Fly-by Video Dump on Guild Wars 2 at Gamescom

Although these are now all over the place, I could not let another day go by without linking to the nine-part high-quality series of videos posted to GameTrailers.com on the Guild Wars 2 demo: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Among the promises [...]

Read Full Post »

Fly-by impressions of the Guild Wars 2 Gamescom footage

Impressions on the initial leaked, very unofficial footage from the dress rehearsal on 8/17/2010: Hmmm. It seems it would be hasty to come to many conclusions based on this. What I can see that doesn’t seem to be affected by dev hax is promising, but it’s difficult to form a real opinion because of the [...]

Read Full Post »

Lessons to learn about MMO development

Be creative? Don’t try to out-WoW WoW? Cater to your niche? Don’t over-hype your product (some would say, don’t hype it at all)? Nah, I’m starting to fear the lesson is, never try.

Read Full Post »

ArenaNet’s Dynamic Events vs. Mythic’s Public Quests

There’s a bit of a meme going around the MMO blogosphere, forums, and news site comment sections about the Dynamic Events ArenaNet has described as a new mechanic they have implemented for Guild Wars 2 (go on, read the link about Dynamic Events up there. Don’t just mouse over it, or open it in a new [...]

Read Full Post »