Hi, I'm Icaras, or Alexander. I'm the leader of Genesis Gaming, a previously dominating force in the free2play MMORPG market, currently transitioning into a community and competitive team in League of Legends, Guild Wars 2 and Starcraft II, a couple of my friends said it'd be good for me and maybe for others to find interesting if I post my week to week happenings, in real life and in the virtual world of what goes on and the fun times I face.

18/06/2012

Hello!

I started this 'weekly' review last week and I got a lot of constructive feedback on this and I'd love to keep improving this with your feed back and continue working on it as a project. Keep commenting with your idea's as I take everything on board to improve this.

This week week has been a really lazy week for me, Guil

Hi, I'm Icaras, or Alexander. I'm the leader of Genesis Gaming, a previously dominating force in the free2play MMORPG market, currently transitioning into a community and competitive team in League of Legends, Guild Wars 2 and Starcraft II, a couple of my friends said it'd be good for me and maybe for others to find interesting if I post my week to week happenings, in real life and in the virtual world of what goes on and the fun times I face.

11/06/2012

It's Monday and we've just finished with Beta Weekend Event 2 of Guild Wars 2. The beta weekends, for me are a chance to get a look at the competitive scene before it even begins. The first weekend was me exploring game mechanics, W3 and the guild system. This week, it was about me and pushing forward the team. We explored lots of poss

I'll be streaming the entirety of the Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event 2 on behalf of MMOSite!

http://genesisgaming.info/watch

I'll be streaming most of the weekend, however we have a couple of other streamers so you can watch other point of views. Ventrilo will be on all streams so bad language might be apparent so if that kind of thing offends you, feel free to watch but mute the stream!

We'll be looking at chat all weekend so if you don't have access and watch something specific, request it!

Or if you do have access, come to Desolation and join us!

Steel Series Guild Wars 2 Gaming Peripherals

Steel Series have just released their own brand of Guild Wars 2 themed gaming peripherals. This brings me on to an interesting topic as well, so I figured i’d mix in some news with a discussion and sees what you guys think.

http://www.steelseries.com/products/games/guild-wars-2/guild-wars-2-gaming-mouse

Based on the Steel Series Kana, the GW2 mouse has been designed with white and red colours to match the theme of Guild Wars 2, featuring the same great functions and a guild wars theme. Thanks to the support of the Steel Series Engine software, you can record even extremely long and advanced macros to the Guild Wars 2 Gaming Mouse. The macros can not only be layered and can include keystrokes and precise timing, but they can span acro

Forbes, once again had a write up and interview about Guild Wars 2 and this time it is with ArenaNet Founder Mike O'Brien. Here are some of the quotable statements from the interview

“We’re in it to win it this time,” said O’Brien. “We were number two to World of Warcraft with Guild Wars, now we want to beat them. We’ll be satisfied when the Guild Wars 2 is the most successful MMO. I think we have something unique here and players are going to see it and understand why dynamic events are a way better content model than people have experienced before in online worlds. Word-of-mouth will get people to understand that we really are doing something new and different. The sky’s the limit once this game is out. Online worlds have a networking effect. People will bring friends to Guild Wars 2. We hope all the people who play the beta weekend will tell their friends about it.”

O’Brien said “nothing is going to kill WoW other than WoW. Games just don’t die. But do gamers think

The long-awaited public Guild Wars 2 beta sign-ups start now!

Players have 2 days to sign themselves up for the beta. Whether everyone who signs up will be allowed in or not is not certain at this point, but everyone who signed up is sure hoping it!

I'll keep posting with more GW2 beta news as it happens.

Also if you're looking for a global Guild Wars 2 guild, Genesis Gaming is recruiting.

http://genesisclan.clannow.com

Mike O’Brien, founder of ArenaNet have just updated the official Guild Wars 2 blog with an exciting announcement. This is the update that most of us are really excited about, the beta and the release date! We finally have a rough time schedule for both: the beta will ramp up through February, Mach and April, while release is expected later this year!


Mike O’Brien:
We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.

Exitializ Guild, a competitive and now an international gaming community has started its recruitment for Guild Wars 2. Provided below is the Guild's introduction for you to know more about the community or you may check out Guild Wars 2 Journal's latest Guild Spotlight. 

Exitializ, a word that embody Fatality, Destruction and reflects the dark side, we go by the name as to contradict its true form; to give life, to support and to construct a community that cares for each individual and harness their potential. As to be a root foundation of informative and meaningful contents. Exitializ, is your source of power an greatness.

As our dictum proclaim: “Furnishing life for existence, defying the Exitial”, a line that signifies life and creation in all that is fatal and de