GAMEBREAKER has 20 Guild Wars 2 beta Keys to give out. To enter, just check out this week’s GuildCast and post a comment at the bottom of the page. They have not said how long they will be excepting entries for, so make sure you enter quickly! Best of luck to all!
UPDATE: GameBreaker has just announced they have 500 more Beta Keys up for grabs! Go to the GameBreaker Facebook page for all the details and information (US residents only).
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Want another shot at getting a Guild Wars 2 beta key? Hop over to GW2Guru and enter their fun contest to win 1 of 20 Beta Keys. Entering is simple, just create a short post describing an environmental weapon you’d create. Check out the post for more details on the contest, but make sure you enter by June 1st! Good luck everyone!
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ANet has given Kill Ten Rats (MMO Blogsite) 20 beta keys for the upcoming June 8-10 beta weekend. While these are good only for the upcoming beta weekend it is a chance to get your hands on the game if you have not already done so. If you don’t have a key and want to try out GW2 — next to being a clever Bookah — check them out here for a chance to win.
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MMO Reviews sat down with Eric Flannum to talk PvP, PvE, and WvW. Check the interview here.
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This morning, Stéphane Lo Presti, a Community Manager for ArenaNet, took to the official ArenaNet blog to launch the official German and French wiki pages for Guild Wars 2. You can check out the full article here.
Both of these new wikis are unique and separate from the English version of the Official Guild Wars 2 Wiki; so if you’re a member of the French or German Guild Wars 2 communities and interested in contributing to these individual wikis, be sure to sign up.
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Just after midnight pacific time this morning, Chris Whiteside became a hero to Guild Wars 2 fans announcing on the ArenaNet blog that a new Beta Weekend Event (BWE) would begin at noon pacific on June 8th.
The article has some exciting news about new content that will be available in this BWE:
In addition, Whiteside comments that many of the technical issues including party movement into overflow servers, chat, key bindings, server stability and more have been addressed. He promises more details on these improvements in the coming days leading up to the event.
Also, if you or your friends have not pre-purchased Guild Wars 2, there is a way for you to participate in this beta:
There are sure to only be a limited number of these special beta keys available, so if you or your friends are hoping to nab one, be sure to follow GUild Wars 2 closely on Facebook and/or Twitter.
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Bone Minions
If you like a small army of minions, look no further. This primer will give you all that you need to know to get started.
I will focus on necromancer summoning skills as well as traits that directly modify minions.
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Austin Regimbal from GAMEBREAKER TV is not really into MMOs. Could Guild Wars 2 have persuaded a turn around? Check out the full article and read what aspects of Guild Wars 2 has Austin talking about possible MMO conversion.
Beta Weekend Event 2 will begin on Friday, June 8th, at noon PDT (GMT-7) and will run until Sunday, June 10th, at 11:59 p.m. PDT (GMT-7).
The post continues with with a thank you to the community, and mentions that due to our feedback, work has been made on the issues of “party movement into overflow servers, chat functionality, key bindings, server stability, performance, and many more that we will detail in the near future.”
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A lot of people had speculated that this weekend would see the second BWE, but ArenaNet told us earlier in the week that this would not be the case, citing needing to set up more hardware as one of the reasons. ArenaNet also shared some background on what goes into naming the Tyrian places and inhabitants.
The German fansite Gaming Insight posted a video interview they did with Matthew Moore and StĂ©phane Lo Presti during the EU Fanday. Meanwhile Venturebeat had a chat with Mike O’Brien about monetisation of Guild Wars 2.
Here at GWOnline we have added several people to the team, some of which you have seen posting already. A presentation of all the new faces is upcoming, but we will let everyone get a little settled in first. 
Continuing our trek through the GWO Alliance we talk to Guild Leader Arcanum of Blade and Rose [BaR] — settled on the lovely Imperial Isle. Arcanum was kind enough to sit down and talk about the guild…
Read more & comment >>An article on the naming conventions used in the Guild Wars universe by Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda looks into what makes a good name in Guild Wars 2 and explains the life cycle of the creation of the name.
