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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Aion NA invites players to the Allos Cosmos dungeon opening March 18
Tuesday, March 18th, will offer up something new for the high-level players of Aion NA to delve in to. Four times a week, anyway....
Choose My Adventure: Aion Live, not Classic, is much more like the MMORPG I played at launch
After dipping some of my toe into the Aion Classic pool last week, the polls basically said to do the same thing, only with...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the very best soundtracks
I've long had an affection for video game music and feel content to live in an age where I can actually obtain it and...
Choose My Adventure: Aion Classic is nothing like I remember
I mentioned in last week's Choose My Adventure column that OG Aion created no deep memories for me, even as I was around during...
NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings
The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...
Aion Classic’s chonky content update, Ignite, is finally live
Who out there prefers the savory taste of Aion Classic to the zing of normal Aion? If that's you, then pay attention: NCsoft just...
Choose My Adventure: Mulling over the many (many!) playable variants of Aion
This past weekend didn't see me touch Aion at all for Choose My Adventure - partially because I have had some projects line up...
Aion Classic NA adds new gear, instances, and events in February Ignite update
Ready your favorite fire-based quips and references because Aion Classic NA is preparing its big Ignite update, which is bringing on some new and...
Aion kicks a new Daeva Pass season and Lunar New Year packages into high gear
Hope you Aion players like to juggle, because you're going to need all of that dexterity to handle the multiple promotions happening in NCsoft's...
Blade & Soul, Lineage II, and Aion NA offer freebies for pre-registering to Blade & Soul NEO
Yesterday saw NCsoft take the wraps off of renewed plans to bring Blade & Soul NEO to the west, opening up both pre-registration for...
Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’
A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...
Aion Classic brings back Class Changes for a limited time
Aion Classic EU has been busy with a roadmap, so what's Aion Classic NA up to? Changing your class and your destiny, apparently.
Now, there...
Aion Classic EU’s first half of 2025 will bring a new content patch, server merges, and new and adjusted events
The new year is bringing some new goodies for fans of Aion Classic EU as Gameforge has laid out the first part of its...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...
Vague Patch Notes: How Throne and Liberty actually got my attention
Leading up to the release of Throne and Liberty, I was not particularly enthusiastic about the game's prospects on a whole. The reasons for...
Aion NA and Aion Classic EU host holiday events full of trees, free gifts, and Shugos
Ah, Christmas in Aion. It means snow, seasonal gifts, Solorius trees, and ambulatory weasel people saying "nyerk" a lot. All of these festive traditions...
Aion trots out the Brawler class in Europe and Lumines class in Korea
Aion Classic dropped a beefy update this week in Europe with Patch 3.0: The Path of the Brawler. This release comes with the addition...
Aion Classic EU brings new level cap, new zones, and the Brawler class November 27
It's always a fun time when an MMO class is so furious and battle-hungry that it decides to use its fists and feet to...
The MOP Up: Aion reworks sieges, raids, and world bosses
NCsoft brought a sweeping raft of changes to many group activities in Aion this past week: "We are excited to reveal that we have...
NCsoft Q3 2024: NCsoft teases Aion 2 for 2025, says Throne & Liberty sales ‘surpassed internal projections’
It's been one hell of a quarter for NCsoft - and we mean that for every interpretation of the phrase.
As readers might recall, in...