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A place for history of the game itself. Important dates, Beta and launch information, Microsoft days, Turbine Takeover, and old articles and dev chats.
 
== History Articles ==
* [http://www.mit.edu/~jonmon/Business/Turbine/ The Turbine Story] - In depth history written by the founder of Turbine Entertainment, [[Turbine Developers#Jon Monsarrat|Jon Monsarrat]].
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20001202123100/http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000525/ragaini_01.htm Postmortem: Turbine Entertainment's Asheron's Call] - Behind the scenes account of what went right, what went wrong. Written by [[Turbine Developers#Toby Ragaini|Toby Ragaini]], one of the original developers.
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20011222011642/gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2823435,00.htm Asheron's Call Dark Majesty hits #1 in PC Games Sales]
 
=== Game Awards ===
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20011212072729/http://www.gamespy.com/articles/july01/top503as/ July 2001 - GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time]
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* [http://www.interactive.org/awards/award_category_details.asp?idAward=2000&idGameAwardType=15 2000 - The Academy Interactive Arts & Sciences - Computer Adventure/Role Playing Game of the Year]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/200011170837/http://www.gamezilla.com/reviews/a/ac.asp 1999 - Gamezilla's Game of the Year]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20000301114949/http://www.gamersvoice.com/special/gca-1999-12.asp 1999 - Gamer's Voice - Best Online/Multiplayer Game]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/19991110013120/http://gamersvoice.com/special/e3-99-awards-4.asp 1999 - Gamer's Voice - Best of E3 Awards]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/200011091859/http://www.gamecenter.com/Features/Exclusives/Awards99/ss02p.html 1999 - Gamecenter's RPG of the Year]
 
==== Zone Articles ====
* [[2001 AIAS Awards]] - Asheron's Call scores two nominations -- including "PC Game of the Year"!
* [[Best-of-the-Year Awards 2000/02/02]] - Gamezilla joins Gamecenter and Gameindustry.com in giving AC top honors.
* [[Asheron's Call Wins Gaming's Equivalent of the Oscar]] - At this year's E3 convention, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences dubbed Asheron's Call the Adventure/Role-Playing Game of the Year. Awards from the AIAS are among the highest honors bestowed in the gaming industry.
 
== A brief history of the ACCWiki ==
The Asheron's Call Community Wiki was created by [[user:ASHERON-Gouru|Gouru]] of Morningthaw in October of 2007. The idea for the wiki came from [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=35737 this thread] and later [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=35759 this thread] on the Turbine message boards.
* February 2008 1,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* Early March 2008 2,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* Late March 2008 3,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* May 2008 4,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* June 2008 5,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* August 2008 6,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* September 2008 7,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]] and half million page views.
* October 2008 8,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* November 2008 9,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]] and 1 million page views.
* December 2008 Site moved hosting because of increased user base.
* January 2009 10,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* February 2009 11,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]] and 2 million page views.
* April 2009 12,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]] and 3 million page views.
* June 2009 14,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]] and 4 million page views.
* September 2009 Site moved from [[Wikia Migration|private hosting to Wikia.com]] because of increased user base.
* December 2009 18,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
* March 2010 19,000 [[Special:Allpages|articles]].
 
==Developer Chats==
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* [[Developer Chat - 1999/08/06]]
* [[Developer Chat - 1999/11/03]]
* [[Developer Chat - 1999/12/01]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/02/03]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/03/14]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/04/12]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/05/10]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/06/15]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/07/18]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/09/20]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2000/10/18]]
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* [[Developer Chat - 2000/11/21]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2001/01/17]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2001/05/07]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2001/07/05]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2001/07/17]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2001/09]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2002/03/12]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2002/05/01]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2002/06/06]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2002/06/20]]
* [[Developer Chat - 2008/09/30]]
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== Zone Archive ==
* [[Microsoft Zone Archive]]
 
==AC News Archives (ACC Wiki)==
* [[News Archive - 2007]]
* [[News Archive - 2008]]
* [[News Archive - 2009]]
* [[News Archive - 2010]]
* [[News Archive - 2011]]
 
==Turbine Archive Index==
Informational Pages on Turbine's Official AC Website
*[[Index of Turbine Pages 1-300]]
*[[Index of Turbine Pages 301-600]]
*[[Index of Turbine Pages 601-900]]
 
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Latest revision as of 16:44, 1 August 2012