I was going to say no news this week, then a new blog entry was made on the official GW2 site: http://www.arena.net/blog/progression-and-leveling-in-guild-wars-2

BTW a Guild Wars villain is named after this guy

Guybrush

I'm with him....I love to catch a level

Anet talks a little more about player character personality and its effect on the game: http://www.arena.net/blog/personality-in-guild-wars-2

Another interview: http://gw2.univers-virtuels.net/arti...-Virtuels.html

Blog entry on sound in Guild Wars 2, including a couple of samples: http://www.arena.net/blog/talking-heads-vo-and-dialogue-in-gw2

Anet's Guild Wars schedule at Gamescom: http://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wall-to-wall-gamescom-coverage.html

New video http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/videos/#gw2-video-manifesto

New blog entry http://www.arena.net/blog/walking-the-walk

Interview: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/guildwars2/news.html?sid=6273004&mode=previews

I'm still hoping for a profession release this week since they said they would announce one more before the convention in Germany next week.

Guybrush, that video is amazing and the description of the play sounds intriguing. It will be good to see it all in action.

Couple more blog entries:
http://www.arena.net/blog/the-road-to-gamescom-assuring-quality

http://www.arena.net/blog/mmo-manifesto-reactions

Somebody leaked a video that shows game developers controlling characters. I'm not going to provide a link. Its not an official release, it was filmed by somebody's hand held camera and it just an equipment test. The developers had used a cheat code to make their characters invisible to the monsters so they could beat up on monsters that couldn't fight back. This video confused a lot of people. So if you stumble across a video reported to be from gamescom, don't make the mistake of thinking the game will actually be like the video, is just a developers demo in test mode, the game won't be like that. When they actually run the video at the con there will be dialogue explaining whats going on.


Edit: another leaked video shows character creation screen which has 4 of the 8 professions available: elementalist, warrior, ranger and necromancer. Anet has not as this hour officially announced necromancer yet though.

Thanks Guybrush...it's too bad folks can't play by the rules.

The character creation video shows person using a single word name. Glad to see that.

I'm mad at Anet. They said in one the interviews that they would reveal the 4th profession BEFORE Gamescom and now they've revealed it AT Gamescom. Also they told us not to watch any videos attendees make because they'd be of poor quality but have not released any official high quality videos but instead are letting those poor quality videos be used to give out information.

Guild Wars 2 wins Best Online Game award: http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-wins-gamescom-best-online-game-award

Not sure what that says for the industry if a game that doesn't even exist (except as a demo that is NOT playable online) yet wins such an award

Oh brother. Now Anet is winning about leaked videos spoiling necromancer skills reveal planned for later this week. Wouldn't have been any leak if they had kept their word and revealed Necromancer BEFORE Gamescom. I hope they learned their lesson.

Finally necromancer on Guild Wars 2 page, with official vidoes: http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/necromancer/

Can it be played with just the mouse?

Probably not because now there is more movement, including jumping and swimming. I'm a little worried about that myself.