Guild Wars 2 beta begins in March

NewsPosted 23/01/2012 - 12:04pm GMT

Guild Wars 2 to release late this year.

The open beta for Guild Wars 2 will begin in March, according to ArenaNet.

Writing on the official Guild Wars 2 blog, ArenaNet president Mike O'Brien explained the team is in the process of moving forward in the testing process.

"We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we're now ready to hold progressively larger events."

Users hoping to get into public beta should expect the invitation process to begin next month.

"In February we'll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we'll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate."

He added that the MMO is confirmed to launch later this year.

This news follows last week's statement from Guild Wars 2 writer Angel Leigh McCoy, who announced the team was outlining plans for its beta and said the game was "coming along smashingly".

There is no official release date announced for Guild Wars 2.

VideoGamer.com Analysis

Guild Wars 2 is setting out to be one of the biggest MMO releases of this year, and alongside the likes of TOR and even The Secret World, it will be interesting to see whether WoW's subscriber-base continues to branch out to new titles.

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Oracle @ Geraface

Alienware have always been overpriced and you can get dam good custom build elsewhere. But would it please you to know that Alienware has been owned buy Dell for years now ^^

Posted 14:19 on 19 February 2012

Endless @ Geraface

Oh it's nothing like that, and I dont even expect anything more than standard settings if it turns out it can actually run it lol. core2duo 2.53ghz T9400, 4gb RAM, 512mb Radeon 4650. I'm fully aware it'll struggle with most things now :) I'll be happy if I can run it and it looks the same as the original GW lol

Posted 00:26 on 24 January 2012

Geraface @ Endless

Depends what laptop you're dealing with. I only really trust alienware with gaming laptops after my Dell 'gaming laptop' turned out to be a dud.

Posted 00:11 on 24 January 2012

I REALLY, REALLY hope that my laptop can run it, after Streetfighter X Tekken there's not much else other than GW2 I'm looking forward to this year. Not that comes to mind anyway.

Guild Wars itself was a fairly radical step away from the norm and I expect nothing less of awesome from ArenaNet.

Posted 22:41 on 23 January 2012

Brilliant game last I saw it. It's a complete re-thinking of the genre, makes TOR look archaic in terms of innovations.

Posted 14:49 on 23 January 2012

Endless

Can't wait!The biggest thing GW2 has going for it, that the others cant hope to compete with, is virtually zero barrier to entry. No Subscription and if past retail releases are anything to go by the game wont be a 'full' retail price either.

Posted 12:41 on 23 January 2012