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NCsoft reveals Halloween events for six games (News)

Oct 21, 2009

Gamer Limit writes "As October starts coming to a close, one thing tends to be on every one's mind, Halloween. This spooky holiday also seems to have NCsoft captivated . The developer/producer is planning Halloween themed events across all six of its active Western titles."

NCsoft Reveal Cross-Game Promotion (News)

Aug 26, 2009

GamersDigest writes;

"In anticipation of the launch of this year's biggest massively multiplayer online (MMO) release, Aion, NCsoft announced an exclusive cross promotion today giving players the ability to call upon the Aion wings emote within the Guild Wars family of games."

Rumor: Guild Wars 2 trailer next week? Website is up as well. (News)

Aug 17, 2009

From the official Guild Wars Wiki.

"User talk:Mike O'Brien
Exciting week

Hey all,
Last week I promised you'd get your first glimpse of Guild Wars 2 "very soon now". That day is almost here.
I want to thank all our fans for their patience as we developed the game to the point where we can start talking about it publically. I know you've all been anxiously awaiting this moment. You'll soon understand how ambitious we've been and what we've accomplished during these past two years of development. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but from here on out we'll be able to provide you with more regular updates.
Guild Wars 2 is going to be a huge leap beyond the original. We have the best team in the industry executing at the top of their game, and I'm very proud of what our team has accomplished so far. As I said last week, I'm confident that when you get your first look at what we've been working on, you're going to love what you see. Stay tuned for an exciting week ahead."

Guild Wars Dev Update: PvE and PvP Skill Balance (News)

Aug 8, 2009

While there wasn't a proper skills update last month in Guild Wars, the one prior to that did a lot to improve underpowered skills for the Ritualist and Paragon professions. For August's update, which is now live, the Arenanet dev team opted to continue their assault on weak abilities.

Guild Wars Dragon Festival Offers a Good Time (News)

Jul 3, 2009

If you're one of the many Guild Wars players out there, you're probably well aware of the festival that occurs right around this time each year. If, like some others, you have Guild Wars - probably even installed on your machine, but haven't logged in for a little while - then now is the time to head back in-game! Why? Because it's time for the Shing Jea Boardwalk to reappear, heralding the opening of the annual Dragon Festival.

Guild Wars Update: June 18th (News)

Jun 19, 2009

In a major skill update, Anet has decided to nerf the powerful Cry of Pain mesmer skill and completely overhaul the Ritualist and Paragon classes.

Steam Drops MMO Prices This Weekend (News)

Jun 12, 2009

Steam has marked down MMORPGs from 20-75% off. Not only that, but they still come with a free month of play, meaning trying out games like Age of Conan and Everquest II will only cost about $10.

Guild Wars gets major update (News)

May 23, 2009

ArenaNet's MMORPG Guild Wars has received a large patch bringing a myriad of PvP and PvE skill updates to the game.

Guild Wars Celebrates Their Fourth Year in Style (News)

Apr 25, 2009

This Tuesday, April 28th, Guild Wars will be turning 4 years old. In true ArenaNet fashion, the game has kicked off an epic event that will last until Noon on April 29th.

Guild Wars, Franchise Surpasses 6 Million Units Sold (News)

Apr 24, 2009

Ve3tro writes: "NCsoft today announced that on the cusp of its fourth anniversary, the Guild Wars franchise has exceeded six million units sold. Guild Wars is the award-winning and genre-defining series that is one of the most popular and successful online role-playing games in the industry.

To commemorate these milestones, ArenaNet has just released a major content update, including new quest content and extra storage options. Additional in-game birthday festivities will be available starting on April 28th, the official anniversary of the game."

NCsoft Titles Now on Steam (News)

Apr 22, 2009

GamingShogun.com writes: "NCsoft has announced that it is releasing its product lineup on Valve's Steam platform today. These titles include Lineage, City of Heroes, and Guild Wars.

Official Release:
NCsoft ®, the world's premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), and Valve Corporation, a developer of leading-edge technologies software, today announced that NCsoft's award-winning catalog of MMO franchises is now available..."

Guild Wars: New Anniversary Content Preview (News)

Apr 15, 2009

Arenanet has revealed new content that Guild Wars players can expect to see in the upcoming fourth birthday celebrations.

28 April is the official fourth birthday of Guild Wars, and in addition to the usual annual events including Birthday Cupcakes, the Shing Jea Boardwalk and fourth year miniatures, players can look forward to a number or extra goodies including new storage options, new daily quests and a new area where players can purchase a selection of common and prestige pets.

Two screenshots and a video have also been released to give players a look at the new area, the Zaishen Menagerie.

