Ginnunga news

Hardcore does not even begin to describe it! At this years gathering, after a pile of drinks, I told Miraxx that he would receive a lifetime membership if he tattoo's our logo.

Little did I know, that Mr Miraxx does not simply DO drunken craptalk. So, today a message on my phone. A message with an image. An image of absolute awesomeness. No longer is he a mere mortal. Now, he is Ginnunga for life.


Apparently it hurt a little, but since every drop of ink going into his skin, was a drop of legends, it did not matter.

I smell a challenge coming up for Gromk, who just lost his title as Mr Awesome.

After much consideration and playing together in the final beta event Ginnunga has decided to accept the offer to join The Titan Alliance in GW2.

The Titan Alliance is a unique partnership of guilds from around the globe with the common goal to be the dominant server in World vs World and also to create a thriving community where there's ample action whenever you log on. This goal will be accomplished by bringing some of the worlds strongest guilds together as a team, with shared leadership, excellent organization and an around-the-clock presence on the battlefield.

Ginnunga is mainly a European guild. We will fight, bleed and conquer for the alliance during our primetime and let our brothers in America and Oceania hold down the fort during theirs.

We're very much looking forward to flourish and fight alongside our new comrades in Condemned (NA), Dusk Till Dawn (NA), Shadow of Apophis (NA), Unlimited (NA), Synapse (Oceania) and The Elite (Oceania).


This announcement also means Ginnunga will be playing on a, yet undecided, American server at the launch of Guild Wars 2. So if you're looking to fight us, bring it yankee-style.

For more information about The Titan Alliance, its charter and members, visit:
http://www.titanalliance.net

While Ginnunga held its annual IRL-gathering in Sweden there was also a slightly smaller event taking place. Guild Wars 2 held its third and final beta event and those of our members not getting drunk in Östersund decided to hit up the American server Gate of Madness.


Together with Titan Alliance we fought not only the enemy servers, but also quite a number of bugs, queues and disconnect issues. But that's what beta is for and we have full confidence in ArenaNet fixing things before launch.

In spite of the technical problems we did quite well and ended up beating Fort Aspenwood and Darkhaven with more than double their individual scores. This MIGHT not be the final score, but you get the drift.



If you'd prefer to watch the action instead of only reading about it our beloved Civen and Cogency each took the time to make a movie.


We're now eagerly awaiting launch which headstarts on 25th August. We might have an announcement before then, so stay tuned!

Today the third and final beta event for Guildwars 2 will start! Ginnunga will be playing on the Gate of Madness server. This is an American server. We will be joining the Titan Alliance for this beta event, to assist them in the European time zone battles!

This third beta comes with a whole bunch of new funky features. One of the biggest changes is that you will be able to create the last two races, Asura and Sylvari. You can read more about all the other new funky features here.

Goodluck and have fun!

What's your character name and how did you come up with it?

Drexa, or more recently, Drexar (most people who know me just calls me Micke, which is short for Michael in Swedish). It has evolved from Dreakon which was the name used on my old Shadowblade in DAoC (It was actually Sigges name, we traded accounts). First use of the nickname Drexa was in Lineage 2 on my first female character since Dreakon didn’t cut it for a female plus I wanted to personalize it a bit, it was then followed by a bunch of females in various games until we started playing WAR and I had to add an “r” at the end since my awesome Dwarf male Ironbreaker had to have a wee bit more manly name.. Ever since then I’ve been going pretty exclusively for male characters again, so Drexar is now the norm, might even be time to update the forum name at some point.

For any old-timers who might still be around, I used to be Wizel Wuzz, the hairiest and manliest Halfling rogue ever, back in Everquest, account was then passed on to the current Wizel/Wizul when I started playing DAoC and I have since then given up any rights to that name.


How old are you?

I am around 25, born 1980.


Where do you live?

Smack in the middle of Sweden, in the ever windy and cold Östersund, a stone throw away from the Midgard Frontier, Jamtland Mountains.


What MMO do you play at the moment?

