NCsoft has sent over the deets of the North American preorder program for its upcoming MMO Aion: Tower of Eternity. Those already planning on picking the title up can now secure their copy by preordering the Aion Limited Collector’s Edition (only 50,000 being produced worldwide), which features a variety of exclusive items, or the standard edition featuring an exclusive SteelBook case limited to the first production run. Aion’s Western availability comes on the coattails of its phenomenal launch and success winning the Grand Awards of 2008 in Korea and setting launch participation records in China.

Players who preorder Aion receive guaranteed entry to all scheduled Aion beta events, early access to the servers at launch, exclusive in-game digital items, and special game benefits including character and server preselection privileges. Featured in-game digital items for Aion preorders include an exclusive Black Cloud Hat and Lodas’ Amulet, as well as one of five different Ancient Rings of Power dependent on retail purchase location.

As a special promotion in North America (because, you know, we’re special…(not really)), Aion preorder participants will have a chance to win an Alienware Area-51 m15x gaming notebook (US $2,324), and other great prizes such as HIS Hightech ATI Radeon HD video cards (US $164.99 and US $79.99) and one of ten yearly subscriptions to Aion. In order to qualify to win, players must preorder and participate in the beta events. For all the snazzy deets and rules, go here.

The preorder offer is taking place at several participating retailers, including GameStop, Amazon and Best Buy. For more on the game, head on over to AionOnline.com.