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We have completely updated our Mythos image gallery with all officially released screenshots from production and from the closed beta.

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The folks at Mythos have released a short trailer giving a few hints into the soon-to-occur open beta. While not long, it should definitely give fans something to think about while they await the official announcement. Click below to check it out.

The last in a ten part series of articles outlining the lore of Westgate has been posted at the official forums. This time the focus of the article is on the Church of Lathander.

A Call to Arms - The Response of the Church of Lathander

Lathander is the most blessed god of the dawn. And I, Obid Teltas, govern this temple in his name. Together, Lathander and I shall smite the evil festering in the bowels of Westgate! Then the people shall chant my name! Er, and that of Lathander.

- Obid Teltas, Priest of Lathander

Click through to read the specifics of the Church for the Mysteries of Westgate module.

Allakhazam.com has an interview with Thom Terrazas about the state of the game and improvements:

Allakhazam: Assuming that you are also a player, if there was one thing you could add to Vanguard - even if, as a developer, you do not see it as being feasible? And why that one thing?

Thom: This one I had to think about for a while. It seems like almost anything is possible to create inside games these days, but I think it would be very cool to put in more "side" games. It probably makes more sense to do this within your guild house or just your house that you can do with your buddies. Games like checkers, chess, cards, poker, etc... Being able to pass the time away, playing cards and drinking your favorite brew with the people you spend hours with every week sounds like a nice getaway when you're not being chased by lions, tigers and... ok, I won't say it, but you get the picture.

Head over to Allakhazam to read the rest.

There's a new concept art gallery in the Champions Online world. Featuring some artwork regarding the origins of some of the characters, the concept art is done in comic book style.

Get another look at the origins of your favorite Champions Online characters ... in comic form!

Concept art origin pages for Defender, Doctor Destroyer, Menton and Ironclad are now available.

It's dandy looking stuff so head over and take a look!

The Camelot Herald has been updated with the news that changes are forthcoming to the Ghost Keep Event:

Based on observation and feedback, we've made the following changes to the Ghost Keep Event:

• The RP/BP reward for participating in the defense of the Ghost Keep during the summoning phase has been decreased slightly.
• The repeatable maintenance quests offered when the Ghost Keep has been summoned have had RP/BP rewards added to them.

A walkthrough of the event will be posted to the Herald soon to help understand the different phases of the event and how you can aid your realm secure their own Ghost Keep and keep it!

When the walkthrough becomes available, we'll let you know.

Event planners for this summer's Fan Faire are looking for fan ideas for panel discussions.

Since we have recently announced Fan Faire, I thought it would be a great time to ask the people planning on attending what type of panels that they would like to see. We always have the typical spells, content, and general topics that we cover but we all always open to suggestions! If you have always had an idea that you thought would work into our format please send in your comments.

I would love to see a few of the panels be more interactive. Thoughts???

Head over and give them your thoughts.

The latest 1.4 version of Pirates of the Burning Sea is available on the testbed. Developers have let players in on the details for helping test this puppy:

As you've probably seen in Taelorn's recent devlogs, patch 1.4 has a lot of important changes to careers, especially for Pirates. Now that this patch is ready for testing, my job is to be sure you're going to like it. We need players like you to play with these new changes and give us feedback before we release them into the live game. If you've never played on Testbed before, check out this post for information about how to get started.

This month on Testbed, we're focusing heavily on the new career skills and the early game experience.

Head to the PotBS site for the rest of the details.

Massively is featuring a gameplay video outlining some of the changes to the Jedi Knight in Update 3 coming in the near future.

The update introduced major overhauls to the popular Jedi profession, and this short piece will make sure you're on the right page. You can watch and listen as outgoing Community Events guru Jason "Pex" Ryan talks us through the new Jedi expertise. Light Jedi are now fully supported in their role as tanks, while Dark Jedi have the ultimate in DPS abilities.

The video awaits at Massively.

PC IGN is featuring a progress report on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Editors got their hooks into content manager Destin Bales and discussed the beta test and end-game content.

According to Bales, "In our beta test we just did our first tier four campaign testing. That's where we artificially level players to the highest level in the game, give them access to the highest content in the game, and said go fight through these zones. We also did a one-night test of an invasion of Altdorf, which is our Empire capital city. We let people go in, burn down the city, kill the king, capture rewards, sort of the culmination of the entire RvR game.

"Our next phase of beta is going to release the Greenskin and Dwarf tiers one through three content, and that will allow players to see stuff they haven't seen in almost a year. We've been focusing heavily on the Empire and Chaos and recently the Elves in beta, and so now we're going to give players a chance to see the Greenskin and Dwarves and see all the improvements and polish we've made to those areas."

Check out the rest of the article at IGN.