WildStar Overview

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Publisher NCsoft

Developer Carbine Studios

Release Date Jun 3, 2014

Review

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Wildstar review: infinity and beyond

By Philip Kollar on Jul 07, 2014 07.07.14

Above all else, Wildstar's greatest obsession is keeping players busy. It has a unique tone compared to its competition, but Wildstar is also very much an amalgam. It's a collection of...

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WildStar will shut down in November

By Michael McWhertor on Sep 27, 2018 09.27.18

Carbine Studios’ sci-fi MMO will go out with a bang

Wildstar developer Carbine Studios lays off nearly half of its staff

By Philip Kollar on Mar 11, 2016 03.11.16

NCSoft announced today that it has reduced staff at Carbine Studios, the developer behind sci-fi massively multiplayer role-playing game Wildstar. This comes just six months after Wildstar switched...

Wildstar headed to Steam along with first major update of 2016

By Philip Kollar on Feb 02, 2016 02.02.16

Sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game Wildstar went free-to-play late last year, but since then players have been left waiting for new content, while developer Carbine Studios has...

WildStar goes free-to-play on Sept. 29

By Michael McWhertor on Sep 03, 2015 09.03.15

Carbine Studios announced today that its sci-fi massively multiplayer online game WildStar will go free-to-play on Sept. 29, with a second phase of the game's closed beta test kicking off today. W...

WildStar going free-to-play this fall with ambitious new business plan

By Philip Kollar on May 28, 2015 05.28.15

After a solid launch and a difficult first year, sci-fi massively multiplayer game WildStar is going free-to-play later this year, publisher NCSoft revealed today. In an interview with Polygon...

Wildstar developer lays off 60, further cuts at NCSoft

By Philip Kollar on Oct 23, 2014 10.23.14

Polygon has received word today that NCSoft-owned Carbine Studios has laid off "around 60" employees. This is in addition to further layoffs across NCSoft's western operations. In a statement...

Wildstar's next major content drop is PvP heaven

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Jul 22, 2014 07.22.14

Wildstar's next major content update — Sabotage — will introduce a plethora of player-versus-player options to the game, including a 15-on-15 battleground arena, developer Carbine Studios announced...

MMOs are at their best when they're not cloning World of Warcraft

By Philip Kollar on Jul 10, 2014 07.10.14

I love World of Warcraft. You'd be hard-pressed to find an MMO player who doesn't love it — or at least didn't love it at some point in the past ten years. That's the problem. MMOs continue to be...

WildStar gameplay - Housing customization, farming and more

By Griffin McElroy on Jun 20, 2014 06.20.14

WildStar has a metric ton of content for players to dive into, but at level 14, the game's most addicting component is unlocked: player housing. The recently released MMO has some of the most...