ArenaNet
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Guild Wars 3 announced! … What?
Apparently, Guild Wars 3 just got announced! Or, well, to be more precise, it was mentioned in an NCSoft shareholders meeting. This means that we know nothing except that it is in development. We have no idea about the setting, planned features, release window, etc. But what we can assume, at least, is that the…
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What is ManaWorks going to be, I wonder…
I woke up this morning to find the message from Mike O’Brien (soon-to-be former president of ArenaNet) saying farewell to ArenaNet and the Guild Wars (2) community. He did state that he had previously shifted to work on one of the now cancelled new projects at ArenaNet – but what interested me is that he…
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New Lion’s Arch
Can you believe that after all the screenshot galleries I’ve made for Lion’s Arch in its various stages, I have never made one of the rebuild town? You can see the original Lion’s Arch in this post (from April 2012). About two years later, in February 2014, I made a second gallery because I felt…
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Guild Wars 2 Community Event – Blaugust Day 9
As you may already know, on Thursday, we went to gamescom and then went to the Wildstar Community Event in the evening. I already told you about the Wildstar event. My write-up of our visit to gamescom is taking a bit more time to get finished, though. So I figured I could show you the pictures…
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10 years: Guild Wars nostalgia
Guild Wars turned 10 years old this week. The original Guild Wars, of course, not Guild Wars 2 (which will be 3 years old this August, by the way). Back then I had just started to get into PC gaming and most of all, into MMOs. World of Warcraft had been my first MMO which…
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4th Blog Anniversary: Let’s celebrate with giveaways!
Update: This giveaway is closed. We will announce the winners here in our blog soon! Today is the big day! Our blog is celebrating its 4th anniversary. 4 years of writing mostly about Guild Wars 2, and more recently, Rift and Trove as well. 4 years of writing about first impressions of various other games,…
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Honorary Nerdy Bookahs prize for Bolthound
On Monday, we could finally announce the official winners of ArenaNet’s Wintersday Window Decoration Contest. Unfortunately for us, our favourite stencil did not make it into the top 5. But hey, ArenaNet has nothing against us giving away extra prizes for stencils that we really loved, so this is exactly what we decided to do…
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Winners of the Wintersday Window Decoration Contest
First of all, thank you to everyone who participated! We saw a lot of great stencils and bookahnerk and I had a hard time choosing our three favourites. Two of the three that we had voted for are also in the top 5. So, without further ado, congratulations to the winners: Plume Chyana Bibi The…
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Guild Wars 2 at PAX
Less than 48 hours now until we finally hear what ArenaNet has planned for Guild Wars 2 with “Heart of Thorns”. They also seem to want to celebrate this by giving us players a double XP weekend. They also linked to the channels with the livestreams. Quite obviously, the official international – and English-speaking –…
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Guild Wars 2 – Heart of Thorns speculation
I assume most of you have heard about “Heart of Thorns” by now. I will try to keep this mostly spoiler-free, but if you haven’t played the latest story bit, you will at least not want to click on the play button of the video. Other than that, I’m not mentioning the latest story bits…
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Reminder: Wintersday Window Decoration Contest
As you all probably know already, the next patch will be here tomorrow. We will finally get the last episode of season 2, “Point of No Return”. In case you don’t know what to do with yourself until then – or in case you rush through the story and can’t wait for season 3 and…
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Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (December 15, 2014)
Welcome to today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! The place about miscellaneous interesting gaming news. I am mainly using this column – and with it, this charming asura you can see on the left – to announce that the winners of our first week’s giveaway have been chosen. Once again, congratulations to Wedge and Kalabajooie! Don’t forget that…
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Nerdy Bookahs Wintersday Window Decoration Contest
Update: If you’ve got any questions about this competition, just leave a comment here on this blog post and I’ll try to answer it as fast as possible! Update 2: The stencil has to be big: 300 dpi, minimal size of Din A 4, .JPG, .PNG, .TIFF or .PDF format – This should equal to…
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Then & Now: Reliving the newbie experience (1-5)
With the recent feature patch, ArenaNet released the new player experience. There has been quite a lot of controversy around the related changes. For example, your skills unlock one by one when you level up. The last one, your elite skill, is not available until you hit level 40 (it was at level 30 before).…
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Tyrian Explorer’s Knapsack – worth the price?
Today is Tuesday and as is usual on Tuesdays, we get to see new items in the gem store (and a new trailer). The first item is the Covert Charr Backpack Set for 300 gems. If you don’t have a charr backpack yet and this is your favourite, then go buy it! Otherwise, consider getting…
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