TAMPA, November 15, 2007—Game Guides Online, a digital strategy guide publisher, has announced its partnership with massively multiplayer online game developer and publisher NCsoft® and the release of the official strategy guide for NCsoft’s Dungeon Runners™.

Game Guides Online specializes in the production of digital strategy guides exclusively for massively multiplayer online games. As the medium for entertainment increasingly becomes digital it’s necessary to offer customers complimentary third party products digitally. “The digital medium opens up a lot of new possibilities for strategy guides. No longer are we restricted to static pictures and text. We can include interactive content such as flash diagrams, videos and voice-overs in our digital guides. With the growing complexity of these games it is sometimes easier to show a player an advanced tactic than it is to describe it,” says Dungeon Runners guide author Jason Allen. “With digital guides we can continually update the content so customers never rely on outdated information. It also allows us to communicate directly with our customers so that we can implement features or strategies that they request. We then distribute the revised guide to every customer with a click of a button,” said company spokesman Brian Whitener.

The first official guide to be released under the partnership is for Dungeon Runners, a new massively multiplayer game that is free-to-download and play with an optional premium membership. “Dungeon Runners is a bold leap into a new business model for NCsoft and it is taking us into a new direction in terms of the kind of games we can provide our customers,” said Robert Garriott, CEO of NCsoft North America.

Players from all over the world meet up and battle co-operatively or competitively through randomly generated dungeons. Due to the random nature of the environment, no two adventures are alike. The game sets itself apart with a unique sense of sartorial humor fused throughout its fast paced hack and slash game play.

For more information about Game Guides Online and the Dungeon Runners official strategy guide to go: www.gameguidesonline.com. For more information about Dungeon Runners or if you wish to download the game go to: http://www.dungeonrunners.com/. For a sample media copy of the strategy guide to review please contact Brian Whitener at: Brian.Whitener@gameguidesonline.com

About NCsoft

NCsoft North America is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft, with its own development and publishing offices in Texas and California, also works with other NCsoft subsidiaries and third party developers throughout North America to develop and publish innovative online entertainment software products. The company has successfully launched multiple online titles in the last three years and continues to support its franchises, which include Lineage®/Lineage II, City of Heroes®/City of Villains®, Guild Wars®/Guild Wars Factions®/Guild Wars Nightfall®/Guild Wars: Eye of the North™ and Dungeon Runners. More information about NCsoft can be found at www.plaync.com.

About Game Guides Online:

Game Guides Online specializes in producing digital interactive strategy guides for massively multiplayer online games. They specialize in providing dynamic guides written by gamers for gamers. Their team is based out of Tampa, Florida and has been producing strategy guides exclusively for massively multiplayer games since 2000.

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