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NCsoft has announced that is has licensed Unreal Engine 3 for the development of two unannounced MMO projects.

SEOUL, KOREA (March 25, 2008)–NCsoft Corporation, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced that it has reinforced its relationship with Epic Games, Inc. by licensing Unreal Engine 3 to develop two unannounced, top-tier massively multiplayer online games. NCsoft has achieved spectacular results working with the Unreal Engine over the years, shipping the highly successful Lineage II, and the soon to be released Exteel, using Unreal Engine 2.

“Unreal Engine 3 has a well structured rendering pipeline, and its graphical quality is superb thanks to advanced lighting and shadowing systems,” said Young-muk Choi, lead programmer, Development Unit, NCsoft. “Tools within the Unreal Editor empower us to instantly produce and optimize our outputs, and we especially love how the engine enables designers to easily prototype concepts without the need for programming.”

“NCsoft pioneered online game development using Unreal Engine, as evidenced by Lineage II, one of the most commercially successful and enduringly popular online games in history,” said Jay Wilbur, vice president of Epic Games. “We are thrilled to take this next step with NCsoft, and are fully committed to supporting their projects. We expect to be completely wowed by what they do with our latest technology.”

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Lineage 3 it's one of them as the president of NcSoft said in an early interview that they will setup a team this year to work for L3.

But what's the second one?

I hope it's a high quality sci-fi MMO

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Originally posted by IceAge
Lineage 3 it's one of them as the president of NcSoft said in an early interview that they will setup a team this year to work for L3.
But what's the second one?

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Stargate Worlds perhaps?
It's been announced yes, but they don't have a publisher yet (or haven't announced it)...and they are running on the U3 Engine.

Then again...the press release talks like they are games they would be developing in house...which wouldn't fit SGW since it is being developed by CME.

Originally posted by Thor79

 

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Originally posted by IceAge
Lineage 3 it's one of them as the president of NcSoft said in an early interview that they will setup a team this year to work for L3.
But what's the second one?

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Stargate Worlds perhaps?
It's been announced yes, but they don't have a publisher yet (or haven't announced it)...and they are running on the U3 Engine.

A publisher for what? NcSoft are both developer and publisher and yes , U3 Engine seems a good decision for L3 since L2 used U2 Egine and they did a great job with it.

Some were specualting that Guild Wars 2 might be using the Unreal Engine but last I heard Arenanet was going to upgrade their current one. Seems like NCSoft has a suprise somewhere up their sleeves on this one.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Some were specualting that Guild Wars 2 might be using the Unreal Engine but last I heard Arenanet was going to upgrade their current one. Seems like NCSoft has a suprise somewhere up their sleeves on this one.

With Aion coming this year and L3 on their plans , I believe they are not starting to release other Fantasy MMO. An sci-fi MMo it's like their next game.

Originally posted by IceAge

Lineage 3 it's one of them as the president of NcSoft said in an early interview that they will setup a team this year to work for L3.

But what's the second one?

Having said that, either they changed their mind or it's another game.

Also, Splatter on the main L2 site found this:

http://www.carbinestudios.com/

So that is a hint of things to come.

Well thats promising! Guess we'll see the result over like 2-3 years in our shelves.

Originally posted by Sovrath

 

Originally posted by IceAge

Lineage 3 it's one of them as the president of NcSoft said in an early interview that they will setup a team this year to work for L3.

But what's the second one?

The information I've seen is that L3 will be based on their own engine that they are building "from the ground  up".

 

Having said that, either they changed their mind or it's another game.

Also, Splatter on the main L2 site found this:

http://www.carbinestudios.com/

So that is a hint of things to come.

I didn't know about it , thanks for info. Also I am glad to see what the producers of WoW are currently working on a new MMO , hope it's at least like WoW ;)

So seems that both of the unannouncement MMo's are Fantasy onces!

Ncsoft is supposed to be showing off their console mmo later this year

blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/ncsoft-unveilin.html