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Guild Wars 2 introduces prenaming

Naming Rights

What’s in a name? For MMO players, lots. That’s why ArenaNet is making it super-easy to reserve your Guild Wars character name(s) in Guild Wars 2. As outlined in a blog post, ArenaNet will build a list of Guild Wars names from all active accounts, [...]
Guild Wars 2 NPC Inspired By Player's Cross-Country Walk

Epic Journey

If you’ve ever wondered how footsore your MMO character might be after trudging through miles and miles of a game world, just ask Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 fan Kelly Wells. Wells’ story is detailed in the latest ArenaNet blog post, which [...]
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Perfection On Hold

Guild Wars 2 is perfect. OK, that’s not entirely true. Nothing is perfect. Well, maybe Kate Upton is. But there’s one niggling detail about Guild Wars 2 that we’re all hoping will work out right, though none of us can know for sure. [...]
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Guild Wars 2 Beta Client Released

It’s the news many have been hitting their F5 keys repeatedly for. ArenaNet has begun sending out emails giving instructions on how to get the client for the upcoming Guild Wars 2 beta weekend event. Excited fans have already started downloading [...]
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Out For Number One

Will Guild Wars 2 be the “WoW killer”? Maybe, maybe not. But could it be the “WoW surpasser”? That’s what ArenaNet head honcho Mike O’Brien thinks, saying in a recent interview with Forbes that “We were number [...]
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GUILD WARS Exclusive: All Weekend Events Active In The 7 Year Celebration!

Thought you were just playing Guild Wars 2 this weekend? The big news we’re breaking now is that the bonuses for previous weekend events are available during the current Guild Wars anniversary celebration. It has been confirmed by ArenaNet – [...]
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Guild Wars Cosplayed

Anime, video game characters, pop stars: we got ‘em all! Each and every week we highlight some of the best Cosplay pics around. Today we have an all Guild Wars edition…enjoy     /* Prev|Next
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A Guardian’s Tale: Part Four

My kingdom for a fire extinguisher. Last time on A Guardian’s Tale I took you on a stroll through one of the many events in Guild Wars 2. In this episode, we begin the personal story of the human character which is influenced by the choices made [...]
Guild Wars 2 6 Lessons To Prepare

Prepare For War

Hands up everyone who is waiting for Guild Wars 2. Ok, now hands up  if you have ever played WoW or any other MMOs. I see a lot of people with both hands in the air. Being a WoW player of seven years – and EverQuest among other games for another five [...]
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Giant Steps

What are you laying money out on this week? I think I might have an idea. ArenaNet may not have had their own singular presence at PAX this past weekend, but Guild Wars 2 was certainly in evidence. After the MMORPG.com “Future of Online Games” [...]
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Full Disclosure

ArenaNet fielded a bunch of Guild Wars 2 questions via Twitter yesterday as part of EU Fan Day. But you don’t have to be European to soak up the answers, which Guild Wars Insider has helpfully compiled here. Good thing too — my passport’s [...]
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Community Support

Some Guild Wars 2 fans were a tiny bit put off by Martin Kerstein‘s post about community from a couple of weeks ago. Rest assured, just because they’re implementing their own community site, ArenaNet doesn’t have designs on replacing [...]