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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 Stéphane 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. :)

This list is still growing, new for this week is that I’ve added the heart symbol for all our GWOnline FANtastic Friends. Also, as a heads up, out of respect for ArenaNet we do try to keep the list free of leaked content.

Source Source Type Original GW2 Update? Key GW2 Update(s)
ArenaNet Blog   Yes What’s in a Name? Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda on Naming Tyria (discussion)
Guild Wars 2 on Facebook  facebook Yes No BWE this weekend (discussion)
Guild Wars 2 on Twitter  Twitter No  
ArenaNet on Twitter  Twitter Yes ArenaNet is hiring
ArenaNet on Flickr  
No  
BuffeeArts YouTube(Arts) No  
Eternal Alchemy (GW2) No  
Gamebreaker Vidcasts (GW2) Yes Epic Journey
Cat Fights
Playing the Name Game
GuildCast Vidcast (GW2) Yes Episode 24 - Holiday Cancelled!
KirbyzaGamer YouTube(GW2) Yes Channel Update -1k subs
KirbyvP 3 – Elementalist GW2Beta
MattVisual YouTube(GW2) Yes Mesmer’s like little boys?
Invisible beta test
Dynamic events /w Dontain
SagelikeOne YouTube(GW2) Yes Stresstest
Beta Episode 15, 16, 17, 18, 19!
Q&A #26
Snebzor YouTube(GW2) No  
Tales of Lumin YouTube(Gaming) No  
Tales of Tyria Vidcast (GW2) Yes Episode 32 – Gaming Hardware
Tubeelephant YouTube(GW2) No  
TWIMMO Vidcast (MMO) Yes Blizzard Bungie Conspiracy
WoodenTomatoes YouTube(GW2) Yes Dailys: Level 160 in five hours, Tengu Race Spotlight, Learning harder than artists, Palawa Joko vs Zhaitan, Shrink Arena, The Celestials spotlight
Lore blogs:Planet of the Grawl,
321spike PvP Fansite (GW2) No  
Attached to Keyboard (GW2) No  
Boons & Conditions Fansite (GW2) Yes Story Corner: The Siege of Igna
Capacitor Flux (GW2) No  
Condottieri Guildsite (GW2) No  
Demajen Blog (Gaming) No  
DistilledWill (GW2) No  
Flameseeker Chronicles Column (GW+GW2) Yes Touring the Snowden Drifts
Games.on.net Gaming Site No  
Greibach’s Normal Form (GW2) No  
GuildMag Fansite (GW2) Yes Teachings of Owl
Age of Deceit – The Convocation (chapter 5)
Guild Wars 2 Hub Fansite (GW2) Yes To Market, to Market
Diary of – Entry 4: Blank Stare
Better living through inventory management
Guild Wars 2 Journal Fansite (GW2) Yes General Crafting Guide
Guardian Overview
Guild Wars 2 Junkies Fansite (GW2) Yes Five tips to help you master the Cooking discipline
Mesmer: Delusions of Grandeur
GuildWars2Live Videos/fansite (GW2) Yes Azy’s Guide to Cost of WvWvW Upgrades.
Guild Wars Insider Fansite (GW2) Yes Why play an Elementalist?
Meet the Professor: Clones, Insects, and More
Community Spotlight, House Fexidron PvE (US)
Got a Mac? Play Guild Wars 2 Anyway
Hunter’s Insight (GW2) Yes Largos
NBI: What not to do
Loreclaw expanse
Just One MMOre Blog (MMO) No  
Kill Ten Rats (Gaming) Yes Hearts and Bears
Non-Sequitors
Maloki Blog (Mixed) No  
MMORPG Gaming Site Yes Stress Test!
NZXT (Mixed) No  
PC Gamer Gaming Site No  
Raging Monkeys (MMO) No  
The Feral Engineer Engineer (GW2) Yes Games are Hard
Under the Pale Tree (GW2) Yes New Dynamic Event – Centaurs invading the Underworld!
Gamer tested – Kid approved
Yoshi’s Guild Wars 2 hub (GW2) Yes All the eggs in the defensive basket
ZAM Gaming site No  
Tyria Talk YouTube(GW2) Yes Episode 25 – PvP or PvE centric?
The Vigilant Blog (GW2) No  
Dragon Seasons Fansite (GW2) Yes Interview with Dragon Season at Video-Games24
KaeyiDream YouTube(GW2) Yes Banks and Account Storage
The Tyrian Order Fansite (GW2) No  
Elemental Attunement Elementalist Blog (GW2) Yes Switching attunement – A friendly update
Skills of Interest – Glyph of Renewal
GW2 Evolution Fansite (GW2) No  
Forbes General News Site No  
Mana Obscura MMO Site No  
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) No  
Nerdy Bookahs (GW2) No  
Guardians of Tyria Guardian Blog (GW2) No  
Massively Speaking Podcast (MMO) Yes Episode 202 – Rubbernecking at the scene of an MMO accident
World verse World WvW (GW2) No  
Team Legacy PvP Guild Site (GW2) No  
Flame Throwing Engineer Blog (GW2) No  
Talk Tyria Fansite (GW2) Yes Why play the engineer?
Exploring Tyria – Where no game has gone before
