We have pretty ambitious plans. Starting with Factions, we're shooting for two campaigns every year. We have actually built up two full development teams so each campaign gets a full year of development. Factions comes out April 28, exactly one year after the original. Factions' development kicked off early last summer. Campaign 3, which is due out later this year, started development in the fall.
"Jeff Strain" is a game programmer and one of the three founders of ArenaNet. He served ArenaNet and NCsoft as the leader of the Art and Production teams and President of Product Development respectively. He was previously the lead programmer of Blizzard Entertainment/Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft; he also created the StarCraft campaign editor and worked on Diablo (computer game)/Diablo and Warcraft III. He is credited as a programmer and executive producer for Guild Wars.
He left NCsoft in August 2009 under amicable terms with the company. On November 23, 2009, it was announced that Jeff had founded Undead Labs, to create a zombie game for the major consoles, called State of Decay.
More Jeff Strain on Wikipedia.I would not be surprised to see something by the end of the year. Obviously we're so early in development we're not committing to any kind of release schedules, but if we're going to be on a two-a-year schedule and we're shipping one in April, that kind of helps you set the time frame for the next release.
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