Our latest coverage of Guild Wars 2.
As ESPN continues to make its move into the growing world of eSports, it has begun publishing columns about the state of eSports. Yesterday, it published an article that discusses the state of MMORPGs in eSports. It talks about a number of challenges that MMORPGs face, such as matches being difficult to understand without intimate knowledge of the game's mechanics. [...]
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With the Season 1 of Guild Wars 2 Pro League coming to a close this week, ArenaNet is now preparing players for the second season of the Guild Wars 2 PvP League coming on February 23. Players participating in Season 2 will encounter a few noticeable changes and improvements over the previous season, not the least of which is improvements [...]
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ArenaNet announced today that Guild Wars 2's inaugural ESL Pro League Finals will be held this Saturday, February 20th, at 4 PM GMT. This event will officially give Guild Wars 2 the honor of being "the first-ever ESL Pro competition for an MMO." The $100,000 pool is simultaneously "one of the richest offered for an ESL Pro tournament" and the [...]
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After just few months of releasing Heart of Thorns for Guild Wars 2, the game’s developers, ArenaNet, are now preparing and working on a new update set to come out by spring 2016. In their recent livestream, developers said that the top priority for the update is to address the unforeseen problems that came out with the expansion. The said [...]
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Guild Wars 2 is getting its own version of the "Christmas sweater" tomorrow thanks to iam8bit. The "peaceful and lovable" Quaggan will be featured on a sweater—available in either red or green—and as a plush wearing the same sweater and a Santa hat. Quaggan himself was quoted as saying "coo!" about the announcement. These will be available at 10 AM [...]
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It's been about a week since the launch of Guild Wars 2's first major expansion, Heart of Thorns. You know what that means. It's time for ArenaNet to tell us what's next! In a blog post that went out today, they do exactly that. Polish is a bit of a given, but what else is planned? At about mid-November, they [...]
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Recently Expanded Fantasy MMORPG, Guild Wars 2, has announced brand new stock available at the Black Lion Trading Company. All new improvised weapon skins have been added for the environmentally aware players, made of 100% recycled materials they're sure to show other players that you care! Those that want to take more of a walk on the Vampiric or Demonic [...]
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Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns has officially launched. For those that don't remember, the expansion brings in Masteries, Guild Halls, Raids, "a new chapter in the Personal Story saga," and the new Maguuma Jungle zone. A new PvP mode called Stronghold and PvP Leagues are also being introduced in this expansion. It can be purchased now via the official [...]
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ArenaNet's upcoming expansion for Guild Wars 2, Heart of Thorns, has revealed a new feature expansion: Action Camera Mode. According to the article on the official website, Action Camera mode draws inspiration from shooters, single-player first person RPGs and other MMOs (take TERA for example). The goal of the new mode is to enter the action RPG space, and to [...]
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Recently Free-to-Play MMORPG, Guild Wars 2, has detailed changes to liquid experience in preparation for their upcoming Heart of Thorns expansion. The game's liquid world experience consumables, which have been obtained through WvW campaigns, are going to be converted into 50% world experience boosters. This change has the intent of leveling the playing field for the upcoming expansion so that [...]
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