Company Background
Headquartered in Westwood, MA, with a development studio in Santa Monica, CA, Turbine, Inc. is a leading producer and publisher of online subscription entertainment. Turbine has established a position at the forefront of the massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) space with its ability to create living worlds and empower players to drive the game play experience.
Turbine is currently developing the first Lord of the Rings online role playing game, The Lord of the RingsTM: Middle-EarthTM Online with Vivendi Universal Games and developing and self- funding Dungeons & Dragons Online with publishing partner Atari. Both break-through titles will join Turbine's roster of memorable games: Asheron's Call, Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty and Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings.
Formed in 1994 by a team of entrepreneurs who shared a vision of becoming the premier provider of online subscription entertainment, Turbine is now one of only a handful of companies to have sucessfully launched an MMOG service. The company has grown to more than 200 employees, launched three successful titles, and works with some of the best partners in the business. A privately held company, Turbine, Inc. is now one of the most successful companies in the online video games industry.
Technology
The Company's patented Turbine Engine technology produces some of the most sophisticated graphics available for MMOGs to date. This technology is at the forefront of the industry in its capacity to create, host, and maintain three-dimensional living worlds.
The Turbine Engine is a powerful system that eases the development of large-scale virtual worlds. The engine employs a sophisticated world model, cutting-edge client technologies, and content creation tools that move most of the labor of world creation out of the hands of programmers and into the hands of artists and designers. This wholly owned, patented, internally developed technology allows Turbine to create new worlds with greater efficiency
The Turbine Engine is a proven technology that delivers an unmatched level of immersion to users through its ability to grow and change dramatically over time, continuing to raise the innovation bar for future online persistent world technologies.
Offical Site
| Developer |
Turbine |
Genre |
Online Role Playing |
| Publisher |
Microsoft |
Release Date |
Nov 20, 2002 | 
Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings returns players to Dereth 200 years after the original Asheron's Call. The wizard Asheron helped the Humans learn the skills of magic and metalworking, and they were able to control Dereth. A civil war soon broke out, however, and drove all three of Dereth's races underground, where they stayed for generations. Now the Humans, Tumeroks, and Lugians have ventured above ground, ready to do battle once again.
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| Developer |
Turbine |
Genre |
Online Role Playing |
| Publisher |
Microsoft |
Release Date |
Dec 1, 1999 | 
Asheron's Call features a virtual world where thousands of adventurers venture through strange lands and dank dungeons while interacting with fellow travelers. Players can completely customize their character's race, facial features, skin tone, hairstyle, and both hair and eye color. Characters can train and specialize in over 30 different skills, wear multi-layered clothing and armor, and even fashion their own heraldic symbol.This online game of epic role-playing proportions, is one in a long line of online RPGs intended to attract legions of genre fans
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| Developer |
Turbine |
Genre |
Online Role Playing |
| Publisher |
Atari |
Release Date |
2006 |
The defining pen-and-paper RPG becomes the ultimate massively-multiplayer online game as Turbine Entertainment and Atari bring the basement sensation into the light of computer screens all across the world. Dungeons & Dragons Online is centered on robust character advancement, challenging dungeon combat, meaningful guild politics and territorial control over major portions of the game world. Players choose and develop a character based on some of the iconic races and classes associated with D&D - after which they can socialize, find quests, group together and equip themselves for future battles. The game also lets players travel alone or in parties as they explore the seemingly endless dungeon complexes found beneath the world. Through the dungeons, players will engage in physical and magical combat with hideous foes straight from the pages of the Monster Manual rulebook.
offical site Fans Site
| Developer |
Turbine |
Genre |
Online Role Playing |
| Publisher |
Turbine |
Release Date |
2006 |
From the far corners of Middle-earth, new adventurers come forth to face the growing evil in the East. The forces of Mordor are mobilizing as the Nazg¨šl hunt for the One Ring. The land itself is now in peril and its fate lies in the hands of those who possess it. Adventuring alone or in groups, join thousands of players online in the massive world that is Middle-earth. Support the forces of good in an epic struggle to drive back the forces of Sauron. This is Middle-Earth Online, your home in the world of Tolkien. Features personalized character advancement system including Elves, Humans, Hobbits, Dwarves and more, a dynamic character alignment and customization system, race-specific dwellings and the ability to ally with other players to form Fellowships and wage war against the dark lord Sauron. The unique storyline expands the Fellowship's quest and takes players to the far corners of Middle-earth..
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8.3 out of 10 -Gamespot
9 out of 10 -IGN
88 out of 100 -PC Game World
9.1 out of 10 -Game Zone
84 out of 100 -Gamespy
8.6 out of 10 -Gamespot
Wins 'Best Game' in Eurogamer's Gaming Globe 2000 Awards
Wins Prestigious C/NET Gamecenter RPG Game of the Year Award
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