Guild Wars 2 has been released, recent updates to game mechanics, the social game that isn’t so social and so much more!

• The game has launched!
• If you pre-purchased the game not through buy.guildwars2.com, make sure you apply the SEPARATE game code to your account. BWE access codes and live game codes are different!
• Sound and vision mag talks with audio director James Ackley http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/article/sv-interview-guild-wars-2-audio-director-james-ackley
• GW2 crew hosting launch events this Saturday in NY, Orlando, Austin, LA, and Seattle http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/events
• Time magazine is very impressed with GW2 so far http://techland.time.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-its-the-pinball-machine-of-mmos/ http://techland.time.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-sales-one-million-pre-served-record-400000-playing-at-once/
• Before the game was even technically out it hit 400,000 concurrent users, a record for pre-launch http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-hits-400k-concurrent-users-before-launch/
• A few errors are going on, if you see one check out this site for common issues and fixes http://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8994
• Wednesday Status
  
  http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/z1poz/guild_wars_2_status_wednesday_august_29/