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Related topics: Turbine, ACCWiki History
A place for history of the game itself. Major updates, important dates, Beta and launch information, Microsoft days, Turbine Takeover, and old articles and dev chats.
Asheron's Call
Asheron's Call (AC) is a fantasy Massively multiplayer online role-playing game delevoped by Turbine, Inc. released on November 2, 1999. Please visit our Home Page to explore everything our wiki has available.
Major Updates and Expansions
See Patches for a list of all the regular updates made to Asheron's Call.
1999 - Early Development and Beta Testing
1999 - Release
2001 - Dark Majesty
2005 - Throne of Destiny
2008 - 100th Update
2009 - 10th Anniversary Update
Rules
By playing Asheron's Call, all players agree to the following documents:
- Asheron's Call Code of Conduct (CoC)
- Asheron's Call End User License Agreement (EULA)
- Turbine Terms of Service (ToS)
History of Asheron's Call
History Articles
- The Turbine Story - In depth history written by the founder of Turbine Entertainment, Jon Monsarrat.
- Postmortem: Turbine Entertainment's Asheron's Call - Behind the scenes account of what went right, what went wrong. Written by Toby Ragaini, one of the original developers.
- Asheron's Call Dark Majesty hits #1 in PC Games Sales
Game Awards
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1999 - Game Industry News' Game of the Year
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Related Articles
- 2001 AIAS Awards - Asheron's Call scores two nominations -- including "PC Game of the Year"!
- 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.
- Best-of-the-Year Awards - Gamezilla joins Gamecenter and Gameindustry.com in giving AC top honors.
- More Rave Reviews for Asheron's Call - Gameindustry.com gave AC their 1999 Best Overall Game of the Year award, and several other sites have recently queued up with accolades, too.
- Stellar Review from Computer Games Online - Cindy Vanous gives Asheron's Call 4 ½ out of 5 stars and a detailed critique.
Gaming Website Articles
Reviews
- Computer Games Online - 4.5/5
Previews
- July, 1997 - ZDNet
- July, 1998 - Gamespot
Interviews
Other
Developer Diaries
- GameSpy - Developer Diary, Part 1
- GameSpy - Developer Diary, Part 2
- GameSpy - Developer Diary, Part 3
- GameSpy - Developer Diary, Part 4
- GameSpy - Developer Diary, Part 5
Developer Chats
Microsoft Archives
AC News Archives (ACC Wiki)
Turbine Archive Index
Informational Pages on Turbine's Official AC Website
Images
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