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.

Blade & Soul Neo’s second Moonwater Plains update arrives with two new dungeons today

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NCsoft Blade & Soul NEO is rolling out a new chapter today - actually the second chunk of its massive Moonwater Plains chapter. "Available...

The Stream Team: In hot pursuit in Guild Wars 2’s Penance for the Past

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After following Mabon's memory wisps in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ got to start piecing together the story of this fallen friend and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 514: Elder Seasons Online

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, Classic Guild Wars, LOTRO, abd Defiance, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Diablo III, plus a mailbag topic on advice for MMO sequels.

Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box is here with new weapons, deco, and the Super Ooze Kitchen

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Today marks the return of Super Adventure Box to Guild Wars 2, proving once again there is no April Fools' day joke that MMO...

Classic Guild Wars celebrates 20 years with an Anniversary Masterpiece Collection and a juicy update

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Guild Wars franchise fans already knew that ArenaNet was planning something big for the OG game's 20th birthday, and indeed we also knew that...

The Daily Grind: What are the most challenging upgrade systems in MMORPGs?

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The thing I love about City of Heroes is that it scales remarkably well. If I want to just play the game or a...

Guild Wars 1’s community is organizing a massive 20th anniversary playthrough

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Leave it up to the amazing classic Guild Wars community to top what ArenaNet is already doing for this legacy MMO on its 20th...

Massively Overthinking: The one about open-world randos in MMOs

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MOP's Chris is fast becoming my muse: It was his remark about Marvel Heroes that inspired this week's Massively Overthinking. "Some of the best fun...

Lineage II reveals three PvE and PvP encounters coming in next week’s Project Wolf update

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Lineage II has been gearing up for its big Project Wolf update for weeks already, and now NCsoft is teasing even more new content...
Stuff. You. Give. Me.

Classic Guild Wars is teasing 50+ unlocked weapons and minipets in next week’s anniversary patch

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As we noted last week, classic Guild Wars is turning 20 years old this month, and ArenaNet is not letting the date of this...

Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box festival returns next week with a new weapon set

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If you follow the Guild Wars 2 roadmap, then you probably already know that Super Adventure Box is slated to return next week. Once...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: The accursed MMORPG dungeons of no return

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So it came to be that I did face my Judgment, and I sat between that greatest of all Game-Masters o'er all the online...

The Stream Team: A Legacy Damned in Guild Wars 2

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Legacies are good things, right? Well, not always. And maybe not this time in Guild Wars 2; Chapter 15 in Janthir Wilds is A...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 513: The MMORPG PvP theme show

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Justin and Bree sit for a special themeshow all about MMORPG PvP in its many (many) forms, in addition to adventures in the LOTRO housing chaos.

Aion Classic EU teases the upcoming Wrath update’s arrival on April 23

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Get mad, Aion Classic EU players! No, madder! Madder! Give us your wrath! Or just wait until Update 3.7: Wrath patch arrives to the...

Game company stock values in multiple markets start to tumble in the wake of US tariffs

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With US President Donald Trump's imposed trade tariffs throwing the global economy into turmoil and stoking fears of another Great Depression in the US,...

NCsoft addresses ‘relentless and destructive’ DDoS attacks on Lineage II and Blade & Soul NEO

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It's been a trying week or so for NCsoft's games, as the MMORPG giant's been dealing with several severe DDoS attacks upon its infrastructure...

Aion Classic EU holds events to mark server merges and to save Easter from evil bunnies

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With server merges looming next week for players of Aion Classic EU, Gameforge is taking the opportunity to dish out freebies and benefits to...

The Stream Team: A quick jaunt in City of Heroes Homecoming just for the heck of it

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Sometimes there are reasons why OPTV focuses on a game. Maybe it's the "it" title for our streamers. Maybe it's gotten a big update....
Science fight!

Design Mockument: Which of the healthiest 2025 MMORPGs have space for a sequel?

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Every year, Justin and I write all of our End-of-Year Eleven posts, and every year one of those is for the healthiest games going...

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