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NCsoft and Paragon Studios have announced the release of a second wave of content for the City of Heroes Issue 20: Incarnates expansion. Among other things Incarnates Ascend features the new Keyes Island Incarnate Trial, new lore pets, new in-game merit rewards, and Team-Up Teleporter Expansions

The wait is over, Issue 20: Incarnates Ascend is now live!

Head over to the Patch notes section for a thorough read of all the goodness that this update brings into your hero/villain/Praetorian life! The brand new Keyes Island Incarnate Trial will pit high level characters against new challenging game systems and a signature Praetorian who won't capitulate so easily. And if you're more into fashion and aesthetics, start planning for those Rewards to spend your hard earned Astral and Empyrean Merits!

So go on ahead and ascend to greatness!

City Of Heroes Issue 20: Incarnates Ascend Overview

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Mystic Box, developer of Runespell: Overture, recently revealed the first round of closed beta testing for the game will begin today. The upcoming role-playing game combines elements of Poker/Yahtzee games with Power-Ups and Collectable cards.

Closed beta
The closed beta will start as of June 30, 2011 and will consist of two phases.
During the first phase all Closed Beta sign ups will get access to the game in small batches day by day. As Mystic Box is a small Indie team, this will allow for a controlled start of the Beta.

In the second phase the most involved testers will be allowed access to an extended preview version of the game(planned at July 10, 2011 onwards).

Save game Beta can be transfered to full game
By using the Steam cloud functionality the Beta testers will be able to take their results with them towards the full game after release.

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Ten Ton Hammer recently posted an interview with Blizzard Entertainment's Greg Street. The Lead Systems Designer for World of Warcraft discussed the content in the Rage of the Firelands patch including the new Dungeon Journal, his favorite boss battle, and increasing the randomness of daily quests.

So tell us about the Dungeon Journal.

GS: Well it was an amazing amount of work too. Originally we were going to just do the Firelands raid and then we thought we really should go back and do the two troll dungeons. Then we’re like, well we nerfed the content like Blackwing Descent and Bastion of Twilight in the previous raid tier for 4.2 so maybe we should explain those fights too and finally we just decided to do all of Cataclysm. It was a ton of work but we just decided let’s just explain every fight and so that’s what we did.

Are you planning to eventually include older dungeons in the Journal?

GS: Yeah, we wouldn’t have done it if we couldn’t commit to eventually doing all of the content. I would say the next thing up would be to do the leveled up dungeons. There’s not a ton of demand for the other really complicated level 60 and 70 raids. The players that do that tend to solo it anyway.

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GamesRadar has released a new preview of TopWare's upcoming Pirates of The Flying Fortress, a new expansion scheduled to be released later this year for Two Worlds II. The fantasy RPG add-on will take players into the "gloomy pirate world" and will feature thunder and rain storms, new weapons, impact oriented horse armor, and all new boss encounters.

And they’ve focused upon seafaring, as you might guess from the whole pirates thing in the title. You’ll have a much greater focus on sailing in your little dingy, and pirates will be everywhere. We didn’t get to see a ton of the content, but what we saw was pretty great. The ocean at sunset as we sailed across was legitimately beautiful, and the massive pirate ships are impressive.

We also got to see a brief glimpse of an undead/graveyard level which looks similarly cool. Dueling with skeleton warriors looked like a blast, and we’re told there’s even an entire undead city below the ground complete with zombie strippers.

GamesRadar: Pirates Of The Flying Fortress Preview

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