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Interview: NCsoft's Console Move

NCsoft is one of the most innovative MMO companies around, grinding away at what it hopes to be the Next Big Thing(s). Next-Gen interviews North American boss Chris Chung about PS3 development and much more...

Picking the brain of recently-appointed NCsoft North America president Chris Chung, Next-Gen find a company that has its fingers in a few noteworthy businesses, plugging away relatively quietly in the shadow of occasional World of Warcraft subscriber base press updates.

For example, development of Richard Garriott's hyped-up Tabula Rasa continues, PlayStation 3 MMO work is underway, initiatives in new business models are progressing, Guild Wars 2 is coming along, City of Heroes is poised to become bigger and better and the upcoming Aion (pronounced "eye-on") is turning into a real looker. It's all work-in-progress, but the potential for NCsoft's new and upcoming projects in the MMO market deserve recognition.

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Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity Trailer | The Game Awards 2025

Whether you're jumping in for the first time and playing for free or adventuring in our recently launched sixth expansion, Visions of Eternity, the best time to play Guild Wars 2 is now! Join the millions of players in Tyria and experience the friendliest MMO community firsthand.

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‘Guild Wars Reforged’ is coming to PC via Steam on December 3rd, 2025

"The widely beloved and critically acclaimed MMORPG Guild Wars®, played for over 1 billion hours by over nine million players, is receiving a huge update to its player experience and user interface as developer ArenaNet® and co-dev partner studio 2weeks bring controller support and updated visual fidelity to the game while simultaneously consolidating all of its expansions for the new price of $19.99.

Beginning December 3, Guild Wars Reforged will launch on Steam and Windows PC." - ArenaNet.

PRIMORDUS99d ago

I played the first beta of GW1 way back in May 2004, still playing it sometimes today, now I'm mostly in GW2. I will definitely go back in GW on Dec. 3 to see the improvements 😎

TGG_overlord99d ago

Sweet =) I hope that you (and others) will have a great time with this one.

jznrpg99d ago

Put it on console and I’ll play it again. I’d didn’t do much of the endgame stuff it any at all (it’s been so long I don’t remember what I did besides level up) Since it has controller support it would be perfect for console

TGG_overlord98d ago

That sounds like a good idea imo, but I don't know if the devs have such plans. Maybe if this one turns out really well for PC, they might go down that road.

Michiel198999d ago

no fucking way. I really hope that they give "new" servers, so not every new player starts playing when the veterans literally have endless piles of gold (platinum in this case) and honestly as a veteran I want a reset as well. I can't believe this is actually happening. Pleaseeeeeeeeeee be good. Christmas comes early this year

TGG_overlord98d ago

I don't recall that the devs have said anything about the matter as of yet, but we shall soon find out since the drop shall be done this December 3rd.

Michiel198998d ago

Yeah looked around a bit and there is no reset or alternative sadly. I'm still super excited though also because they said that they will continue with some kind of updates (it's probably not content updates). Was planning to play some again in february but that will become december

mkis00799d ago

Here's hoping gw2 gets some enhancements soon. I want better draw distances.

Travesty98d ago

I loved GuildWars.. back in the the day I would play this countless hours.. I was young and didn’t want to pay for a subscription like WoW.. My friends were stuck playing RuneScape and I thought this was next level content.

I play most my games on console now.. so I kind of wished they could bring GW2 to it. I haven’t played that game in years either.

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Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity launches today

A legendary adventure on the island of Castora awaits.

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PRIMORDUS120d ago

Who else but me posts GW2 updates 😎 One of the few companies I support, for over 20yrs.

jznrpg119d ago (Edited 119d ago )

I played it a little years ago. It was fun but I had children after I started playing and gave it up so my wife wouldn’t hate me. I got to 50 and then hung it up

Michiel1989119d ago

Arenanet is doing smthn wrong with marketing, I never once seen an ad for a gw2 expansion and always hear it like this once an expac is already released. Not that I would play it cause I'm a gw1 purist haha

PRIMORDUS120d ago

@Christopher thanks for the fixes.