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Interested in watching industry legend (and creator of Tabula Rasa®) Richard Garriott's historic journey into space in the early hours of Sunday, October 12? Now you will have multiple opportunities, both at a space launch party in Austin and across the Internet via a variety of live video streams. Read on for the details!

Jo Garcia, Playboy's popular Cyber Girl of the Year for 2008, will become immortal by donating her digitized DNA for storage on the International Space Station.

On Thursday, September 25th at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT) we will be conducting maintenance on the PlayNC Account Management website. Customers will not be able to access their PlayNC account for approximately 1 hour, and will not be able to access the City of Heroes® in-game store or the Guild Wars® in-game store for approximately 45 minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Stephen Hawking, best selling author of "A Brief History of Time" and the children's book "George's Secret Key to the Universe" written along with his daughter Lucy, will be sending his digitized DNA into space as part of Operation Immortality™.

Minutes before Richard Garriott went into quarantine for his space flight to the International Space Station, he talked to Stephen Colbert last night about Colbert's immortality.

Tonight on TNA Wrestling's "iMPACT" (SpikeTV at 9PM CDT) NC West™'s very own President of Publishing, David Reid, will honor Matt "The Blueprint" Morgan's amazing physical stature and outstanding genetics with a very special award. Morgan, also known as "The Beast" on NBC's new "American Gladiators," will also send his DNA into space, along with Stephen Colbert and many others, for Richard Garriott's Operation Immortality.

Richard Garriott, executive producer of Tabula Rasa®, will be appearing on "The Colbert Report" tonight, September 18, 2008. Richard will be discussing his flight to the International Space Station and his mission to send host Stephen Colbert's DNA into space as part of Operation Immortality. Don't miss it! The Colbert Report airs on Comedy Central immediately following the Jon Stewart Show at 11:30 pm / 10:30 pm CDT.

On Wednesday, September 17th at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT) we will be conducting maintenance on the PlayNC Account Management website. Customers will not be able to access their PlayNC account for approximately 2 hours, and will not be able to access the City of Heroes® in-game store or the Guild Wars® in-game store for approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

NCsoft ® Corporation today announced the formation of "NC West™".

The PlayNC Account Management website maintenance, originally scheduled for Wednesday, September 10th at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT) has been postponed to Thursday, September 11th at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT). Customers will not be able to access their PlayNC account for approximately 2 hours, and will not be able to access the City of Heroes® in-game store or the Guild Wars® in-game store for approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

On Wednesday, September 10th at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT) we will be conducting maintenance on the PlayNC Account Management website. Customers will not be able to access their PlayNC account for approximately 2 hours, and will not be able to access the City of Heroes® in-game store or the Guild Wars® in-game store for approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Stephen Colbert plans to save humanity when he has his DNA digitized and sent to the International Space Station (ISS) with famed game designer Richard Garriott.

Operation Immortality has really taken off, with some of today's top athletes, artists, and musicians signing on to have their digitized DNA preserved on the Immortality Drive. And now, there is even more time to join them!

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4, 2008--NCsoft's® Operation Immortality™ has added three of Silicon Valley's most celebrated minds to the growing list of notable names who are sending their digitized DNA into space. Kevin Rose, creator of the social-bookmarking website Digg, Robert Scoble, one of the world's most popular tech bloggers and Tim Draper, founder of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, have agreed to send their DNA to orbit along with celebrated game designer Richard Garriott, who is traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 12.

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 29, 2008--Yet another group of prominent names has agreed to send their digitized DNA into space aboard the "Immortality Drive." Nine well-known television writers, screenwriters and comedy writers will have their DNA sequenced, digitized and sent into orbit on the Immortality Drive, a time capsule that will contain the digitized DNA of select video game players, space aficionados and celebrities. The drive will be carried to the International Space Station (ISS) by famed game developer Richard Garriott when he travels to space on October 12.

On Thursday, August 28th, at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT) we will be conducting maintenance on the PlayNC Account Management website. Customers will not be able to access their PlayNC account for approximately 2 hours, and will not be able to access the City of Heroes® in-game store or the Guild Wars® in-game store for approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We now have details on the next major update to City of Heroes®, "Issue 13: Architect." This highly anticipated Issue will feature the Mission Architect, which will allow players to design their own missions and story arcs to share across the entire COH community. We're also giving your favorite heroes and villains "day jobs" (offline character progression), two new powersets (Shields and Pain Domination), new Cimerora Missions, and lots more.

Between August 27 and September 3, Exteel's "Back to School" special will allow all players to receive 50% more credits and experience for every match played.

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 20, 2008--Operation Immortality, the project to create a digital time capsule of the human race, has again joined forces with Planet Make-Over, an entertainment driven social network designed to demonstrably reverse the effects of Global Warming. This alliance aims to unite and mobilize the worldwide gaming community with Planet Make-Over's mission by sending the digitized DNA of Texas Music Legend Joe Ely and Planet Make-Over's Musical Director, Stephen Bruton into space with video gaming luminary Richard Garriott as he travels to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 12, 2008.

Starr Long, the Producer of Tabula Rasa® at NCsoft® North America, talks about the newest changes to the game with Deployment 11 and the impact of Operation Immortality™.