Play GuildWars 2 Blog (GW2) Yes Beta – Charr Ranger starting area part 4, 5
Engineer PvP Pistol/Shield Elixir & Condition Damage Build
Ten Ton Hammer MMO Site No  
Examiner Entertainment news No  
Key and Dagger Thief Blog (GW2) No  
Wooting Blog (GW2) Yes World vs World blog
Guild Wars 2 Grandmaster Blog (GW2) Yes Attacking and Defending Dolyak Supply Caravans
Thief: Dual Pistols and Daggers with Venomous Crits
Mind and Spirit (GW2) Yes Then and Now, Here and There – A look at Tyria’s 250 years transformation (part 1)
GW2 WvW PvP Fansite (GW2) Yes How to beat a Zerg – part 2
What do I do in WvW? A guide for new players
WvW general build guide
The Pincer and the Split
For Great Justice – the “Runner”
400 Shades of Awesome (A great run-down of the GW2 dye system!)
What is World vs World
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) Yes Crafting Guide part 2
Octovision YouTube(MMO) Yes Beta – Norn Ranger gameplay part 3/3
Three Odd Tales Fanfic (GW2) No  
AtomicPC Gaming/Hardware Site No  
The Wastenaw Voice News Site No  
GameZone Gaming Site No  
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) No  
RPG Fan Fansite (RPG) No  
Ken and Graev (Gaming) No  
GWOnline Fansite (GW2) Yes Guild Spotlight – Blade and Rose [BaR]
A Weekend in World vs World
Reddit (GW2) Yes Engineer Skill Breakdown (v 0.1)
Engineer sPvP play-by-play commentary
The Sprocket Formula  Engineer (GW2) Yes Episode 2 – Builds (vidcast)
Arcane Elementalist Build
Pistolero/Shield Commando Build
Blog de la Burro  (Gaming) Yes Of mice and men…This time it’s personal!
Gamers Heroes  Gaming Site No  
Guild Wars 2 Stratics  Fansite (GW2) No  
TunaGaming (Gaming) Yes Internet 101 – How not to piss off TotalBiscuit (Not about only GW2, but a lot of GW2 fans seem to fall into these traps so…)
World of Enders YouTube(GW2) Yes BWE1 – Musing over early Game footage
Warrior PvP Match 1/18, 2, 3, 4, 5
Traxdagamer YouTube(GW2) Yes Beta – Human Guardian Game commentary, part 7, 8
Labyrinth Studios TV YouTube(Mixed) No  
Dontain YouTube(GW2) Yes How to find the Dancing Asura
Hogger levels up: We’re not prepared!, The Cataclysm
Hardest Jumping Puzzle in beta
Key Get! Jumping Puzzle Beat.
Structured PvP and Matt Visual!
Chronicles of Tyria Fansite (GW2) Yes Beetletun; how I learned to…sew? (Part 2)
Chapter 2 Part 1
Chapter 2 , First Born Son
Grenth Bless the Signs
One Shot – Not all Heroes Survive
Project Tyria (GW2) Yes Pre vs Post Searing
GW1 vs GW2 Lion’s Arch
GW1 vs GW2 Queensdale
GW1 vs GW2 Ascalon
GetBonkd YouTube(GW2) Yes Top 10 DE’s and Hearts of BWE1
The Centaur’s Satchel (GW2) Yes You Mess with the Minotaur, you get the horns!
Rock Paper Shotgun Gaming Site Yes Rant: Enough of Single Player MMOs 
IGN Gaming Site Yes The Big Role-Playing Games of 2012
Dulfy (MMOs) Yes Dynamic content in Rift and Guild Wars 2: A Look at similarities and differences (Great read!)
GamaSutra Gaming Site Yes Is Guild Wars 2 the answer to stagnant MMO design?
The Verge/Polygon Podcast (GW2) Yes Guild Wars 2 on Rifts, Waterworld and putting a nail in the coffin of quests [INTERVIEW WITH JON PETERS AND CHRIS LYE]
Paradox GW2 Guild Site Yes Build Factory – Ranger, Active Defence
Guild Wars 2 Guru Fansite (GW2) Yes Guild Wars 2 Armor Sets
Ten things to try in the next BWE without spoiling the game 
Malefic Incantations (GW2) Yes No beta this weekend – a sound plan
Feast of Corruption [Necromancer PvE, part 2]
Killabytes Online Blog (GW2 mostly) Yes Changing perceptions with mana free casters
Tab Targeting vs E-sports & PvP
Venturebeat Tech News Site Yes ArenaNet president discusses careful monetization of Guild Wars 2, the least greedy Western MMO [INTERVIEW WITH MIKE O'BRIEN]
miihdaftpunk YouTube(Mixed) Yes Combat style, Underwater gameplay and Skill challenges
Tyrian Stories (GW2) Yes Over the Edge in the GW2 stress test
Shewstr (Mixed) Yes “Shaemor” – Piano (sheet music)
Next Web Design Blog (Art & Photo) Yes Digital Art by Hyojin Ahn (Arenanet concept artist)
Free Thought Blogs Blog (General) Yes Guild Wars 2 looks awesome 
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  • King Bluefin

    Hey, that’s a great list of GW2 resource! We at TunaGaming.com thank you for including us in your list! ;)