WildStar Beta Weekend Access Dates

According to the official Wildstar web page, between pre-order going live and launch, players will be able to participate in four beta weekends. While everyone else will be required to obtain a key to participate in the beta weekend, players who pre-order the game will have immediate access to each event. The currently scheduled weekends are:

Friday, March 21st, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, March 23rd, 11:59PM PDT
Friday, April 4th, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, April 6th, 11:59PM PDT
Friday, April 18th, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, April 20th, 11:59PM PDT
Friday, May 2nd, 7:00AM PDT through Sunday, May 4th, 11:59PM PDT
Open beta starts on May 8th, 2014, and runs through May 18th
WildStar Ops Week

WildStar lifted its NDA for everyone and announced Release Date

It’s official, WildStar release date is set for June 3, 2014, and as of right this moment, the NDA is lifted. There is only a few more months until you can visit planet Nexus. Pre-orders for WildStar begin on March 19th, and offer the following bonuses: 3 days head start access, access to Beta Weekends, exclusive Rocket House, exclusive Housing Trophy, In-game Storage Bag, and more!

Players can choose between Standard and Digital Deluxe Editions:

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WildStar Release date on June 3rd

WildStar release date is most likely set for June 3rd – if we can trust unconfirmed and leaked post that you can see here. The post was removed soon after it was published, but not before Google managed to pick it up.

Additionally, the same post claims that pre-orders will start on March 19th and that it will grant the buyers three days early start. There will be other bonuses like access to all upcoming beta weekends, exclusive Rocket House, exclusive Housing Trophy, in-game storage bag and more. The post also mentions links new video on YouTube, which was, of course, quickly deleted.

And we wondered why Carbine was quiet last couple of weeks. Be it as it may, this is still unconfirmed rumor and we will have to wait for official announcement to start with celebrations.

WildStar surpasses 1.4 million beta sign ups

At the recent press event in California Jeremy Gaffney, president of Carbine Studios, revealed many interesting facts addressing Beta Stats, the current state and future of the WildStar. When speaking about numbers, there have been more than 1.4 million Beta sign-ups since 2011, while approximately 800,000 players signed-up during the last few months. The number of players who had a chance to participate in WildStar Close Beta at least once is significantly lower, about 160,307 players, and they created 505,514 characters, 45% in the Dominion faction, 55% with the Exiles.

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The Official WildStar Tumblr page is live

Carbine Studios started promoting their official Wildstar Tumblr page yesterday. You can check it out if you click here. The posts on the page are a inside look “behind the scenes” at Carbine Studios, but the dev team also some teases some of the WildStar’s future content that it’s worth checking out.

The page is actually a bit older, as some posts date to February 13, but Carbine Studious just recently started promoting the page. In a week that’s behind us, there weren’t any big news about WildStar, even though some devs hinted it. If you, like us, are craving for more WildStar-related content, then you should take a quick look at the WildStar Tumblr page.

Preview of Customizable Houses in WildStar

Personalization is important in WildStar and that’s why Carbine Studios developed deep customization system. One of the core elements of the game are customizable houses, and also one of the things we didn’t know so much until now.

WildStar Design Producer Stephen Frost did another interview for IGN.com, this time focusing only on house customization and explaining why it is important in this game.

In this video Stephen Frost talked about daily buffs and bonuses, level of customization of plots, as well as in the houses themselves. You can check out whole, 17-minutes long video bellow, and our summary of the most important things:

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Amazing Wildstar Models and Textures

When you work more than 5 years in WildStar developer team as a 3D artist, you have a huge collection of modeled and textured things to show off. Stephan “Spug” Williams, Senior 3D Artist, shared on his blog, “a small art dump of what he has worked on” and we strongly suggest to take a sneak peek into his amazing work.

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