Asura Mini Pet

Just letting people know that a picture of the new mini pet is up on www.guildwars.com

IMHO its ugly as sin. Why can't we get something that looks decent with these PC gamer mini codes? Eh...maybe next time. I for one wont be buying the mag now.

I'm not too keen on him. cheekbones make him look a bit less cute than he could. But he's not horrible.

Hmm, perhase "Playable races include Humans, Charr, Norns, Asurians and Sylvarians." has a bit more credence?

post pictures of norns and sylvarians

I think it's cute...."See how far you can kick it" cute, but cute.

the lowdown..




Players will get the opportunity to adopt a brand new, exclusive miniature, the Asura, by purchasing a copy of selected game magazines in North America and Europe. We've managed to capture an image of one of these elusive little creatures, and you can check it out here. The list of regional publications, and their shelf dates, is available here. Several of our media partners will be running more than one feature about Guild Wars, so we will expand the regional publication list to provide additional details as they become available.

United States PC Gamer 161 – May April 3, 2007
France Joystick 193 – May April 21, 2007
Germany PC Games 06/07 – May April 25, 2007
Italy The Game Machine 221 – May April 26, 2007
United Kingdom PC Zone 181 – June April 26, 2007
Denmark PC Player May April 26, 2007
Czech Republic / Slovakia Level 152 – May May 3, 2007
Greece PC Master Magazine 210 – April March 27, 2007
Romania Level 117 – May April 19, 2007
Russia Navigator Igrovogo Mira 120 – May May 15, 2007
Serbia Gameplay 18 – May May 5, 2007
South Africa New Age Gaming Magazine Volume 9 Issue 16 - May April 25, 2007

Way too cutesy and cartoonish for Guild Wars. Doesn't bode well for GW2 at all.

Asura minipet....if the Asurians are a new supposed 'race' is this we will expect a few years in the future?


To be honest it looks like a half elf albino creature that I flushed down my toliet.......


rofl...uglyiest minipet ftw

wth is that? lol

Less than a month till I pick up my PC Gamer.
Cannot wait, its freaky looking but I gotta have me some minis

Yea, but we haven't seen an angry asurian yet.

sod the asura, i'm looking at the background

tis a underground setting, chains and stuff like SF

Bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail? xD

They are getting ready for GW: The Animated Childrens Film, this guys gonna be the main characters side kick I hear... :P

Seriously though, it does look a bit out of place compared to everything else in GW so far. Guess will just have to see what ANet has in store for us...

haha yep.

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pink Stitch? nah.. it's not THAT bad. Different races can be very cool as long as the quality of the character creation doesn't go down. If we end up having, say, 1/2 the amount of armor since they need to make a set for each race, that would blow..

notice it looks much bigger than a normal mini PEST.........maybe is actually does something? pick stuff up?

That looks more like a creature from Star Wars than Guild Wars

Kinda cute though...I wouldn't mind having one, it's different.

To quote Mr. Horse from Ren & Stimpy: "No Sir, I don't like it."

This does confirm the existence of the race of Asurians, but I am still skeptical of it being a playable race.
It is an interesting turn for Anet though, we haven't really had any sort of fantasy style creatures before.



The mini Gray Giant is about knee-high too.

he actually reminds me of the little slave guy in Harry Potter. I forget his name and which movie it was.