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• Wildstar's servers have an official shut down date, farewell events planned

  NCSoft will shut down the sci-fi MMORPG Wildstar in two months, but still has a few surprises left for fans.

  2 years ago

• Wildstar's graphics are getting an upgrade

  Wildstar, released last year, is gearing up for a visual overhaul.

  5 years ago

• Wildstar: 1,000 free trial keys to give away!

  We have 1,000 trial keys to give away for sci-fi MMO Wildstar.

  6 years ago

• WildStar's first 16 months of post-release content are already in pre-production

  Carbine’s forthcoming sci-fi MMO WildStar has it’s first 16 months of content already in pre-production, according to exec producer Jeremy Gaffney.

  7 years ago

• WildStar: warplots, death maps and 71 pages of patch notes - interview

  We speak with Carbine’s executive producer Jeremy Gaffney about planning the long-term future of an MMO before it’s even been released.

  7 years ago

• Wildstar beta: we've got 3,000 keys to give away

  We’re giving away 3,000 beta keys for NCsoft and Carbine’s new MMO Wildstar – get ’em here.

  7 years ago

• Wildstar: ex-Blizzard developers take on their own legacy

  Wildstar is a new MMO from NCSoft, developed by ex-Blizzard developers Carbine Studios. It’s sassy, it’s got some good ideas, but it also seems haunted by the spectre of its spiritual ancestor, says Joe Robinson.

  7 years ago

• Guild Wars publisher selling shares to establish new North American subsidiary

  NCsoft, the Korean publisher behind MMORPG’s Lineage and Guild Wars, has announced it will sell all of its NC Interactive shares, the company’s US subsidiary responsible for Lineage 2 and City of Heroes. It will be selling all of its 809 million shares on December 24.

  8 years ago

• NCSoft posts Q2 loss in competitive MMO market

  NCSoft, publisher of Guild Wars 2 and Lineage 2 has posted a loss in revenue as a result of the increasingly competitive F2P and MMO markets.

  8 years ago

• Guild Wars 2 closed beta kicks off today

  ArenaNet has said the closed beta for Guild Wars 2 will start today. Speaking on a Reddit thread, system designer Jon Peter said there was no way in for the public, with testers already handpicked by ArenaNet. “We will officially enter Closed Beta Testing this Friday. It will be marked with an increase in our […]

  9 years ago

• Aion's anniversary celebrated with events, new game content

  NCSoft have revealed that they’re going to kick of a variety of different celebratory events this week in honour of Aion: The Tower of Eternity, which turns two in the US and Europe this week.

  9 years ago

• Guild Wars 2 to appear at Eurogamer Expo

  NCSoft’s confirmed that it’ll make an appearance with Guild Wars 2 at Eurogamer Expo in September. The MMO’s appearance at the UK show will come a month after a promised significant showing at gamescom, where the game will go big in Cologne with major news. NCSoft European boss Veronique Lallier said it was “thrilled to […]

  9 years ago

• Guilded wars: Guild Wars passes 6.5 million sales mark, "when it's done" is the word on GW2

  As it turns out, quite a few people are fans of this whole “not having to pay a subscription fee” thing. Who’da guessed?

  10 years ago

• Lord British reigns supreme in NCSoft suit, walks away with $28 million

  In 2008, Ultima creator Richard “Lord British” Garriott was on top of the world. Literally. He had a cushy seat atop one of the world’s largest MMO developers, and he – you know – went to outer space. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there.Until today.

  10 years ago

• Watch Tabula Rasa’s final moments

  Tabula Rasa is officially dead. We checked, and now, so can you. After the break, you’ll find a video of the explosively decompressed MMO’s last hurrah. It has lasers, explosions, and some guy break-dancing – everything you could want from one of these things, really. Oh, it’s also set to Queen’s “We Are the Champions,” […]

  12 years ago

• Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne - Kamael launches in Europe

  The retail version of the next Lineage II chapter, Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne – Kamael, is now on sale in Europe. Find a trailer below.“To help celebrate the launch of the latest update to the phenomenally popular MMORPG, NCsoft presents an amazing new rendered movie that reveals the mysterious new player race, The Kamael, […]

  13 years ago