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Lineage (series)
''Lineage'' (Korean: 리니지) is a Middle Ages, medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game franchise by the South Korean video game developer NCSoft. It has become highly popular in South Korea with subscriptions counting into the millions, but is also available in Chinese language, Chinese, Japanese language, Japanese, Russian language, Russian, and English language, English-language versions. It is also one of the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time, having grossed $9.7 billion in lifetime revenue, as of 2019. Games * ''Lineage (video game), Lineage'', released in 1998. ** ''Lineage M'', a mobile phone, mobile port version of ''Lineage'' developed by NCSoft, released in South Korea on June 21, 2017. ** ''Lineage W'', a sequel to ''Lineage'', released in Asian markets in November 2021. The story is set in 150 years after story of ''Lineage''. ** ''Journey of Monarch'', a spinoff to ''Lineage'', released worldwide in December 2024. * ''Lineage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a Server (computing), server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold as either a consumer retail product or licensed to Original equipment manufacturer, third-party hardware manufacturers who sell products Software bundles, bundled with Windows. The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs. The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and led to various other product families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Language
Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' De facto#National languages, official language of the former Soviet Union.1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russia, Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Russian language in Israel, Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the List of languages by number of speakers in Europe, most spoken native language in Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Game
A mobile game is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone. The term also refers to all games that are played on any Mobile device, portable device, including from mobile phone (feature phone or smartphone), tablet computer, tablet, Personal digital assistant, PDA to handheld game console, portable media player or graphing calculator, with and without network availability. The earliest known game on a mobile phone was a Tetris variant on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994. In 1997, Nokia launched ''Snake (1998 video game), Snake''. ''Snake'', which was Pre-installed software, pre-installed in most mobile devices manufactured by Nokia for a couple of years, has since become one of the most played games, at one point found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. Mobile devices became more computationally advanced allowing for downloading of games, though these were initially limited to phone carriers' own stores. Mobile gaming grew greatly with the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snail Games
Suzhou Snail Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ( zh, c=蜗牛 苏州蜗牛数字科技股份有限公司, p=Wōniú sūzhōu wōniú shùzì kējì gǔfèn yǒuxiàn gōngsī), doing business as Snail ( zh, c=蜗牛, p=Wōniú), is a Chinese video game company and a Virtual Network Operator headquartered in Suzhou, China, which has branches Snail Games and Snail Mobile. Its division, Snail USA, markets Snail Games products in North America, South America, & Europe. Snail Games products include massively multiplayer online (MMOs), real-time strategy (RTS), and casual games. Its global registered user base has reached over 70 million accounts. The U.S. operation anticipated the launch of its portal for Western audiences in Q2 2011, PlaySnail.com. History Snail was founded by Shi Hai in Suzhou, China, and became established as Suzhou Electronic Co., Ltd. in October 2014. The company is one of the first online game developers in China. Games Games produced by Snail Games include: ''Dark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonhap News Agency
Yonhap News Agency (; ) is a major news agency in South Korea. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures, and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese Japanese colonial era. In 1999, Yonhap took over the Naewoe News Agency. Naewoe was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid 1970s, tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the British academic and historian James Hoar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocket Gamer
''Pocket Gamer'' is a video game website and former print magazine that focuses on mobile, portable and handheld games. It was launched in 2005 by Steel Media Limited. The publication covers portable and mobile gaming formats, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Nintendo Switch and others. Steel Media has created many brand spin-offs, including the industry-facing ''PocketGamer.biz'' site and a series of conferences called Pocket Gamer Connects. History Launched in April 2005 with the subtitle 'play as you go', ''Pocket Gamer'' set out to provide professional editorial coverage of mobile and handheld gaming formats which they saw as the future of gaming. At launch the site focused on mobile phones (java and brew), the Nokia N-Gage, Nintendo's Game Boy series as well as the then newly launched Nintendo DS The is a foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' () is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language, Korean-language daily. It is the oldest active daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. Since the late 1950s, it had been published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, but following an embezzlement scandal in 2013–2014 it was sold to Dongwha Group in 2015. The president-publisher of ''The Korea Times'' is Oh Young-jin. Description The newspaper's headquarters is located in the same building with ''Hankook Ilbo'' on Sejong-daero between Sungnyemun and Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea. The paper is not to be confused with ''The Korea Daily News'', a 1904 to 1910 newspaper which briefly ran under the title ''Korea Times''. It is also unrelated to another paper by Lee Myo-muk, Ha Kyong-tok and Kim Yong-ui in September 1945. History ''The Korea Times'' was founded by Helen Kim five months into the 1950-53 Korean War. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile Phone
