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NCsoft Profits Fall 43 Percent On Blackstar Costs

NCsoft reported a 43 percent year-over year drop in profits to $7.7 million, a decrease was due to a write-off expense for costs associated with The Blackstar Chronicles. The futuristic MMO, in development by Spacetime Studios, was ultimately dropped from NCsoft's lineup, and Spacetime will be pursuing the project on its own.

If not for the write-off, NCsoft stood to gain in profit 48 percent on the quarter and 8 percent on the year. The publisher's sales increased 4 percent to $84.3 million on the popularity of the Lineage series in Asia and strong performance for Guild Wars and City of Heroes in North America and Europe.

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2:20 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Leigh Alexander
1,403 views, 18 comments

what a nice castle you have

Talking Architecture With Guild Wars' Art Director

I love architecture — and still have days where I think I probably should've gone into architectural history — so I always enjoy BLDGBLOG's game-related posts. This week is a chat with Daniel Dociu, Chief Art Director of Guild Wars. The interview is worth reading for a look at the pictures alone, but a look at how gorgeous environments are created is interesting, too:

... I look back all the way to the dawn of mankind: to ruins, and Greek architecture, and Mycenean architecture, all the way up to the architecture of the Crusades, and castles in North Africa, and the Romanesque and Gothic and Baroque and Rococo - even to neo-Classical and art deco and Bauhaus and Modernist. I mean, there are bits and pieces here and there that make a strong impression on me, and I blend them - but that's the beauty of games. You don't have to be stylistically pure, or even coherent. You can afford a certain eclecticism to your work. It's a more forgiving medium. I can blend elements from the Potala Palace in Tibet with, say, La Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí's cathedral. I really take a lot of liberties with whatever I can use, wherever I can find it.

You can find more examples of Dociu's work at his website or BLDGBLOG's Flickr photostream.

Game/Space: An Interview With Daniel Dociu [BLDBLOG]

12:30 PM on Sun Apr 27 2008
By Maggie Greene
2,529 views, 29 comments

Latest by ehlaren: I want to buy some prints but sadly his Store is "coming soon". more »

big numbers

Guild Wars Sells 5 Million

NCsoft and ArenaNet's first foray into the realm of free MMO's is faring quite nicely it seems, with the company announcing that the franchise has recently surpassed the five million units sold milestone less than three years after the original game's release. This of course includes sales of the add-on packs as well, which include Guild Wars Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North, but certainly impressive numbers either way.
"Guild Wars is a proven success and has set a new standard for online RPG games with its unique business model and superior playability," said NCsoft CEO Taek Jin Kim.
A success indeed! Makes you wonder why they even bothered making Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa subscription based, doesn't it? More »

9:40 AM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Mike Fahey
3,423 views, 64 comments

Latest by n/a: Filmaka has partnered with General Motors Corporation, the worlds largest automobile manufacturer, to run a new contest. Up to 7 finalists will receive $5000 each! We want your pitches for shows that will feature some of GM's new vehicles. more »

easy contest

Guild Wars Contest Reminder

In the white noise that was the Tokyo Game Show, our Guild Wars: Eye of the North contest got lost in the shuffle. So! Here's a reminder: We've got one copy of Guild Wars: Eye of the North to give away. And hey, this is the last expansion for Guild Wars until the second one comes out! So, here's the contest. Send us an email to kotakucontestATgmail.com with the subject line of GWEN. That's it. The 700th one we gets wins the game. Yes, it's that easy.

Oh, you can't email more than once a day. The winner will be contacted through the winning email address.
GWEN [Official Site]

9:00 PM on Tue Sep 25 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
818 views, 6 comments

Latest by Maddogdw: Wow...still surprised this hasn't finished yet. more »

contest

New Contest. This One Easy!

That last contest? That one involved effort. This one, this one is a breeze. We've got one copy of Guild Wars: Eye of the North to give away. And hey, this is the last expansion for Guild Wars until the second one comes out! So, here's the contest. Send us an email to kotakucontestATgmail.com with the subject line of GWEN. That's it. The 700th one we gets wins the game. Yes, it's that easy.

