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Spread Your Aion Wings In Guild Wars
4:00AM Mike Fahey | NCsoft is spreading Aion’s wings into one of its other popular MMO titles, with a special promotion that will make the pretty people of Guild Wars that much prettier. More »
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6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Just as MMO Guild Wars is about to reach its fourth birthday, the franchise has surpassed six million units sold. Hooray! The ArenaNet developed game released the first Guild Wars episode on April 28,2005. More »
Guild Wars Series Breaks Through 6 Million Sold
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Just as MMO Guild Wars is about to reach its fourth birthday, the franchise has surpassed six million units sold. Hooray! The ArenaNet developed game released the first Guild Wars episode on April 28,2005. More »
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Guild Wars 2 Delayed to 2010-2011
1:00AM Owen Good | NCsoft saw increased sales but a 40 percent drop in profit this past year. Fallout from that includes the company’s announcement that Guild Wars 2 won’t arrive until 2010-2011. More »
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NCsoft West’s Christmas Greeting Is Adorable
3:30AM Mike Fahey | NCsoft West delivers this adorable little holiday greeting card, featuring little wooden Christmas toy versions of characters from City of Heroes, Lineage II, Guild Wars, and even the upcoming Aion: Tower of Eternity. More »
NCsoft’s MMORPG Holiday Plans
3:40AM Mike Fahey | NCsoft rings in the holiday cheer as they announce the Christmas celebration plans for their MMORPGs City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage II, featuring everything from fuzzy earmuffs to grand theft Santa. More »
NCSoft’s Multi-MMO Halloween Plans
2:40AM Mike Fahey | The best thing about MMOs is that they are constantly updated, making way for fun, holiday themed events. The best thing about Halloween is the fact that I get to use the word spooktacular, and so I present NCsoft’s multi-MMO Halloween Spooktacular of Values! Okay, no actual values, but events are running across all NCsoft massively-multiplayer titles, whether people play them or not. Guild Wars’ event kicks off on October 24th with the return of Mad King Thorn, with mini-games, jokes, riddles, and prizes, in what many people have told me is the best MMO-Halloween celebration available. City of Heroes players will be fighting off zombies and collecting classic costumes for badges and trick or treating fun. Tabula Rasa has some quests. Poor Tabula Rasa. Hit the jump for more details, including what’s in store for Lineage II, and Exteel players. Did someone say free giant mech paint jobs? More »
Into the Pixel Exhibition
6:40AM Maggie Greene | Into the Pixel is a juried art exhibition that selects sixteen works of video game art to be displayed both digitally and in actual exhibits, like the one currently at E3. The exhibit is an opportunity for video and computer game artists to showcase their work and receive critical feedback from both digital and fine art experts; it also showcases the actual visual art of games in creative and unique ways. The pieces range from playful to serious, and utilise a variety of visual styles to convey their subjects. Now in its fifth year, the selected entries are usually quite impressive, and this year was no exception.
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NCSoft Profits Fall 43 Percent On Blackstar Costs
6:20AM Leigh Alexander | NCsoft reported a 43 percent year-over year drop in profits to $US 7.7 million, a decrease was due to a write-off expense for costs associated with The Blackstar Chronicles. The futuristic MMO, in development by Spacetime Studios, was ultimately dropped from NCsoft’s lineup, and Spacetime will be pursuing the project on its own. If not for the write-off, NCsoft stood to gain in profit 48 percent on the quarter and 8 percent on the year. The publisher’s sales increased 4 percent to $US 84.3 million on the popularity of the Lineage series in Asia and strong performance for Guild Wars and City of Heroes in North America and Europe. More »
Talking Architecture With Guild Wars’ Art Director
4:30AM Maggie Greene | I love architecture — and still have days where I think I probably should’ve gone into architectural history — so I always enjoy BLDGBLOG’s game-related posts. This week is a chat with Daniel Dociu, Chief Art Director of Guild Wars. The interview is worth reading for a look at the pictures alone, but a look at how gorgeous environments are created is interesting, too: More »
