Being excited about SPIEL Essen

24 Oct 2019

When writing this blog post, I tried to remember the correct term for "Gesellschaftsspiel" in English, but as Wikipedia tells me, there apparently is no equivalent other than "board game"…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (June 2018): New games and E3

17 Jun 201819 Jun 2018

Do you know when we had our last Bookahneer's Geekwatch? In September 2016! To be honest, I actually forgot I had this column and whenever I had a few gaming…

Impressions from Gamescom 2015 – Blaugust Day 11

9 Aug 2015

Thursday is the day where gamescom is usually the least busy out of all the days that are open to the general public. But it is still far from empty! That's…

Wildstar Community Event – Blaugust Day 8

8 Aug 20153 Aug 2019

We had originally planned to go to the Trion party on Thursday evening and I was looking forward to it, especially as they announced the new Primalist calling there. However, then…

Giveaway No. 2: Two GW2 Charrlies

20 Aug 20128 Apr 2015

Update: This Giveaway has ended. Please be patient while we're going to decide who's going to be added to both drawing pots and drawing the winners. We will make a…

Giveaway no. 1: Guild Wars 2 “Launch” T-Shirt

19 Aug 20128 Apr 2015

Update: The Giveaway is now closed. We will go through all entries to make sure everybody is on our list. Then we will determine the winner. We have hinted at…

Guild Wars 2 at GamesCom 2012

18 Aug 20123 Aug 2019

You may remember that we have already written a report on ArenaNet's booth last year, so of course, we're going to write another one this year. Last year, we went…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: “Tyria ahoy!”

29 Jul 20128 Apr 2015

Welcome to today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! The place about miscellaneous interesting news related to gaming (will most likely include at least one piece about Guild Wars 2 ^^). Today, we are…

GamesCom 2011: Link collection for GW2

25 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

With PAX around the corner, I wanted to do a collection of links with interviews, videos, pictures, etc. from GamesCom. Of course, all GW2-related. :) Some of them were posted…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (August 24) – GW2GC edition

24 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

Those who know me say that I'm often quite critical and can be overly harsh. So enjoy the following while you can because this'll most likely be a rare entry…

Wartower.de’s interview with Martin Kerstein (from GamesCom 2011)

23 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

Wartower.de, a German Guild Wars fansite, published an interview from al'Ellisande with Martin Kerstein, who's the German community manager of ArenaNet. The topic was, of course, Guild Wars 2. As…

Impressions from GamesCom 2011

22 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

I want to write more about Lord of the Rings Online and Guild Wars 2 later. But for now, I present you my impressions of GamesCom 2011 along with several…

GamesCom 2011 Part 2

19 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

We're in the process of uploading our GW2 videos. Apologies for the spam to all those who already know about it because they're following me on Twitter and G+. ;)…

GamesCom 2011 – Part 1

18 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

Semi-successful day at GamesCom today. 40 minutes for the GW2 demo that soooo many people want to play is just too long. We had about 6 or 7 people in…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (August 1)

1 Aug 20118 Apr 2015

Welcome to today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! The place about LotRO, Guild Wars 2 and any other interesting news related to gaming. First things first, I found it amusing to read a…

GamesCom 2011 – only… a few more days! ;)

26 Jul 20118 Apr 2015

We already know that Sylvari will be playable at GamesCom. So far, this was more or less the only thing I was concerned about (Guild Wars 2, that is, not…

Sylvari week coming soon! Asura still left

24 Jul 20118 Apr 2015

Yesterday, ArenaNet announced that the Sylvari week will take place before Gamescom. They will also be playable at Gamescom. I can't wait! :) But let's look at some dates: Gamescom…

RPC Köln 2011

9 May 20118 Apr 2015

This weekend, we had the roleplay convention in Cologne. Bookahnerk and I went there. Originally, to hear Martin Kerstein (German community manager of ArenaNet) talk about Guild Wars 2 -…