Our latest coverage of Blade and Soul.
Blade & Soul NEO continues its rollout of new content with Moonwater Plains, Part 3, arriving May 27 as a free update on NC America’s PURPLE platform. This latest patch introduces two new Legendary Dungeons that take players into the corrupted “Dark Realm,” bringing high-stakes PvE challenges and multi-phase boss fights designed to push party coordination and skill to the [...]
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NCSoft America has launched Blade & Soul Neo, a free-to-play remaster of its 2012 action MMORPG, on February 25 via the PURPLE platform (NCSoft's launcher). The update modernizes the classic MMO with enhanced graphics, reworked combat, and quality-of-life improvements while retaining its original story and faction-based PvP. Blade & Soul NEO will run alongside the original game, though it is [...]
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NCSoft has announced today that the remastered version of its classic action MMORPG, Blade and Soul, will launch on February 25 as Blade & Soul NEO. Players can pre-download the game starting February 11, with character creation available from February 18. Those who pre-register will receive two free Moonlight Costume Mystery Boxes. Blade & Soul NEO will run alongside the [...]
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NC America has unveiled Blade & Soul NEO, a remastered version of the popular Wuxia-themed MMORPG Blade & Soul. Designed to bring the game’s classic action-fantasy universe to modern audiences, the remaster introduces enhanced graphics, refined combat systems, and new gameplay features, all while retaining the original storyline and core mechanics that captivated players since its launch. Set in a [...]
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It’s been two months since NCSoft announced that it was working on a Blade and Soul reboot/remaster called NEO Classic. Since then, the studio has been busy teasing the new fresh-start-fresh-look servers with a series of preview videos but has remained mum on a release timeline to this day. NEO Classic game director Hongjae Kim, however, finally addressed the matter [...]
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NCSoft’s Blade and Soul: NEO Classic preview series continues with part two of its Cinderlands revamp spotlight blog and video. In addition to the visual makeovers coming to the region’s zones and environments, the team will also be giving its bosses and monsters a fresh coat of paint. “The bosses and monsters of Blade & Soul have always been admired [...]
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NCSoft continues to talk up Blade and Soul: Neo Classic with a pair of new previews that show off the reboot server’s remastered visuals in both blog form and video form. The previews focus on the Cinderlands and the visual improvements being made to the rebooted version of the desert region. “We’ve completed the post-processing of the Scorching Sands with [...]
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NCSoft has dropped a pair of new Blade and Soul NEO Classic trailers that offer a preview of the reboot server’s new features and improvements. The first trailer shows off NEO Classic’s visually updated version of the Moonwater Plains region, with a particular focus on texture and lighting improvements made to the Greenhollow zone, while the second one showcases the [...]
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NCSoft has begun to trickle out information on the Blade and Soul Neo Classic remaster server as it rolls out a new dev blog series and gameplay teasers. The newly launched Soul Log series will exclusively be dedicated to Neo Classic and will basically serve as an information dump for the highly awaited remaster. “We will be exploring various behind-the-scenes [...]
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NCSoft is taking players back to the glory days of Blade and Soul with its soon-to-open Neo Classic remaster server. The server promises updated gameplay mechanics and enhanced Unreal Engine 4-powered visuals. Information about the new server is a bit scarce at the moment aside from what we could glean from the Neo Classic landing site. It will apparently feature [...]
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