The Guild Wars site has updated with new videos in the Competitive Videos section showing off more competitions in the game, as well as extensive details on the features and content of Nightfall, the next Guild Wars game.

NCSoft has announced the official City of Heroes/Villains Veteran Rewards Program, where longtime players are rewarded for their participation in the game. Check in to see what it’s all about.

EverQuest II has released a new Dev Chest. The dev chest looks at the EQII forums and pulls out interesting threads and posts made by the game’s developers:

Sometimes it’s hard to find the buried treasures contained within the EverQuest II forums. The Dev Chest highlights useful, insightful, or entertaining posts from the developers that you may want to check out. Get your treasure maps and shovels ready–we’re about to discover a Dev Chest!

The debate over Venekor and his behavior problems have been a hot topic. Our very own Moorgard who never fears a great debate, chimes in to discuss the troublesome behavior.
What mysteries might Norrath hold to all who seek it’s secrets? Vhalen stops in to help answer some of these mysterious questions!
Echoes of Faydwer is a hot topic for many players and they want to know all about the new city amenities. Never fear as Owlchick swoops on in to answer some of these very questions.

For more on EQII click here.

Dark Age of Camelot has a new login poll for players to consider, as they plan to merge their Japanese server with an existing cluster and want your opinions on it:

We had a sad announcement to make to the players of our Japanese server, Akatsuki. For too many reasons to go into here, we believe that the best thing for those customers is to put an English language version of Akatsuki with an existing cluster.

We are not talking about a lot of people, and their peak play time is half a day different from the bulk of you guys anyway. Before we decide on the right cluster for these players, we wanted to get everyone’s two cents. Therefore, there’s a log in poll about to come up, and I thank you for giving us your opinion.

For more DAoC click here.

British print mag CVG serves up a preview of WoW: The Burning Crusade on their online site with particular emphasis on the races:

During the last year and a half, various posts have sprung up in the WOW forums debating the visual appeal of the Horde and Alliance avatars. One of the theories was that players (with a side-note towards female ones) weren’t choosing Horde characters because, well, they’re a bit nasty-looking. In the US, Alliance players far outweigh the Horde ones, although we evil-inclined Europeans tend to sway a little more towards the dark side.

It certainly looks like a factor Blizzard have taken onboard when developing the Alliance-based Draenei and the Hordish Blood Elves, their new characters for WOW’s expansion, The Burning Crusade. Frank Pearce, senior VP of product development at Blizzard, explains further: “The aesthetic look of our new characters was certainly a consideration and it wasn’t just a consideration for female players. In Asia, we’ve found that players of both genders are more attracted to the Alliance characters, which they find more visually pleasing. But mainly, we just wanted to focus on making the content fun and compelling, which will draw people to it regardless of their gender or culture.”

The Guild wars site has a newly-added Nightfall product page with the obvious content, as well as a the first in a series of Skills features:

Over the course of the next three days, we will be publishing an expanding page in our Guild Wars Nightfall section that provides insight into certain new skills, with a few developer comments about their potential uses and combinations. The Guild Wars Nightfall Skills Page today provides information about Mesmer, Paragon, and Dervish skills. Check back tomorrow for more skill info!

MMORPG.com’s second AGC article today is an interview on Star Trek Online:

AGC gave us the chance to catch up with the developers behind Star Trek Online. Lead Designer Glen Dahlgren and Executive Producer Daron Stinnett were joined by their recently hired Lead Systems Designer John Yoo at the conference.

Yoo was the Powers Lead on Cryptic Studio’s City of Villains and Items Designer for Blizzard’s World of WarCraft. His hiring represents a larger trend at Perpetual Entertainment as they bring more and more experienced MMORPG developers into the fold. Currently, the Star Trek Online team is up to 35 full-time developers, despite the early state of the game.

The upcoming EQ2 expansion ‘Echoes of Faydwer’ has been previewed at Games Radar:

While the balance of content is geared toward challenging content for high-level characters, the lack of a level-cap increase points to an emphasis on new adventures for players of every level - including brand new players.

The once-destroyed city of Kelethin is the starting point for all players, and this ancient, ancestral home of the Wood Elves will likely be a hauntingly familiar place for old school EverQuest players.

Direct your browser of choice to MMORPG.com for the first in a series of new and exclusive Archlord screenshots.Source: MMORPG.com

Turbine has released a batch of new Lord of the Rings Online screenshots and a new monster render.

Check out the latest additions to the LOTRO Galleries and an additional new render in the Neekerbreeker profile!

Source: LoTRO

The team from TrustedReviews take a closer look at The Burning Crusdade, the upcoming expansion pack for Blizzard’s MMORPG monster, World of Warcraft.

First and foremost, The Burning Crusade allows WoW players to smash through that Level 60 ceiling, pushing the upper echelon to Level 70. Of course clawing up those extra ten levels isn’t going to be easy, but then I guess that’s the whole point. There will be new spells and abilities to learn above Level 60 – Mages for example, will have the chance to achieve invisibility. To facilitate your elevation to the heady heights of Level 70, you’ll have to take a trip though the Dark Portal and explore an all new continent called Outland.

Outland is stacked full of new dungeons aimed squarely at the Level 60 and above player. Obviously you’ll have a take a few friends along with you if you want to survive these new dens o