Seattle, Wash. – (November 29, 2007) – Fuze Digital Solutions congratulates its client, Turbine, Inc. for being awarded the highly-coveted Golden Joystick Award for 2007PC Game of the Year for its Lord of the Rings Online^TM: Shadows of Angmar^TM. The highly-acclaimed massively multiplayer online (MMO) Lord of the Rings Online beat out World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Football Manager 2007, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl to earn the award.

 

The Fuze Suite optimizes the customer experience for Turbine’s hundreds of thousands of gamers worldwide while creating an efficient multi-channel support delivery. Turbine, Inc., a leader in MMO games, utilizes the Fuze Suite in-game and from its Web site to give its gamers instant access to help while playing the company’s newest game, Lord of the Rings Online, an MMO role-playing game for PCs, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic books.

 

Already proven as a value-add to Turbine’s other online game sites, Asheron’s Call^® and Dungeons & Dragons Online^TM, the Fuze Suite for Lord of the Rings Online is also run cost-efficiently in a hosted, on-demand model. Stability and performance of the hosting infrastructure has proven to be outstanding with 100% uptime and sub-second transaction times being consistently delivered, regardless of transaction volumes. 

 

Turbine is using the Fuze Suite’s knowledge base, email management, feedback management, live chat, and online reporting modules to provide gamers with fast, consistent, and accurate answers across all channels and all staff. The Fuze Suite has proven effective and efficient, with gamers helping themselves using the knowledge base. When live support is needed, the Fuze Suite’s assisted service components help Turbine to proactively manage and expedite responses within established service levels.

 

“Fuze strives to provide the people and technology to make our clients successful when providing customer care,” said Chuck Van Court, Fuze founder and CEO. “Turbine is a premier client, and we congratulate them on this award.”

 

 

Turbine, Inc. is a premier developer, publisher and operator of online entertainment and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. The company is one of the largest privately-held online games companies in North America. Turbine's catalog includes some of the most famous online entertainment brands, including Asheron's Call^®, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE™: Stormreach™" and The Lord of the Rings Online™": Shadows of Angmar™." For more information on Turbine and its services, please visit www.turbine.com.