Oh, how I fondly remember the first beta weekend of Guild Wars 2 back in late April: the giant skirmishes, the 50+ player boss battles, and the final hour's OP'd wildlife missions. Well, we won't have to wait too much longer for another one of those awesome beta weekends!

ArenaNet announced that the second iteration of their beta weekends will be happening between Friday, June 8th at 12:00 PM PST and Sunday, June 10th at 11:59 PM PST. Also, players can expect that all of their previous characters from the first beta weekend have been carried over into this one, so they can pick up and play right where they left off.

The post also states how ArenaNet has been listening closely to player feedback from the first beta weekend and has made vast improvements to gameplay elements, including party movement into overflow servers, chat functionality, key bindings, and other stability and performance fixes.

To get in on the beta weekend, you must either have already pre-purchased the game through ArenaNet's online store, but you can also enter contests on the company's Facebook and Twitter pages to win beta keys for the weekend.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to open up my work availability for that weekend...