Guild Wars 2

Hello and welcome to GamesRadar’s weekend giveaway. This week, we have a terribly cuddly plushie for Guild Wars fans. The fiery beasts will be playable in Guild Wars 2 – and to celebrate, ArenaNet and NCsoft have tamed the fierce warrior, shrinking it down to a more loveable and smooshable form. This limited edition snuggle bomb is currently on sale at the Penny Arcade store, but you can enter now for a chance to win this one, right here. Come on in to find out how to win!...

Going from dark horse to multi-million seller, Guild Wars has been the Cinderella story of the MMO world, battling against the heavyweights of WoW and EverQuest II for supremacy - and holding its own. Art director Daniel Dociu certainly has got a lot to do with this success. Weve cornered him to find out more about how the look and styles of Guild Wars, and the new expansion pack Eye of the North, came about. All the while wondering where weve seen that face

Guild Wars' heavily instanced-based nature and subscription-free model raised more than a few questioning eyebrows when the MMORPG was initially unveiled, but the game went on to prove itself and ArenaNet's design philosophy reap reward. Now the developer is expanding the Guild Wars horizon and is working on a sequel, and its foremost goal with Guild Wars 2, it says, is "to make it the ultimate Guild Wars for Guild Wars fans." We spoke to ArenaNet founder Jeff Strain and Guild Wars lead