ncsoft

A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.

One Shots: Light pollution over Bree

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Are you under the assumption that light pollution is the sole product of the modern era? You've obviously never visited Lord of the Rings...

Guild Wars 2 previews April 15’s balance patch and its focus on PvE and WvW tweaks

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Get your favorite clutchin' pearls ready and prepare your fingers for knee-jerk reaction posts because Guild Wars 2 has once again provided preview patch...

The Stream Team: The start of Guild Wars 2’s Repentance

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Investigate? Explore? Why yes, Massively OP's MJ will be quite delighted to do that in Guild Wars 2. Those are her favorite pastimes, after...

Lineage 2’s Project Wolf launches April 15 with a new werewolf class

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NCsoft's NC America has turned its gaze toward Lineage II this week with the announcement of a major April update. It's called Project Wolf,...

Guild Wars 2 delays its unrevealed 2025 expansion from August to October

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Guild Wars 2's schedule has been off a smidge all year - and it's about to get another smidge worse. "While we've released our last...

The MOP Up: Blizzard adds five of its titles to GeForce NOW

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Blizzard helped beef up GeForce NOW's library in March with Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble, and the three remastered versions of its Warcraft...
Never hitting the winner's circle.

Design Mockument: How would a Marvel MMORPG actually work?

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We've had an awful lot of Marvel-related online projects that never quite get over the finish line into an MMORPG. Sure, we have had...

The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon

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Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...

Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs

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As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...

Guild Wars 2 nerfs Lowland Expertise to fix it in today’s mini-update

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Today's Guild Wars 2 hotfix comes with a specific fix for a Janthir Wilds bug that has sent some players into a tizzy. Initially,...

World of Warcraft teases its housing decoration tools, including 3-axis rotation and dyes

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When Blizzard last talked about World of Warcraft's housing, it was a vague overview of the studio's philosophies that left a lot of players...

Aion NA invites players to the Allos Cosmos dungeon opening March 18

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Tuesday, March 18th, will offer up something new for the high-level players of Aion NA to delve in to. Four times a week, anyway....
And on and on and on...

Perfect Ten: The strangest weapons you wind up using in MMORPGs

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Human beings have been using things as weapons for about as long as human beings have had hands and needed to hit stuff. That's...

Blade & Soul NEO’s Moonwater Plains part 1 is live with a new region, level cap, and PvP content

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As promised, Blade & Soul NEO has officially launched its first major update - Moonwater Plains part one, which NCsoft is calling an expansion...

The Stream Team: Into The Bitter Cold of Guild Wars 2 with Twitch drops (and no spoilers!)

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Want to watch some Guild Wars 2 for the Twitch drops but don't want any story spoilers of the new content until you can...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 509: Lord of the Transfers

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Justin and Bree discuss the LOTRO transfer mess, the return of APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth, Throne and Liberty's Wilds of Talandre, Guild Wars 2's Repentance, Elder Scrolls Online's Fallen Banners, and Fractured's new owners, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Diablo 3, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on gating story beats with raiding.

Choose My Adventure: A class switch reignites the combat chops of Blade & Soul NEO

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It was touch and go there for a little while, but man am I glad that the voting for Blade & Soul NEO went...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Previewing Guild Wars 2 Janthir Wilds’ latest episode, Repentance

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Repent! For the penultimate update to Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds expansion is at hand! We are at the midpoint of this expansion's continuing story...

Guild Wars 2’s Repentance launches tomorrow – without some player character voices, however

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We're less than a day away from the release of part three of Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds, dubbed Repentance, and unfortunately, ArenaNet has...

The Daily Grind: Are you still a fan of tab-target MMOs in 2025?

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Throne and Liberty is unusual in the MMO space because NCsoft baked in two very different methods for playing the game: an action-oriented system...

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