This evening, the official Guild Wars 2 site underwent a slight redesign.

The new redesign is more in line with what we have seen on the official forums during the beta weekend, and it also provides a handy login function right from the main screen. They also provided us with a nice, new, countdown timer which confirms that the game will be opened to prepurchasers at midnight pacific time on August 25.

For those wishing to have one last look at the old site, here’s the old versus the new (click for big):