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C3Online: Aion Cosplay Photos (by Vampire Alliance)
Aug 20th
Suppose one day, no one makes these beautiful costumes, ornaments, armor sets and weapons, what will the cosplay look like?
The cosers this time are not models or stars, but the equipment makers who play the most fundamental and important role in cosplay.
Only they are qualified to enjoy the applause the audience give for their wonderful cosplay show.
Vampire Alliance Studio is just the team which’s excellent at skills and willing to stay behind the scenes.
Now, let’s have a close look at the team!
Source: C3Online.com
Team: Vampire Alliance Studio
Members: Kong Kong, Class: Assassin, Race: Asmodian Ying Luo, Class: Ranger, Race: Elyo Radio, Class: Sorcerer, Race: Asmodian Jiu, Class: Chanter, Race: Asmodian Xiao Lin, Class: Gladiator, Race: Elyo Photographer: Luan Mengjie (Sorcerer) Post-production: Aoandou Item Production: Vampire Alliance Studio
There’re so many sayings about the origin of the name “Vampire Alliance”. As Leader Kong Kong explained, the name was inspired by the fact that the whole team started to work when the sun set, and stopped or even didn’t stop when the sun rose. All the energy put into delicate equipment and repeated rehearsals was just for the sake of giving the audience the best possible visual enjoyment on the stage. Vampire Alliance knew very well that all More >
Aion’s Assault on Balaurea expansion live on PTS
Aug 20th
Ready to get a preview of Aion’s forthcoming Assault on Balaurea expansion? You’re in luck, as today finds the new content live on the Public Test Server, a couple weeks ahead of its September 7th release date. Pre-existing PTS players will find that their characters have been wiped, which is a small price to pay for the chance to test the new content with accelerated XP and loot drop rates.
Assault on Balaurea features a new pet system as well as new zones, instances, quests, and a level cap increase. Check out the official press release for more information, including how to install and run the PTS client.
Aion 2.0 Bosses Battling Videos to Warm You Up for the New Expansion
Aug 20th
Aion 2.0 just hits the PTS and I bet most of the players are striving to level up now. Since you haven’t battle the huge bosses of the new expansion, you can take a look at how Korean players fight the bosses. Here are two boss-fighting videos for you to warm up for your upcoming battle.>> Aion 2.0 PST Impression – Day 1>> Aion 2.0 PST Impression – Day 2
The first video is Rudra battling. Rudra is the hidden boss of Beshmundir Temple, a level 55 instance. You have to finish this instance in difficult level and complete certain quests to enter Rudra’s chamber. The boss’ skills change every time you battle it, so quick reaction and good team work is necessary. All right let’s watch the video (it’s a pity that the video doesn’t have sound).
Aion – 2.0 Boss: Rudra
The second video is Balon, located in Inggison. This is a cool looking boss and it can transform. You can see at the beginning it’s like a rock and then it turns to a giant. It can transform to rock again to release some big skills. In the video an Elyos Alliance succeeds to take Balon down.
Aion – 2.0 Boss: Balon
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Aion Themed Train Sets off in Korea, Providing 3D Games
Aug 17th
Do you feel boring when you are on a train alone? People in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea won’t worry about it at all because LG put a dozen of 3D notebooks with 3D digital cameras on a train in Seoul. Players, I mean passengers can play Aion in 3D on the train. Take a look at the video below.
Aion – 3D Experience on Train
Aion’s pictures and LG’s advertisements are all around the train. Does it remind you of the Korean Air’s StarCraft 2 themed airplane? LG is a business partner of NCSoft, last month, LG just made a promotion campaign for its 3D notebook Xnote series by using Aion demo. Now LG and NCSoft move into the train with the latest Xnotes. The event will last one week, hope it won’t make the passengers miss the stops. In 3D era, the cooperation between game company and hardware manufacturer is moving to a higher level. Last month, Dragon Nest’s publisher Nexon just partners with Dolby to promote 3D voice.
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Recommended MMOs in August 2010
Aug 14th
Are you ready for the coming of the MMOs in next half years! They seem to change the staus from development to Beta test overnight,suddenly become awesome and true, worth trying and distinctive.The new trailer of Guild Wars 2 show out their pure pursuing of the best MMORPG gameplay and in this time it is expected to a real WOW killer. And perhaps even “will raise the bar of the MMORPG world!” said nomadic1. I’m sure GW2 is going to be selling well, I just hope it lives up to those expectations!Whenever people talk about WoW killer, we must be inclined to relate it to another big project – Final Fantasy XIV(3 Reasons), as if the series well illustrates RPG’s history. Though FFXIV is just the second MMO version of this series, but it is quite different from FFXI. While you may have noticed that some of the same type of races appeared in the trailer, the world of FFXIV is different from FFXI. The Unchart Water series is a popular Japanese video game series produced by Koei as part of its Rekoeition games. In East Asia, the series has a large cult following, but has not received much recognition More >
Would You Pay Extra Money for Pets in Aion 2.0?
Aug 13th
Aion 2.0 will come to Europe and NA on September 7th. Yesterday, the official released a press release, focusing on the pets in the upcoming expansion. There will be decorative pets as well as functional pets. You’ll have 100 slots for your pets, yes you can have up to 100 pets if you want to open a zoo. You can get pets from in-game merchants, NCStore, quests, item drops, or special promotional events. Below is a new video about pets.
Aion – New Pets
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The official reveals 5 types of pets, including:Companion – Adventure with their owner throughout AtreiaSignal – Alert their owner to the presence of enemy playersPack – Expand their owner’s inventoryFortune – Produce items for their owner after being well-fedPurebred – Provide their owner with multiple functions at once
The first pet above, the panda, will be available to everyone who buy the new boxed version of Aion: Assault on Balaurea via retailer or internet. The rest of the pets above require extra paying, for example, you can buy Fuzzy Elroco in NCStore while you can get Beluslan Kitter through Amazon.com. You can check out here for more information about the pets or preorder them.
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Aion: Pet Pics
Aug 12th
With the arrival of the Aion: Assault on Balaurea expansion, players will have the opportunity to have their own pet. Currently, there are five types of pets available and their 'skills' range from warning players about approaching danger or expanding a player's inventory.
While the pets system will continuously evolve throughout the life of the game, Aion: Assault on Balaurea will launch with five pet types:
- Companion – Adventure with their owner throughout Atreia
- Signal – Alert their owner to the presence of enemy players
- Pack – Expand their owner’s inventory
- Fortune – Produce items for their owner after being well-fed
- Purebred – Provide their owner with multiple functions at once
Players will have 100 pet slots available but will only be able to summon one pet at a time. Also, responsible pet ownership is the name of the game: Keeping a pet fed and healthy is important!
Check out all of the new pet screens in our Aion gallery.
Aion Set Up an Overseas Dev Team for More Localized Content
Aug 10th
To offer better game services in the overseas markets, NCsoft has decided to set up an overseas development team for its online game Aion. The team is expected to collect overseas players’ opinions and suggestions, so as to offer different operation services in different countries.
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As Lee Ji Ho, leader of Aion’s overseas development team, said in the interview with the Japanese site 4gamer.net, Aion provides different countries in the world with the same game content till its 1.9 patch. But with view to the difference among different countries, Aion will present different versions starting from its 2.0 update.
Mr. Lee has made deep researches on the preferences of the players in different countries, and compared the PvP elements. It shows that players in Europe prefer PvP and fortress wars, while those in Japan don’t show much interest in PvP. Meanwhile, many people in America like playing games alone. They prefer to enter the game to do quests and quit the game after a short while. Compared to South Korea, Japan and America have more players who like quests better.
According to Mr. Lee, the overseas versions will set higher quest EXP gains and fewer death EXP losses than the Korean More >
Aion: Assault on Balaurea Coming to PTS
Aug 10th
The free Aion expansion, Assault on Balaurea, will be arriving on the public test server on August 18th. The PTS has been taken down and all characters and guilds have been wiped in preparation for AoB. The expansion is set to officially launch on September 7th but PTS players will get a firsthand look at the game beginning the 18th when the PTS is fired up again.
The PTS will reopen its majestic gates on August 18th 2010, with the new expansion ready for some testing action. Aion: Assault on Balaruea will be available across all servers September 7th 2010.
For instructions on how to access the PTS, please head on over to the Public Test Server PowerWiki page or the Public Test Server forum. Don’t miss the opportunity to help us test this major content addition before it hits the live servers!
Read the full notice at the official Aion site.
Aion 2.0 Weaponry – Ultimate Weapons, Exotic Weapons (lots of pics)
Aug 6th
Aion 2.0 has launched in Korea for a couple of months and some Korean players have reached 2 final bosses in the Balaur homeland, Balaurea: Padmarashka and Sematariux, but they haven’t been taken down by any team or guild yet. I bet you are curious about the weapons they drop. No problem, the Korean official has revealed those ultimate weapons to you. Moreover, in Aion 2.0 there are plenty of weapons with funny shape for those who love collecting things, check them in the 7th page.
Learn more about Aion 2.0 on Aion 2.0 Expectation
Padmarashka
Sematariux
You can find Padmarashka in Gelkmaros and Sematariux in Inggison, but you need keys to enter their chambers. The problem is before you can get the key you have to finish series of quests, including killing Balon and Nataraz, two huge bosses in the new expansion. Korean players formed up an Alliance with about 50 members and tried to challenge Padmarashka for several times but failed. Korean players complain that NCsoft places too many obstacles in front of players that slow their progression, for example, players can only challenge the bosses twice a week.
Balon
Nataraz
Sematariux weapons
There is a sentence on each weapon’s (including Padmarashka weapons) information column says that the More >