July 17th, 2008
Genre: Action adventure
Platforms: PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360
Developer: DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment)
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release date: “Late 2008″
Mirror’s Edge comes from the Swedish developers DICE, most famously known for the Battlefield series. It’s nice to see them producing something very different from their recent games and I’m sure it’s a refreshing change for [...]
June 18th, 2008
Although I never got round to the long planned series of posts on Eye of the North, I did take plenty of screenshots. I have included the best of the bunch below.
January 27th, 2008
I am a sucker for gaming art books so I thought it’d be an idea to summarise some useful information I have gathered on the subject into one post. This is coming from the perspective of a fan here, apologies to any art/gaming students/professionals who disagree with my ramblings. Also note that while [...]
August 27th, 2007
The journey into the world of the Eye of the North begins in one of the three main cities of Guild Wars, Lion’s Arch in Tyria, Kaineng Center in Cantha and Kamadan, Jewel of Istan in Elona with frequent earthquakes. At the start of the sneak peak weekend, fissures opening up nearby which the [...]
August 27th, 2007
This weekend was the ’sneak peak’ for the new Guild Wars expansion- The Eye of the North. Basically the opening area of the new campaign was unlocked for those that pre-ordered the game, so we could start playing a week before the official release. Of course this meant I took screen shots. [...]
May 29th, 2007
Welcome to Ascalon City
The original Guild Wars campaign is known as Prophecies. Starting this campaign takes your newly created character to Ascalon City, the largest city in the Kingdom of Ascalon:
May 29th, 2007
As my obsession with Guild Wars grows I have built up a large number of screenshots from the many locations in the games. I am going to put up a few of the better shots up here to show off the world of Guild Wars, known as Tyria, as I explore through it.
May 25th, 2007
It’s official, I have just passed the 400 hour mark in Guild Wars. A quick straw poll however shows that this is mere child’s play compared to some. The highest figure mentioned by a member of my guild was over three thousand hours.
May 20th, 2007
Apparently the next issues of PC Zone, PC Gamer and PC Format will each have a free trial for Guild Wars. PC Gamer gets Prophecies, PC Format gets Factions and PC Zone gets the newest campaign, Nightfall:
http://www.gamershell.com/news/38613.html
May 20th, 2007
This post started off as a reply to NokkonWud, but as I went into so much detail I thought it might as well come in handy to others considering getting the game.
Guild Wars is broken down into three core games:
Prophecies: the original game which is the closest to a traditional western RPG in theme of [...]