Archive for April, 2009

Six million copies sold!

Just in time for the fourth anniversary celebrations, ArenaNet have announced they have sold six million copies of Guild Wars. Pretty impressive, and shows just how well the casual “pay once, play online forever” model can work when twinned with a slick, compelling game. With the run away success of Guild Wars here’s hoping that [...]

Huge content update is now live

You may have noticed the extra download time when starting your client, but if you haven’t logged in today yet, now is the time to fire up Guild Wars. The extra content to celebrate Guild Wars’ fourth anniversary is now live, and it’s pretty impressive. The first thing you’ll want to do is claim your [...]

Guild Wars 4th anniversary: lots of goodies coming

We’re quickly approaching the fourth anniversary of Guild Wars. ArenaNet took a bit of a risk at launch – an MMO with no monthly fees? Buy once and play free forever? Regular new content updates and expansions? Committed support from the developer for the future? Madness. But they made a great game, and not only [...]