Official Site:Â Aion
Studio:Â NCsoft West
Launch Date: September 22, 2009
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Jukebox Heroes: MMO carols for your gaming joy
If someone -- and we are not necessarily suggesting you -- were to create an MMO Christmas carol album, what songs would be included?...
Massively OP’s Winter Holiday 2017 guide!
It's that time of year again where the airwaves of certain radio stations are clogged with the same songs from the 1950s, television broadcasts...
Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Best MMO Business Model of 2017
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2 last year, the first...
Aion EU kicks off Christmas festivities
It's beginning to play a lot like Christmas around these here parts. Aion's European version is getting a jump on the holiday season with...
Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar
The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG
Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.
NCsoft Q3 2017: Lineage M drives record profits, Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire isn’t too shabby either
NCsoft had an exceptionally good third financial quarter this year, reaching a record high in sales and operating profit for the company, and it's...
The MOP Up: EVE Online eases you into its universe (November 12, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Project W, Project Z, and God Slayer Online all teased ahead of G-Star 2017
NCsoft tipped its hand on its upcoming Project TL/Lineage Eternal do-over, Blade & Soul 2, and Aion Tempest, but it's far from the only...
WildStar, Blade and Soul, Aion, and Lineage II come under DDoS attacks
Hackers launched an offensive against NCsoft yesterday, targeting several of the company's MMORPGs in a series of DDoS attacks. WildStar, Aion, Lineage II, and...
NCsoft announces Aion Tempest, a new mobile prequel game
Do you feel the need for another mobile MMORPG from NCsoft? That's what's coming with Aion Tempest, a prequel to the current Aion set...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can live out your giant robot fantasies
Two years ago, NCsoft dealt a harsh blow to a certain subset of gaming fans when it canned the development of Project HON. This...
Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition
Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...
The MOP Up: Warface celebrates its birthday in Chernobyl (October 22, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Soapbox: NCsoft’s bizarre silence on Aion’s server merges says everything you need to know
NCsoft done messed up. Again. Yes, I know the studio has already had a few black eyes for other things throughout the years, but...
The MOP Up: Speedrunning World of Warcraft (October 15, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Stream Team: Cake and capers for Aion’s eight birthday
Eight years? Holy Deavas, can it really be? Yes, Aion turned eight years old yesterday, and Massively OP's MJ just has to fly in...
Happy birthday to Fallen Earth, Aion, World of Warships, and Warhammer Online
This particular part of September is loaded with MMORPG and MMO birthdays. In addition to ArcheAge, whose corgipocalypse we've been covering already, and Ultima...
Battle Bards Episode 104: Something wicked this way comes
And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s...
Perfect Ten: MMOs obsessed with the floating islands trope
One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...
