Neowin News Feed for: Ncsoft

Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn MMO reportedly cancelled too

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:06:01 +0000

Sony revealed it had canceled two live-service games last week, but it may also have quietly pulled the plug on an MMO set in the Horizon series. Read more...

Xbox Insiders can sign up now for the April 10th closed beta test of Throne and Liberty

John Callaham — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:36:01 +0000

Members of the Xbox Insider program can sign up now to participate in the closed beta test for the upcoming NCSoft fantasy MMO game Throne and Liberty, which begins soon on April 10. Read more...

City of Heroes is officially back, thanks to a license from NCSoft to a fan-run MMO server

John Callaham — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:58:01 +0000

The fan-run Homecoming server for the once-dead MMO City of Heroes has been given an official license to run the game from its publisher and owner NCSOFT, over 10 years after its official shutdown. Read more...

Sony is working with NCSoft on a Horizon MMO, claims report

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:10:01 +0000

Sony is seemingly working with NCSoft on a Horizon game in the MMO space. Codenamed "Project H", this is a separate initiative from the VR game that is also currently in development. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 sells over two million units

John Callaham — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:19:09 +0000

NCsoft has announced that the fantasy MMO sequel Guild Wars 2 has now sold over two million units since it first went on sale in late August, even after digital sales were halted. Read more...

Players already being banned in Guild Wars 2

John Callaham — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:09:22 +0000

Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet has announced it has already banned a number of players from the MMO for using an exploit but they may have a chance to come back to the game. Read more...

City of Heroes to shut down operations by end of 2012

John Callaham — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:39:22 +0000

NCsoft has announced it will shut down development of its long running super hero MMO City of Heroes and close down its development team at Paragon Studios later this year. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 officially launches; parties on Saturday

John Callaham — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:00:03 +0000

Guild Wars 2, the long awaited fantasy MMO from ArenaNet and NCsoft, has officially launched. However, there will be special "launch parties" on Saturday in several US cities. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 pre-launch event issues being addressed

John Callaham — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:57:12 +0000

Developer ArenaNet and publisher NCsoft are fixing some issues in their fantasy MMO sequel Guild Wars 2 during a pre-launch event before the game officially launches on Tuesday. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 gets final stress test Thursday

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:27:36 +0000

ArenaNet has announced it will have a final, and very quick, stress test for Guild Wars 2 for a few hours on Thursday, less than a month before the fantasy MMO game is launched on August 28th. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 final beta weekend details revealed

John Callaham — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:30:32 +0000

Developer ArenaNet has revealed the details for its final beta weekend of its upcoming fantasy MMO Guild Wars 2, which will be held on July 20-22, a few weeks before the game's official launch. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 to launch August 28th

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:14:32 +0000

Developer ArenaNet has announced that it will launch the long awaited fantasy MMO sequel Guild Wars 2 on August 28th, to be proceeded by a final beta weekend on July 20th-22nd. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 stress test to be held on Wednesday

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:02:54 +0000

Developer ArenaNet and publisher NCsoft plan to hold a stress test of their upcoming fantasy MMO Guild Wars 2 on Wednesday, June 27th for four hours for everyone who has pre-purchased the game. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 already generating high pre-order sales

John Callaham — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:23:26 +0000

Guild Wars 2's first beta event brought in "hundreds of thousands of players", all of whom had to pre-order the game to get into the beta of the upcoming fantasy MMO title. Read more...

Guild Wars 2 pre-orders begin; $149.99 Collector's Edition

John Callaham — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:52:35 +0000

NCsoft and ArenaNet have begun taking pre-orders for all three editions of the long awaited fantasy MMO Guild Wars 2, including the massive $149.99 Collector's Edition. Read more...

Zynga listed as E3 2012 exhibitor; Atari and others skip event

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:31:15 +0000

Zynga is listed for the first time as an exhibitor for June's E3 video game trade show. However, Atari and other major game publishers won't be attending this year. Read more...

Gamescom news round-up: August 17

John Callaham — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:08:01 +0000

More news from Germany's Gamescom event this week have hit the internet and we have the highlights from day 2. Read more...

City of Heroes goes free-to-play later this year

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:28:57 +0000

Yet another long running MMO PC game is switching over from a monthly subscription model to a free-to-play business model. This time the game is City of Heroes, the super hero themed game published by... Read more...

No upcoming Valve games to be shown at E3 2011

John Callaham — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:29:05 +0000

For the past few years, Valve has had its own exhibit space at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, showing off upcoming games such as the Left 4 Dead titles (in 2008 and 2009) and Portal 2... Read more...

NCsoft poaches WoW developers

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:35:30 +0000

Korean games publisher NCsoft, responsible for popular multiplayer online games such as Guild Wars, City of Heroes and Lineage, has announced a new studio by the name of Carbine Studios. What makes this studio interesting... Read more...

Lineage 1 & 2 help NCSoft sales, Tabula Rasa to help in Q2?

Todd Tanner — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:10:20 +0000

Korean MMO specialist NCSoft has revealed Q1 sales of KRW 84.7 billion (EUR 67.8m), a nine per cent boost, and profits of KRW 14.1 billion (EUR 11.2m), due to the strong sales and subscriptions of... Read more...

NCsoft lays off 70 staff from Austin HQ

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:43:23 +0000

MMO publisher NCsoft has confirmed that 70 employees at its Austin headquarters have been laid off as part of new plans to restructure the company. Initial reports suggested that NCsoft was being forced to reduce... Read more...

NCsoft and Marvel make nice

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:06:08 +0000

Today NCsoft reported that it has settled all of their legal claims with Marvel Entertainment. This will allow its popular comic-inspired massive multiplayer online role-playing games to continue operations. Last fall, Marvel sued publisher NCsoft... Read more...

NCsoft "actively developing" for consoles - but not Xbox 360

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:09:13 +0000

Korea-based online gaming giant NCsoft is preparing to launch titles on next-generation consoles. NCsoft is behind some of the world's largest massive multiplayer online games such as Lineage, City of Heroes and Guild Wars. Until... Read more...

Judge Deals Blow to Marvel's Case Against NCsoft

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:20:01 +0000

A Federal judge partially ruled against Marvel Enterprises Wednesday, all but putting to an end the comic book company's efforts to wring damages and an injunction against NCsoft and CoH developer Cryptic Studios for their... Read more...

Marvel sues NCsoft over City of Heroes

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:08:20 +0000

Legendary comic book company slaps Korean publisher and development studio with copyright-infringement suit. When you hear the words "comic books," two companies spring to mind: DC and Marvel. Despite having a checkered... Read more...

NCsoft Enters European Market

Marcel Klum — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:01:22 +0000

NCsoft Corporation held a board of directors meeting and passed a resolution to enter the European market through the creation of NCsoft Europe. As a result of this resolution from the board of directors meeting,... Read more...