Today we get a new update from GW2′s Facebook page:

We know you are all very eager to begin the next Beta Weekend Event. Our community did an amazing job in the previous Beta Weekend Event and stress tests, providing our team with great feedback. Our goal has always been to do this right and treat the beta testing process as what it should be: a way to work out the bugs beforehand and give you the best game we possibly can at launch.

With that as our goal, the development team is working extremely hard to address your current feedback and prepare Guild Wars 2 for the next Beta Weekend Event. Once they’re finished, they’ll be ready for you to head back to Tyria for the next phase of testing.

We’re going to adhere to a monthly schedule as much as feedback and development allow, so it may be a little more or a little less each time, depending on how things progress. For now, we will have more information on upcoming Beta Weekend Events and stress tests as soon as we’re able, and we thank each of you for being an important part of the creation of Guild Wars 2. ~RB2

Since I am well-versed in dev speak, you can interpret this message as, “We’re not quite yet ready to have BWE2 yet.” Reading the tea-leaves, I would guess that the next beta weekend event is coming the first or second week of June. Arenanet hasn’t given us a set schedule yet other than once a month. Perhaps with “little more or a little less” than a month apart we might see two events in June.

New screenshot from Arenanet for our long awaited 500k Like milemark. From GW2′s Facebook page:

Ding! We’ve reached 500,000 Facebook followers and have the long-promised epicness for you: Destiny’s Edge, together and taking on a foe that you’ll find familiar. This is an actual in-game screenshot embellished by Daniel Dociu.

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We’ve reached our milestone of 490,000 Facebook fans, and we’ve got some brand-new art for you! Did you find the Shadow Behemoth big and intimidating? This Undead Globster Boss might make him look a little tamer. This early concept art piece by Matthew Barrett depicts a hulking maritime undead boss. Did this monstrosity make it into the final game? You’ll have to play to find out.

Who doesn’t love the artwork for Guild Wars 2?

Guild Wars 2 has reach a new Like milestone and has released a new piece of concept art. Keep liking them so we can get more!

Today we get a short developer’s blog on how and why Arenanet uses social media to help promote their game. We’ve seen recently with their Facebook campaign for more likes as the PR campaign begins.

We’re days away from the first Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event, and it’s no exaggeration to say that we’re as eager as all of you for the event to begin. While the developers are busy preparing the game, we here on the community team are keeping busy by keeping all of you, our Guild Wars family, informed, with help from a few popular social media outlets.

Hundreds of thousands of Guild Wars 2 fans have become followers on Facebook, and we’ve worked hard to make our fan page a reflection of the community we want in Guild Wars 2: a place where newcomers can learn the basics from longtime fans, where everyone can share their excitement over Guild Wars 2, and where we can share news, fansite projects, art, and more.

Source: Guild Wars 2 on the Social Media Front

“Eir Swimming”

For hitting the 460,000 fan milestone, we give you some gorgeous concept art of Eir: “This piece by concept artist Jamie Ro shows the iconic norn heroine Eir Stegalkin making an underwater discovery.”

The more Likes GW2 gets, the more concept art they will put out. Give them a Like now! With every 10,000 likes they will release a new image.

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If you’ve signed up for the Guild Wars 2 beta, you should of gotten an email saying to head over to Facebook and “Like” them for a look at an exclusive never-seen-before beta footage! Get a quick glimpse of some awesome WvW Siege gameplay. We’ve snagged a few shots of the video in case you can’t view the video.