Guild Wars celebrates 4th year anniversary with gifts, games (News)

Apr 11, 2009

The Guild Wars official site has been updated in preparation of the game's fourth anniversary taking place on April 28th. ArenaNet will celebrate by re-opening the Boardwalk area and handing out some nice goodies for players.

NCsoft Europe hiring after massive layoffs (News)

Mar 23, 2009

Massively:

"Brighton, U.K., based NCsoft Europe is hiring people to fill five positions just a month after cutting 70 jobs in a move representatives from the company called a transition to "have a stronger focus in marketing in sales." The new openings seem to confirm NCsoft EU's new direction, as all five jobs are either in or related to marketing."

Spend your weekend partying with Guild Wars (News)

Mar 23, 2009

Massively:

"If you're looking for some in-game fun this weekend, look no further than the Guild Wars community. Join Monk of Kindness and Scions of Carver for a community party celebrating an early Easter and 4-year anniversary for the ArenaNet game. Events include a costume contest, trivia contest, screenshot competition, scavenger hunt and a special lottery to win in-game prizes."

Guild Wars Game Update (News)

Feb 7, 2009

The latest game update has been applied to Guild Wars servers. Zaishen Rewards have been updates as well as the usual bug fixes, skill updates and balancing.

Guild Wars announces plans for 2009 (News)

Jan 16, 2009

The team at Guild Wars has just released their newest developer update, which explains ArenaNet's plans with the game throughout 2009. This was something that was alluded to in community manager Regina Buenaobra's wiki journal last week, and speculated upon in the major Guild Wars forums. Now the word is out, and it seems promising for the majority of Guild Wars fans.

MMORPGs getting Sued (News)

Dec 30, 2008

Worlds.com filed suit against NCSoft for copyright infringement on Christmas Eve. Two patents filed in 2000 by Worlds.com involving scalable chat and enabling users to interact with each other in virtual space are all infringed upon by NCSoft's games(Including City of Heroes, Aion, Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars, etc).

Guild Wars Halloween 2008: Join The Mad King's Revel (News)

Oct 18, 2008

Celebrating what is now the fourth annual Guild Wars Halloween event, ArenaNet has just announced the return of the Mad King and his cheesy sense of humor. Guild Wars players can rejoice in the fact that this event will bring with it the best features of the previous years, including the popular Costume Brawl which was first introduced during last year's event.

While decorations for the event will begin on October 23rd in Lion's Arch and Kamadan, the event officially begins on October 24th and runs through November 2nd. There will be tricks and treats available as rewards for each event, and the Mad King himself will make his appearance every three hours on October 31st to tell jokes, play some Mad King Says and literally slay the audience.

"Disgruntled ArenaNet employee" blogger finally admits it was a hoax (News)

Sep 14, 2008

Massively: "If you're a long time fan of Guild Wars, or you're just finely-tuned into the realm of MMO news as any good Massively reader should be, you may remember some controversy that erupted last year regarding a blog that claimed to be written by a disgruntled former employee of ArenaNet. This blog supposedly outed ArenaNet for working with gold farmers in some elaborate scheme to make the company more money, undercut the dedicated player-base and massacre hundreds of thousands of small fluffy bunnies. Okay, we may have exaggerated a bit on that last one."

Guild Wars Dev Update - 10 September 2008 (News)

Sep 12, 2008

Yesterday's skill balance and update for Guild Wars brought with it some large changes for arguably overpowered skills, bug fixes and the addition of the newest Zaishen Reward tonic for September. Despite the creepy appearance of that new Macabre Tonic creature, the main topic on everyone's mind is the change to the Unyielding Aura Elite skill.

This skill had previously been the cornerstone for what's known as Ghost Running, where players could take advantage of what could best be described as an exploit. This also worked for many popular farming runs as well. With this new patch, Unyielding Aura now only works "within spell casting range", eliminating the way characters could rez from across the map. Of course many players don't like this fix, but as any veteran Guild Wars player knows, it doesn't take ArenaNet long to remedy unbalanced skills.

Guild Wars Serves Up Bonus Golem and Fire Imp (News)

Sep 5, 2008

GuildWars.com: "To celebrate the release of Guild Wars Trilogy and a new 2008 version of Guild Wars Game of the Year Edition, we're adding two new allied NPCs to the mix: M.O.X. the golem hero and the Fire Imp combat ally."

Major Guild Wars update drastically changes GvG (News)

Aug 9, 2008

Guild Wars players have been anxiously awaiting this large skill balance for a long time, but many weren't expecting this much of a change. Not only have many key skills been buffed, but the nerfing of Ursan Blessing has finally happened. Plus, Guild versus Guild battles have been drastically changed. As with any gameplay changes, there are those who love it, and those who hate it.

