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PvP, no monthly fee and now rewards too.
The folks at ArenaNET are working on some fancy new Player versus Player (PvP) rewards for Guild Wars. Andrew Lloyd Weber did not issue a denial that he may be writing a 6 hour
musical version of Guild Wars after reading the following:

"Our next major update will be the introduction of PvP Rewards.
We know that many players right now are having difficulty unlocking items, runes and skills for use in PvP. On our private test servers, we have been testing a new reward system that lets you unlock items, runes, and skills for your pvp only characters through kills and victories in PvP. You'll unlock things faster if you are more successful, but we aren't implementing this system just for the elite players. Our goal is that every player will be able to make progress through normal play."

You can read entire Guild Wars Update Notes Article at The Official Site.

All hail the new deskpaper.
ArenaNET has posted some new Guild Wars wallpaper for your desk covering pleasure. They didn't write a single thing:

"Zero, nada, zilch. They didn't write a thing about this wallpaper."

View the latest Guild Wars Wallpaper at the Official Site.

No monthly fee and updates for free.
The folks at NCSoft / ArenaNET have posted the list of changes that are coming to Guild Wars. They wrote something that looks a lot like this:

"This week, as part of our in continuing promise to keep Guild Wars free of hacks, cheats, and other exploits, we closed the accounts of more than 100 users of bots. With today's update we are taking further steps to address the bot problem. New changes will improve our ability to identify and ban users of bots, rebalance mission areas that were highly exploited by bots, and reduce the overall effectiveness of bots, exploits, and other highly repetitive forms of gold and item farming. We are taking these steps to improve the game for all players, so that people using bots to farm gold cannot generate a huge influx of new gold into the economy, which increases prices for everyone and encourages other players to engage in repetitive farming just to keep up."

You can read the entire Guild Wars Game Update Notes at The Official Site.
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The love-in continues.
MMORPG.com has posted their review of Guild Wars. It's probable that they wrote this:

"Led by a development team of industry veterans (many of whom hail from the hallowed halls of Blizzard) Guild Wars has had high expectations laid upon it by both its creators and many in the player community. Close scrutiny has been given the game throughout its long development and beta periods, with the Devs responding quickly and decisively to rectify game bugs and address player concerns."

You can read the entire Guild Wars Review at MMORPG.com.