Convention season is well underway, but we've not seen a lot of ArenaNet on the convention floors this year. That's about to change, as ArenaNet has announced its plans for upcoming conventions -- as well as some extremely exciting news.
Global Brand Director Chris Lye penned the latest blog post, and began by confirming that ArenaNet will not be at E3 this year. It's a great convention, but as he pointed out, it's "anti-fan," and ArenaNet is focusing on the fans at this point in time.
So where will they be? You'll find ArenaNet at the San Diego Comic-Con, gamescom in Germany, and of course PAX Prime in Seattle. In the middle of all this, Chris dropped some extremely exciting news: "This is the big one folks! I'm happy to announce that we will unveil the first public hands-on demo of Guild Wars 2 at gamescom in Cologne, Germany! If you want to be the first in your guild to play GW2 (and you're in Europe), this is the show to attend."
There will be hands-on demo stations at PAX in Seattle as well, so if you've been considering going to either of these, the first real look at Guild Wars 2 gameplay should be more than enough to tip the scales.
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 4:37PM Macabre 13 said
Sweet Baby Jesus! Can't wait to see this one in action.
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 4:38PM (Unverified) said
super awesome!
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 4:51PM Arkanaloth said
ok I need a lottery ticket to pay off *NOW* so I can go to germany..
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 4:41PM Agar said
omg omg omg omg omg
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 4:47PM (Unverified) said
Jeez, Köln isn't even that far away from where I live. Ah, but I probably won't be able to go there anyway...
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 5:09PM Dratyan said
I wish I lived in Europe for Gamescom, and I wish I live in USA for PAX. However, where I live there aren't even GW1 boxes for sale, so I'll just get used to it and stop QQing. Great news btw
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 9:06PM (Unverified) said
Hmmm I might have to go to Germany for this, seeing as its just across the border......
Can anyone tell me which ticket i should be looking at if im interested, is it the day ticket one, it seems extremly cheap for this, or is there a different price, just for this event.It would be my first time (hurray finally one close enough) so is gamescon a one day thing, or weekend thing as I expect?
I hope I can make it, this would give me a big boost in either way as to how I feel about GW2
Can anyone tell me which ticket i should be looking at if im interested, is it the day ticket one, it seems extremly cheap for this, or is there a different price, just for this event.It would be my first time (hurray finally one close enough) so is gamescon a one day thing, or weekend thing as I expect?
I hope I can make it, this would give me a big boost in either way as to how I feel about GW2
Posted: Jun 2nd 2010 11:34PM Valdur said
I wish I could go to Germany :)
Posted: Jun 3rd 2010 1:05AM TheJackman said
OMG real GW2 Gameplay videos coming soon! I really love the art of this game and the hype is true if the developers really pull off all they told us about the game so far!!
Posted: Jun 3rd 2010 6:15AM BigAndShiny said
yep 'ill be there at gamescom 2010!
can't wait to play gw2
can't wait to play gw2
Posted: Jun 3rd 2010 7:40AM Misterlee said
...in other news Gamescom tickets just sold out in record time!!