None. I haven’t played much since SWTOR, part of getting older seems to be getting busier with shitty things like work, and for some reason earning money has a larger priority at times. Waiting for Guild Wars 2 though.


Any other games currently?

Not really. I did play some Diablo 3, but work schedule prevented me from grouping up and it got boring real fast. I drop in and kill some orcs now and then in Space Marine.


What was your first computer game ever?

Tricky question, something on C64 I guess. Earliest game I remember I loved was Moonstone on the Amiga.


What was your first multiplayer online experience?

Hmm, I think it might have been Quake, using dial-up straight to a friend’s phone number or something like that, I remember playing it with keyboard exclusively before realizing that using a mouse had some advantages..


What was your first MMO?

Everquest back in 1999. I actually didn’t own a computer back then, so I was basically living at Marzaks place, playing Final Fantasy 7 during daytime when he was occupying my (his) computer, and using the computer during night when he was sleeping. It was also on his account I made my first character, but it didn’t take too long until I realized I needed my own account, and a bit later my own computer.


What is your favorite snack while gaming?

I don’t really have any favorite snack, anything that is unhealthy and makes you fat is good. If I could I would eat cookies, candy, potato chips, pizza, kebab, hamburgers and fajitas every day, with Coke, Fanta and sometimes ice-cold milk to drink. Sadly I can’t, unless I want to look like Micke the Hutt and get one of those awesome handicap mopeds that all the not so slim people have started to use. Hmm, that would be sweet.


When/How did you join Ginnunga?

I joined up back in late 1999 or early 2000 from what I can remember, Ern has put it at -99 so let’s go with that. I don’t really remember how I got in touch with the idiots leading the guild, but I think it could have been due to spending tons of time with Marzak who knew many of the people from playing MUDs with them, Jhurg/Eyke was one of them (Co-founder) along with Snyggve and possibly Ern, plus a bunch of other people who are now too old to be online heroes. It didn’t take long until we were all good real life friends, hanging at Marzaks and Smeek/Plutts place quite a lot up in the Körfältet Ghetto or spending time at our base of operations, Wedemarks Café, which had unlimited amounts of coffee refills and also allowed smoking inside, those were the times.


Tell us your most memorable MMO moment?

There are so many… First entering Estate of Unrest in Everquest, the feeling of dread and horror, no game will have that effect on me again, I’m sure, even though I still wish it will happen.



Failing the last boss in my epic quest for my Ragebringer dagger, and then having my day saved by Ernesto who called on fatty Gwarg and all the Forsaken Realm people he could find that late at night, that was a really great experience. (Just as a sidenote, the quest later then bugged out on the final hand in, I gave away my precious collected items to the NPC and instead of getting my Ragebringer I got absolutely nothing, luckily the GM’s back then were awesome and helped me pretty fast to finally get my reward.)

Having to get a GM to kick Gakadaf from the game cause he logged on drunk, died and fell asleep, and corpses decayed in 24 hours online time.. The GM gave me cookies if I remember correctly.

Doublefrosting Paladins down in two hits before the nerfbat hit in DAoC and then overcoming the bitterness of said nerf and still owning the stealth zergs at AMG with Team Hood (Me, Marzak and Hatchet, all shadowblades). Climbing into keeps and delicately perforating peoples arteries with a two-handed sword or axe was also a lot of fun.

Oh, and for some juvenile Swedish humor, these were great finds, to the left we have the NPC Troll named Balle from DAoC, and to the right we have the somewhat nasty Dwarf NPC in Everquest named Horasug.



I could go on and on about Dark Age of Camelot, there are so many great memories from that game and I still firmly believe it’s the best PvP or RvR MMO to date, and I will, sadly, most likely continue to believe that for the rest of my life.. Its also a bit sad to lose contact with a bunch of awesome people, Hatchet, Zlorf, Feo Ellery who kept talking about his “Porros” (His Spanglish made early Meilink sound like a professor in the English language!) just to mention a few.


