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.

Missing 14-year-old City of Heroes? The SEGS emulator is looking for coders

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Are you missing City of Heroes this week, what with the 14th anniversary of its launch and all? We are too. Earlier this month,...

Guild Wars blows out 13 candles on its birthday cake – were you there for its first?

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Travel back with us to April 2005, when an unknown and unproven studio known as ArenaNet decided to make a play at its own...

Lineage II celebrates its anniversary and the spring harvest

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Dual events are vying for players' attention in NCsoft's long-running Lineage II. Can you believe that the fantasy MMORPG is now 14 years old?...

Global Chat: Shroud of the Avatar confounds

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What to make of Shroud of the Avatar? The few MMO bloggers who have looked into this recently released but already long-running title have...

The Stream Team: Partying in Paragon Chat to celebrate City of Heroes’ anniversary

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Celebration might not be quite the right word to use when referring to the City of Heroes anniversary, but that doesn't mean fans don't...

Here’s how to Celebrate City of Heroes’ 14th anniversary in Paragon Chat today

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If you're feeling the burning desire to reminisce in City of Heroes and hang out with other people who understand why it was so...

The Daily Grind: What is the greatest hoax or fake leak in all of MMORPG history?

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Hah, you thought this one was going to be about Daybreak. But it's not. No, today's Daily Grind was actually inspired by something Guild Wars...

Blade & Soul’s Eternal Night patch will rebalance weapon material requirements

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Blade & Soul's next big thing, Eternal Night, is launching in less than two weeks on May 9th, and if you're an economy player...

Guild Wars 2 tortures Dervish fans with an outfit but no class, denies excessive data collection in ‘spyware’ controversy

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World polish and bug fixes are at the forefront of Guild Wars 2's latest patch, which went live yesterday. Several nagging issues across the game...

One Shots: Tour guides

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It turns out that MMORPG players really don't need much prompting to go out and take a bazillion screenshots of their favorite in-game zones,...
Please let this stay far away from Rowling's endless retcons.

The Game Archaeologist: Harry Potter Online

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If all goes well, later this year we will finally be treated to an actual Harry Potter MMORPG in the form of Harry Potter:...

Blade & Soul delays its Eternal Night update deeper into May

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Blade & Soul players are going to have to chew on a bit of a sour grape today, as NCsoft announced that it made...

Russia’s Telegram crackdown blocks access to WoW, EVE, and Guild Wars 2

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If you play Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, EVE Online, or World of Warcraft in Russia, you may find that access to these...

The Daily Grind: What could MMO taverns do to get you to stick around?

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I have vague memories of ArenaNet talking about Guild Wars 2 taverns prior to its launch and how these spaces would be more than...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s A Bug in the System (Part 1)

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Season 4 of Guild Wars 2 Living World was off to a roaring start with Daybreak so I was expecting a solid follow-up in A...
Lineage what, now? Huh?

Lineage 2: Revolution talks about server merges, new servers, and more content coming in May

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Server merges happen. You may not want them to happen for a game that you're playing, but they're sometimes just a simple necessity. Of...
TERA

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?

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Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...

Guild Wars 2 plans bonus harvesting weekend, backs player artists crowdfunding a GW2 tarot deck for charity

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So here's something Guild Wars 2 doesn't do much: special weekend bonus events. This one's probably more about getting folks to buy harvesting tools...

The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?

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Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...

The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 2018)

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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...

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