Guild Wars 2 Archives

Former ArenaNet game developers raise $3.3 million for Tenacious Entertainment

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 7, 2019
2 min

Mobile gaming studio Tenacious Entertainment, created by former ArenaNet developers, has raised $3.3 million. The Bellevue, Washington-based studio was founded last year by CEO...

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Guild Wars 2 is going to continue as is.

ArenaNet confirms that it is laying off staff

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 22, 2019
2 min

Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet is cutting an unspecified number of jobs. The company confirmed the layoffs and said it has...

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Game devs have three choices interacting online: be a robot, log off — or risk the mob

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 18, 2018
8 min

I remember when I first went online as the representative of a big company. It was 2001, and I was working in the digital...

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The DeanBeat: ArenaNet’s disaster sends shock waves into gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 13, 2018
5 min

I was on vacation last week, hanging out with my extended family and playing a few games on my aging iPhone 6, my Nintendo...

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Gaming’s future is and has always been massively multiplayer

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 9, 2017
4 min

It’s the end of 2017 and World of Warcraft still dominates the western hemisphere as the most popular massively multiplayer role-playing game on the...

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Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire designer explains why their mounts stand out in the MMO crowd

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 29, 2017
3 min

Guild Wars 2 is finally getting mounts when the massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s second expansion, Path of Fire, comes out for PC on...

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Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire takes a different approach to the loyal mount

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 29, 2017
1 min

Mounts are something of a tradition in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), so it’s a bit surprising that Guild Wars 2, which has...

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ArenaNet makes Guild Wars 2 free as it preps paid Heart of Thorns expansion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 29, 2015
3 min

Confirming rumors, ArenaNet announced today that the Guild Wars 2 core online game is going to be available for free, starting today. At the...

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10 games that couldn’t kill World of Warcraft

Posted byby Mike Minotti
November 26, 2014
6 min

We look at 10 MMOs that couldn't come close to beating World of Warcraft during it's decade of dominance.

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WildStar preorder early access starts Saturday 5/31/14

WildStar publisher NCSoft slashes jobs at it Western studios

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 23, 2014
1 min

The company confirmed the layoffs, and it explained that they were necessary so that it could pursue a “new strategy.” This restructuring affected all of the publisher’s Western operations except for Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet. WildStar developer Carbine was hardest hit, according to a Polygon report.

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