Blade & Soul – Celebrity endorsed costumes go on sale

Till today, I still can’t quite get the song and dance moves out of my head. I am referring to Korean girl group Secret’s song, Shy Boy, which was used to advertise NCsoft’s Blade & Soul a few months ago.…

Blade & Soul – Celebrity-endorsed costumes go on sale

Till today, I still can’t quite get the song and dance moves out of my head. I am referring to Korean girl group Secret’s song, Shy Boy, which was used to advertise NCsoft’s Blade & Soul a few months ago.…

Blade & Soul – Game goes Free to Play

Ok, before any misunderstanding happens, Blade & Soul will only be free for the first 15 levels starting today. There is no duration stated, hence it is most probably a permanent thing. After the first free major content update on…

Blade & Soul – The best cosplay so far

Cosplay was always more famous in Japan for the Asia region, but Korean cosplay team, Spiral Cats, has really left me in awe with some of their renditions of game characters. In fact, Miyuko from the team has had me…

Blade & Soul – New PvP videos are awesome

Well, they aren’t exactly the standard player-made PvP videos, but developer NCsoft is the one who actually created them. Rolling out these 2 videos apparently is a brilliant move, since both showcase how PvP is exactly like in Blade &…

Blade & Soul – Commercial P2P date announced

NCsoft’s Blade & Soul will enter its commercial P2P phase on 30th June 2012, which is just a few days from now. This is also just 9 days after the game went into its free for all Open Beta phase…

Blade & Soul – Gracing the big screen

Blade & Soul’s mega-marketing drive seems to have no limits in South Korea. Having conquered the Korean pop scene (link) and local gaming cafes (link), NCsoft has decided to bring the game’s presence to the big screens. In Lotte cinemas,…

Blade & Soul – Open Beta status update

Blade & Soul Korea began its Open Beta service a couple of hours ago, and here is a quick update so far. 1 hour into the game, the highest number of players recorded online at the same time was 150,000.…

Blade & Soul – Early character numbers revealed

A few days back, Blade & Soul opened its character creation server for players to create and reserve their characters. This is for the upcoming Open Beta phase and each account is only limited to 1 character. It is estimated…

Blade & Soul – New trailer for incoming Open Beta

With thousands of gaming cafes all installed with Blade & Soul in Korea, this is set to be the biggest Open Beta period in the history of online gaming in the country. Did I mention anyone who managed to register…

Blade & Soul – New music executive added

According to the latest news release from Korea, NCsoft has hired renowned music producer, Taro Iwashiro, as Blade & Soul’s music supervisor. Hailing from Japan, Taro Iwashiro composed music for several games, including Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny and the China-filmed…

Blade & Soul – Community Q&A with the producer

A couple of hours ago, Blade & Soul’s James Bae took an hour to have an online Q&A session with the China gamers, with the aid of Blade & Soul’s China publisher Tencent Games of course. The campaign for the…

Blade & Soul – The “Secret” of Soul Party

Ok, there is nothing really “secret” about this, but rather the Korean girl group involved is call Secret. I know, I have posted their videos at Blade & Soul’s Soul Party 2 previously over here. But hey, this new video…

Blade & Soul – My thoughts on the kitty cat mania

I don’t normally air my views on certain topics as a separate post, but there will still be exceptions from time to time. NCsoft, to the surprise of many, revealed the Summoner class to much fanfare, but I can guarantee…