My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. The October Halloween event, Blood and Madness is in its second week. We’ve also got some clues being dropped about next week’s new content update called Tower of Nightmares. There’s also the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
October 24, 2013
October 18, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. The October Halloween event, Blood and Madness is in full swing and there are lots of posts covering the new and updated content. There’s also the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community. This week there’s a lot of fan fiction … must be something in the water in Lion’s Arch.
October 11, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. The first October release is coming next week and will feature the return of some content from the original Halloween event. Blood and Madness will be released on Tuesday and we have previews of the new and updated content. In addition, we’ve also got the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
October 4, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. The Twilight Assault event has been released and it includes a reworked Twilight Arbour dungeon and other changes. In addition, we’ve also got the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community. (The community events section has been split off into its own post which will be published at the end of the weekend.)
September 27, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. The Tequatl Rising event is still going on and (reportedly) most servers have at least managed to defeat the dragon at least one time. We’re getting information about next week’s content release, Twilight Assault, which will include a reworked Twilight Arbour dungeon and other changes. In addition, we’ve also got the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
September 20, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week has a lot of coverage on the new Tequatl Rising event — with lots of complaints from the cheap seats that the newly revamped dragon event is too hard. In addition, we’ve also got the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
September 13, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s collection of links seems to indicate that every single video-maker in the community did at least one covering the Super Adventure Box. In addition, we’re starting to get information about next week’s content release (Tequatl Rising, featuring a major revamp to the dragon event) and the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
September 6, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s over-stuffed collection of links covers the return of the Super Adventure Box (which is thrilling and exasperating players in approximately equal numbers) and the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
August 30, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s collection of links covers the Guild Wars 2 first anniversary, the current event (Clockwork Chaos), the return of the Super Adventure Box and the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
August 25, 2013
Guild Wars 2 at the one-year mark
Early in 2012, I started doing some short posts using my nom-de-gaming identity “Raphia Naon” at GuildMag for the first beta weekend event of the unreleased game Guild Wars 2. I continued doing a daily entry for almost all the beta events and stress tests (I missed a few because they were scheduled at times I couldn’t take part). It’s now the first anniversary of the “headstart” period and I’ve posted a short piece on what I take the liberty to call the Tyrian Firstborn: the players who pre-purchased the game and took part in the beta and stress test events leading up to launch.
August 23, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s collection of links is packed with posts about the current event (Clockwork Chaos) and the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
ArenaNet is offering a free trial weekend for anyone who’d like to try the game before purchasing. If you’re interested, you can sign up here – https://register.guildwars2.com/trial. The trial weekend runs from today through to Sunday at midnight PST. (The game file is pretty big, so allow for a relatively long download if you’re not on a fast internet connection.) If you happen to be on the server Darkhaven, you can contact me using my in-game name “Raphia Naon”.
August 16, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s collection of links is packed with posts about the current event (the Queen’s Jubilee) and some information about next week’s content release, The Queen’s Speech. There’s also the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
Update: As part of their upcoming first anniversary, ArenaNet will be offering a free trial weekend for anyone who’d like to try the game before purchasing. If you’re interested, you can sign up here – https://register.guildwars2.com/trial. The trial weekend runs from August 23 – 25, 2013. (Oh, and the game file has gotten pretty big, so allow for a relatively long download if you’re not on a fast internet connection.)
August 9, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s collection of links is almost all about the Queen’s Jubilee — which is the best content update we’ve had so far (I’m really enjoying playing it). There’s also the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.
August 7, 2013
What happens when you add MMO features to a classic turn-based game?
The answer, according to Jake Song and 2K Games, is Civilization Online:
You might have heard about a little project called Civilization Online, a new MMO in development based on the popular Civilization series of turn-based strategy games. You also might have heard that XL Games CEO Jake Song, of ArcheAge and Lineage fame, is overseeing the project as Executive Producer. But chances are, that’s really all you have heard. Until now, that is.
We had the opportunity to sit down with Song, XL Games Senior VP Jung Hwan Kim, and Producer Garrett Bittner from 2K Games to get the scoop on the project. Follow along for all the juicy details about building up civilizations in a new open world environment, including crafting, PvP, and more!
With Civilization Online being such a departure from his previous projects, I had to ask Song why the switch in genres? His answer came easily: He’s a big fan of the Civilization series. Actually, Song’s first response was: “Because there are too many fantasy games!” Then after a chuckle he talked about how he enjoyed the franchise. According to Bittner, from 2K Games’ perspective, Song was an obvious choice to ask to participate due to his high quality work as well as being a fan.
But even though the MMO is based on the series of strategy games, CO is not to be mistaken as simply an online version of turn-based warfare or a continuation of the canceled Facebook game. In fact, Civilization Online will definitely be a MMORPG, where players are a single character within the civilization — as opposed to, say, a unit of armies — and will influence a persistent and dynamic world by helping to advance their civilization through the ages.
August 2, 2013
This week in Guild Wars 2
My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s edition includes our first look at what will be coming in next week’s content update — the Queen’s Jubilee. There’s also the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.