Jon Peters, one of the game designers explains how Healing and Death will work in Guild wars 2.

Rather than being presented with immediate failure, when a player loses all of their health in Guild Wars 2, they are put into "downed mode." In this mode, the player has a number of downed skills they can use to target enemies and fight for a chance to survive. A downed player can still be attacked, which will send them into a defeated state, leaving them to either wait for an ally to resurrect them or to resurrect at a waypoint.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/healing-death/



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A new tasty trailer has been released for TERA in time for next weeks E3 event (starting on Tuesday)
http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/74061/PC/Tera/Trailer/E3-2010-Trailer/Flash-Video


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Aubrey Hesselgren talks about Parkour, movement and SMART in Brink.
http://www.brinkthegame.com/community/blogs/detail/?id=4


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This is not really a Portal 2 newsitem but its close enough

If you get Portal before 25th May on Steam its yours for FREE and ever.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
Its a safe bet that this is because Steam got available on Macs recently.

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On the official site Anet:s Colin Johanson explains how Guild wars 2:s Dynamic events will work.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/dynamic-events/dynamic-events-overview/

As a response to that IGN has asked Anet some follow up questions about the said events,
http://pc.ign.com/articles/108/1089082p1.html


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AtomicGamer has interviewed Richard Morgan, one of my absolute favorite writers and author of books like Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies AKA the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy.
Apparently Richard Morgan is writing the story of Crysis 2, great news for those of us that like a good story in a game.

http://www.atomicgamer.com/articles/1042/crysis-2-interview


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This week Anet celebrates their 5th anniversary of the Guild Wars release by releasing information on, you guessed it, Guild Wars 2!

Heres the first bit of info,
http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-design-manifesto



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The first addon for L4D2 is out this Thursday and in true Valve spirit its free for us PC owners.

The Passing also introduces a series of weekly game mode events dubbed "Mutations." These week-long runs of new gameplay modes range from "Realism Versus" mode to "Chainsaw Massacre," which gives all players chainsaws with an unlimited supply of gasoline. There are over 20 Mutations planned, each playable on all L4D2 Campaigns. Mutations are exclusively available to owners of "The Passing" DLC.

Heres a gem for those of you that loves fantasy concept art. The MTV generation can turn right at the round door because this is a very slow presentation from GDC 2010. Dont let that fool you though theres some fantastic drawings in this 35min, four part, presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/user/arenanetofficial#p/u/3/n8KdzIvzY1I




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Voodoo extreme has a nice preview of Funcoms The Secret World MMO. They also have a couple of new screenshots and a very short teaser.



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