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PAX08: Day two impressions
Massively — ... in a more "closed" setting where Paul Barnett and Jeff Hickman showcased the features of the game. Then there was an ArenaNet panel that ended up being a full house with an endless line waiting to get in almost an hour before it began. This panel was especially exciting to this blogger as the ...

Guild Wars 2 lore to be told in book series
Massively — ... yesterday afternoon, ArenaNet played host to a jam-packed Raven Theater within the Washington Convention Center for their panel entitled "Three Years of ...

The newest Guild Wars companions explained
Massively — ... game mechanics. ArenaNet has already said that there will be a 'sidekick' in Guild Wars 2, but is the Fire Imp a precursor to that? ...

Guild Wars - Pedigree
Funcom...riddle me this.. — After reading an article from MMOQuests about her impressions of Guild Wars graphics, I thought maybe a quick history lesson would be in order... It may surprise some people... Guild Wars is developed by ArenaNet for NCSoft. Arenanet was founded by Jeff Strain, Pat Wyatt and Mike O'Brien Jeff Strain was team lead and lead programmer of Blizzard's massively multiplayer role-playing game, World of Warcraft. He was also a senior programmer on both Warcraft III and StarCraft, and a programmer on Diablo. ...

Guild Wars update adds new Zaishen reward and more
Massively — ... skill had previously been the cornerstone for what's known as Ghost Running, where players could take advantage of what could best be described as an exploit. This also worked for many popular farming runs as well. With this new patch, Unyielding Aura now only works "within spell casting range", eliminating the way characters could rez from across the map. Of course many players don't like this fix, but as any veteran Guild Wars player knows, it doesn't take ArenaNet long to remedy unbalanced skills.   Read | Permalink ...

"Disgruntled ArenaNet employee" blogger finally admits it was a hoax
Massively — ... that claimed to be written by a disgruntled former employee of ArenaNet. This blog supposedly outed ArenaNet for working with gold farmers in some elaborate scheme to make the company more money, undercut the dedicated player-base and massacre hundreds of thousands of small fluffy bunnies. Okay, we may have exaggerated a bit on that last one. ...

Spend your weekend partying with Guild Wars
Massively — ... . Two guilds, Monk of Kindness and Scions of Carver, are throwing a community party to help celebrate an early Easter and 4-year anniversary for the ArenaNet game. Events include a costume contest, trivia contest, screenshot competition, scavenger hunt and a special lottery to win in-game prizes. ...

April Fools' Day 09: Guild Wars gets cute with us
Massively — ... ArenaNet has worked their magic once again with this year's humorous April Fools' Day prank in Guild Wars. Last year's prank may still be "sticking" with you, and the year before was arguably one of the best through the magic of gender switching, but this year got a pretty good chuckle out of us as well. When you log in today, you may notice your character looking a bit shorter and much cuter. As part of the April Fools' celebrations, all characters appear as an anime-styled Gwen while in towns and outposts. Gwen, of course, has become ...

Guild Wars hits the 6 million milestone
Massively — ... Just in time for their fourth anniversary celebrations, ArenaNet have announced that Guild Wars has sold over six million copies. Coincidence? We think not but it's still a remarkable milestone for this popular MMO. Remember that market leader World of Warcraft has 11.5 million players worldwide and is subscription based. Guild Wars meanwhile, is free-to-play (plus box costs) and only a few months younger than WoW. ArenaNet are understandably chuffed about the whole thing, particularly their studio head, Mike ...

Guild Wars Hits 6 Million!
Guild Wars - News — ... Bellevue, Washington, is a wholly owned subsidiary of NCsoft Corporation. ArenaNet has built a state-of-the-art interactive game network and develops premier multiplayer online games for dedicated game players. ArenaNet's titles, Guild Wars , Guild Wars Factions , Guild Wars Nightfall , and Guild Wars: Eye of the North , are global online role-playing games that allow gamers to play with anyone, anytime, and anywhere in the world. More information about ArenaNet can be found at http://www.arena.net . NCsoft, the interlocking NC logo, PlayNC, Guild Wars, Guild Wars ...

Guild Wars celebrates their fourth year in style
Massively — ... This Tuesday, April 28th, Guild Wars will be turning 4 years old. In true ArenaNet fashion, the game has kicked off an epic event that will last until Noon on April 29th. There is much of the usual festivities we've come to expect from Guild Wars, such as sugary treats, fireworks, Rollerbeetle Racing, the Dragon Arena and much more. Those characters turning four will receive their special four-year birthday mini pets on April 28th, but as an added bonus, those characters celebrating their 1-, 2- or 3-year birthdays will also receive a mini ...

Ah yes, more sprinkles of Guild Wars 2 news
Massively — ... Wars 2. To be fair, Ravious is simply gathering the info he finds on the various Guild Wars forums from others who are doing the actual detective work, but it still makes our jobs a whole lot easier. Some of this was already known, some of it is new, but it's all interesting. In his most recent GW2 post, we get word of a forum member named 4thVariety who has been following the trademark licensing and domain registration habits of ArenaNet's trademark lawyer, Mr. Peter J. Willsey. When GW2 was first announced, Mr. ...

Breaking: ArenaNet co-founder leaves NCsoft
Massively — ... Jeff Strain has always been much more than just a co-founder of ArenaNet, as his visions have driven the company to spectacular feats with their blockbuster title ...

