Guild Wars add-on announced

NCsoft today officially announced Guild Wars: Factions, the second "chapter" to Guild Wars, an online role-playing game for the PC. In addition to more skills, monsters, and missions, new features that will be added include two professions (Ritualist and Assassin) and the player-versus-player continent of Battle Isles. NCsoft and developer ArenaNet are inviting Guild Wars players to sample Factions during the Guild Wars: Factions Global Free-for-All PvP Weekend taking place January 20-22. For details and an access key, head over to Guild Wars' official Web site. More details on Factions are available in GameSpot's Q&A with ArenaNet's Gaile Gray.