NCsoft announces new MMO "starter packs" (News)

May 14, 2008

NCsoft has announced the release of "starter packs" - a new range of retail products for its major MMO franchise titles, including City of Heroes, City of Villains, Guild Wars and Lineage II.

These "starter packs" will be sold at retailers for GBP 1.99 and will provide a game and a two week subscription intended as an introduction to MMORPGs. Consumers who decide they want the full game can then return to the retailer and purchase the whole product.

No micro-transactions for Guild Wars (News)

Apr 21, 2008

NCsoft has told Eurogamer that it has no plans to force its freshly-invented NCcoin system into MMOs with an incompatible business model, like Guild Wars.

NCcoins are paid for with real money and let you buy special items and equipment. Currently they're only available in MMO Exteel, but the publisher is looking to include it in as many other games as possible.

Guild Wars Design-A-Weapon Contest Winners Announcement (News)

Mar 8, 2008

Guild Wars' 2007 Design-A-Weapon Contest has concluded, and ArenaNet has selected eleven winners and fourteen Honorable Mentions for the contest.

The winners' submissions will serve as the basis for new items that will be added to Guild Wars in the upcoming months. It is possible that the Honorable Mentions may also become items in the future.

Because the quality of the entries was so high, ArenaNet has decided to change the prize schedule to properly reward the huge number of excellent entries it received. See the official contest site for details.

You can check out a full gallery of the top submissions and amazing weapon concepts at the contest page.

NCsoft ties up Russian distribution deal (News)

Feb 27, 2008

NCsoft has inked deals with three Russian firms to distribute its MMO products in the region.

Noviy Disk will bring boxed copies of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa to Russia, while Netville and Yandex have secured digital rights to a number of titles including Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne, City of Heroes and the Guild Wars franchise.

"We are delighted to be working with such respected and commercially successful partners, as Noviy Disk, Netville and Yandex," commented Max Brown, sales and operations director of NCsoft Europe.

Guild Wars joins the 5 million sold club (News)

Feb 26, 2008

The Guild Wars franchise - consisting of Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions, Guild Wars Nightfall, and Guild Wars: Eye of the North - has reached the 5 million units sold mark in Europe, North America, and Asia. The first game was released in '05, so the 5mil mark was reached within three years.

Guild Wars Bonus Mission Pack Available Now (News)

Jan 29, 2008

Guild Wars Bonus Mission Pack, a package which includes four new missions, is now available for $9.99 / €8.99 / £5.99, ArenaNet announced. With this Bonus Mission Pack, Guild Wars players will discover how the White Mantle rose to power in Kryta, and what became of Gwen after the Charr invaded her home and the Searing destroyed everything she'd ever known.

The art of Guild Wars (Feature)

Jan 24, 2008

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 ...

Kiddie Porn & Abuse Surrounding MMO Gold Selling (News)

Nov 16, 2007

Most MMO players know the story of IGE and Affinity Media by now, (the owners of WoWhead, Allakhazam, Thottbot and WoWinterface), and their relationship. A really interesting article popped up on Radar Online today which highlights some of the dodgy characters that are involved in the Affinity Media business which had claimed to have no involvement with IGE. Brock Pierce who is an advisor and a board member of Affinity Media, is highlighted in the above article and I have to say there's some pretty unsavoury stuff here pointing at child abuse. This has been brought up before regarding Brock Pierce who has apparently denied charges but there are filed legal cases which he has tried to settle.

In related news, there has been paperwork filed this week where IGE admits that it is Affinity Media (see additional link). Not that anyone doubted it. Next time you hit up an Affinity Media site, just think about who you are supporting and who's pockets your traffic is lining with cash.

Free Guild Wars pet with issue 1 of free MMO magazine (News)

Oct 17, 2007

Issue 1 of MMOZine is out, and it includes a free Guild Wars pet for every reader, plus a chance to win a unique World of Warcraft mount, as well as previews, reviews and tutorials.

School shooter played less violent Guild Wars, not Halo 3 (News)

Oct 12, 2007

A classmate of the 14-year Cleveland school shooter said that the gunman played the Teen-rated game Guild Wars and specifically did not play Halo 3.

Jack Thompson, take note: Guild Wars is a bloodless MMORPG. So, yes, Asa Coon did game. Yes, he did listen to Marilyn Manson music. He even wore a Manson t-shirt and black fingernail polish when he walked into school with his .38-calibre revolvers. But, there is no way that you can blame this on Halo or video game violence. Not this time.

See the CNN Interview quotes on UGO.com.

Xfire shows off their latest Xstatics - August 2007 (News)

Sep 18, 2007

Xfire also produce a gaming-oriented IM client that lets you see what games your friends are playing, chat with them in or out of game, and join them in whatever game they might be playing. This little application allows Xfire to compile some interesting data about the games people are playing and Â¿ while their data doesn't include every last gamer Â¿ with over 8 million users in 700 different games, they have a broad sampling size.

I have a penis too (Feature)

Sep 10, 2007

You'd think that the whole guys playing as girls phenomenon that leads to flirting confusion wouldn't be an issue anymore. After all, stories of shame are posted all over the internet. But we still find ourselves getting groped on a regular basis. And yes, we still find it hilarious. We've collected our favorite encounters with sexually frustrated gamers barking up the wrong tree. The stories are real, but all names are made up to protect those involved from dying from plus 10 piercing damage ...

Play all three Guild Wars for free! (News)

May 18, 2007

Friday 18 May 2007 Want to play one of the world's greatest MMOs? But not sure if it'll suit your tastes? Well, why not just pick up one of three free trials of Guild Wars, available in the coming weeks from magazines PC Gamer, PC Zone and PC Format. Each mag will offer a 14 day trial of one of Guild Wars' three campaigns. Next week, you can pick up PC Zone and play Guild Wars Nightfall, while on Thursday 7 June you can choose from Guild Wars Prophecies with PC Gamer or Guild Wars Factions ...

Guild Wars turns two (News)

Apr 27, 2007

We hope you've got your gift shopping done, April 28 is the two-year anniversary of the release of Guild Wars - That's right, Guild Wars is turning two, so it's time for a party. With over 3.5 million copies sold and three campaigns released in the last two years, Guild Wars players have a lot to celebrate. The party will be open to players of the original campaign, Nightfall and ...

Guild Girls Gone Wild (Feature)

Apr 18, 2007

Right now, players around the world are dancing... naked. Whether it's WoW, EverQuest, or Guild Wars, most MMOs show your character in their underwear after you remove all of their equipment. Combine a near nude avatar with an animated dance emote - commonly activated by typing "/dance" - and you have yourself a naked dancer. There's something about taking off all your clothes that's irresistible to many MMO players. Go into a major town in almost any game and you're bound to see a fair share ...

Guild Wars - MMOORGY 04-18-07 (Video)

Apr 18, 2007

Guild Wars (Screenshots)

Apr 18, 2007

Guild Wars 2 (Preview)

Apr 9, 2007

Its 100 years later in the world of Tyria, in the kingdoms of Ascalon and Kryta - the original Guild Wars: Prophecies setting. The same key tenets of gameplay remain in place, but much has changed alongside the ever more sparkly graphics; not least that everything seems… well… persistent. Up until the advent of the sequel, when you ventured outside a settlement there wasnt much chance of bumping into a friend. No chance actually - you and your party would meet up, then fight ...

Guild Wars 2 ditching campaign format (News)

Mar 21, 2007

Information on Guild Wars 2 has appeared in the forums of a website called Guild Wars Guru, taken from the May issue of PC Gamer which has extensive coverage on ArenaNet's MMOG series. The lengthy post reveals a considerable amount, including the fact that ArenaNet is ditching the campaign format of Guild Wars for the sequel and that a Guild Wars 2 beta is expected to begin in 2008. It's mentioned the sequel will be set "Hundreds of years later, in Tyria," and that what are termed ...

Details on next Guild Wars chapter spilled (News)

Mar 6, 2007

The next chapter in NCSoft's and ArenaNet's Guild Wars MMOG series is named Eye of the North and is due for release in Q3 this year, it's being reported. According to The Inquirer, Eye of the North is targeted at max-level characters and features "18 new multi-level dungeons, 40 new armor sets, 10 new Heroes and a massive 150 new skills, out of which 50 belong only to ...

Guild Wars (Review)

Nov 30, 2006

By cutting out all the fat, Guild Wars distills the best elements from the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game genre and presents you with a flexible character creation system, an epic set of story missions and robust PvP modes minus the monthly fee. If youve been curious about MMORPGs like World of Warcraft but balk at the monthly fees and time sinks associated with them, then Guild Wars offers a fun and fast paced alternative with lots to offer for both hardcore gamers and casual ...

NCSoft announces Guild Wars: Factions expansion (News)

Jan 31, 2006

BELLEVUE, Wash. — On Jan. 10, online-game giant NCSoft announced the upcoming release of Guild Wars: Factions, an add-on campaign for the massively multiplayer online game Guild Wars. Promising new regions, monsters, professions and other additions, Factions is slated to arrive in spring. In the meantime, players who want to get an early look at the expansion can preview it from Jan. 20-22. Open to non-members as well as current players, the Free For All PvP Weekend will let players ...

Guild Wars Titles Guide (FAQ)

May 14, 2008

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Invincible HOGS (Cheat)

Jan 8, 2007

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First Person Mode (Hint)

Jan 8, 2007