Trying to keep the game as much balanced as possible and the players happy or at least busy doing something, it is now the mages turn to have their talents updated.
IGN published a clean summary of the incoming changes. Thanks again to Perseus for the link!

So, are those pets working or not. They were patched, then fixed, then rolled back and now patched again. Patch 16.2.3 should finally fix all of your pets problems. Good luck!

In todays Everquest 2 patch there are a few changes affecting Blackburrow, with new "challenges and rewards" and also content for solo players. The patch also introduces a new raid zone, The Halls of Seeing and a few more things.

From the UO Website: "Beginning on August 1st, 2006, the grace period for houses on inactive accounts will be changed from 90 days to 30 days. If your account remains inactive for more than 30 days, your house will begin a decay period of about 5 days. If you reactivate your account within the initial 30-day grace period or before your house finishes its 5-day decay period, then it will return to its original status."

No real problem for me, my 18X18 is  gone long time ago. *sighs*

Our reporters Falckeneint of Crushridge and Perseus of Hakkar send us a note about the new World of Warcraft plans for the future. Most of them are related to server performances, queues and technical problems. It seems like we have to wait for E3 to have some news about content.

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.

Something new to play with today, even if it is just the usual fixing and tweaking.

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.

I find really interesting Van Hemlock posts about his decision to play some more EVE again, but trying this time the real game, in non secure space. Give - them - a read

This seems like the last round of testing before deploying officially version 1.23 for WWII Online. This patch will introduce a spawn delay to balance the sides better, improved graphical model for infantry, Unmanned Mobile Spawns, persisten smoke granades (don't ask me) and more. Here are the full notes: