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Warhammer Online Vault has posted their first column by author Stuart Renton who is working on a Warhammer novel. He writes in a new column about his experiences with Warhammer lore and more.

World of Warcraft Vault has word from Blizzard about Shattrath City in the Outlands, and their plans not to add an Auction House. They also have word of an interview with Blizzard Senior Community Manager Paul Della Bitta, and news on a charity support.

ShackNews had a chat with Turbine CEO Jeff Anderson about the future of LotRO and the state of the industry:

Shack: Now, I’ll be perfectly honest with you and say that I was skeptical about Lord of the Rings Online at first, mainly because I saw such a huge challenge in differentiating your game from both […]

WarCry have posted an interview with Pål Frogner Hansen the Project Director on Age of Conan, with a decided technical flavour:

WarCry: What is your workflow?
Pål Frogner Hansen: Wow! That is a massive question. Doing an MMO like ours, you have a whole lot of different workflows. We have more than 100 developers on the team, […]

Guild Wars Vault has news on the end of the inaugural season of the $100,000 tournament and word on the winners.

World of Warcraft Vault has word on the beginning of the second Arena season in World of Warcraft.

Star Wars Galaxies Vault has posted news on Star Wars Galaxies updates including beast master changes.

The Official Turbine site take a peek at some of the ways that you can pass the time socially in The Lord of the Rings Online:

Pie-eating Contest
There isn’t a Hobbit alive that would turn down a challenge to a pie-eating contest, but anyone can compete in this delicious diversion! Head on over to the Bree […]

The latest state of the game article over at Guild Wars looks at preparing for the Automated GvG Tournament Metagame:

After spending weeks perfecting your team’s GvG build on the open ladder, your guild finally decides to risk the rating points and signs up for its first Automated Tournament. After paying five Tournament Tokens to Tolkano, […]

Amongst other news, Mythic have some job openings:

Looking to get into the industry? Love Dark Age of Camelot and want to personally help make it the best game it can be? Have some writing and scripting skills? Well this could be your lucky day! We have four openings on the Dark Age of Camelot team […]

blizzaed has announced in the WoW forums that it has filed a federal lawsuit against a gold-selling organisation:

As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in