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Project LLL Becomes Cinder City, NCSOFT’s MMO Tactical Third-Person Shooter for 2026

Gamescom debuts the first trailer alongside public demos powered by NVIDIA ray tracing with DLSS 4.

Guild Wars publisher’s new MMO is an open-world tac shooter called Cinder City
A still from the trailer for Cinder City, an upcoming MMO shooter by NCSoft.
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Overview

  • BigFire Games, an NCSOFT studio, is developing Cinder City as an MMO tactical shooter with grounded gunplay that supports solo play or coordinated squads.
  • Cinder City is planned for PC and consoles in the second half of 2026.
  • A new trailer is set to premiere during Opening Night Live, followed by hands-on stations for attendees at Gamescom.
  • NVIDIA will showcase the game at a GeForce RTX event with PC demos featuring ray tracing, DLSS 4 and RTX 50‑series hardware.
  • The story unfolds in a post-apocalyptic 23rd-century Seoul as a high-tech soldier searches for a missing daughter while facing human foes, zombies, monstrous creatures and towering robots.