Official Site:Â Blade & Soul
Studio:Â NCsoft
Launch Date:Â Western ETA Q1 2016
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid Free-to-play
Platform: PC
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Blade & Soul is revamping crafting in the Rise of the Gunslinger patch
What are you expecting for Blade & Soul's Rise of the Gunslinger patch? Probably mostly gunslinging, possibly a strained Stephen King reference or two?...
Blade & Soul’s PAX West e-sports tourney has a $170,000 prize purse
NCsoft's taking another stab at MMORPG e-sports, this time with Blade & Soul, which will serve as the focal point of the company's tourney...
Blade and Soul is so excited to come to Vietnam, it spawned a short, delirious movie
Blade and Soul is heading into the jungle this fall, as Southeast Asian operator Garena agreed to publish the game in Vietnam. There's an...
Blade and Soul’s Dark Origins patch is live with new raids and evolved stone economy fixes
Blade &Â Soul's Dark Origins patch is live this week, bringing with it two more chapters of Act 7, the heroic 6-man Ebondrake Lair dungeon,...
NCsoft Q2 2017: Guild Wars 2 drops to new all-time low, Blade and Soul heads to console
Ready to take high Asian fantasy to your home console? You'd better because NCsoft recently announced that it is working on adapting Blade and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 129: Treasure Trove
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Secret World Legends, Trove, ArcheAge, Blade & Soul, Star Citizen, Chronicles of Elyria, Crowfall, and DCUO, with mailbag questions on non-fantasy MMOs and soloing in MMOs: %SURL%
Blade and Soul announces server merges, hypes upcoming patches
Major events are in motion over at Blade and Soul, illuminated by the game's newest producer's letter from Jonathan Lien. While Lien spent a...
The MOP Up: SMITE sees a Divine Light (July 9, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Blade & Soul uses community sales of item packs to fund its tournament prize
The tournament for Blade & Soul is getting ready to kick off, but it needs a prize. That's where the community comes in, because...
Blade and Soul cracks the hatch to a high-tech dungeon
Just because a game is loosely labeled as "fantasy" doesn't mean that it is forbidden from delving into the realm of technology and sci-fi...
One Shots: En garde!
It's hard to deny that one of Final Fantasy XIV's newest classes marries style and substance, particularly if you're into a certain swashbuckling aesthetic.
Skoryy...
Choose My Adventure: Cryptic’s Neverwinter in review
My time with Neverwinter is done, and it's a game I find myself in an odd relationship with. It'd be fair to say that...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
The MOP Up: EVE Valkyrie lowers its price point (June 11, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Check out footage of Blade & Soul’s Maestro in action
If you were hoping for some reason that the Maestro in Blade & Soul would be all about conducting a stirring symphony, that's definitely...
MMO Mechanics: Making healing interesting in MMORPGs
I was reading a recent Daily Grind article on the topic of unique healing classes and it prompted me to think about the variety...
One Shots: The 3:15 giant flea is on time
When it comes to public transportation, I can think of no better way to get from point A to point B than by climbing...
Blade and Soul doubles its firepower with the Maestro
Asian MMOs can't exist for long without succumbing to the temptation to introduce some sort of gun-toting fanatic, and Blade and Soul is proving...
NCsoft Q1 2017: Tumbles for Lineage, Guild Wars 2, plus new leadership for Lineage Eternal
NCsoft's first quarter financials for 2017 have released, and... well, let's get the bad news out of the way. While sales dropped only slightly...
One Shots: Lights, camera, frogs!
Just because you happen to be a humanoid frog doesn't mean that you've lost at the lottery of life. On the contrary, you have...
