My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. We’re back online at a new hosting service, so this is just the usual link to the full round-up there. This week saw the release of the Origins of Madness content update, with two new world bosses (one is permanent, the other is tied to the living story and will eventually go away). It is one of the four final episodes in the Scarlett Briar story arc. In addition, there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

I’m hoping that this will be the last time I need to temporarily host any GuildMag content as we should have the site up and running at the new host very soon.

This post is intended to help you to publicize your guild or alliance event, and as long as your event is open to the whole Guild Wars/Guild Wars 2 community, we’ll list it here. Send us the details at community@guildmag.com and we’ll get it out to the fan community (given that we only do a weekly wrap-up, try to send the information at least a week in advance).

• On the official Guild Wars 2 forums, Foghladha.2506 posted on the topic Great Tyrian Adventure: Legendary Edition: “The Gaiscioch Family, host of Sanctum of Rall’s fan favorite Great Tyrian Adventure, announced plans for it’s third season of the public community event. This 12 week season is dubbed “Legendary Edition” and will feature over 100 prize giveaways including the legendary Bifrost to one of its lucky participants. The season is set to launch on Saturday, January 11th, 2014 at 11:00 AM Server Time (Pacific).”
• On the official Guild Wars 2 forums, KitOnlyHuman.6807 posted on the topic Rookie Camp [Bi-Weekly Event]: “Rookie Camp is a lore focused event designed to be fun, educational, and an immerse experience to remember. Originally a concept for new players wanting to learn the game, and for those wanting to meet new friends, Rookie Camp will be conducted twice a month with the premise of becoming a soldier, following the character Commander Bloodclaw, and fighting the woes of Tyria in an ongoing battle! Low and high levels, new and old players, roleplaying or not, this event is open for everyone! Hosted by MadCast Gaming on Sanctum of Rall. For more information, feel free to message KitOnlyHuman.6807 and/or Cakeisalie.1976 in game! January 18, 2014 – 8:00p EST”
• vVv Gaming — Kings of The Mists 2. “I am proud to present you with the second Guild Wars 2 PvP tournament hosted by [vVv] Vision. Valor. Victory. Guild from Fort Aspenwood, Kings of the Mists 2. This is an open invite tournament for all the teams in Guild Wars 2, to come have fun and support Guild Wars 2 PvP scene. Tournament will be commented by none other than John ‘Blu’ Mullen and Will ‘Sireph’ Abreu on the official vVv Gaming Twitch Channel. This will be a one day tournament starting on Saturday February 1st at 12:00 pm EST (09:00 am PST). Team captains will be required to sign in their team between 11:20 pm EST (08:30 am PST) and 11:50 pm EST (08:50 am PST). Failure to sign-in their team on time may result in losing their reserved spot in the tournament.”
• Reddit — [Events] Weekly Map Exploration. Wednesday 9pm EST (NA) – Sorrow’s Furnace. “For a couple of weeks now, /u/jereklo and I have been adding lore/story of the area we’re exploring, while doing these exploration events. People seem to enjoy it, so if it’s something that interest you, and you already have completion, you’re welcome to join us too. I’ve been hosting Map completion every Wednesday at 9PM EST on Sorrow’s Furnace (NA). Here’s our schedule”

Hopefully this will be the last time we’ll need to post TWIGW2 here, as GuildMag is moving to a new hosting service. Once the site is back up and running at the new host, I’ll re-publish this article and last week’s posts so they will at least appear in the right sequence.

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We’re still having issues with the ISP for GuildMag, so I couldn’t post this week’s community event calendar there. Hopefully we’ll have the hosting situation cleared up soon.

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A bit of a throwback to an earlier time, as I’m posting the whole column here instead of at the GuildMag site — technical issues with the hosting service have made GuildMag temporarily inaccessible. Fortunately, I’d saved a local copy of the weekly round-up just before the site went down, so I’m not starting from a completely blank slate (but I probably missed some links in the change-over). I’ll repost the whole thing at GuildMag once the technical issues have been addressed.

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My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s (unusually short) roundup has more coverage of the “A Very Merry Wintersday” event which will continue until mid-January. In addition, there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s (unusually short) roundup has more coverage of the “A Very Merry Wintersday” event which will continue until mid-January. In addition, there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s roundup has more coverage of the “A Very Merry Wintersday” event which will be active until mid-January. In addition, there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s roundup has a lot of coverage of the latest content update called “A Very Merry Wintersday”, which includes the return of events and activities from last year’s Wintersday event with some new wrinkles. In addition, there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s roundup marks my second full year as the community editor at GuildMag. The final content release of the year will be “A Very Merry Wintersday”, which will include the return of events and activities from last year’s Wintersday event with some new wrinkles. In addition, there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s content update is called Fractured, which involves major changes to the Fractals of the Mists “infinite” dungeon, plus there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. Next week’s content update is called Fractured, which involves major changes to the Fractals of the Mists “infinite” dungeon, plus there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. This week’s content update is the Nightmares Within, which takes us inside the huge tower that appeared in the previous update, plus there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. Gathering the links for this round-up was made much more tedious due to some technical issues involved in the switch from one ISP to another. In the confusion, I lost the first draft of the column and had to re-construct it (unfortunately, it’s likely some links didn’t get back into the final version). Next week’s content update will involve even more Toxic elements, hopefully with slightly more distinctive names for the achievements (Toxic this, Toxic that, and Toxic the other get a bit repetitive), plus there’s the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.

My weekly Guild Wars 2 community round-up at GuildMag is now online. The Halloween event, Blood and Madness, is drawing to a close and the new Tower of Nightmares event has begun. There’s also the usual assortment of blog posts, videos, podcasts, and fan fiction from around the GW2 community.