NCsoft Announces E3 2007 Line-up, Auto Assaul...

NCsoft Announces E3 2007 Line-up, Auto Assault Shutdown

Shortly before announcing their E3 2007 line-up this week, MMO powerhouse NCsoft warned that the ingenious, original and utterly failing vehicular MMO game, Auto Assault, is to close down at the end of August. Despite it receiving several free content updates since its release in April 2006, and going through a servers-merger last summer, Auto Assault continued to lose players over the past months. So many, in fact, that ultimately NCsoft decided to discontinue it altogether.

The announcement from the official website retains from getting into any messy details, of course, simply stating:

"The service will close at midnight on August 31, 2007. As of today, any player currently in the service with an active billed account will not be billed again. If players have previously purchased time via multi-month billing or time cards that extends their service past July 31, NCsoft will reconcile these accounts appropriately."

More info on this topic will be announced at a later date, but for now let's see about that pseudo-E3 line-up... So, at the E3 Media & Business Summit 2007 that will take place next week (July 11-13) in Santa Monica, NCsoft will preview the following four MMO titles:

- Tabula Rasa

- Aion

- Guild Wars: Eye of the North

- Dungeon Runners

Tabula Rasa is set for release in autumn 2007, Aion was pushed back to 2008, and Guild Wars: Eye of the North will go live on August 31, as announced this week. What? What about Dungeon Runners? Who cares?!

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