This past weekend ANet held a GW2 beta for selected members of the press. To start the event off, ANet posted an entry on the ANet Blog about it:

http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-limited-beta-test-begins-today.

Quote:

Guild Wars 2 Limited Beta Test Begins Today! By Martin Kerstein February 17th, 2012 It starts today. Hundreds of invited players and press from around the world will be logging into Guild Wars 2 for a beta test weekend of high adventure, exploration, in-depth personal stories, and teeth-rattling combat. We love playing our game as much as we love showing it off to our fellow gamers, so damn near everyone at ArenaNet will be logging in this weekend to play alongside our beta testers. After this beta weekend we’re all going to have lots of great stories to tell about epic world vs world battles, hilarious NPC chatter, hidden wonders, narrow escapes, hard-fought victories, as well as moments of quiet awe in this magnificent handcrafted world. Next week, media will be posting their observations and videos online, so prepare yourself for a flood of information and gameplay footage. In a Dev Update right here on the ArenaNet Blog, Lead Designer Eric Flannum will discuss some of the changes players experienced during this beta weekend event. Plus, we’ll have some very specific information about an upcoming Guild Wars 2 beta event – I guarantee you will not want to miss it!

LOTS of info is coming out from this event. Much will be detailed on the GW2 Guru forums for sure, but I'm also finding a lot of info, reactions, YouTube links, etc., from the NeoGAF 'Guild Wars 2 Press Beta Event' forum thread.



Just giving a heads-up. Remember, if you find anything interesting, post it here in the GW2 sub-forum.

Oh god. The Yogscast were one of the invitees. They have videos up already. Time to put up with all of the incessant screaming because, despite that (minor) annoyance, Yogscast make great videos.


Here's Part 1 of the Yogscast Norn Starting Area video series. The rest of the parts are in the sidebar. Just continue on from there.

EDIT: Yogscast has also uploaded a Charr Starting Area video series. Might be doing starting area runs for all three races from the Press Beta Event (Norn, Charr, Humans) before it's all said and done.