Our latest coverage of Blade & Soul.
Bae Jae Hyun was the Producer of NCSoft's Latest PC MMORPG, Blade & Soul, and back in June 2017, NCSoft's stock went down by 11.41%. Hyun held the position of Vice President of NCSoft when he sold 8,000 of his shares in the company, worth about 3 Million USD. The plunge in stock worth was a direct result of consumer [...]
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As ESPN continues to make its move into the growing world of eSports, it has begun publishing columns about the state of eSports. Yesterday, it published an article that discusses the state of MMORPGs in eSports. It talks about a number of challenges that MMORPGs face, such as matches being difficult to understand without intimate knowledge of the game's mechanics. [...]
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NCSoft’s has released an overview video for Blade and Soul’s upcoming Warlock class today. The short but sweet video showcases the new ranged caster class’ skills and abilities. The developers describe the Warlock class as “Blade & Soul’s second dedicated ranged class with great power but considerable fragility. Many of their powerful abilities have significant casting times and long cooldowns, [...]
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Blade & Soul’s first major update, Rising Waters, is coming on February 10th. NCSoft gives players a glimpse of the first challenge players have to face with the update - Mushin’s Tower. A multi-level dungeon not unlike Aincrad tower in the hit anime show Sword Art Online. Players start their adventure in the Main Hall located at the bottom of [...]
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After its recent release Blade & Soul has been plagued with spammers advertising for gold sites—so much so that Faction and Regional Chats were rendered useless. In a patch last night the game has released a new update to combat against them, however the update seems to have done TOO good of a job as Regional, Faction and Clan chats [...]
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It's been less than a week since Blade and Soul launched in the West and it is already skyrocketing in popularity. Proving that it was perhaps the most anticipated title of the year even despite originally launching in Korea almost four years ago, the game has already passed the one million player milestone. If you're wondering why your queue times [...]
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Just two days after the Western release of NCSoft's highly-anticipated MMORPG, Blade & Soul's servers are just about ready to burst at the seams. “With such a successful reception of the Blade & Soul launch, our servers have begun overflowing with players who are excited to jump into The Earthen Realm. Our servers are reaching their maximum capacity and many [...]
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It's been four years, but Blade and Soul has finally launched in North America and Europe. The launch concludes a long period of waiting in which it was uncertain whether Blade & Soul would ever launch in the West. But better late than never, right? Anyone can head over to the official website, download the game, and play for free [...]
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After years of waiting Blade and Soul has finally reached the West with its Early Access Launch for Founder's Pack Users. The game is launching with 10 NA servers and 12 EU servers and login queues have already began to pile up. Since the game favors premium users, normal users will have a rough time entering the game with queues [...]
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