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Leaderboard: Does Guild Wars 2 need another expansion?
If you've followed NCsoft's quarterly investor reports for the last many years, you've probably seen dozens graphs of Guild Wars 2's revenues and the...
Guild Wars 2’s Living World magazine teases Bound with Blood, hardmode episode encounters
If you're old enough, you remember back when there were multiple competing video game magazines, and most of them would gladly run multi-page spreads...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we saw (and what we didn’t) in Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga announcement event
This past weekend’s announcement of Guild Wars 2’s continuation of the Living World story, entitled The Icebrood Saga, was met with all of the...
Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2’s best PvP mode isn’t what you think it is – it’s minigames
One could certainly argue that Guild Wars 2’s primary focus is that of a PvE, story driven game. Hell, I’d make that argument. Yet,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Living World is a barrier to entry
I have really liked Guild Wars 2’s story in the last few years. Quite honestly, I wasn’t crazy about a lot of the base...
Flameseeker Chronicles: A guide to Guild Wars 2’s revivified Dragon Bash
Dragon Bash is an event that first ran in Guild Wars 2 in 2013, less than a year after the game launched. It was...
Massively Overthinking: The worst MMO cash shop trickery
Last week, games psychologist Jamie Madigan tweeted an underrated comment about how psychological tricks used in restaurant menu design are also found in video...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Speculation on Guild Wars 2’s gods and dragons
Let's just note upfront that this edition of Flameseeker Chronicles will have lots of Guild Wars 2 spoilers, including but not limited to the recent Living World S3E6 War Eternal. Also, wild speculation that may well be completely wrong. You have been warned!
Flameseeker Chronicles: Why Guild Wars 2 has my favorite flying mounts
When Guild Wars 2 announced that the central mechanic of its Path of Fire expansion was going to be mounts, a lot of people...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s War Eternal
After playing through Guild Wars 2's new Living World episode, War Eternal, which is live today, I am still speechless. This is, in my...
Guild Wars 2’s War Eternal living story episode launches May 14 – here’s the trailer!
ArenaNet has this morning announced that the final episode for Guild Wars 2's fourth season of living story content, War Eternal, will officially launch...
Today’s your last day to grab Guild Wars 2’s A Star to Guide Us for free
As we approach the final episode of the current Guild Wars 2 living world story, ArenaNet has been providing the earlier episodes of the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: A PvE carebear’s guide to Guild Wars 2 WvW and the Warclaw
By now, you’ve probably seen this hulking, armored cat bounding around Tyria. No, not my Charr warrior; I mean Guild Wars 2's new Warclaw...
Guild Wars 2’s S4E3 A Star to Guide Us is free in the cash shop tomorrow as the welcome back promo rolls on
We're barreling on toward the end of Guild Wars 2's fourth living story season with the War Eternal episode launching... well, we don't know...
Guild Wars 2: Dragon mounts in War Eternal, living world mini-event, Ritualist outfit datamining, and new short story
Guild Wars 2 is getting yet another mount: the Skyscale.
As detailed by Eurogamer today, what sets this particular dragon (yes, sorry everyone, it's a...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Stories Guild Wars 2 could tell without dragons
Thus far, Guild Wars 2’s story has revolved largely around the six elder dragons. The base game’s personal story crescendoed with the slaying of...
Guild Wars 2 begins return-to-Tyria initiative with free episode and big Path of Fire sale
At the end of last week, ArenaNet announced its plans for a new five-week Guild Wars 2 initiative that's intended to bring players back...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Fear not this night – there is hope for Guild Wars 2’s future
The last two weeks of February were devastating to the Guild Wars 2 community. Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet announced the layoffs of nearly...
Guild Wars 2 is releasing a new cat mount – but only through world vs. world PvP
Guild Wars 2 WvWvW players, today is finally your day to crow. Or growl. It's more like a growl, yeah. That's because the game's...
The Stream Team: Going on Guild Wars 2 adventures
Now that Massively OP's MJ finally has her bunny mount, she can hop into more adventure in Guild Wars 2. And it's adventure time!...