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• Sitting comfortably? Guild Wars 2′s lore boss on story

  Guild Wars 2 is attempting to revolutionise story in MMOs by offering non-cosmetic choices and a personal touch to a genre filled with cookie-cutter options. We speak with Ree Soesbee, ArenaNet’s lore and continuity designer, on how this new-found sense of freedom ties into the biggest MMO release of the year.

• Inventing Asura: Guild Wars 2's Ree Soesbee and Jeff Grubb

  Over on the official Guild Wars 2 website this week, the spotlight is on the Asura race, and VG247 has an exclusive interview with continuity and lore designers Ree Soesbee and Jeff Grubb as well as the first look at new assets featuring the diminutive, gnome-like mad scientists.

• Guild Wars 2 video shows a battle with a dragon called Tequatl the Sunless

  Posted below the break is a Guild Wars 2 video, with ArenaNet’s Ree Soesbee setting the viewer up for the footage to follow. Said footage, which is really cool, features a battle against Tequatl the Sunless, a which is one of the dragon bosses in the game. Enjoy. Thanks, Wartower.de.

• Friday Shorts II: Bungie's Batman, WKCII, Fallout Boy, Your Highness, GW2

  More shorts are posted below to help get your weekend started. As for us? Well, ours doesn’t start until tomorrow but that just means we can get smashed on Sunday whereas you can’t. We laugh at your fate.

• Guild Wars 2: "MMOs at this point are stuck in a rut"

  ArenaNet believes the MMO genre’s apparently endless malaise can be broken with some heady innovation in Guild Wars 2. Steph Nunneley details gaming’s most exciting online prospect.

• Guild Wars 2: Charr week ends with a nice backstory on the ferocious cat warriors

  Ree Soesbee, designer and back story writer for Guild Wars 2, has closed out the week of the Charr with a very interesting, and good read on the scary cat people.

• Weekly MMO round up: WoW's Pirate Day, Aion provides a server listing, EVE is everywhere

  Loads of news this week in MMO land, kiddos. Massively is giving away Beta keys to Star Trek Online, Aion dropped GameGuard and launched its first server, Pirates are everywhere, and Sony is giving you double station cash this weekend. There is also news concerning Champions Online, EVE, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, Warhammer, Runes of […]