NCsoft goes all out at PAX
NCsoft promises to “hold nothing back” at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle - mostly because the company’s NCSoft West offices are nearby. The company will host three booths featuring playable content from the launch update of Aion; various activities surrounding the recent reveal of the Guild Wars 2 teaser trailer, including a Guild Wars 2 art book giveaway; and the playable City of Heroes Issue 16 Power Spectrum and Mission Architect build, featuring powers customization and Mission Architect enhancements on the show floor.
The Aion booth will feature 20 gaming stations with the new playable content from the update 1.5, playable for the first time in North America. The launch update introduces many enhancements including improvements to Aion’s character customization now featuring Western styles, as well as new zones, instances, skills, quests, game balancing and other improvements. Aion spokespeople, including Brian Knox and Lani “Liv” Blazier, will also be available for one-on-one interviews in the booth (#642).
Following the world premiere of the teaser trailer in Cologne, Guild Wars 2 will be at PAX in spirit: A drawing at the Guild Wars II booth will see lucky winners score a copy of The Art of Guild Wars 2 – a hardbound 128 page book of art by Guild War 2’s artists. Those artists will be on site signing the book throughout the show. In addition, NCsoft will hosting talks covering the upcoming novel The Fall of Ascalon and Q&A sessions with the Guild Wars Live Team in the booth (#842).
Finally, The City of Heroes booth (#542) will lets players check out the powers customization update featured in the game’s 16th free expansion, “Power Spectrum,” before its public release. City of Heroes’ developers will be available to give hands-on tips for using the game’s Mission Architect user-generated content system, answer questions and discuss the future of the super hero MMO genre. In addition to booth activities which include giveaways and a PAX exclusive Costume Power code, the City of Heroes team will host a panel discussion entitled “Mission Architect: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Story,” and will host a player Meet and Greet on Saturday evening.
