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Guild Wars 2 Out This Year, Beta Test Starts in March

ArenaNet has confirmed that its special online role playing game, Guild Wars 2, will be released this year, and is going to be previewed by a beta stage that will start in spring, which will incrementally allow more and more people to try out the title.Guild Wars 2, much like its predecessor, wants to deliver a role ...

23 January 2012
10:11 GMT

Guild Wars 2 on Consoles Can't Work Because of Social Problems

ArenaNet, the developer of the upcoming Guild Wars 2 massive multiplayer online role-playing game, has talked about bringing the game, currently a PC exclusive, to consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 and how this is quite hard, considering social aspects found on the PC aren't available on home consoles....

2 September 2011
03:40 GMT

These Are the Winter Holiday Events for All NCsoft MMOs

NCsoft is ready to celebrate the winter holiday events in all the MMO video games it publishes, inviting players to experience the magic of the season while also taking part in quests that can net them some very interesting rewards. In Guild Wars, the celebration goes from December 12 to January 2, 2011 with four po...

16 December 2010
13:51 GMT

Guild Wars 2 Gets Hall of Monuments, Will Reward Longtime Players

MMO fans are definitely excited about the upcoming Guild Wars 2 launch, as the new game promises to deliver one very interesting experience, plus the fact that it won't charge a monthly subscription like the most popular MMORPG on the market, World of Warcraft.Now, the team behind the game, ArenaNet, has reveale...

12 October 2010
02:34 GMT

Guild Wars 2 Will Not Have a Dedicated Healer Class

Guild Wars 2 will not base its combat mechanics on the traditional tanking, healing and damage-per-second combination that is present in most current massively multiplayer online role playing games. According to Jon Peters, one of the game's designers, his team's intention is to really change some of the fa...

9 July 2010
05:01 GMT

Christmas Coming to NCsoft MMOs

NCsoft has announced that it is launching winter holiday-themed events in all the MMO titles that it is maintaining, trying to attract more players to the games and offering rewards for those who have been loyal for a long period of time.In the most recently release, Aion, the Solorius Festival is being celebrated wi...

16 December 2009
02:54 GMT

Dungeon Runners Coming to a Halt

NCsoft might be doing notably well on its big-budget market, but it seems the lesser project won't stay afloat without the proper attention. The casual market for MMOGs isn't as indulging as one might think, and halfhearted games just don't seem to cut it. As such, NCsoft had to let go of five of the D...

21 September 2009
02:41 GMT

Guild Wars Celebrates Six Million Units Sold with New Content

Online games have become some of the most profitable titles currently found on the gaming market. One needn't look farther than Blizzard's massively successful World of Warcraft MMORPG, which is making a huge amount of money for the company. But another very popular MMORPG is Guild Wars, which is developed...

27 April 2009
02:29 GMT

CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for Linux Released

Jeremy White from CodeWeavers announced last night in a press release the immediate availability of CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for the Linux and Macintosh operating systems. The new version comes as a bug fix release for the previous versions, but it also brings some interesting features. One of these new additions will b...

27 February 2009
01:59 GMT

Guild Wars Announces Plans for 2009

Guild War is set to be sustained in the new year by a Live team established in 2008 that will use its time to deliver both monthly updates and bigger content packs. Still, the game is not getting a straight up expansion as ArenaNet, the developer, seems to be hard at work on Guild Wars 2.The monthly updates are set t...

20 January 2009
02:21 GMT

Micro Transactions Are Not for Guild Wars

NCsoft has recently announced that it would be introducing a new monetary system in its MMO Exteel. Dubbed NCcoin, the system allows each player to pay real world dollars to obtain NCcoin which them can be used to purchase objects, from armor to potions.Because the initial announcement and the name make NCcoin a glob...

23 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Illegal Lineage Servers to Be Taken Offline

NCsoft steps up battle in the fight against illegal game servers, which they consider "intellectual property theft". Alarmed by the number of unofficial and illegal servers for their popular MMOs Guild Wars, City of Heroes and, especially, Lineage II, NCsoft decided that there's only one way to stop them growing...

11 April 2008
02:34 GMT

Guild Wars Reaches 5 Million Sold Copies

With all the scandal around NCsoft, the Korea Times and the question whether Tabula Rasa is a success or a bust, it is fairly easy to overlook news about another NCsoft product. The Guild Wars series, made up of the original game, campaign add-ons Factions and Nightfall plus the recent expansion called Eye of the Nor...

27 February 2008
02:37 GMT

NCsoft Introduces the Razer DeathAdder Mouse - Guild Wars Edition

Generally, when you hear "NCsoft has announced..." you'd expect a new game, an expansion pack and so on, but not a device, aiding you in your quest when playing Guild Wars, now would you? Didn't think so. Well, as it turns out, NCsoft Europe has just revealed to the press that a special Guild Wars edition o...

2 October 2007
09:15 GMT

Guild Wars Platinum Edition Revealed

If you're a Guild Wars fan, then you're probably aware that the game's publisher has already announced the game's first expansion, Guild Wars: Eye of the North. But hey, I'm sure you didn't know that the revolutionary online RPG with no subscription fees is getting its Platinum Edition, ...

9 August 2007
10:39 GMT

Ncsoft Dates 'Guild Wars' First Expansion Pack for Europe

Finally... NCsoft Europe and ArenaNet have announced that the pre-release bonus pack for Guild Wars: Eye of the North is set to hit retailers on July 20th (which is two days from now - Friday) and will include exclusive in-game items and access to the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Sneak Peek Weekend set for later this...

18 July 2007
04:54 GMT

Guild Wars' First Expansion Pack Announced and Dated - 'Eye of the North'

If you're a fan of the MMORPG genre, then you must be a fan of Ncsoft's Guild Wars. If so, you should know that the developer, ArenaNet and the game's publisher, NCsoft Europe have revealed that Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the first expansion to the subscription-free MMORPG title, will be released on...

3 July 2007
02:47 GMT

Ncsoft Taps Free MMO Market - Dungeon Runners

NCsoft North America has launched Dungeon Runners, the first in a series of free MMO titles from the developer. Players also have the option to upgrade to a membership level, but this one will cost them some $4.99 per month. However, the paid level features extra storage for items, log-in queue priority and "access t...

30 May 2007
06:42 GMT

Exclusive Trials Promotion for Guild Wars Prophecies

Leading online games publisher NCsoft Europe has joined forces with Future, the leading publisher of games magazines and websites, for an exclusive cover disc promotion, in an attempt to simultaneously offer trial versions of all three of its Guild Wars online role-playing titles, with a different trial appearing on ...

18 May 2007
09:20 GMT

Guild Wars - Two-Years-Anniversary Party

Guild Wars Prophecies started it all. During the two years since the campaign was released, the game's developer, ArenaNet and publisher NCsoft, launched two additional stand-alone games: Guild Wars Factions and Guild Wars Nightfall, thus selling 3.5 million copies of the Guild Wars series, making it one of the ...

27 April 2007
05:40 GMT


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