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…
WildStar – New trailer reveals early game mechanics
[Game website] Blockbuster news from the Asian industry seems to be slowing down as the 3 major shows, ChinaJoy 2012 and G*Star 2012, are just around the corner. With companies keeping their cards for the moment, it is time to…
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…
Nexon becomes NCsoft’s biggest shareholder
In a deal announced earlier today, Korea No.1 gaming company, Nexon, has become the biggest shareholder of Korea No.2 gaming company, NCsoft. This happened after Nexon Japan bought 3,218,091 of NCsoft’s shares, which is around 14.7% of the company. The…
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…
Blade & Soul – Soul Party 2 PvP footage
The 2nd fan event, Soul Party 2 (1 took place last year), for NCsoft’s Blade & Soul took place yesterday. As expected, there were many activities and even Korean girl group Secret was onsite to reveal the music video collaboration…
Blade & Soul – Awesome music video with popular female group
I am near speechless after watching the video below, in a really positively amused manner, mind you. Due to NCsoft’s partnership with a major music label in Korea, several popular artistes will be used to promote NCsoft’s games. For Blade…
Blade & Soul – Summoner class revealed
Blade & Soul’s 2nd fan event, Soul Party 2, started earlier today and more information was revealed about Closed Beta 3. It will begin on May 9th, with the Soul Party attendees getting early access starting on April 25th. Along…
Blade & Soul – Brief interview with the developers
With the development team of NCsoft’s Blade & Soul having a mega celebrity status in the eyes of both gamers and media in China, it is hard to let them leave the country without a few rounds of interview. Chinese…
[TG-UP 2012] Blade & Soul – Party skills revealed
So, some news for Blade & Soul China… Which got me really excited somehow. Ok, I am lazy to translate the whole presentation video seen below, but I will just translate the most important part which I think I have…
Blade & Soul (CN) – Clone spotted in China
As I posted previously, Blade & Soul will be published in China by the country’s biggest internet company, Tencent (link). While a secret registration process for selected gamers is going on for the China server and the Korean server preparing…