New Guild Wars 2 concept art released through Facebook
Massively — ... As ArenaNet has already warned us, their social networking resources will be utilized much more often in the near future. Earlier today, we saw evidence of this on the ...

ArenaNet releases Guild Wars 2 trailer
Massively — ... The wait is finally up. At GamesCom today, ArenaNet delivered on their teasers throughout the week and released a brand new trailer for Guild Wars 2. This is something Guild Wars fans have been anticipating for years, and it's finally here. This gorgeous trailer shows everything from animated concept art to actual in-game footage. It takes us through the awakening of the dragons beneath the surface of Tyria to the call of the five races to join forces against them. We see Humans, Norn, Asura, Charr and Silvari rising up to defeat the ...

Guild Wars 2 previewed at GamesCom
Massively — Guild Wars broke a lot of standard MMO conventions when it first came out. It teetered on the peripheral to the point of nearly not fitting within the established definitions of the genre. ArenaNet was all right with that, and apparently, so were six million ...

Will Guild Wars 2 be your holy grail?
Massively — ... since the day it was announced, although I did have some reservations about the divulged game mechanics at first. It seemed ArenaNet was giving up on its unique approach to online games and what the founders learned at Blizzard, and converting it into every other MMO out there. The original Guild Wars broke so much ground that it literally raised a new generation of gamers. Solved were the problems of finding a group, grinding for XP, discovering which server your friends played on and camping spawns. Guild Wars popularized the solutions to these ...

Guild Wars 2 Art in ImagineFX!
Guild Wars - News — ... [image] 2009 ArenaNet, Inc. All rights reserved. Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet, NCsoft, the Interlocking NC Logo, and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

GW2 interview with Jeff Grubb goes deep into lore
Massively — ... or giganticus lupicus will be further explained in GW2, then it might be right up your alley. Jeff also drops some hints about the origins of humans, the dragon prophet Glint, the complex relationship between the world of Tyria, the human gods, and dragons, and a number of other things. The anticipation for everything GW2 related is heating up, so stay tuned to Massively as our very own Shawn Schuster will be speaking with someone from ArenaNet soon. Filed under: Fantasy, Interviews, Lore, Guild Wars 2 ...

Massively's interview with ArenaNet: Let's talk Guild Wars 2
Massively — ... earlier this month, we jumped at the chance to interview the creative geniuses behind the upcoming title. ArenaNet's Eric Flannum, Lead Designer, Ree Soesbee, World Designer/Writer and Will McDermott, Writer all answered our barrage of questions. ...

Guild Wars 2 art book to not be included in the collector's edition
Massively — ... As to what will be included in the collector's edition, well, your guess is as good as ours right now. ArenaNet is being tight lipped on those features, and it looks like we're just going to have to wait. ...

Guild Wars announces winners of the henchmen skill bar contest
Massively — ... , a temporary NPC placed in the Great Temple of Balthazar until the contest closed on September 10th. ArenaNet chose forty skill bars from these submissions. Each of the lucky winners will receive a henchman named after them (or by them, if they preferred) and an everlasting henchman tonic that temporarily transforms them into their namesake. ...

Guild Wars PvP project updates
Massively — ... Back in August, Linsey Murdock, game designer for ArenaNet, gave news of a large Guild Wars PvP project the Live Team was working on. Community Manager Regina Buenaobra gave an update yesterday, working through a laundry list of items in the project and their status. The PvP henchmen contest seems to be the primary focus of the Live Team at the moment. Winners were announced last week, and after the initial flurry of perusing the new skill bars and congratulating the winners, the Guild Wars community ...

Win yourself a Guild Wars 2 art book from Massively
Massively — ... During PAX this summer, ArenaNet announced a new art book, showcasing the amazing talent that they've somehow been able to harness all in one studio. This book was given away at the convention and is now sold at their Penny Arcade or NCsoft online store, but will not be available anywhere else. That's why we're extra happy to announce that we're giving one away to a lucky winner this week. As part of our commitment to never accept gifts from publishers, we're giving away this art book (valued at $30) in a random drawing. To enter, simply ...

NCsoft hints at Guild Wars 2 beta in 2010, launch in 2011
Massively — ... Fans of Guild Wars have been waiting for well over two years for Guild Wars 2, ever since ArenaNet fired up the hype machine in a big way back in March of 2007. Anet announced Guild Wars 2 and Eye of the North at the same time, and anticipated that the beta for GW2 would arrive in the second half of 2008. Since the announcement, the Guild Wars player base has become intimately familiar with various versions of the phrases "We haven't released that ...

Undead Labs developing zombie MMO for your console
Oklahoma City MMORPG Examiner — This could be promising. Jeff Strain, a man with quite an MMO portfolio, announced the creation of Seattle-based Undead Labs today. If you recognize Strain's name that's because he's been a part of some big name MMOs you've probably played. Starting in the late 90s, he was the team lead and lead programmer on World of Warcraft . By 2000, he founded ArenaNet with other Blizzard leads like Mike o'Brien and Patrick Wyatt. Recently, Strain was promoted to president of Western operations for NCSoft. Now he wants to bring you a wicked zombie MMO. ...

Guild Wars account security issues continue
Massively — ... revealed that "one of the trading sites associated with Guild Wars may have experienced a security breach and its account database (including user names and passwords) may be in the hands of hackers." The statement predictably invited extensive speculation, but at least told players that ArenaNet was making progress in their search. ...