Asheron's Call
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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.
Game Info
Major Updates and Expansions
See Patches for a list of all the regular updates made to Asheron's Call.
Early Game Development and Testing
| 1999 Asheron's Call Beta |
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Game Release and Expansions
| 1999 Release |
2001 Dark Majesty |
2005 Throne of Destiny |
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Major Updates
| 2008: 100th Update Ancient Powers |
2009: 10th Anniversary Update Gears of Change |
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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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