The aftermath of ArenaNet’s actions has rippled across the gaming industry, both at the company and within the development community at large. Internally, multiple developers at ArenaNet tell The ...

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Today marks the launch of Guild Wars 2's latest expansion, Path of Fire. The sequel has been on the market for five years, the series for 12, making it exceptionally long-lived for a massively ...

“Nobody at Arenanet is safe from the hand of Reddit. We’re literally running the company now, they’re in fear of the very users they seek to consort with ... The moment a dev steps out of line or try ...

Jessica Price, who was fired by ArenaNet last week for arguing with fans of the company’s Guild Wars 2 MMO, said she feels betrayed by how the company “folded like a cheap card table” when confronted ...

ArenaNet announced today that they are finally bringing their highly successful game Guild Wars 2 over to Steam. The game is currently celebrating its eighth anniversary, and to mark the occasion, ...

Following an emotional weekend of uncertainty, Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet has laid off a significant number of its staff. Employees were notified on Friday that ArenaNet, which is owned by NCSoft ...

The creative teams behind Guild Wars revealed Mistbound, an official spin-off that bridges the gap between the MMO and the popular deck-building genre.

Writers Jessica Price and Peter Fries were let go by developer ArenaNet after a contentious Twitter exchange with a partnered YouTuber Thursday. It began Tuesday when Price tweeted out a thread that ...

For the first time since switching to an annual expansion cycle, Guild Wars 2's next release will introduce a new set of elite specializations for each of the game's nine classes—or professions, as ...

Guild Wars 2 recently introduced an extensive 8-bit zone titled the Super Adventure Box, which transcended the remit of an April Fools gag to become a substantial chunk of honest to goodness free ...

Update: Following the weekend, it appears that the promised layoffs at ArenaNet have officially taken place. A flood of current and former employees at the studio shared memories, well wishes, and job ...