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It's always interesting to get a Developer's point of view from E3. Is it as crazy for them as it is for us? Absolutely! Read it in the latest Dev Diary to come from Pirates of the Burning Sea.

E3 is a beast. 60,000 sweaty gamers descend on Los Angeles to compete for swag, face time with devs, and the glory of seeing new stuff first. Over in the NVIDIA booth, six of us from Flying Lab -- myself, Rusty, Isildur, Aether, BSharp, and Heidi -- demoed Pirates of the Burning Sea to everyone who walked up, including press and business contacts.

Get it right here.

Yarrrr!

There are updates to the Bestiary for Dark and Light.

For example, for centuries, fond of their mounts, the humans refused to change the name of the Dodos and the Ranchos, and nothing came of it! Even the proposition of “Dod’O”, although close and corresponding to the new rules of naming (race’ sub race) were stoically refused. The Dodo and the Rancho, therefore, are the only creatures to have conserved their ancestral name from the humans.

The Zoologists counted nearly 250 creatures in the world.

You can read it in its entirety here.

Have you read our E3 preview? No? Wha wha what? You can find it here. Read RadarX's funny commentary. You'll be glad that you did.

Front page clear as day is a link to our TCoS article. I'm so proud I'm getting a little misty. Take a moment amoungst yourselves. Anyway onto the news. Keep your eye out for this game. I wasn't kidding when I said that it was going to be big. It's so bloody beautiful I can't wait to get my hands on it.

We've just finished our second Dev Chat! Thanks to everyone taking part in this great session. We enjoyed answering your questions and we hope you got a some valuable new information. You have not been able to particpiate in this chat? Don't worry! The log is available on our forums. Simply follow the comments link to our forums.

Make sure to check out our upcoming Newsletter next week for the subject of Dev Chat #3.

More Chronicles of Spellborn News!

This game rocked my socks off. I can't tell you how exhilirating the combat looks. With that said, Gamespot has a Tabula Rasa impression of their own.

The game is a blend of shooter action (you can switch between third-person and first-person perspectives, depending on your playing style) and online role-playing. Don't worry if you lack lightning reflexes, though, because the game is designed to appeal to those who don't necessarily like twitch gameplay, thanks to certain features such as auto-aiming, which makes locking onto a target easier. Meanwhile, the game will have role-playing calculations in the combat. If you put the reticle over a target and hit it, you'll pretty much be guaranteed a hit, but the game will calculate how much damage you did. There are going to be dozens and dozens of weapons--including energy, incendiary, poison, and more--and enemies will be vulnerable to particular types of damage, so you'll need to make constant tactical decisions about what to use in battle. We got to play as a heavy-duty soldier type, armed with multiple rocket launchers as well as various magic-style special abilities, such as a particularly nasty chain lightning ability. The way in which the game combines both science fiction and fantasy conventions isn't entirely unfamiliar but seems unique all the same.

NCSoft came to the table this year with an outstanding lineup. Color me impressed.