NCsoft Launches City of Heroes Commercial Service

Comic Book-Based Online Game Trailblazes New Territory

Austin, TEXAS, April 28, 2004- NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS), the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announces the launch of North American commercial service for Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes™, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where players don costumes to become super-powered heroes, and fight against evil to save the world.