Turbine releases a new video focusing on the Druid class in the upcoming Menace of the Underdark expansion scheduled to be released on June 25th.

GameBreaker.tv Legendary Episode 77 discusses the new World of Warcraft The Black Market auction house that sells rare or discontinued ingame items and mounts.

TankSpot's The Weekly Marmot discusses recently announced World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria Cross-Realm Zones

ArenaNet will be reserving all current Guild Wars names for the launch of GW2, and players attached to those names can then claim their reserved name in Guild Wars 2. You have to log into Guild Wars sometime in 2012, you have to claim your names in Guild Wars 2 by launch day, and you can't secure Guild Wars 2's single names (as Guild Wars forces you to make two-word names).

Source: http://www.arena.net/blog/reserving-your-character-name-for-guild-wars-2

Following the monster SWTOR Update 1.2 Bioware is promising a lighter and faster Update 1.3 that will focus more on quality-of-life features and less on new content.

What we know so far:

The main feature coming in SWTOR Update 1.3 is a Looking for Group (LFG) tool. As far as we know it will not be cross server. Players will be able to choose their role as well as if they want to queue up for Heroic Missions, Normal Flashpoints, Hardmode Flashpoints and Story Mode Operations. Choosing a random encounter will provide players with a daily reward.

Furthermore social gear will no longer be limited to light armor, the armor type will adapt based on the class wearing it (this may extend to other armor types in the future). You will be able to add augment slots to existing gear using the modification tables no one currently uses. There will be new additions to the Legacy system currently listed in the Coming Soon Legacy tab.

Some wild guesses:

Ranked Warzones may be coming in 1.3 but we have not seen any confirmation of this. There is also a possibility of a new HK-51 companion (we at least know the artwork is there). I would also guess we may get a new world event around the Update 1.3 release. Server populations are also a large issue in SWTOR as there were just too many servers created at launch to handle the initial login storm. I am guessing that 1.3 will have some server transfer/merges functionality although we do not have any details.

What I would like to see:

One of the biggest issues I have with SWTOR is server populations. There are lots of people playing SWTOR but they are spread out between too many servers. If you log into some servers outside of 6PM-8PM it can be very challenging to make a Flashpoint group. An LFG tool will not change that. Bioware has to solve this somehow if the game is to continue to attract players. The 2 easiest solutions would be a cross server LFG tool or server transfer/merges. For me this is a crucial moment for SWTOR and a solution to this issue is already overdue.

I would also like to see some additional content in a form of a new warzone or flashpoint, however I am not holding my breath.

Release Date

So far all we know is that Update 1.3 is scheduled for sometime in the beginning of summer. I am hoping this means June. My official guess is the last week of June.

GameBreaker.tv The Republic focuses on the answering some of the fan questions.

TERA is rather unique compared to other MMOs in that it has a political system where players can run for office to become a Vanarch. Vanarchs manage their province for 3 weeks. To become a Vanarch a player must:

• Be at least level 50
• Be leader of a level three guild with at least 20 members
• Pay a candidacy fee of 3,000 gold and 100 Catharnach awards

Once elected and appointed, vanarchs have a number of responsibilities to their provinces including

• Raise or lower individual tax rates on several categories of transactions. Any gold you earn as a result is yours to keep!
• Open specialty shops, with items not available anywhere else.
• Add skill trainers in remote locations, allowing characters to stay in your province and spend more gold more often.
• Upgrade the abilities of stamina restoring clerics—something which may come in handy if somebody dies on your watch due to "friendly fire."
• Enable access to trade brokers on certain continents.
• Adjust the PvP settings for your province on certain continents (and only on PvP servers, of course).

To learn more about TERAs political system visit: http://tera.enmasse.com/game-guide/endgame/political-system

Late last year, CCP Games made a promise to its players:

"CCP will be launching each and every one of our subscribers who have a paying EVE account as of 23:59 GMT on December 31, 2011… into space itself."

That promise was kept last week when CPP staff and students from the University of Reykjavik launched an EVE capsule replica containing the names of Eve Online subscribers into the stratosphere. Check out this great video showing the capsule rising from the ground to a low orbit over Iceland

Does Blizzard do that for you?

Source: http://www.ccpgames.com/skywardsphere

RIFT three faction PvP will be available on the Public Test Shard on Thursday, 17-May @ 4:00PM PDT (11:00PM GMT).

Conquest PvP will allow players to engage in massive, cross-shard battles. Players will align with one of three new factions (Dominion, Oathsworn & Nightfall), earn rewards and bonuses for your team and earn bonuses that can be used outside of Conquest. Crafters will also play a vital role in every Conquest battle.

This looks to be very similar to the Guild Wars 2 World vs. World PvP, however that does not make it any less exciting for existing RIFT players wanting to do some cross-server PvP. Excellent job Trion, this actually makes me want to log into RIFT tonight.

Official Announcement

Public Test Shard Getting Started

Curse is a mods/addons management tool that is extremly popular amongst World of Warcraft players. Curse also supports addons for many popular MMOs including Rift, Age of Conan and Warhammer Online. Today we learned that Curse has now integrated more than 25 World of Tanks mods into their database.

To see a list of available WoT mods visit: http://www.curse.com/wot-mods/worldoftanks