Acid for Blood

As the Super Fan 2007 winners arrived and Gaile Gray presented us with our prize packs, a photographer was standing by to capture the moment. I wrote earlier that I expected these photos to be posted on the Guild Wars website soonish. I was correct.
I thought they were going to pick photogenic people, but they […]

The first stop of my day was the ArenaNet booth. As a Guild Wars Super Fan Contest winner, I was instructed to speak to Gaile Gray, Guild Wars Community Relations Manager, so that she could give me and my guest our VIP passes to tomorrow’s ArenaNet party.

I was in for a surprise. In addition to […]

I should put coverage in quotes, because my small l readership can certainly go elsewhere for in-depth and extensive coverage from Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). I hope to provide a different angle from those big game blogs. I also hope that non-life-threatening hijinks and shenanigans with minimal financial impact will ensue so that I can […]

If you like Guild Wars, but can’t make it to the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend and aren’t playing Bioshock, you do have another option: the Guild Wars: Eye of the North Sneak Peek Weekend, from 24 - 26 August. This preview is open to everyone who has pre-ordered Guild Wars: Eye of the North. […]

The official Guild Wars site has made the formal announcement of the selection of the Super Fan winners. They have posted a few of the winning entries. My favourite published entry is The Poet’s. All told, they’re much more creative than my fairly direct, simple, and heartfelt statement, which I haven’t posted here because it’s […]

OMG! I won the Guild Wars Super Fan 2007 Contest! My 100 words won me a VIP Early Access ticket to the Guild Wars party at the Penny Arcade Expo!
I’m so excited that I can hardly type!
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Nintendo have announced that August 2007 is Metroid Month. Metroid and Super Metroid are due to be released on the Wii Virtual Console on August 13 and 20, respectively. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has an August 27 release date, with an August 28 retail street date. This must be about the fifth time that Nintendo […]

MMOG Nation has a series of posts covering a recent media preview at ArenaNet headquarters in Seattle. Journalists were treated to an in-depth preview of Guild Wars: Eye of the North.

So I’m in Seattle Today — Journalists were flown in for the preview.

GWEN Set — Screen shots from Eye of the North compiled in a […]

My badge for the Penny Arcade Expo 2007 arrived today:

A flyer from ArenaNet was also included in the package:

On the back are details of ArenaNet’s activities at the convention:

The other promotional material was largely uninteresting. The only other thing that caught my eye was a flyer from Bandai Namco telling me to go to their […]

The Game Chair has announced a change in direction, due to the busy schedule and shift in priorities of the site owner and editor, Seth. I started writing on The Game Chair two years ago, when Seth stumbled across my games blog. He contacted me and invited me to become a contributor to the site. […]