Official Site: Blade & Soul
Studio: NCsoft
Launch Date: Western ETA Q1 2016
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid Free-to-play
Platform: PC
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End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
One Shots: By the power of armpits!
When you lost your way to Castle Greyskull and can't find your magic transforming sword, all you can rely on is your sheer innate...
One Shots: The best player-submitted MMO screenshots of 2022
For our very last One Shots column of 2022, we're going to take a break from the routine to hand out awards to our...
One Shots: Watching the firelog show
What did people and hobbits used to do before you could stream a fireplace on your television? Apparently, they hacked up tree corpses, dragged...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio had the best dev communication in 2022?
Last year, ArenaNet took my nod for best developer communication. It's been solid all year. Really, any MMO putting out regular blog posts and...
Blade & Soul releases the Dark Awakening update – here are the patch notes
The past several days have been spent by Blade & Soul talking up its Dark Awakening update, but now the talk is over and...
Blade & Soul offers a closer look at the quests and rewards of its upcoming Chimera Lab Demonsbane dungeon
"What awaits in the Chimera Lab?" That's the question that headlines a preview from Blade & Soul as it casts a spotlight on the...
Blade & Soul adds a new Demonsbane dungeon, an auto-hunt area, and a holiday Treasure Trove this week
This Wednesday, December 7th, is bringing a new update to Blade & Soul, and despite some of the holiday cheer that it's partially bringing,...
One Shots: Impossible landscapes would like to have a word with you
While the seemingly impossible landscapes of MMORPG worlds make for great visuals -- such as in our headlining pic -- I can't help but...
One Shots: Watch out below!
Hey guy? Yeah, you might want to move a scootch to the left there. Little more. There, you got it. Now you're not about...
Battle Bards Episode 218: Peace and quiet
If anyone’s ever told you to “take a chill pill,” then the Battle Bards have your full dosage in today’s episode. Exploring peaceful and...
Aion and Lineage II offer holiday promos, Blade & Soul suspends cheaters
It's the NCsoft News Bundle of Random Stuff! We've got news tidbits coming out of several MMORPGs under the publisher/developer's umbrella, so we're collecting...
Blade & Soul warns against Windwalk Race cheaters and hands out achievement bug recompense
Blade & Soul is only on week two of its Great Windwalk Race and already people are trying to cheat in the activity, forcing...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 396: Crowfalling
Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Blue Protocol, SWTOR, New World, Q3 2022 financials (for Blizzard, Pearl Abyss, Square Enix, NCsoft), and new patches (for DDO, Neverwinter, Blade and Soul, EVE Online, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online), with a mailbag topic covering Shadowbane, Second Live, Secret World, and Ultima Online.
Blade & Soul details its Windwalk Race event and crushes some of its bugs in a hotfix
Blade & Soul has had no end of trouble getting its Great Windwalk Race event out of the door. Readers will recall that the...
One Shots: Officially up to no good
Hey, I hope everyone had a good week of recovery from all of those MMO Halloween festivities because One Shots is back -- and...
NCsoft Q3 2022: Lineage W drives QoQ revenues, Guild Wars 2 had a great year
NCsoft's Q3 2022 financials are another tale of ups and downs. While the South Korean MMO company's revenues have declined for the last few...
Blade and Soul runs, jumps, and falls for its new Great Windwalk Race
After a short delay -- an extended maintenance period, really -- to fix a bug, Blade and Soul's newest update has breezed into town....
Blade & Soul un-delays its Wind Chasers update originally delayed over critical crash bug [Updated]
(This article has been updated with NCsoft's latest decision at the end.)
All the nice Blade & Soul players just wanted to have a nice...
Blade & Soul’s previously delayed windwalking race event gets a new release date of November 9
Last month's Symphony of Destruction patch for Blade & Soul was meant to include a windwalking race event, but unfortunately it was cancelled because...
