Provenance Record

Clean, well-structured News piece (400 words, within the News range). Standard Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis scaffold. Appropriately conservative: it foregrounds the two structural facts (console debut, fall 2027 beta) and explicitly flags what was not disclosed (release date, pricing, business model, PS5-vs-PC launch timing).

Both source snapshots read from disk and integrity-verified (uncompressed sha256 of source-0.html.gz and source-1.html.gz both match manifest.json; status 200, no archive fallback). source-0 (PR Newswire, ArenaNet official release): CONFIRMED every official specific verbatim - 'June 5, 2026' / Summer Game Fest dateline; 'third entry... their first new game since 2012'; 'release globally on PC, Steam, and PlayStation 5, marking the first time a Guild Wars game will appear on home consoles'; 'first beta test is scheduled for fall of 2027'; 'Taking place over a thousand years before the events of the original game... Tyrian region of Orr, a vast wilderness frontier imbued with the world's magic'; 'Guild Wars 2 launched in 2012 on PC'; pricing/business-model not disclosed. The Colin Johanson quote ('Guild Wars 3 is a new era not just for ArenaNet and Guild Wars, but also for MMORPGs as a whole') is verbatim and the speaker/title ('Guild Wars 3 Game Director and ArenaNet Studio Head') is correct. source-1 (GamesRadar+): CONFIRMED the '14 years' gap framing and 'a modern evolution of the MMO' framing attributed to it (both verbatim in its headline); it does NOT mention PlayStation 5, and the article correctly does NOT attribute the platform/console claim to GamesRadar - that claim is anchored solely to the PR Newswire primary.

All specifics trace to a cited source; no hallucinations. Rule 2 (no unverified specifics) satisfied: the unconfirmed '1,200 years' figure is genuinely ABSENT - the article uses the PR's exact 'over a thousand years'. The franchise's '2005' original-launch detail (present in the PR's About section) was correctly dropped and does not appear. No claim rests on a bot-blocked outlet (Massively OP / GameSpot are not cited anywhere in the body).

APPROVE. The two headline claims under scrutiny - 'first console entry' and 'first new game since 2012' - and the Johanson quote all trace verbatim to the official PR Newswire release. Central thesis carried by both allowlisted outlets; both body URLs are present in article.sources (no provenance gap). No corrections needed.