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Arena.Net's John Peters has written an extensive look at the Attribute and Traits that will ship with Guild Wars 2. The blog post goes into great detail about the differences between the two and why the dev team feels like traits aren't just a grand theoretical idea but are a way to make a player's character their own.

As a player, the new trait system has made me think harder when building a character and has made me really excited every time I hit a level over 11.

 

For the first time, traits don’t feel like just a great theoretical idea. They feel like the system they were meant to be—one that makes my warrior mine. Do I put 30 points in Defense, 30 in Tactics, and 10 in Discipline, to maximize survivability and major traits? Maybe a less traditional build with 26 points in Strength, 26 in Mastery, and 18 in Discipline would work better for my play style. The choices are actually staggering at times, but don’t worry, you’ll have hundreds of hours to turn the knobs to your heart’s content.

Treat yourself to a great Tuesday read on the Guild Wars 2 site.

Again, thanks to PCGamer, they've done a great write up AND video about the graphics settings for GW2

Enjoy here:  http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/guild-wars-2-graphics-settings-walkthrough/

and for those too lazy to link click 😀

Guild Wars 2 is pretty, everyone knows that. But it’s also designed to scale down smoothly so that the game can run on lower-end machines as well. In this video, Gavin and Josh walk you through every graphics option available in the beta, and show you step-by-step how they effect the visual fidelity of the game in a variety of settings.

We have the new Windows 8 lock screen in Windows 8 developer preview and now as Windows 8 consumer preview is just around the corner, the chinese site has posted the screenshot of new Windows 8 lock screen background. The screenshot shows the new default coral wallpaper. Here is how the lock screen looks like-

Further the site has posted screenshot of the Windows installer drive icon. Here is how the icon looks like-

You can see from the screenshot the new Windows 8 logo above the disk icon.

We are further getting reports from various sources that Windows 8 consumer preview has been uploaded to Microsoft servers couple of days back and the build string of this build is 6.2.8250.0.winmain_win8beta.120217-15. The build string states that the build was compiled on February 17.