A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.
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WildStar players host a design contest for racial houses
If you play a Mordesh or a Mechari in WildStar, you are probably used to having to live in someone else's style of house....
Blade & Soul’s Warden’s Fury launches September 12 with a new class and ghost ship dungeon
Its revenues might have dipped slightly last quarter, but Blade & Soul is still marching along with its snappy content cadence, and next month...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 183: Battle for Battle for Azeroth
Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss WoW Battle for Azeroth, Fallout 76, WildStar, NCsoft, Ashes of Creation, MMO Kickstarters, FFXIV, and SWG, with more haiku and mailbag entry on rating WoW for kids.
Guild Wars 2: New systems team, outfit vouchers, PvP updates, Revenant overhaul, and anniversary sales
One of my big grumps with Guild Wars 2 and plenty of other MMORPG cash shops is the time-limited items. The stuff I want...
Western qualifiers for Blade & Soul’s $135K esports tourney are this weekend
Not many MMORPGs take a stab at true esports these days. There's World of Warcraft, of course, but other titles, like Guild Wars 2,...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 4: Conclusions
Part four covers expansion odds and ends plus the conclusion to our series: the problem with Azerite, progression, and why the expansion isn't bad, just weakly executed.
WildStar brings back its home decoration event as the game languishes
Poor WildStar. These days all the attention and excitement that Carbine's MMO generates is by recycling old events. One of these, the home renovation...
Aion details all of its upcoming gear exchange rates for a big equipment overhaul
The progression of equipment and power level in Aion may be a bit overly ornate at the moment, which is why the game's next...
Battle Bards Episode 126: Out of this world
It’s time to boldly go where no podcast has gone before — by exploring MMO space themes! It’s perhaps the flat-out goofiest and silliest...
Jagex gets into games publishing while RuneScape crosses $1 billion earned
Jagex isn't content to be "just the RuneScape studio" these days. The company announced today that it is preparing to move into the publishing...
Global Chat: Everybody’s burning up about that Sylvanas thing
Yes, just about every MMO blogger was sharing heated opinions about last week's World of WarCraft WarCrime. "It’s such a sad event and I’m particularly...
Blade & Soul patches in the Frozen Firing Range event dungeon, new cosmetics, and PvP matchmaking tweak
Live this week in Blade & Soul is... swimsuits. But seriously, what's the obsession with bathing suits in MMORPGs? We cannot fight in bikinis...
NCsoft Q3 2018: Aion, Blade & Soul, Guild Wars 2 revenues dip, while NCsoft teases three new titles
NCsoft's second quarter financials for the year hit this morning, and it's not exactly bad news. Sales are down slightly, but everything looks wimpy...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
One Shots: Selfie school
I certainly did not have to twist readers' arms to get them to bring out a mountain of MMORPG character selfies set against interesting...
Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Global Chat: Is it worth your time to alpha test MMOs?
Taugrim raises a very interesting question this week on his blog. Namely, is it really worth your time to alpha test MMOs these days?...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?
Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol.
"When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
Netmarble’s earning report shows more revenue from North American markets than Korea
Netmarble has released its earnings report for the most recent quarter, which means that if you love looking through investment reports for various companies,...
Guild Wars 2 has all the activities going on right now
Perhaps to distract MMO players from next week's Battle for Tyria (or whatever) expansion, Guild Wars 2 is really cranking out all sorts of...
