Our latest coverage of Guild Wars 2.
Guild Wars 2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary by launching on Steam on August 23. This will be the 1st time it will be available on a third party platform and should help expand the game's audience. The core Guild Wars 2 experience is free to play, but it's more of a free trial as the expansions must be purchased [...]
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Guild Wars 2 is celebrating the final months of summer with the return of its annual Festival of the Four Winds event. Adventurers are invited to take part in the festivities by making their way to the Labyrinthine Cliffs and the Crown Pavilion in Divinity’s Reach where they can participate in the usual array of returning activities, along with new [...]
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ArenaNet will be holding its fourth World vs. World Restructuring beta test next month as outlined in their summer 2022 development roadmap. The next beta test will focus on testing back-end changes and improvements coming to the multi-server PvP game mode, including a new automated internal deployment system. “We hope to test a new internal deployment system that automates many [...]
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The latest episode of Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 1 relaunch is now live and permanently free for all players. As with previously released Season 1 episodes, Episode 3: Clockwork Chaos has been restored and restructured to fit with ArenaNet’s current Living World campaign structure and is now available as a linear questline from the Story Journal. “In the [...]
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ArenaNet has outlined its summer 2022 development roadmap for Guild Wars 2 and its chock full of new content and events for players to enjoy. First up on the list is the return of the next episode of Living World Season 1, Episode 3: Clockwork Chaos. As with previous returning episodes, Episode 3 will be reworked to better tie in [...]
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ArenaNet has rolled out its previously-announced Guild Wars 2 balance update despite the strong push back from the game’s community. And by strong, I mean toxic remarks, calls for developers to be fired, and even death threats. The extremely negative reaction to the update is largely due to ArenaNet’s decision to forego the traditional design notes, that provided in-depth explanations [...]
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The Guild Wars 2 dev team has admitted that they’re keeping a few secrets from players in their latest state of the game update. Don’t worry, the secrets are actually of the good kind and involves better Strike Mission rewards, skill buffs, and core improvements. On Strike Missions, ArenaNet reports that the normal and challenge mode versions have fulfilled their [...]
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The citizens and warriors of Tyria are celebrating their hard-fought battles against the Elder Dragons as the annual Dragon Bash Festival officially kicks off in Guild Wars 2. This year, players will find it easier to collect participation rewards from the Hologram Stampede and gather the required daily zhaitaffy in a single trip. They can also look forward to a [...]
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Guild Wars 2 players eagerly awaiting the opening of the Challenge Mode for the Harvest Temple Strike Mission next week will have to wait a few more weeks as ArenaNet pushes back its release date to June 28th. “We’ve made the decision to delay the release of the Harvest Temple: Challenge Mode from June 7 to June 28,” said Lead [...]
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Holographic dragons will be making their way back to Tyria next week as Guild Wars 2 welcomes the summer with the annual Dragon Bash event. The seasonal event commemorates the ongoing battle against the Elder Dragons and will feature the usual array of activities and mini-games. “Celebrate your victories, remember those lost to the battle against the Elder Dragons, and [...]
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