New in beta: Lion's Arch
This guide is meant to help people get the most out of their weekend event… because even if you forgo sleep, eating, and biobreaks, there is much more to be done than you can do in one weekend.
Here I provide some ideas for your to-do list, and some advice to help you find what you are looking for.
Ho Ho Ho!
Sure Thanksgiving is not even over yet, but Wintersday is just an Asura-toss away. It is already time to get festive, and what better way to get in the proper Wintersday spirit than by participating in GWOnline’s very own Secret Charr?
Secret Charr works exactly the same as Secret Santa, just with a little more fur, and lots of extra teeth!
How do you sign up?
Just provide a post with the following:
We will be taking participants until December 9th (got a 3-day extention).
Please visit the thread in our community forum for the full details of Secret Charr!
Read more & comment >>After giving Guild Wars 2 their Editors’ Game of the Show Award, Eurogamer follows up with an article on their impressions of the GW2 demos and an interview with Colin Johanson about PvP and more.
Read more & comment >>A delicate class, the mage requires tactical awareness and nimble fingers. Or – in the case of Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese – finding the button for the Elite skill that transforms the mage into a whirling hurricane, knocking other players back, and spamming it with a gleeful look on his face.
At PAX last week ArenaNet once again showed of the game to the press behind closed doors. Player72985 popped along to check out the game for us here at IncGamers and filmed the presentation. What’s interesting about these presentations is that each one is slightly different from the next so it’s well worth a watch.
Read more & comment >>This week’s G4 MMO Report looks at PAX which recently concluded. The report takes a gander at some of the upcoming MMOs which of course includes Guild Wars 2.
Read more & comment >>The G4 team has posted their latest Feedback video which looks back at their top games of PAX and naturally Guild Wars 2 is included in their discussion.
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A couple more PAX articles have surfaced today, the first coming from the guys at Massively who went hands-on with the Asura.
The second article comes from community member Vampiresbane who has whipped up an overview of ‘Supporting the Community and Designing Dynamic Events‘ which is the first part in a series being put together so make sure you check those out when they appear.
Read more & comment >>Nvidia are on the PAX show floor and bring you a new video with Randy Price Senior Vice President of ArenaNet who discusses the game and what makes it different from other MMOs on the market or are coming out. PvP is also discussed and how they want to make it an eSports title. Finally Randy talks about the 3D vision that was on show at PAX. A good interview here so grab a coffee and watch.
Read more & comment >>There has been quite a few articles and videos pop up this week which you may want to check out, some from PAX an also Gamescom. As always we’ll keep you up to date with more coverage as it happens and feel free to mail in anything you spot for the news:
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There’s been a bit of a whirlwind of Guild Wars info these past few weeks, what with Gamescom and now PAX. Community member CMEPTb made his way up to PAX to get some quality time with the game and meet the ArenaNet team who were on-hand to answer questions. It’s a pretty lengthy write-up of the PAX demo and shots are also included for good measure.
It was nice to read what different members of the ArenaNet team are enjoying about the game as CMEPTb managed to chat with as many as possible adding their thoughts to his post.
Read more & comment >>A new video showing the PvP that was on show at Gamescom has been released by Gamespot. This was the same PvP zone that was shown on the press briefing and it did look pretty cool. As you know by now, this PvP is more in the style of an FPS with individual servers which can be selected from the a list of current games. I’ll go more into this in my report which is incoming shortly but give this video a watch as it does explain how the system will work.
Read more & comment >>Nvidia has posted an interview with Lead Content Designer Colin Johanson at Gamescom. The interview discusses how Guild Wars 2 is try to innovate and take the stale MMO genre forward.
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