Guild Wars 3 is officially happening. ArenaNet Studio Head and Guild Wars 3 Game Director Colin Johanson took the stage at Summer Game Fest 2026 today to make it real: coming to PC, Steam, and PlayStation 5, with the first beta test planned for Fall 2027. You can wishlist it on Steam and the PlayStation Store right now, and sign up for the newsletter at guildwars3.com. Based on the state of the community at this particular moment, all of those servers are probably struggling.
Nobody expected this today. That sounds strange given how loudly the community had been speculating, but there is a real difference between expecting something and watching it actually happen. When Johanson walked out on that stage, the reaction was something else entirely.
It Was Always an Open Secret, Until Suddenly It Was Real
Guild Wars 3 has been sitting in the background as an open secret since March 2024, when NCSoft's acting chairman let it slip at an investor call that ArenaNet was working on it. ArenaNet responded to every subsequent enquiry with careful language about exploratory work. The community heard "yes" anyway.
The tease campaign this week did absolutely nothing to manage expectations....
