Carbine Studios, Inc. was a video game developer and subsidiary of NCSOFT, founded in 2005 by former members of Blizzard Entertainment.

Carbine's founders were 17 former members of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft development team.

Since then, they have employed key personnel from games such as Diablo II, StarCraft, Metroid Prime, Fallout, EverQuest, City of Heroes, Half-Life 2 and many from other titles.

[1] In March 2016, NCSOFT announced a reorganization and Polygon says more than 70 Carbine employees were laid off; this is about 40% of the studio.

"[3] On September 6, 2018, NCSoft announced that Carbine Studios would be closed immediately and would "begin the process of winding WildStar down".