that isn’t in PDF format, you might enjoy this look at Aion from The Escapist, who aren’t generally known for their hyperbole. They like what they saw at the recent press preview in San Francisco, which is all good news.
The things fans do…
We spent a lot of our time during GC on our feet, but we never made the commitment to distance that a few of our more dedicated Aion fansites did. A number of them banded together to basically walk the length and breadth of Leipzig (as in, the town) and get pictures of every Aion billboard we had there.
Apart from being proof that yeah, we spent a bit of money on the game’s promotion, it also proves undeniably that our fans are mad, crazy people who we love to bits. See the photographic proof of this true ‘Quest for GC’ in this Flickr set.
While we’re talking about “things our fans do for us”, here are two photos with things that make me happy:
Yep, that’ll be Martin with a shark tank, as presented to him by a fan during the show. (Our Marketing Manager, Mirko, is on the right.) That’ll be a direct reference to my dialogue, then….
Last but not least – AionSource‘s t-shirt of GC, featuring fan art based on The Shark, as modelled by Martin, constructed by Chris, and conceived by me in Episode 6.
Fan-made merch. Love it.
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