Make Your Mark Forever in NCsoft and Cryptic Studios’ City of Heroes
Fans of upcoming online game to design hero NPC!
AUSTIN, Texas, June 25, 2003 — Have you ever
wished you could leave a permanent mark on your favorite video game world? NCsoft
and Cryptic
Studios™ are offering the
public the chance to create of one of the primary NPC (non-player character)
heroes in the highly anticipated City of Heroes™
online computer game.
The Surviving Eight Contest launches today on the
official City of Heroes website,
http://www.coh.com/surviving8_contest.html.
In the history of Paragon City, eight heroes survived
the ravages of the Rikti War and dedicated themselves to training the next
generation of heroes. These surviving eight, play a major role in the story of
the city by acting as NPC
contacts
within the game world. Now fans will get the chance
to create one of these eight heroes and describe how they’ll fit within the
City of Heroes
fiction. The winner’s character will be a permanent fixture in the game.
Contestants will have three weeks to design their
characters and submit them to NCsoft for judging. The winner and his/her
character will be announced shortly after the contest closes.
City of Heroes will be released in coming
months and just finished a successful showing at this year’s Electronic
Entertainment Expo. City of Heroes was awarded the prestigious Game
Critics Award,
http://www.e3awards.com,
for Best Online Multiplayer Game at the expo. The game is also featured on the
cover of the July issue of PC Gamer magazine,
http://www.pcgamer.com, currently on
newsstands.
About NCsoft
Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, NCsoft Corp. is the
world’s largest independent online game company. Established in 1997 as a
systems integration company, NCsoft has leaped to become Korea’s and the world’s
leading online game software company. In Korea, its blockbuster hit game
Lineage™
commands a 42% market share and attracts the greatest number of concurrent users
in the world. More information about NCsoft and its games can be found at
http://www.ncsoft.net.
About Cryptic Studios
Cryptic Studios, Inc.,
http://www.crypticstudios.com
located in San Jose, California, was established in July of 2000 and is an
independent developer of massively multiplayer online games for the PC and next
generation consoles. Its first game, City of Heroes, is currently in
development and will launch a virtual world where thousands of people play
simultaneously, take on the role of superheroes, fight villains and help create
a dynamic story in a visually-stunning, 3-D graphical world.
NCsoft is a trademark of NCsoft Corp and Lineage is a
trademark of NC Interactive. Cryptic Studios and City of Heroes are
trademarks of Cryptic Studios, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
