In a letter published with permission by IGN, former Blizzard developer and co-founder of Guild Wars 2 developer Jeff Strain is calling for unionization within the games industry. The letter, which Strain also sent to employees at his new venture, sees the games industry executive state that he has "nothing to fear" from unionization.
While End of Dragons, the upcoming expansion for Guild Wars 2, was delayed into 2022, it isn't stopping ArenaNet from handing out Living World story episodes to get players prepared. This week sees "Rising Flames" get the tab, as it'll be free between July 6th through July 11th.
News out of ArenaNet today as the MMO studio has announced it will be moving the next expansion for Guild Wars 2, End of Dragons, out of 2021 and into 2022.
The next two episodes in the free-Living World campaign ArenaNet is running are now available to be claimed, as Seeds of Truth and Point of No Return are available to Guild Wars 2 players.
Previously we reported the tragic passing of Guild Wars 2 composer Stan LePard, that has been remembered in the game with a memorial in his honor. Guild Wars 2 composer Maclaine Diemer, and ArenaNets audio director, Drew Cady answered a few questions of ours about Stan, and how he will be remembered among their team.
Back in February video game composer Stan LePard, who worked on titles like Halo, Fable, Age of Empires and Guild Wars 2, among many others, tragically passed away. The team at ArenaNet today announced they were memorializing LePard in an in-game memorial for players to enjoy his work and celebrate his life.
Throughout 2020 one of the things Robin struggled with was my waning desire to play Guild Wars 2. However, it seems that lull might be over, as Robin has rediscovered her love for Guild Wars 2.
It's been 18 months since Guild Wars 2's Icebrood Saga has begun, and now, the climactic conclusion of more than a year of cataclysmic dragon-based danger is finally here. Does The Icebrood Saga: Judgement deliver as the climax of the war against the Elder Dragons?
Robin had a chance to give the next chapter in the Icebrood Saga a spin. Guild Wars 2: Icebrood Saga Champions Chapter 3: Balance (what a name) is live today and here's what Robin thinks so far of the upcoming content.
In a post on the forums from ArenNet, the team would gladly like to inform players that server lag has been greatly reduced in Guild Wars 2 since their December 15th patch that was meant to decrease the severity of performance issue that many players experience.
In some somewhat sad news, Guild Wars 2 Game Designer, Keaven Freeman, announced on his blog that he is departing ArenaNet.
After a nice break with Wintersday,Robin is all set to pick up the next chapter in Guild Wars 2's Icebrood Saga. The first chapter of episode 5 was a "setting the pieces on the board" episode, which can be interesting, but is often not very exciting. Check out Robin's thoughts on Chapter 2.
In the latest comment from ArenaNet, the latency issues that players have been experiencing have been acknowledged as - still ongoing. With that, the team is happy to announce encouraging signs of their efforts to minimize these performance issues, and plan to push out new performance updates in the next several weeks.
Can you hear that? It sounds like the voices of Tyria have spoken, quite literally, as tomorrow marks the day where the delayed voice acting for the previous content updates for Guild Wars 2, No Quarter and Jormag Rising, will finally be implemented in game. It also marks the release of the next chapter of The Icebrood Saga: Champions -known as Truce, will drop.
 Today Guild Wars 2 has released a video, along with the release date of their final arc for the Icebrood Saga. As the battle with Jormag wanes, the elder dragon Primordus's influence rises and the new update will introduce players to new masteries, challenges and factions.