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ArenaNet, a subsidiary of NCSoft, has announced Guild Wars Reforged, an update and modernisation of the classic 2005 MMORPG. The update will be free for all existing owners and will launch on December 3rd for Steam and Windows PC. The project is a co-development venture between ArenaNet and the small …

Since the first game’s arrival in 2017, the Horizon franchise has grown massively, with recent figures putting the series at 40 million copies sold. Despite being a single player focused franchise, Guerrilla Games have revealed in the wake of NCSoft’s Horizon Steel Frontiers MMO announcement that “from the first moment we imagined Horizon, we always thought about it as a multiplayer game.”

This week, NCSoft and Sony officially revealed their Horizon MMO project – Horizon Steel Frontiers. One thing about the announcement immediately stood out as strange, the game is only coming to PC and mobile, with no PS5 version planned. As it turns out, that may have been Sony's decision.  NCSoft …

Over the past year, we've been repeatedly hearing about a new MMO based on PlayStation's Horizon franchise. This was partially confirmed earlier this year when Sony announced its new partnership with NCSoft. Now, the big game has been revealed as Horizon Steel Frontiers.  Horizon Steel Frontiers is an MMORPG spin-off …

NCSoft has confirmed the global launch window for Aion 2, targeting the second half of 2026. The announcement came during its Q3 2025 earnings report. While the rest of the world has a bit of a wait, the PC and mobile MMORPG is set to launch in South Korea and …

After years of leaks and rumours, it appears as though the Horizon MMO from NCSoft could be officially announced as soon as this week.

Nvidia is celebrating 25 years of GeForce at the GeForce Gamer Festival in South Korea this week. As part of the event, the next batch of DLSS-supported games were announced and on top of that, KRAFTON and NCSoft made appearances to showcase new games.

NCSoft has some big projects in the works, including an upcoming collaboration effort with Sony Interactive Entertainment. Unfortunately due to continued shifts in the industry, NCSoft has had to make some cuts, resulting in layoffs and at least one publicly announced project being cancelled.  Project M, an ultra-realistic next generation …

After years of development and months of localisation efforts, Throne and Liberty is now available across the globe on PC and consoles.

Throne and Liberty finally has a global launch date. The MMORPG, developed by NCSoft and published by Amazon, will be available on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S consoles starting on September 17th. However, we'll be able to play it earlier during the open beta scheduled for July. Following …

NCSoft has been hard at work supporting Guild Wars 2 over the past decade, bringing several major expansions. Now, the company's attention is turning towards what's next, with Guild Wars 3 now officially on the way.  During a recent NCSoft shareholder meeting, company CEO, Park Byung-moo, confirmed that Guild Wars …

In 2022, multiple sources began reporting that Sony was working on a partnership with MMO publisher NCSoft for future online projects, including a new MMO based in the Horizon universe. Sony confirmed its partnership with NCSoft in late 2023 and now, new job listings do seem to confirm that a …

Last year, multiple sources began reporting that Sony was working on a partnership with MMO publisher NCSoft, potentially for a new online game set in the Horizon universe, something that was discovered in the game files for Horizon Forbidden West. Now, Sony's partnership with NCSoft has been made official.  This …

While Amazon has struggled a bit on the game development side, the company has been much more successful in publishing. Amazon Games has already had one hugely successful publishing deal with Lost Ark and in the future, it will also publish Tomb Raider in collaboration with Crystal Dynamics. Now, Amazon …

Sony is heavily expanding on the Horizon franchise at the moment. Not only did we get a fantastic sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn earlier this year, but a spin-off game, Horizon: Call of the Mountain, is also due to be a major part of the PlayStation VR2 launch next year. …

If you're an MMO fan, then you may have already heard about Project TL, the next major release from NCSoft. Initially, this was supposed to be a new Lineage game, but through development, plans changed quite a bit. Now, Project TL is its own IP, named ‘Throne and Liberty', and …

Back in March, we learned that NCSoft would be upgrading the western version of its MMO, Blade & Soul, to use Unreal Engine 4. The engine swap brings some major graphical upgrades and new features to the game. As of today, the big update is now live, alongside a brand …

Back in March, we learned that NCSoft would be upgrading the western version of its MMO, Blade & Soul, to use Unreal Engine 4. The engine swap brings some major graphical upgrades and new features to the game. Better yet, the upgrade will be available starting next month.  Blade & …

Guild Wars 2 is about to turn eight years old and to commemorate that milestone, the game is finally coming to Steam. This puts Guild Wars 2 in the ranks of other long-running MMOs from the 2010s finally hitting the Steam library, including the likes of Phantasy Star Online 2 …

Guild Wars 2 might be getting its first full expansion this year as NCSoft has trademarked what looks to be the title of a new release- Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. We may get our first look at the expansion sooner than you think as well, ArenaNet has an …

It looks like WildStar, Guild Wars and City of Heroes publisher, NCSoft, is running in to some trouble and as a result, the company, along with several developers have been hit with layoffs. Guild Wars developer, Arenanet, is unaffected whereas WildStar developer, Carbine, has had to let go around 60 people, cutting …

MMORPG Publisher, NCSoft, best known for the Guild Wars series, thinks that PC games retail has polarised  but remains confident that its upcoming game, Wildstar will break through in the UK. Wildstar has gone through a series of weekend beta tests and is due to enter open beta soon. So …