Guild Wars Book Series

If you're as hooked on Guild Wars games as the GW2 Blog Krewe are then you'll be happy to learn ArenaNet have hooked up with Pocket Books to publish a three book series of GW novels. (This isn't to be confused with the Guild Wars 2 ART BOOK - which is a different but absolutely spectacular piece of work).

The three book series fills in the story gap (250 years worth) which exists between the end of the original Guild Wars series of games (Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, Eye of the North) and the upcoming, and highly anticipated, MMORPG Guild Wars 2.

Over the years we've seen a number of novels based on computer games such as Doom, Halo and the Command and Conquer series released, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that ArenaNet go down this road too.

The release date for the first novel, "Ghosts of Ascalon", is July 27, 2010 .

The second novel, "Edge of Destiny", is to be written by the talented J. Robert King though a release date for that book is not yet available. Fingers crossed it would be out by Christmas which would give current Guild Wars players even more to whet their appetite with.

It's would also make a better gift than the cheap deodorant and too-small socks I received last year from a certain relative who shall remain nameless...