Oh, you can't email more than once a day. The winner will be contacted through the winning email address.
GWEN [Official Site]

6:00 AM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,429 views, 25 comments

Latest by BigChiefSmokem: can't i win just by posting? i'm too lazy for email :P more »

it's expanded!

Guild Wars: Eye of the North Goes Live

Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the first expansion for the Guild Wars franchise has officially gone live. The popular subscription-free title has been around for a few years now and this new expansion has loads of new material. More »

4:00 PM on Sat Sep 1 2007
By fdemarco
4,884 views, 34 comments

Latest by belo: @omg-ponies: Boot Camp. more »

go figure

Guild Wars Sells 4 Million

There's something to be said for a free MMO. Generally bad things, really, but not so much in the case of Guild Wars. NCsoft has just announced that the 2 year-old fantasy MMO has just surpassed the four million sold mark. No telling what the figures are on how many of those players bought the game, played it for a month and then quit like I ended up doing, but impressive numbers nonetheless. Just ask GameStop's Doug Bob McKenzie.
"Four million units sold is an impressive number and demonstrates that Guild Wars is a proven franchise," said Bob McKenzie, Senior Vice President of Merchandising, GameStop Corporation. "The Guild Wars franchise delivers an outstanding gaming experience and is clearly an important part of our PC games offerings."
You know what this means. Guild Wars standees for every store! Huzzah! More »

1:00 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,491 views, 34 comments

Latest by WizarDru: @KaneTaker: The announcement is fairly clear that it's talking about boxes sold, not accounts. Their revenue model doesn't care about accounts...if one person buys all three versions of the game and applies all three keys to the same account, more »

oohh

New Guild Wars Eye of the North Trailer


Any game trailer composed solely of in-game footage gains a few points in my book. The landscapes aren't all rocking my world, but some of the new baddies are looking pretty cool...a dollar to whoever spots the blatant Star Wars Episode One ripoff. Spotting Lord of the Rings influence is too easy—we're not paying a dime for that.

6:00 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Mark Wilson
7,829 views, 35 comments

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Eye Of The North Bonus In Stores Friday

The first expansion pack for the popular free-to-play MMO Guild Wars isn't hitting store shelves until the very end of August, but this Friday you can get the next best thing: a nearly empty box! NCsoft has announced the preorder box for Guild Wars: Eye of the North will be available at the end of this week. Players who purchase the box will not only guarantee themselves a copy of the game on launch day, but will also gain access to a special Sneak Peek Weekend. They'll be able to try out the expansion August 24th through the 26th, with all equipment, experience, and money gained during the trial will be carried over once the expansion goes live a week later. Other preorder bonuses include exclusive in-game weapons created by designs from the Design-A-Weapon contest, and a special Trilogy Trial DVD that provides access to all of the currently released Guild Wars content for 10 hours or 14 days, whichever comes first. Hit the jump for the full press release. More »

9:20 AM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,409 views, 30 comments

Latest by n/a: @alucard_0007: Wow, you just showed you ignorance there. Go look up some interviews with the Guild War creators and you will find that it was meant for PvP. The PvE was just meant as a tutorial for the game. PvP more »

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Eye of the North Dated, Priced

Awhile back Crecente detailed the first Guild Wars expansion, Eye of the North, which features the whole new continent of Tyria, brimming with new quests, 18 large dungeons, 150 news skills...more just about everything that's kept Guild Wars players coming back long after I gave up the game. While the expansion was originally slated for a holiday release, it looks like the holidays are starting early this year. The expansion that looks to connect Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 together is now set to hit stores across the US and Europe on August 31st.
"Guild Wars has one of the most committed and loyal player bases I've ever seen, and Guild Wars: Eye of the North is our way of delivering prized content to veteran players and creating a link to the future of Guild Wars," said Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet.

