Exteel is a third-person shooter online game where players control giant mechanaughts, or humanoid robots, against other online players. Fast paced, easy arcade controls and a rich selection of items best describe the extreme gameplay that Exteel offers.
Exteel was released on December 4, 2007 on a free-to-play system, under which players can play the game for free. Players have the option to purchase in-game items and equipments using real money from the item malls. It is being successfully serviced in South Korea, Taiwan, North America and various European countries.
Exteel’s developer, NCSoft, is the biggest South Korean company that produces and publishes online video games. Its sterling resume includes the acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) Lineage II and Guild Wars. Since its inception in 1997, NCsoft has already expanded worldwide, with six (6) subsidiary companies abroad.
NCSoft made history when its MMORPG Lineage became the first online game in Korea to tally 100,000 concurrent users. Lineage’s active user subscription later bloomed to almost three million, making it one of the widely-played online games. Lineage’s popularity became the cornerstone of NCsoft’s success in the industry.
As part of its worldwide movement, NCsoft engaged the cooperation of AsianMedia for its operation in South East Asia (SEA). AsianMedia’s commendable status as the leading distributor of games in the region got the attention of NCsoft for its SEA expansion. The cooperation gave AsianMedia the exclusive right to host Lineage II in the region.
AsianMedia is a Philippine-based company but is now rapidly expanding their reach into Singapore and Malaysia. Only established in 1999, it already has a diverse cyber café network (more than 90% in the Philippines) and over 200 retail outlets. In 2003, AsianMedia bagged another prize partner when it was chosen by Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) as its sole distributor in the region. VUG is the genius behind hit games such as Counterstrike and Warcraft.
With Exteel, the two companies plan to expand the gamers’ experience. Plans are already in motion for the beta testing of Exteel on the 1st quarter of 2009. Gamers will be given first-hand experience on the new game’s graphics, interactivity and gameplay. After a series of tests, the commercial launch will then follow shortly.
The contract is a testament to the ongoing partnership between the two companies. For NCsoft, this is its first time to allow in-house developed casual games to be serviced by a partner company abroad, in this case, AsianMedia. For AsianMedia, the game adds to the array of commercially successful games that it has already distributed and published, chief of them, the online game Lineage II. AsianMedia currently has plans to enter the free-to-play game services.
source: exteelsea interactive site news
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