The Dispatch
News & Features
Every dispatch from the road to Orr — reveals, patch notes, deep dives, and community reporting from across Tyria.
Four playable species, one still secret
ArenaNet has named the launch roster for Guild Wars 3. Four playable species. Humans and asura return, the kodan become playable for the first time in twenty-one years of Guild Wars, and the fourth is a new species the studio won't identify yet.
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Guild Wars 3's Humans Are Winning. We Know How That Ends
ArenaNet's first species spotlight puts you in humanity's best century, and every fan reading it already knows what's coming.
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Built Around Silence
Guild Wars 3's score will stop playing for minutes at a time. ArenaNet built a system to make sure it does.
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No Subscription, No Battle Pass: ArenaNet's Guild Wars 3 Philosophy
The newest Guild Wars 3 update is all about principles, no specifics — but one of them has an edge.
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We're Finally Going to See Orr Alive
Guild Wars 3 is set in Orr — not the drowned graveyard we've fought through since 2012, but Orr while it's still standing.
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Guild Wars 3 Officially Revealed
After fourteen years, ArenaNet brings the series back — and takes it somewhere it has never gone before.
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