Official Site:Â Guild Wars
Studio:Â NCsoft
Launch Date: April 26, 2005
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Matthew Medina returns to Guild Wars 2 as senior content designer
Considering the rash of worrying employee departure news that's been hitting Guild Wars 2 fans recently, a bit of good news is likely going...
Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny and VP of Marketing Mike Silbowitz left ArenaNet
We've updated this post at the end with confirmation of the Mike Z departure.
We hate to rain on the "wheee Guild Wars 2 is...
The Daily Grind: What are you hoping for out of Guild Wars 2’s Cantha-ish expansion?
I try not to get excessively overhyped about things in MMOs, especially things probably a year and a half or more away, but I...
Guild Wars 2 just announced its third expansion, and it looks like Cantha
Not only did Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet just drop another preview of upcoming content, exactly what fans have been begging for, but it...
Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales
Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 262: Holly Holly oxen free
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's Holly Longdale's departure, City of Heroes' Homecoming video ban, PlanetSide 2's Escalation, Black Desert's birthday, Cryptic's chat nuke, Guild Wars 2's next episode, changing MMO opinions, and MMO automation, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends.
Guild Wars 2 dev blog teases Steel and Fire’s storyline – and the Eye of the North
ArenaNet has just one week to go before the latest entry in the current Saga, Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire, hits the...
Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
Guild Wars 2’s Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire content lands March 17 – here’s the trailer
During PAX East this year, Guild Wars 2 may not have been granting interviews or talking to media about the state of the game,...
PAX East 2020: Guild Wars 2 teases Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire video
Blink and you'll miss it: Guild Wars 2's next big thing just got teased at the tail end of a PAX promo post, complete...
Desert Oasis: Understanding Black Desert’s Black Spirit
When Black Desert first released stateside back in 2016, I wasn't interested. At the time, I was deeply invested in running Guild Wars 2's fractals,...
Guild Wars 2’s Call to Glory balancing update and newbie onboarding patch have arrived
Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 players. Time to test out your nerfs and buffs in the flesh. The pixel flesh. You know what...
The Daily Grind: What untapped folklore would you like to see more of in MMOs?
A week or two ago, I got a random PR in my inbox about Operencia: The Stolen Sun, a game we will probably never...
Jukebox Heroes: Ten MMOs that strongly support their soundtracks
It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...
Peek at Guild Wars 2’s notes for next week’s balance patch to see whether you’ve been buffed or nerfed
Is it a proper balance patch if anyone walks away from the list of changes completely happy? ArenaNet is putting that question to the...
Massively Overthinking: How essential are hardcore gamers to an MMO’s health?
Last week, there was a positively eyebrow-raising thread on the Guild Wars 2 subreddit that tied neatly into the overall MMORPG meta discussion many...
Guild Wars 2 eyes new achievement track for onboarding newbies
ArenaNet appears to be continuing its attempts to make Guild Wars 2 palatable to new players - both in terms of content in the...
Guild Wars 2 rehires a former programmer, drops PvP patch and season next week
You know what I don't love? Chronicling how more Guild Wars 2 devs have left the building. So I'm not going to do that....
Flameseeker Chronicles: What Eye of the North means for Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga has so far been filled with plenty of nostalgic callbacks to the original Guild Wars’ Eye of the North...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
