Our latest coverage of WildStar.
WildStar celebrates their 2nd anniversary with the Starfall Festival, which runs from June 1st to the 30th. The month-long festival also commemorates the discovery of planet Nexus, and is celebrated by both the Exile and Dominion factions, although for decidedly different reasons. For the duration of the event, players can participate in weekly challenges that gives them an opportunity to [...]
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The future of WildStar continues to be rocky as former Product Director Mike Donatelli and Design Director Chris Behrens announced the end of their time at Carbine Studios yesterday via Twitter. Donatelli had stepped down from the role of Product Director due to health reasons earlier this year. Behrens' reasons for leaving are unknown. It is unknown at this time [...]
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NCSoft's Q1 financials are here and they are looking fairly good. Net income for Q1 is up 86% year-over-year and 57% quarter-over-quarter. Sales are up 28% year-over-year and 2% quarter-over-quarter. Part of this success can be attributed to the launch of Blade and Soul in the West. Sales in the US and Europe have increased by 136% year-over-year. Additionally, Blade [...]
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The next major plot point in WildStar's story, The Vault of the Archon, will finally be introduced to the game world when update 1.5.1 launches on May 4th. The story of the Vault is as follows. The Vault of the Archon is the next chapter in WildStar’s World Story. Both Dominion and Exiles are enlisted by the Caretaker to aid [...]
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NCSoft and Carbine Studios announced today that WildStar's first major content update of the year, Destination Arcterra, will be live on March 30th. A new trailer—embedded below—was posted to the official YouTube channel today announce the launch date. With the launch of Destination Arcterra, players can expect to explore the icy continent of Arcterra. There, they will find new story [...]
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Bad news comes from Carbine Studios today as the company announced that it has "completed a reorganization of its operating structure." As part of this reorganization, it is rumored that over 70 people have been laid off. Furthermore, Polygon has allegedly received reports stating that "those remaining only have a couple months left before WildStar 'coasts into the sunset.'" Among [...]
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WildStar's massive PvE content update Destination Arcterra is just around the corner, but what about players that care more about PvP? What does the future of WildStar have in store for them? A new blog post from Game Director Chad Moore explains what the team has planned. WildStar's PvP servers have seen significantly lower player numbers than their PvE counterparts. [...]
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As Destination Arcterra is now available on WildStar's Public Test Realm, Senior Story Designer Gary Astleford has published an "in-depth exploration of the upcoming zone Arcterra." The zone is a "direct continuation" of the previous story and takes place on the icy continent Arcterra. In Destination Arcterra, the Caretaker discovers that he can find information that he is looking for [...]
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Humble have launched their latest bundle, called the Humble Gamepedia Online Multiplayer Bundle. It's a bit of a mouthful, but this is an interesting bundle, as most of its contents are bundles for various free-to-play games. There are a few buy-to-play titles included, such as Life Is Feudal: Your Own and Awesomenauts, but they are a surprisingly smaller part of [...]
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Recently, Daewoo Securities predicted that WildStar would be bringing in no revenue by the end of this fiscal year and former Carbine employees shared negative experiences, but February's State of the Game remains ever hopeful despite that. Chad "Pappy" Moore announces his position as WildStar's new Game Director and went on to detail some of this year's plans. Moore starts by saying [...]
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