Cyper Entertainment announced today that it had obtained the rights to produce an animated series based on Lineage, a Korean on-line game and the source comic series.  The budget is planned at $5 million for 13 episodes. 

 

The comic, by Il-Sook Shin, was first released in 1993; the on-line game was launched in 1998.  The on-line game has 10 million users and can have up to 125,000 players on-line at any one time.  It's currently available in the U.S., Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.