AUSTIN, Texas, July 9, 2002—NCsoft™ Corporation, the world’s largest independent online game company announced today that it will publish Trade Wars: Dark Millennium ™ (working title) from Realm Interactive, LLC™.

Trade Wars features a fast-paced action RPG combat experience set in an enormous virtual world where players are able to explore the vastness of space as well as mysterious uncharted planets, a first for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre.

“Trade Wars: Dark Millennium is set on both planetary and space environments that look as if they came straight out of a science fiction movie,” said NCsoft President Kim Taek-Jin. “Gamers who are used to fantasy online games will soon be able to experience a new form of entertainment with Trade Wars. With its unique action oriented role-playing style and heavy emphasis on player questing, we believe it will significantly grow the online game market.”

“We’re thrilled to be part of the NCsoft publishing family,” said Salvatore Sferlazza, COO of Realm Interactive. “NCsoft has a proven track record in publishing subscription-based online games. We can’t imagine a better partner for helping us launch Trade Wars to a global marketplace.”

For more information on Trade Wars: Dark Millennium visit www.tradewars.com

About NCsoft
Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, NCsoft Corp. is the world’s largest independent online game company. Established in 1997, NCsoft has leaped to become the world’s leading online game software company. In Korea, its blockbuster hit game Lineage™ commands a 42% market share and attracts the greatest number of concurrent users in the world. Earlier this year, NCsoft announced plans to provide service for Sony Online Entertainment’s massively popular EverQuest® in Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Currently NCsoft is positioning itself to fund online titles for worldwide distribution, and is now actively recruiting more subscription-based online titles for publishing in Asia and other territories. NCsoft is a public company and is traded on the KOSDAQ Korean stock exchange. In fiscal 2001, NCsoft posted revenues of 124,735,958,000 Korean won or approximately US$95 million. More information about NCsoft can be found at www.ncsoft.net.

About Realm Interactive, LLC
Established in 2000, Realm Interactive is a game development studio based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Realm Interactive's team is focused on developing its first title Trade Wars: Dark Millennium (working title). For more information, visit www.realminteractive.com.

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