Guild Wars 2 Articles

According to an announcement released by NCsoft today, Guild Wars is finally getting the novel treatment. Ghosts of Ascalon, which is being written by acclaimed authors Jeff Grubb and Matt Forbeck, will be the first novel based on the Guild Wars IP, and will serve to bridge the 250 year gap between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.

"The Voices of Tyria" is the latest trailer for the follow up to ArenaNet's successful Guild Wars MMORPG, Guild Wars 2. In "The Voices of Tyria" we are treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the game's voice officer process as told through the voice actors themselves.

On the heels of their new Guild Wars 2 Races video, MMORPG.com's Garrett Fuller spoke with Ree Soesbee, Eric Flannum and Dave Beetlestone about everything from the races video to the game world.

Recently, MMORPG.com's Garrett Fuller Spoke with some of the developers of Guild Wars 2 about their upcoming game.

This latest trailer for Guild Wars 2 explores the world of Tyria through the eyes of the five playable races in the game: the resilient Humans, the war-mongering Charr, the inventors known as the Asura, the shapeshifting Norn, and an entirely new nature spirit race, the Sylvari.

The team working on NCSoft's upcoming MMO Guild Wars 2 have released a new video and Q&A regarding the races in the follow-up to the popular original game.

NCsoft CEO Jaeho Lee made reference to the possibility of a 2010 beta, and subsequent 2011 launch for Guild Wars 2 in a recent conference call to investors, stating, "I believe there will be certain public events in the year 2010... at least a closed beta test for those titles. Commercialization will be expected, at this point, probably some time in the year 2011."

World PvP in Guild Wars 2 will make use of some RTS elements according to information gleaned from a translated Dutch magazine article on Guild Wars 2, dug up by the folks over at Kill Ten Rats.

The drool-worthy 128 page Guild Wars 2 hardbound artbook is now available for sale in the US at the Penny Arcade store, or at the official NCsoft Merchandise Store for European customers, but there is a bit of a catch. For those of you out there who are holding off on dropping the 30 bones for the new art book separately, expecting it to be included as part of the Collector's Edition, well, it won't be.

MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh was at this year's Penny Arcade Expo. While there, she spoke with Mike O'Brien and Daniel Dociu about their upcoming MMORPG, Guild Wars 2.

MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh was at this year's Penny Arcade Expo. While there, she spoke with Mike O'Brien and Daniel Dociu about their upcoming MMORPG, Guild Wars 2.

NCsoft is prepping a 128 page hardbound art book featuring a mountain of Guild Wars 2 concept art. With such little information currently available on the game, this can only be considered a serious tease!