Tell us something nobody in the guild knows about you.

I do actually laugh, I just don’t push my TeamSpeak button while doing it. Maybe it’s a bit like the whole “If a tree falls in a forest..” type of thing though.

Have you broken your friends leg while reaching for a can of beans?
Have you crawled through a supermarket while stealing coke?
Have you been shot by Tumble while peacefully breaking into a house?
Have you experienced a zombie apocalypse?

If not, you probably haven't played DayZ. For those that are unfamiliar it's a mod for the game Arma II which puts you smack in the middle of a apocalyptic zombie nightmare. Humanity has been all but extinct by a virus and the few survivors remaining try desperately to scavenge food, drinks, medical supplies and weapons to survive against the horde of undead scouring the land.

As if that wasn't enough you live in constant fear of other survivors that want nothing more than to hit you like a piñata and steal your hard earned possessions.

The past week some of us have been living this nightmare. Dying, sneaking, dying, hunting, dying, looting, dying, running, dying and... did i mention dying?
Led by Dansul and Trenixen our rugged band of survivors have raided airports, hospitals and villages in search for anything that's more helpful than a empty tin can, cause there's obviously ALOT of those around in an apocalyptic future.

Calyn wanted to make sure i mentioned him "conquering" a castle meanwhile the rest of us were busy shooting stuff in the face.


There has also been some rumors about axewielding psychopaths roaming the countryside. These are all lies.


If you want to scavenge, slay and survive like a pro, don't hesitate to check out http://dayzmod.com/ and look us up. Just don't be surprised when the last thing you hear is the shotgun-blast behind you and Tumble going "Ooooooops".

I recorded this video of a keep defense in BWE1 and only bothered to upload it now. Nothing fancy, no music or effects, just shows 5 of us Ginnungans against the masses. I messed up some fraps settings I think because it recorded TS for everyone but me.

Without any further ado, I present - Group Howley vs The Zerg(tm)

When they announced the launch date they also mentioned the dates for the next and final beta weekend.

The "beta" or teaser, I guess it should rather be called, will be in July 20-22.

We really really don't care though, since we are having our gathering that weekend!

Source: http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-launch -date

Release of GW2 has been officially announced as:
Tuesday, August 28 2012

I am actually quite excited!

Source: http://www.arena.net/blog/announcing-the-guild-wars-2-launch -date

Teh NEWz.

There is not that much going on, it's just us playing Diablo3, GW2 Beta Events and complaining about all the broken stuff these games have to offer. Of course we are also watching new awesome tv shows, epic movies and looking forward to all kinds of winwin movies in the movie/tv review section.

We would also like to show how dedicated the great Meriel is to the guild! On the right you can see her magnificent interpretation of our incredibly hardcore logo!





Also a few points of interest:

• Calyn is back from China and is busy being almost rid of his jetlag.
  
• Deathstorm is getting ridiculously good items in D3, we hate him for it.
  
• Ernesto is pregnant, It's probably being boiled in wine as we speak.
  
• Meilink is promoted Colonel Clueless.
  
• Dendil is wrong.
  
• Coots is looking for someone to hike to the gathering with. (call 0800-HIKEWITHCOOTS)
  
• Janne finally figured out how Diablo3 works.
  
• Fox is HARDCORE TO THE BONE.
  
• Gromit is old.
  
• So is Meriel.
  
• Kolapz is showing the world pictures of Croatian people that are in love with Irish people.
  
• Gromk has a Mac. (lol)
  
• Netster is trying to find Venus.
  
• Sammerkand is fapping to a lesbian succubus.
  
• I have Teh Plan™.
  
• Katrinn is going to kill Ernesto because he is old and she is awesome.
  
• Eaglix is making babies. (Maybe he should talk to Ern)
  
• Drexa is grumpy.
  
• Naicha is building an aquarium for snails.
  
• Sarya wants to eat Naicha's snails.
  
• Civen is M.I.A.
  
• Gart is bringing wine!
  
• EVERYONE will sleep with Ove.