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April Fool's Day prank makes Guild Wars 2 characters have huge heads

Developer ArenaNet marks the occasion with "200 percent more cranium" for all characters.

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Did you log into Guild Wars 2 today and find something a little...off with the characters in Tyria? No reason to worry, as developer ArenaNet deliberately increased the head size for all characters 200 percent to effectively turn them into bobble-heads as an April Fool's Day prank

"Unnamed studies indicate that MMO players feel more emotionally engaged with characters that have heads, which is why every character in Guild Wars 2 has one," ArenaNet says. "If players like characters that have heads, logic dictates that they'll love characters with freakishly large heads…"

Check out the Vine below for the insanity going on inside Guild Wars 2 right now.

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