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Trion Worlds and XL Games bring a sandbox MMO to the West with a prestigious pedigree: It's from Lineage's creator

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Trion Worlds and XL Games are announcing today that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game ArcheAge will enter its closed beta test in the West on July 17.

The online free-to-play game comes from a South Korean development firm headed by Jake Song, the creator of the smash hit Lineage. Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion Worlds will publish the game, which is already live in South Korea and Russia, in the West. The deal uses Trion’s expertise as an online game publisher of titles such as Defiance, Rift, and Trove.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.