So the last few weeks have been fairly event­ful in the Aion news department.

For starters the Aus­tralian dis­trib­uter has been announced as QV Soft­ware. They have released such excit­ing games as Click & Play — 1000 games volume two and three (Not sure what happened to volume one). One of their other fine releases is the Guild Wars series. So I guess NC Soft are stick­ing with pre­vi­ously used com­pan­ies, which makes sense. The Aus­tralian dis­trib­uter doesn’t really affect me since I’ll just be order­ing the game off Steam. Oh and they have their own ded­ic­ated web­site for Aion loc­ated here.

More inter­est­ing news is the announce­ment of the pre-ordering bonuses. Simply by pre-ordering you receive:

• Access to all Aion Beta events, and early head-start access to Aion live game.
• Access to Aion server and char­ac­ter preselection.
• Exclus­ive in-game items includ­ing the Dark Cloud Hel­met (stat boost), Talis­man of Lodas (XP boost), and a retailer exclus­ive item.

People who pur­chase the Col­lect­ors edi­tion receive:

• 6.5″ hand-painted fig­ur­ine of a winged Asmodian warrior-goddess
• Exclus­ive in-game items includ­ing an exclus­ive wing set with stat boost, exclus­ive color dye, two emotes, and exclus­ive collector?s edi­tion title with stat boost.
• The offi­cial Aion soundtrack CD
• Full color poster and map of the world of Atreia

This seems pretty decent for simply pre-ordering a game. In Taiwan the pre-order pack looked pretty cool (Note: Weird Asian plush toys not included)

The last big news, which Is kind of dis­ap­point­ing, is the announce­ment of no Aus­tralian based Aion serv­ers. Although this doesn’t come as a sur­prise, deep down we all secretly hoped for Aus­tralian servers.

Finally I would like to offi­cialy wel­come our four new mem­bers, Mag­netiX, Jett, Bouncy and Some­body. We hope you enjoy your stay with us!