GW3 CENTRAL · THE VAELWARDENS' VIGIL
Beta opens Fall 2027 on PC and PlayStation 5. No release date announced yet. Every official ArenaNet announcement since the Summer Game Fest 2026 reveal — dated, sourced, updated the hour anything changes. Watch with us from the deep of ancient Orr.
SCROLL — RISE FROM THE DEEP
When does Guild Wars 3 release? The GW3 beta opens Fall 2027 on PC and PlayStation 5. No exact release date has been announced. Revealed at Summer Game Fest on 5 June 2026, Guild Wars 3 is a buy-to-play MMORPG set in ancient Orr. Players are Vaelwardens — guardians of Orr's oldest guild.
A prequel set in ancient Orr. You are a Vaelwarden — guardian of the oldest guild, standing on the edge of ruin. Beta Fall 2027 on PC and PS5.
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A living, breathing Tyria: dynamic events, no subscription, and the elder dragon saga that shaped a generation. Free to play, still thriving.
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The award-winning original. The Eye of Janthir, the Prophecies campaign, and the birth of the guilds that define Tyrian history.
Guild Wars 1 hubThe first live gameplay ran behind closed doors — a Pre-Alpha build. Momentum-driven movement feeds an action combat layer, and ArenaNet confirmed tanks, healers and damage dealers.
Wccftech — Gamescom Q&AThe asura of Orr — an expeditionary lineage who left the Depths for magic, rougher and taller than their evolved descendants. Every tunnel they dug toward Orr collapsed.
guildwars3.com/newsTyria's bearkin — a faithless people of Janthir called south to Orr, and into a resurgence of belief in Koda the Creator, whom they hold to be Tyria's sole fashioner.
guildwars3.com/newsHold the line and control a fight's shape from the front.
Keep a group standing through long, punishing encounters.
Convert opportunity into the burst that ends a phase.