A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This radio frequency link connects to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator, providing access to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Modern mobile telephony relies on a cellular network architecture, which is why mobile phones are often referred to as 'cell phones' in North America. Beyond traditional voice communication, digital mobile phones have evolved to support a wide range of additional services. These include text messaging, multimedia messaging, email, and internet access (via LTE, 5G NR or Wi-Fi), as well as short-range wireless technologies like Bluetooth, infrared, and ultra-wideband (UWB). Mobile phones also support a variety of multimedia capabilities, such as digital photography, video recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Throne And Liberty
''Throne and Liberty'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by FirstSpark Games and published by NCSoft. It was published in North America, South America, Europe, and Japan by Amazon Games. The game was originally part of the ''Lineage'' series and a sequel to the first '' Lineage'', but was repurposed and restructured well into development. The game was first announced as ''Lineage Eternal'' in November 2011 but suffered numerous delays in its release schedule. The first South Korea closed beta took place in 2016. NCSoft renamed the game ''Project TL'' in 2017 and ''Throne and Liberty'' in 2022. Development and release The game has suffered from numerous delays during development. NCSoft officially announced ''Lineage Eternal'' as the sequel to the first '' Lineage'', released in 1998, in November 2011. The first gameplay videos debuted at the G-Star 2011 gaming convention in South Korea on November 9. In August 2013, NCSoft was preparing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineage W
''Lineage W'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by NCSoft. It is a fifth major installment of the ''Lineage'' series by using all elements from '' Lineage'' game and sharing some elements with the ''Lineage II'' title. The game was announced in August 2021, and released for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems on November 4 of the same year in East Asia. The game supports cross-platform play between mobile, PCs, and consoles. Although the game was set for worldwide release in 2021, it is still unavailable in regions outside of Asia. The game is also set to be released for the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. Development The week before ''THE WORLD'' showcase events, NCSoft announced that a new ''Lineage'' game will be the largest launching title ever. It was initially targeted for worldwide launch with most platforms supported. Later, NCsoft has updated the website to reveal more information and open for pre- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineage 2 M
''Lineage II'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows and the second game in the ''Lineage'' series. It is a prequel to '' Lineage'' and is set 150 years before the first game. It has become popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 40,027,918 unique users during the month of March 2007. To date, the game has been played by more than 94 million users from all over the world. ''Lineage II'' adopted a free-to-play model in ''Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction'', with all game content being free except for "purchasable in-game store items and packs" in November 2011. A prequel, '' Lineage 2: Revolution'', was released as a mobile game in 2016. ''Lineage 2M'' was launched for the first time in South Korea in November 2019. Gameplay In ''Lineage II'', players create a character, choose the race and personalise the face and hair in style, colour, expression and gender. Every player begins the game in a temple in their char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lineage M
''Lineage'' (), also known as ''Lineage: The Blood Pledge'' in Western markets, is a medieval fantasy, massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in Korea and the United States in 1998 by the South Korean computer game developer NCSoft, based on a Korean comic book series of the same name. It is the first game in the ''Lineage'' series. It is most popular in Korea and is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English. The game was designed by Jake Song, who had previously designed '' Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds'', another MMORPG. ''Lineage'' features 2D isometric-overhead graphics similar to those of '' Ultima Online'' and ''Diablo II''. '' Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle'', a "prequel" set 150 years before the time of ''Lineage'', was released in 2003. By 2006, the ''Lineage'' franchise had attracted 43 million players. ''Lineage W'' and ''Throne and Liberty'' are sequels set after ''Lineage'' and will be the last two games in the ''Lineage'' series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
