ArenaNet shared an update on the 2012 release of Guild Wars 2, promising to “usher out old thinking – the tired old quest model, stiff repetitive combat, and monthly fees – and usher in the new.” I’m excited at the prospect of innovation in quest models but who’ll collect ten bits of generic animal for random strangers now? March / April [...]
NCSoft announced their new MMO during Gamescom, Wildstar. I spoke to Executive Producer Jeremy Gaffney, who is aiming to build the deepest richest MMO experience to date. He claims that Wildstar will let you play the game how YOU want to. Bold claims and not the only MMO at the show to make the same boast. Still, given that Carbine [...]
The Gamescom trade show in Cologne was the world’s largest game event last year, witnessing a massive 254,000 visitors. If you can’t make it to this year’s show then here is a round-up of where you can watch it all online. The action starts off with the press conferences on Tuesday 16th August, a press and trade only day on [...]
After very successful Eurogamer Expo 2010 which saw over 20,000 gamers make their way to London’s Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre the Eurogamer Expo is back. Taking place between the 22nd – 25th September 2011 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London this year’s expo is going to be bigger than ever. You will be able to play Guild Wars 2, Gears [...]
It’s daily news time, packed full of gaming expos and classic games. You can now buy tickets for GAMEfest, which the organisers GAME are surprisingly enough calling the UK gaming event of the year. Taking place over 3 days at Birmingham’s NEC in September 2011 and a week before the Eurogamer Expo at Earl’s Court, GAMEfest is only open to [...]
It’s been a stormy and soaking wet day here in the London heralding the end of what was a very brief heat wave. But, don’t panic, here’s some gaming news to cheer everyone up. You can get credited on a game without selling your soul. Namco Bandai are running a competition to win a copy of Dark Souls signed by [...]
NCSoft have released quite a bit of information about the new Necromancer class that will appear in Guild Wars II. Check out the videos below to see some of the Necromancer’s spells in action. Personally, I love a good minion spell. It’s great seeing them go off to beat the crap out of an enemy whilst you chill out ;-) [...]
Here is a much longer demo by the NCsoft guys at Gamescom showing off Guild Wars 2 (thanks for the link to the video Brinstar. In you get to see many of the new features that NCsoft have added, like casting whilst running, huge boss fights very early on in the game. One of the nicest things is the dynamic [...]
Here is one of the first videos showing in-game combat from Guild Wars 2. The boss shown in the video is a little bit big :-)
The sequel to the excellent Guild Wars is taking shape. Check it out.
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