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If you create a villain, does that make you a villain as well?
GameSpot chatted with Jack Emmert of Cryptic Studios about the upcoming City of Heroes standalone addition, City of Villains. We have no information confirming that Bob Geldoff immediately announced a
live concert to raise awareness of this issue after reading the following:

"After letting you create your very own superhero and save a virtual world in the online role-playing game City of Heroes, NCsoft and developer Cryptic Studios are looking to put the shoe on the other foot with the upcoming expansion pack, City of Villains. As you can probably guess from the name, this time around you will have the fun of creating a supervillain and carrying out missions to amass wealth, power, or infamy. And since you'll be playing online with up to thousands of other players, each controlling a unique superhero or supervillain, the stage is set for spectacular battles as good and evil clash. To get the latest details on the current state of the game, we caught up with Jack Emmert, the creative director of developer Cryptic Studios. City of Villains is scheduled to launch this fall."

You can read the entire City of Villains Interview with Jack Emmert at GameSpot.

Parrot and Eye-Patches, what could go wrong?
A Pirates of the Burning Sea developer's log has been posted at the official site. After a long and brutal sword fight we came away with information that lead to this:

"To talk about skills, first we have to talk about archetypes. One of our goals has always been to ensure that we had interesting and useful things for every ship to do, so that choosing a sloop or a cutter wasn't automatically a poor decision, and so that rated ships were not the only worthwhile choice in the game. We feared the world implied by ensuring everyone had the potential to sail powerful ships - inevitably, the West Indies would be wall-to-wall 74s. We sat down to ask ourselves some questions about how we saw combat being structured, and after a lot of back and forth, we came up with five possible roles that ships could play in a fight: Scouts, hunters, dreadnoughts, support, and siege."

You can read the entire Pirates of the Burning Sea Developer's Log at The Official Site.

Cars and Cannons. What could go wrong?
Our Auto Assault Roadhouse coverage Part #1 is posted! Patrick Swayze eat your heart out. Highly placed individuals atop flag poles don't think for a minute this wasn't written:

"The good folks at NCSoft and NetDevil were kind enough to include me as part of their first "Roadhouse Session". We all acted like Patrick Swayze, starting bar fights, dancing rather dirtily and riding mechanical bulls. When the hard work was done, we really got down to business. The business of Auto Assault. The business of Characters: Creation, Stats and Levelling up."

You can read the entire Auto Assault Interview at AutoAssault.TenTonHammer.com.

Conan the MMOGamarian.
RPGVault has an Age of Conan interview posted. We are pretty sure that they wrote this:

"Gaute Godager introduces us to Funcom's fusion of single- and massively multiplayer within the famed franchise"

You can read the entire Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Interview at RPGVault.