My weekly community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. This week’s collection includes all the usual blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction.

My regular community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. This week’s collection includes information on the Legendary weapons that have begun to appear in-game, details on the live development process, and all the usual blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction.

A harsh review of the latest World of Warcraft expansion in the PC World gaming column:

As I’ve played the new WoW expansion this week and journeyed through the lands of Pandaria I’ve been struck by two seemingly contradictory facts: Blizzard has crafted the best expansion for World of Warcraft yet, and if I didn’t have a ton of friends playing the game I would likely never open up WoW again.

As if to stick the knife in further, he closes the column by praising some direct competitor games for various aspects, but one particular game comes in for the highest accolades:

This year has seen the release Guild Wars 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and The Secret World. Of those 3 only Guild Wars 2 has had any real success, but all three of them manage to innovate on WoW’s formulae in interesting ways. The Old Republic and The Secret World both tell better stories more ably than WoW did at the time (though with Mists of Pandaria it seems like Blizzard is catching up) and Guild Wars 2 manages to do something even more impressive.

It created an MMO I want to play not just with my friends, but with anyone.

When I see another player out questing in WoW I’m annoyed. I’m expecting them to grab my quest items, enemies and other resources for themselves. In theory I can group up with at least some of these players, but in practice they usually steal my kills and run off before I can click on them and ask them to join. Even if I do manage to do so, they have little incentive to join me; they’ve already gotten credit for the quest and have no reason to help me.

Guild Wars 2, on the other hand, rewards cooperation at every turn. Every player that contributes to a kill gets loot and experience even if they aren’t grouped together. Every player is rewarded for contributing to quest objectives even if other players contributed more. Every time another player shows up on your screen in PvE, that player can only help you.

My weekly community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. The game is now a month old, and the community is still posting game-related blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction at a blistering pace.

My regular community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. In addition to the usual assortment of articles, videos and podcasts, there is the Mac OS X announcement, a flurry of whining over YouTube monetization, and good information on password security for players.

My weekly community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. In addition to the usual assortment of articles, videos and podcasts, there is lots of discussion about the official Guild Wars 2 release video (mixed reviews at best) and celebration of the news that ArenaNet has sold over two million copies of Guild Wars 2.

My weekly community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. It’s not quite as long as last week’s monstrosity, but there’s more than enough in the way of articles, videos and podcasts to keep you busy for a while.

My regular community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. Now that the game has finally launched, there’s lots of articles to read but (temporarily) fewer videos to watch: I think many of the video folks have been too busy playing to record and comment on their footage. I imagine that it’ll be back to pre-release volume by next week’s round-up.

I started doing these short posts using my nom-de-gaming identity “Raphia Naon” at GuildMag during the first beta weekend event — partly because we needed something to keep the page active while everyone was busy playing in the beta test. I continued doing a daily entry for almost all the beta events and stress tests (I missed a few because they were scheduled at times I couldn’t take part). This is the final entry in that series, briefly talking about the last day of the headstart access period (the game is now on sale to the general public).

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A day earlier than usual, my community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. With everyone waiting for the headstart period to begin in just over 24 hours, there’s lots of articles to read and videos to watch to while away the time.

We’re into the home stretch now, with just a week left to go before the headstart period for pre-purchasers begins. My usual community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s post includes lots of getting started guides for first-time players plus the usual assortment of blog posts, podcasts, and videos from the Guild Wars 2 fan community.

You might also be interested in my brief wrap-up report from the most recent GW2 stress test here.

My usual community round-up at GuildMag has been posted. This week’s posts include more videos from BWE3, quick reactions to yesterday’s stress test plus the usual assortment of blog posts, podcasts, and videos from the Guild Wars 2 fan community.

There will be another stress test starting at 4pm Pacific time today. This is open to anyone who has pre-purchased a copy of Guild Wars 2.