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Time for the Guild Wars Dragon Festival

It’s that time of year when the gates of Shing Jea Monastery are once again thrown open to celebrate the Dragon Festival in Guild Wars. This year the festival runs from Thursday, June 30th to Sunday, July 3rd – and features a visit from the Emperor himself! The Shing Jea boardwalk is once again open, [...]

Guild Wars April Fool’s

I delayed posting this so it didn’t get swamped in the mass of April Fool’s gags everywhere, and also because I was ill over Easter. Buried in the Guild Wars patch notes for April 1st were a few surprising game updates: Several new monster-only shouts have been added. “Lolwut!?”: used after an ally dies. “Noob!”: [...]

Guild Wars holiday papercrafts

Continuing the festive theme, ArenaNet are publishing a series of Guild Wars papercraft models in the run up to Wintersday. Every Tuesday they will release a new model, culminating in something pretty impressive. All of the models are free to download, and come as PDFs which can easily be printed out and assembled. At the [...]