The expansion will carry a price tag of $39.99, and if history is any indicator you can be sure that NCsoft will have a pretty damn spiffy collectors edition on the shelves as well, so I can get yet another art book I never look at and maybe another new headset. Woot!. More »

9:20 AM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,980 views, 31 comments

Latest by Taiyz: To the guys discussing Thunderhead; there's a difference between "henching" and "soloing" a mission. Soloing being, completing something without henchmen, heroes or players. Thunderhead Keep is actually easier with henchmen than with players. I failed the thing around 10 times with more »

clips

Clip: Guild Wars Machinima

While I love the animation, the main reason I'm posting this video is because the MMO by NCSoft has been coming up a lot lately among game designers and gamers. More »

7:00 PM on Tue Mar 13 2007
By Brian Crecente
3,224 views, 37 comments

Latest by Dracil: Another great thing about Guild Wars if you play Priests in WoW is that when you play a monk in PVP in Guild Wars, you actually stand a chance of surviving! Yes, you're still probably going to be trained at the more »

guild wars

Guild Wars Holiday Draws Massive Numbers

NCSoft has announced that their annual Guild Wars holiday event, the Wintersday Festival, has been an overwhelming success this year, drawing players in record numbers. Countless players have spent their days questing for either gods Grenth or Dwayna, participating in snowball fights, delivering gifts to children or just enjoying all the amazingly cool loot the holidays always bring. Since the event began players have logged over 20 million hours of gameplay pursuing their own particular brand of holiday cheer. Who'd have though MMO players could spend so much time playing? More »

2:40 PM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By Mike Fahey
692 views, 17 comments

Latest by RPGZero: Thanks for the tip fearoffours. I got Factions like I said so I can access Cantha now. Probably better to bring over my Prophecies character than noob it out from scratch. more »

mmorpgs

Beautiful Guild Wars: Factions Concept Art

Over at ConceptArt.org, one of their posters has published a huge amount of really amazing Guild Wars: Factions concept art. Some of it is really just Cthulhu cool. Of course, the actual game looks nothing like this, but there's scarce a picture in the bunch that wouldn't make a great wallpaper. Florian Eckhardt More »

8:40 AM on Thu Sep 14 2006
By kotaku.com
6,073 views, 9 comments

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Guild Wars: Nightfall Trailer

Perhaps the most interesting thing about this cinematic trailer for the upcoming Guild Wars expansion pack, Nightfall is the windmill at the end, which looks the milliner architecture that might well have been forged in an alternate universe where Egypt conquered Holland. But some of Nightfall's new monsters, settings and classes are well on display here, if you're not as interested in Egypto-Dutch architecture. Florian Eckhardt

2:40 PM on Thu Aug 17 2006
By brownlee
374 views, 2 comments

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Guild Wars, IDDQD and a BFG

A surprisingly well done mash-up of Doom and Guild Wars shows how the God features for the Dervish class will work. Needs more gibs and no two minutes video should ever require half its length to accommodate the end credits. Florian Eckhardt

10:40 AM on Thu Jul 27 2006
By brownlee
226 views, 9 comments

videos

Guild Wars Love

Aw. This really does squeeze a single drop of the ichor of love out of my cold, black, dead heart. Okay, Zack's a dork, but his Guild Wars Valentine's Day message at least takes dork love to an unmatched extreme. Florian Eckhardt

7:40 AM on Fri Jul 21 2006
By brownlee
192 views, 9 comments

music

Guild Wars vs WoW vs MC Hammer

A fan-made music video sets out to settle if Guild Wars or World of Warcraft is better by editing in-game footage of characters in both games dancing. While the video doesn't really answer that debate, it raises a new question: Why isn't there more Hammertime in RPGs? Brian Ashcraft More »

3:18 AM on Mon May 29 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
744 views, 9 comments

nightfall

Latest Guild Wars Expansion Called Nightfall

Hot newsflash only in today's Slow News Day Herald! The next Guild Wars expansion has a name and it is Nightfall. With a name like that, you'd think it'd be about vampires, but apparently it's about Tunisian habibs or something. As we explained before, 'the two new classes will be 'white robed woman wielding a wicked looking double bladed staff, and an unarmed bald monk-like man, possibly a bare-knuckle combat class.'" More »

11:40 AM on Tue May 23 2006
By brownlee
531 views, 1 comment

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