TGS 09: Aion to go live september 25th

The hit MMORPG, labelled a “World of Warcraft-killer”, by the Korean MMO community, is scheduled to open up all retail servers the 25th of september after extensive beta-testing both in open and closed formats, and a lot of improvements over NCsoft’s previous, Korean/Chinese version. Servers have gone live since september the 22nd for all pre-ordering customers whilst final tweaks and server stability issues were being implemented in their German servershack. Read more

Guild Wars 2 officially announced

Developer Arenanet announced the MMO Guild Wars 2 officially on the Gamescom floor in Cologne. Even though it was in the air for quite some time, the word is finally, officially out. Release is as of yet unknown.

In Guild Wars 2 players will take on Zhaitan, a gigantic dragon that awoke from a long slumber a the bottom of the ocean. Appearantly napping that long made him angry, because he is trying to rise the fallen city Orr and use it’s army of the Undead to wipe out all the five races.

Like Guild Wars 1, part 2 does not require a monthly fee to play. Unfortunately it won’t be possible to use your GW1 character in GW2. The reason behind this is the technology behind the game and the addition of the new races. A new addition that has been revealed is the Hall of Monuments, through which players will be rewarded for their in-game achievements. How this will work out will be explained at a later date.