Guild Wars 2

ArenaNet's Halloween festival runs until November 3, bringing back the Labyrinth, the Clock Tower, Ascent to Madness, and the Mad King's Raceway, with new rewards and four new guild and housing decorations.

• —Runs until November 3.
• —The (Annual) Halloween Rituals meta-achievement awards the Primeval King's Wrappings and a choice of Fog Machine weapon.
• —Deft Lahar in Lion's Arch unlocks Plush Zhaia, Plush Mad King, Foreboding Raven Tree, and Foreboding Raven Roost as guild and housing decorations.
• —Mad King Thorn runs his game in Lion's Arch every two hours; Reaper's Rumble and Lunatic Inquisition return.

ArenaNet folded Living World into the base game and expansions: Season 2 is now free with a level 80 character, and seasons 3 to 5 come with the expansions. Existing owners get missing episodes automatically.

• —Season 2 joins Season 1 as free for any account with a level 80 character.
• —Seasons 3 and 4 are part of the Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire bundle; Season 5, The Icebrood Saga, comes with End of Dragons.
• —Seasons are no longer sold separately.
• —The Starter Pack adds a Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, five Teleport to Friend devices, and two Black Lion Chest Keys, mailed to past buyers as well.

ArenaNet will run the first beta of a new World vs. World Borderlands map on November 10. Themed on Ascalon during the Searing, it will eventually replace the Green Alpine Borderlands and is shown in unfinished gray-box form for feedback.

• —The first beta begins November 10; ArenaNet gave no end date.
• —The map is themed on pre- and post-Searing Ascalon and will replace the Green Alpine Borderlands.
• —It is shown in gray-box state, with non-final art, so layout and objective placement can change from player feedback.
• —No new mechanics are in the first beta; ArenaNet plans to add unique mechanics in later tests.

The Visions of Eternity finale brings six story chapters, the Leyspring Hollows map, a ten-player raid encounter and the Solitary Throne fractal. ArenaNet dated everything after it out to Wintersday.

• —Six story chapters, the Leyspring Hollows map, and the Nexus of Eternity as both a Convergence and a ten-player raid.
• —A new fractal, Solitary Throne, takes groups of up to five.
• —Challenge Modes for all three open on 29 September; the raid's Legendary Mode follows on 13 October.
• —The roadmap runs to Wintersday on 8 December, with a skills-and-balance update and a WvW map beta on 10 November.