Game Life: In 2012, the best gaming experiences came from some quite unexpected places.
This was partly because so many big-budget games failed to materialize, having been delayed into 2013 or, as sometimes happens, just sort of fallen off the face of the Earth entirely. And the triple-A titles that did show up were often underwhelming.
But as the industry behemoths struggled, the fast-growing independent games scene was thriving. In this list of Wired's favorite games of the year, you'll see some long-in-the-works indie games that finally made it out this year, some small games that came out of nowhere with wild ideas that just clicked, an MMO that points to how the genre might thrive in a post-Warcraft world and other surprising successes.
Wccftech talked to Guild Wars 2 Game Director Josh Davis about the learnings from the Secrets of the Obscure expansion and what's coming to the MMORPG.
The "slippery slope" debate has started, now we wait to see what ArenaNet does.
"ArenaNet and NCSOFT are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released the "Secrets of the Obscure" expansion for their award-winning and critically acclaimed MMORPG "Guild Wars 2"." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
very much so... "blank" is still a thing" is also still a thing as you can can surmise.
Anet also announced the 5th expansion. "We’ve already started applying lessons from the development of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure to our fifth expansion, which we expect to be released next year." From their site, been with this game since 1st beta, and announcing the 5th expansion so soon, the game is doing very well, plus the graphics are improved a bit now that it's on DX11🙃
Correct, and yes. Imo, they've done very well for themselves, and I'm very impressed with what they have achived with GW2 since the game launched.
