Our latest coverage of Guild Wars 2.
ArenaNet recently released an update that made the Drakkar World Boss event in Guild Wars 2 just a little bit harder to beat. Apparently, the devs also secretly updated the encounter to automatically activate open-world PvP for a short time after failed fights with the ancient dragon. According to a thread on the game’s subreddit, open-world PvP will remain active [...]
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Think you’ve got the new Icebrood Saga Drakkar encounter down to a tee? Well, today’s Guild Wars 2 patch mixes things up a bit with a number of small but significant changes to the recently-released Shadow in the Ice world boss event. “As Jormag's influence continues to grow throughout the region, Drakkar and its minions grow more powerful,” says ArenaNet. [...]
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These past few years haven’t been good on ArenaNet. Since last year, the company has been hit with massive layoffs, company restructuring, and multiple high-profile developers leaving for better opportunities including Lead Game Designer and Lead Writer Bill Friest and Co-founder/President Mike O’Brien. Today, another developer has decided to leave ArenaNet’s ranks. Lead Systems Designer Hugh Norfolk announces his departure [...]
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The annual Lunar New Year celebrations are now in full swing in Guild Wars 2 and Tyrians are flocking to Divinity’s Reach for the festivities. Celebrate the Year of the Metal Rat with food, games, prizes, and of course, fireworks. Invitations have been sent via the in-game mail. Simply double-click the item to instantly teleport to Divinity’s Reach. “Speak to [...]
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As ArenaNet signs off for their annual holiday break, the studio looks back at what Guild War 2 players have achieved during the past year which includes rocking out to almost 10,000 Metal Legion concerts, cooking nearly 1,000,000 ascended meals, participating in over 200,000 mount races, and getting knocked out 63,000,000 times, and of course, getting back up the same [...]
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As announced, Toymaster Tixx has returned to Divinity’s Reach marking the official start of the Wintersday celebrations in Guild Wars 2. Visit Tixx’s Infinirarium and help take care of rebellious toys, face off against angry snowmen, jump onto giant snowflakes high above the ground, or let off some steam by throwing snowballs at other players. “Come join us in celebrating [...]
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Merry Wintersday Tyrians! Toymaster Tixx and his massive golem-shaped airship returns to Divinity’s Reach next week to mark the start of the annual Wintersday celebrations in Guild Wars 2. Festivities kick off on Decemeber 17th and will run until January 7th. During the event, players will be able to participate in a number of challenging and fun seasonal events for [...]
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Stay warm and look awesome while braving the frigid new zones as the newest fashion trend hits Tyria – capes! The latest Guild Wars 2 patch adds these stylish new back item skins to the game along with a number of quality-of-life changes including the highly-awaited out-of-combat weapon swap ability for Engineers and Elementalists. The update also introduces balance tweaks [...]
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A few months ago, ArenaNet announced that they’ll be swapping out the seasonal update cadence in Guild Wars 2 in favor of a more flexible saga content delivery system. The new saga system was first introduced back in September with the Bound by Blood prelude, the prologue to The Icebrood Saga. The Icebrood Saga is now live with the release [...]
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Halloween festivities kick off in Guild Wars 2 on Ocotber 15th with the return of the annual Shadow of the Mad King event.
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