The third tarle of A Tale in the Desert is going to start tomorrow. Between the main changes comparing it with the second one:

• A new Events System that integrates Tests, Laws, Developer Chat Sessions, special contests, and other happenings.
• Principles - miniature versions of each Test. Complete each to increase your Level and open new paths.
• The Discipline of Harmony
• Unlockable Everything: Skills, Technologies, and now even Tests.
• Regional Chat

A new patch yesterrday for Toontown. Some toons were receiving no reward after defeating the Chief Justice, finally now everything should work as intended.

Some days ago Auto Assault received its first big patch since release.

Nidhogg provides us an interesting post about the current development status of Neocron. Players were waiting for this kind of information, they were complaining quite a lot on the forums about lack of communication.

From CRS: "While its not unusual for other online games to display as as many, or even more, players than WWII Online, they don't do so with the same raw PvP requirements. It's not unusual to see people warping and skating in Ironforge, nor is it uncommon to see people "departing" the ground when running up a rise or ramp in DAoC.

But in WWIIOL warping really matters. And the solution to warping is: show me less people or use more bandwidth."

Neocron should receive Patch #157 quite soon. We finally have some some news about this patch. First of all characters with the Wisdom of Ceres skill will have "newly textured power armors". These new versions of the power armors will be based on stats and requirements of the current ones.

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes joins the Sony Online Entertainment family.
Vanguard is a fantasy MMORPG developed by Microsoft Game Studios. At the moment it is still not clear if the game will be bart of the SOE All Access subscription plan.

Many thanks to Sidew for sending us this news. Whodigs is reporting that the Adult themed MMORPG Naughty America has been excluded from the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 expo because of its adult content.

SOE decided to rais the price for the All Access subscription from 21.99$ per month to 24.99 per month. SOE All Access is a particular subscription that lets you play Everquest, Everquest 2, Planetside, The Matrix Online and Star Wars Galaxies plus some more free special content.

Etherea: Dark Genesis sent the forth issue of their newsletter. The development has gone forth in the last weeks and the alpha launch is expected for this June.
If you want to know more about the game check our previous interview with the developers , or just read further for the text of the newsletter.