History of Asheron's Call

Related topics: Turbine, ACCWiki History

A place for history of the game itself. Important dates, Beta and launch information, Microsoft days, Turbine Takeover, and old articles and dev chats.

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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  July 2001 - GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time
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  2000 - The Academy Interactive Arts & Sciences - Adventure/RPG of the Year
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  1999 - Gamezilla's Game of the Year
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  1999 - Gamer's Voice - Best Online/Multiplayer Game
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  1999 - Gamer's Voice - Best of E3 Awards
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  1999 - Gamecenter's RPG of the Year

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

• GameSpy - 84%

• Adrenaline Vault - 4/5

• Computer Games Online - 4.5/5

• Daily Radar - Hit

• Eurogamer - 8/10

• Eurogamer - 9/10

• Firing Squad - 4/5

• Gamecenter - 8/10

• Games Domain

• GameSpot - 8.6/10

• Happy Puppy - 9/10

• IGN PC - 6.4/10

• RPG Vault - Special Report

Previews

• GameSpy - Should the Stars Fall "Dream Event"

• Gamespy - Twilight's Gleaming Event

• Daily Radar

• Desslock's RPG News

• Firing Squad

• GA-RPG

• Gamecenter

• RPG Vault

• July, 1997 - ZDNet

• July, 1998 - Gamespot

Interviews

• GameSpy - Sean Huxter, Art Director

• Crossroads of Dereth - Chris L'etoile

• ActiveWin - Scott Herrington

• Computer Games Online - Jon Grande and Jeremy Gaffney

• Dr. Twister - Jason Booth

• Eurogamer - Scott Herrington, Producer

• IGN PC - Toby Ragaini, Lead Game Designer

• RPG Vault - Patricia Pizer, Lead Designer

• RPG Vault - Eri Izawa, Designer

Other

• GameSpy - Top 10 Asheron's Call Items

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

Developer Chat - 1999/08/06 Developer Chat - 1999/11/03 Developer Chat - 1999/12/01 Developer Chat - 2000/02/03 Developer Chat - 2000/03/14 Developer Chat - 2000/04/12 Developer Chat - 2000/05/10 Developer Chat - 2000/06/15 Developer Chat - 2000/07/18 Developer Chat - 2000/09/20 Developer Chat - 2000/10/18

Developer Chat - 2000/11/21 Developer Chat - 2001/01/17 Developer Chat - 2001/05/07 Developer Chat - 2001/07/05 Developer Chat - 2001/07/17 Developer Chat - 2001/09 Developer Chat - 2002/03/12 Developer Chat - 2002/05/01 Developer Chat - 2002/06/06 Developer Chat - 2002/06/20 Developer Chat - 2008/09/30

Zone Archive

• Microsoft Zone Archive

AC News Archives (ACC Wiki)

• News Archive - 2007
• News Archive - 2008
• News Archive - 2009
• News Archive - 2010
• News Archive - 2011

Turbine Archive Index

Informational Pages on Turbine's Official AC Website

• Index of Turbine Pages 1-300
• Index of Turbine Pages 301-600
• Index of Turbine Pages 601-900