EverQuest II's upcoming eighth expansion, the Age of Discovery, was announced Thursday night at the Fan Faire community address, and we got some more interesting details during a panel. Departing from the traditional expansion format of a large amount of content with a few new features, the Age of Discovery will be packed with only features while Game Updates will continue to add more content to the game. The upcoming new class, Beastlord, was described more and the Freeport revamp was also touched on during the panel.

Continue on after the jump for detailed information on upcoming Game Updates and the expansion!

I'll admit: I'm not a big fan of Facebook games. To me, simplicity and ease of access are the two pillars of Facebook, and as a gamer who loves to be challenged, I'm sure you can see why Facebook games and I rarely get along. I am, however, always up to be proven wrong, so when END Games Entertainment's Scott Brown and Ryan Seabury invited me to a play session in their new Facebook game Vorp!, I decided to swallow my uncertainties to see if maybe, just this once, there might be something good on Facebook.

Wizards of the Coast just released Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 for PC/Steam, Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Network, and it's the perfect way to get both new and old players alike into the classic trading card game.

The ZAM team is full of Magic: The Gathering fans, including Wowhead's Miyari. She's been an avid player of the game for quite some time, from building physical decks to teaching her friends how to play using the original Duels of the Planeswalkers game. She's outlined all of the new features you'll find in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, so be sure to get all the details and her impressions after the jump! And don't forget to keep an eye out for the launch of the Magic 2012 Core Set next month.

To celebrate the release of Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, be sure to take our Magic: The Gathering Personality Quiz! What color are you? Green, which values growth and life? Red, which is all about fire? How about White, Blue or Black? Take our quiz and find out your color while learning about the decks you'll find in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012!

Keep reading below for Miyari's Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 preview!

While Chris "Pwyff" Tom usually handles our tours of the Dungeons & Dragons Online updates, this week I stepped up to the plate to take a look at Update 10's features with members of the Turbine team. Led by Design Director Ian Currie, Executive Producer Fernando Paiz and Producer Erik Boyer, I got a crash course on the latest content that is now live in the game for VIP members.

Keep reading after the jump for all the details from my personal tour of Update 10: Reign of Madness!

When it comes to any industry where a strong sense of creativity is integral to succeeding, sometimes the most difficult task isn’t about finding the greatest idea; rather, it’s about having the discipline and vision to carry that idea to the end. Take, for example, the story of Perpetual Entertainment, a company best known for developing two MMORPGs: Star Trek Online and Gods & Heroes. Unfortunately, these two games would never make it to launch under their original developer, and while the Star Trek license would be quickly scooped up by Cryptic Entertainment, it seemed that Perpetual Entertainment’s Gods & Heroes, a more thematically unique MMO set in Ancient Rome, was doomed to the realms of vaporware for good.

That is, until Heatwave Interactive, a small development studio based out of Austin, Texas, picked up the rights to Gods & Heroes last year and decided to give this game a new life. Now, after taking up the monumental task of creating something unique out of the abandoned foundation of a six-year-old project, not only has Heatwave Interactive managed to bring Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising into reality, but in just one short year of development, it’s managed to add a style that is distinctively its own. I decided to sit down with Anthony Castoro, CEO of Heatwave Interactive and executive producer of Gods & Heroes, to talk about the things they’ve done to make this MMO their own as they gear up for the game's official launch on June 21.

We stopped by Perfect World Entertainment’s E3 booth last week to get the scoop on three new titles premiering this year at the convention. Those new games are RaiderZ, Rusty Hearts and Blacklight Retribution. Keep reading after the jump for our impressions of each title, as well as gameplay trailers.

If you like what you hear about Rusty Hearts, be sure to grab one of our Rusty Hearts closed beta keys! The beta will kick off in July, so pick up your key now and be prepared to dive into this anime-inspired MMO.

One of my top priorities at E3 this year was to check out End of Nations. Produced by Trion Worlds, End of Nations is a new MMORTS being developed by Petroglyph Games. That’s significant because Petroglyph is comprised of former members of Westwood Studios, which is responsible for RTS masterpieces like Command & Conquer and Dune 2.

I’ve always been dubious about MMORTS games. Arguably, if you look at the market, the genre really doesn’t exist except in a theoretical sense. The last attempt at a big title, Sony Online Entertainment’s Sovereign, was canceled way back in 2003.

After getting a peek at End of Nations, I think we’re about to see MMORTS go from theory to reality. Keep reading after the jump to find out why.

I have a confession – getting the chance to see games in action before anyone else at E3 is a lot of fun, but sometimes the experience leaves you with more questions than answers. You’re drawn in by the gameplay and intrigued by the concept, but when games are still early in the development process, getting all the information you want out of the developers doesn’t always happen. Trion Worlds' upcoming MMO/shooter-hybrid Defiance is a great example.

We were at Trion's E3 booth to witness the unveiling of Defiance, and here’s what we know.

CCP made waves this past week at E3 when it announced that its forthcoming shooter DUST 514 is a PlayStation 3 exclusive. Conventional wisdom holds that when you’re developing a new title based off of an existing franchise, you don’t cut your existing playerbase out of the picture. Thankfully, I had the chance to stop by CCP’s booth at E3 and get the skinny on DUST 514 and find out what the PlayStation 3 announcement means for EVE Online fans.

Just when you thought that your weekly guild meetings couldn't get any more contentious, En Masse Entertainment's upcoming TERA looks to expand the role of politics in MMOs like never before. Want to dictate tax rates? Imprison your fellow players? Enable PvP across your territory? If you have the political will and support, you can make it happen.

But let's back up for a moment. TERA is an action MMO developed by Bluehole Studio and launched in Korea earlier this year. En Masse Entertainment is currently developing a North American version with no current release date. Billing itself as the first “true” action MMORPG, reflex and aim matter in TERA — it's not just about packing the right gear and stats, you need the right skills.

Now that we're caught up, keep reading after the jump find out what we learned at En Masse's impressive TERA booth (seen above) at E3!