New release Aion has been doing all kinds of favours for NCsoft's bottom line, we learn today. Apparently the new release has seen rise some 51 percent in the first quarter of 2009.

This huge boost in sales came as profits were up a whopping 128 percent, hitting 34.3 million USD. Aion was responsible for much of this boost, the game taking as much as Lineage 1 and 2 combined.

NCsoft has been struggling of late, the once mighty specialists struggling in the face of successful from and their titanic World of Warcraft. Tabula Rasa was also a high profile flop for the firm.

Still, the company's finances are certainly looking a little healthier, even if Tabula Rasa creator are pursuing the firm for 25 million USD in the courts.

More on as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge