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This week we got another taste of Guild Wars 2 game play with the short stress test on Monday. Personally I mostly ran around headless chicken mode, reported a few bugs, kamikazeed on some trolls in a cave and got my behind handed to me in the Ascalon Dungeon (entering all alone at level 15 – not my most brilliant idea).

In other news this week ArenaNet shared the inspiring story of Kelly Wells, and gave some more details on how name reserving will work in Guild Wars 2. They also reached 500,000 likes on Facebook and thus released a new concept art.

Meanwhile rumours of the Guild Wars 2 release date are running wild, sometimes even in opposite directions at the same time. This week some advertisement printed with the release date June 28 date surfaced, while a Gamestop earnings call slotted the release for after July. As always though, if you do not hear it directly from ArenaNet or NCSoft, it is just that – rumours.

Meanwhile we here at GWOnline are busy expanding our team, so should be an exciting few weeks ahead. Oh, and Relics of Orr is back :)

This list is still growing, hopefully next week I will also have it sorted by type and name and get some visual cues in for new content. :)

Source Source Type Original GW2 Update? Key GW2 Update(s)
ArenaNet Blog   Yes Meet Ameranth – One Player’s Journey Across Tyria and America (discussion)
Reserving Your Character Name for Guild Wars 2 (discussion)
Guild Wars 2 on Facebook  facebook Yes 500,000 likes! (discussion)
Looking for small bogs/fansites to spotlight.
Guild Wars 2 on Twitter  Twitter No
ArenaNet on Twitter  Twitter No
ArenaNet on Flickr    No
BuffeeArts YouTube(Arts) Yes WvW Gameplay (Stress beta footage)
Eternal Alchemy (GW2) No
Gamebreaker Vidcasts (GW2) Yes ArenaNet will force other MMOs to adapt
Stress test goes smoothly for ArenaNet
Name Reservation Policy Announced
GuildCast Vidcast (GW2) Yes Episode 23 – Stressed Out
KirbyzaGamer YouTube(GW2) Yes Elementalist Build: Fire Flash
MattVisual YouTube(GW2) Yes Dynamic Events // Stress Addiction!Dynamic Events // Fort Salma Again!
SagelikeOne YouTube(GW2) Yes Stresstest
Beta Episode 11, 12, 13, 14,
Q&A #25
Snebzor YouTube(GW2) No
Tales of Lumin YouTube(Gaming) No
Tales of Tyria Vidcast (GW2) Yes Episode 31 – Green is Better than Blue?
Tubeelephant YouTube(GW2) Yes Elementalist PvE | Dynamic Events
Incredible Warrior Build
TWIMMO Vidcast (MMO) Yes Preparing to Launch
WoodenTomatoes YouTube(GW2) Yes All the GW2 dailys +
GW2 lore blogs Story of Dlixx, That old college try and Snarky little geniuses
321spike PvP Fansite (GW2) No
Attached to Keyboard (GW2) Yes Experiences from the Beta Weekend
Boons & Conditions Fansite (GW2) Yes Support Guardian sPvP thoughts
Freedom, a PvE experience
A Guide to Boons and Conditions Part 1
Warrior support sPvP commentary
Capacitor Flux (GW2) No
Condottieri Guildsite (GW2) No
Demajen Blog (Gaming) No
DistilledWill (GW2) No
Flameseeker Chronicles Column (GW+GW2) Yes Dynomatic
Games.on.net Gaming Site No
Greibach’s Normal Form (GW2) No
GuildMag Fansite (GW2) Yes This is Guild Wars 2 – First Impressions
NCSoft Q1 earnings – internal targets reached
Ameranth introduces you to: Ameranth [Amerath from ArenaNet's blog post gives her side of the story!]
Age of deceit – Kanaxai’s Destiny (Chapter 4)
Guild Wars 2 Hub Fansite (GW2) Yes The Mana Envy Pandemic of Guild Wars 2
Stress-Free Test
Black Sheep
Guild Wars 2 Journal Fansite (GW2) No
Guild Wars 2 Junkies Fansite (GW2) Yes Five reasons to love the GW2 trading post
The great difficulty debate
GuildWars2Live Videos/fansite (GW2) Yes An overview of the Cooking Discipline
Guild Wars Insider Fansite (GW2) Yes Something Silly: Fanboy spotlight
Dungeon Armor Sets
Alienware and Guild Wars 2?
E-sports spotlight: Alpha Collective
Weapons range graphs
Hunter’s Insight (GW2) No
Just One MMOre Blog (MMO) No
Kill Ten Rats (Gaming) Yes I name thee greed
Languished Thoughts
Shopping by Customers
Maloki Blog (Mixed) No
MMORPG Gaming Site Yes Human Weaklings
NZXT (Mixed) No
PC Gamer Gaming Site No
Raging Monkeys (MMO) No
The Feral Engineer Engineer (GW2) Yes Support Engineer
Under the Pale Tree (GW2) No Writing your story: An interview with the writers of Guild Wars 2 [INTERVIEW WITH BOBBY STEIN, PETER FRIES AND ANGEL McCOY]
Yoshi’s Guild Wars 2 hub (GW2) Yes Why shouldn’t I put all my eggs in one basket?
Building a better sPvPer
ZAM Gaming site No
Tyria Talk YouTube(GW2) Yes Bog Otter Channel Update vlog
Tyria with Tots part 2, 3, 4
Stress test – Slumming in the Wayfarer Foothills
The Vigilant Blog (GW2) No
Dragon Seasons Fansite (GW2) Yes Milestone Levels & Beginner’s Tips
KaeyiDream YouTube(GW2) No
The Tyrian Order Fansite (GW2) No
Elemental Attunement Elementalist Blog (GW2) No
GW2 Evolution Fansite (GW2) No
Forbes General News Site No
Mana Obscura MMO Site Yes  I’ll wait till it’s free
Necrobator Necromancer Fansite (GW2) No
Decoding Dragons (Gaming) No
Games Overcast Podcast (Gaming) No
GoingPostalGW YouTube(GW2) No
TotalBiscuit YouTube(Gaming) No
Yogscast YouTube(Gaming) No
Bio Break (RPG) No
Girl vs. MMO (MMO) Yes I have a story to tell
Nerdy Bookahs (GW2) Yes Stress test fun in WvW
Guardians of Tyria Guardian Blog (GW2) No
Massively Speaking Podcast (MMO) Yes Episode 201 – No more secrets
World verse World WvW (GW2) No
Team Legacy PvP Guild Site (GW2) No
Flame Throwing Engineer Blog (GW2) Yes Healing by blowing things up
Talk Tyria Fansite (GW2) No
Play GuildWars 2 Blog (GW2) Yes Beta – Charr Ranger starting area part 1, 2, 3
Ten Ton Hammer MMO Site Yes Guild Wars 2 – Is it all that?
Examiner Entertainment news No
Key and Dagger Thief Blog (GW2) No
Wooting Blog (GW2) No
Guild Wars 2 Grandmaster Blog (GW2) Yes Elementalist: Aura support build using dagger, focus
Mind and Spirit (GW2) No
GW2 WvW PvP Fansite (GW2) Yes WvW Suppy guide
Competitive PvP in GW2 – First Impressions 
Turrets: The love hate relationship
MMORPG’s Suck (A must read, Seriously)
Building a better sPvPer
Finally the MMO worth the AAA
How to beat the Zerg – Part 1
Scary Worlds Blog (MMO) No
The Snarky Asura (GW2) No
Final Boss Fight Gaming Site No
Enigmus1 YouTube(MMO) No
Wartower (German) Fansite (GW2) No
The Searing Podcast (GW2) Yes Episode 4 – Nick Swaddles Trav’s addons
GetBonkd YouTube(GW2) No
Octovision YouTube(MMO) Yes Beta – Character movement
Beta – Norn Ranger gameplay part 1, part 2
Three Odd Tales Fanfic (GW2) No
AtomicPC Gaming/Hardware Site No
The Wastenaw Voice News Site No
GameZone Gaming Site Yes Five reasons why Guild Wars 2 is awesome
MMOSite Fansite (MMO) No
Piki Geek Gaming Site No
GameSpy Gaming Site No
GamerLive Gaming Site No
The Daily Aztec News Site No
Casual Aggro (MMO) Yes So many events, so little time
RPG Fan Fansite (RPG) No
Ken and Graev (Gaming) Yes Might have found my favorite GW2 class today
Luna Atra (French) Fansite (GW2) No
Reddit (GW2) Yes Found her in Hoelbrak trying to sell “Unique” armor
I found a GW2 Boss in GW1
Shared boons/conditions/effects Google doc
The Sprocket Formula  Engineer (GW2) Yes “Turret God” build
Turrets: The love hate relationship
Blog de la Burro  (Gaming) Yes When animals attack!
GW2 – How you broke my heart last night
Gamers Heroes  Gaming Site Yes GW2 Character creation walthrough
Guild Wars 2 Stratics  Fansite (GW2) No
Tuna Gaming  (Gaming) Yes Stress test beta impressions
World of Enders YouTube(GW2) Yes BWE1 – Urge to kill…Rising!
BWE1 – Moar Moas!
Traxdagamer YouTube(GW2) Yes Beta – Human Guardian Game commentary (part 6)
Labyrinth Studios TV YouTube(Mixed) Yes Beta – Human Elementalist gameplay part 1, 2
Dontain YouTube(GW2) Yes Asura Female Dance [A MUST SEE, ADORABLE!]
Ogre Village takeover event
Map completionists and Lion’s ArchHogger Levels up
Mystic Chests Keys and Tonics
Chronicles of Tyria Fansite (GW2) Yes More Deciphering
Prologue
Reader Submitted signs – Grenth’s blessing?
That Ranger is a stupid head
Chapter 1
Beetletun; how I learned to…sew?
Project Tyria (GW2) Yes Picture Dump 1, 2
Relics of Orr Podcast (GW2) Yes Episode 45 – Beta Weekend gets an upvote
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