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STARNEWS23 Make Their Comeback With A Bang!

Posted 16/02/12 by Lensor

STARNEWS23 by HAPPYcatProductions makes its return after nearly five years of silence! In this episode, the 9th as it were, the cast reports on the events of Canthan New Year 2012. (Viewer discretion is advised, some adult language).

STARNEWS23 is a mock news machinima that takes place within the Guild Wars universe and reports on events within the world. Imagine if the game had a 10 o’clock news broadcast covering the weekend events, except the team were all a variety of impatient, mean people, including a noob who can’t read, a woman who is mean to everybody, and all kinds of other character-driven stereotypes

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WoodenPotatoes Explains Guild Wars 2 Skills

Posted 14/02/12 by Lensor

Having a little bit of difficulty wrapping your head around the Guild Wars 2 skill system? Fear it will be too simplified compared to the Guild Wars 1 “build wars”? YouTuber WoodenPotatoes does an excellent job out of explaining the differences between Guild Wars 1 and 2, and why the changes should be to the better for the players.

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Why The Developers Love Guild Wars 2

Posted 12/02/12 by Lensor

Wartower just posted this very special video collage of all the ArenaNet developers present at Gamescom 2011 answering the question “Why do you love Guild Wars 2?”. And I’ll say one thing – these guys for sure love what they do for a living!

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GWOnline is Looking For FANtastic Friends!

Posted 08/02/12 by Lensor

The keen visitor may already have noticed an addition to the right hand panel – “GWOnline’s FANtastic Friends”. This is where we will showcase other quality Guild Wars fansites with whom we have made bonds of friendship. Does your Guild Wars fan site, blog, podcast, youtube channel or radio channel want to be a GWOnline Friend too? We are still working through some technical details (so there will be more!), but as of now here is what GWOnline offer to our friends:

Link Exchange
Your 100*100px linked logotype on our main page. Our linked logotype on the front tage of your fan site. Please see the GWOnline Friends page for a couple of different GWOnline logotype formats to choose from.

Personalized Forum Title
Each Fan Site can appoint a person to represent them at our community forums. That person will receive a user title named after their fan site, and some other perks still being worked at

Collaborations
GWOnline is always open to collaborations with our friends. It could be thematic content, contests or something else. Just give us a shout and we shall see what we can think up!

You can contact us by e-mail, on Facebook, or, and this is probably the easiest option, via a PM to Lensor at the Community Forums.

Lets be friends!

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Guild Wars Fan Creation Spotlight – Music Remixes

Posted 07/02/12 by Lensor

A while back we here at GWOnline posted a video of a Guild Wars 2 Gamescom trailer theme remix. Here are a couple of more variants that get my seal of approval. Make sure to check out the “Trance” link in the lower one. It starts out slow, but gets really wicked about three minutes in. I really can not get enough of this beautiful Jeremy Soule tune!

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Win a Charr Plush in the GWOnline Forums!

Posted 12/01/12 by Lensor

Did you look at the Charr Plush and thought “awww“? Or maybe you had an idea about your very own Charr Plush puppet animation video? Whichever the case, you will be happy to hear that there is currently a contest over at our Community Forums featuring not one, but two Charr Plushies as prizes! With a sole judge to decide, contestants have to do their very best to impress, wow and dazzle.

All categories of entries are valid (music, art, literature, video), as long as they are about Guild Wars 2.

Go here for all contest details and entry!

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Two Must-Read Forum Posts for the Guild Wars 2 Initiate

Posted 11/01/12 by Lensor

This last week two forum posts have been all the buzz in the Guild Wars 2 community. First there was the huge, ginormous, all encompassing beast of a forum post made by Jira/omlech/Chelmo (different nicks at different forums). Originally posted at NeoGAF all the way back in April, it has since found its way to Reddit, Guru, MMO-Champion and this last week it has been going almost viral!

Then there was a somewhat sorter but no less eloquent forum post by user Meowhead over at the MMORPG.com forums, titled “The Tao of Arenanet – The Design Philosophy of Guild Wars 2“. This one focuses on the design philosophies behind the game.

Both of these posts takes some time to plow through (no TL;DR allowed!), but are well worth it for anyone wanting to catch up on all that Guild Wars 2 info us veteran fans like to throw around in casual conversation.

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Fan-Made Guild Wars 2 Wallpapers

Posted 11/01/12 by Lensor

The Guild Wars 2 fan Purple Llama has done a great job putting together some Guild Wars 2 wallpapers for fellow fans. The wallpapers feature all eight Guild Wars 2 professions, so now you do not have to choose which profession to gaze at on your computer desktop any more. They are also offered at a wide range of resolutions as well as for a single or double screen setup. We here at GWOnline call this excellent work, and look forward to more!

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What is So Different About Guild Wars 2 Anyway?

Posted 03/01/12 by Lensor

TubeElephant finished the old year by posting this excellent recap on what makes Guild Wars 2 so different from other MMOs.

Make sure to check out his channel for more nice Guild Wars 2 videos.

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Amazing Guild Wars 2 Music Remix

Posted 30/12/11 by Lensor

Browsing through YouTube I stumbled upon this rather amazing remix of the piano theme from the Guild Wars 2 Gamescom 2011 trailer. Made by YouTuber Matt Visual.

We here at GWOnline are always excited to see what the fans do with the already excellent ArenaNet art. Know of other remixes that we should showcase here at the site? Drop me a PM or leave a comment below.

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Mintchip tells us why we should play Guild Wars 2

Posted 03/12/11 by Lensor

MMO extraordinaire Mintchip just posted a video on YouTube about her top five reasons everyone should play Guild Wars 2. And there is no disagreeing with her!

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Sign up as a GWOnline Secret Charr!

Posted 24/11/11 by Lensor

Ho Ho Ho!

Sure Thanksgiving is not even over yet, but Wintersday is just an Asura-toss away. It is already time to get festive, and what better way to get in the proper Wintersday spirit than by participating in GWOnline’s very own Secret Charr?

Secret Charr works exactly the same as Secret Santa, just with a little more fur, and lots of extra teeth!

How do you sign up?
Just provide a post with the following:

Picture of your Guild Wars Avatar for possible Drawing
Name of your Guild Wars Avatar and profession for possible Fan-Fiction
(may include more information as well if you like)

We will be taking participants until December 9th (got a 3-day extention).

Please visit the thread in our community forum for the full details of Secret Charr!

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