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Well we reported that Smiling Gator had run out of funds and was ceasing development . However, (Isn't there always a however?) RPG Vault is running a story that is announcing that Game is BACK ON!

The net result is that, After the Fall of Twilight War, there is now a plan for its resurrection. We are very pleased to announce that Smiling Gator has concluded an agreement to license the Twilight War concept and sub-license Valve's Source engine to a new partner company, General Computers, to fund and continue development on our behalf.

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In our first Tit for Tat, Shayalyn and Ethec debate why men play female avatars in games. What is Tit for Tat you ask? Well it's a debate between our staffers. Or you could call it a debate between the sexes. You'll get a female and a male opinion in every article in this series.

In my EverQuest guild there was a beautiful high elf cleric named Insite. She was a kind, generous soul; always willing to lend a resurrection when a guild member met an untimely death. She also had a razor sharp wit, and a way with obscure references. We all loved her. Dwarves frequently humped her leg, but she was as cold as stone toward their advances, or any other man’s advances, for that matter.

But I knew a secret about Insite that few others did--the person playing her was named Richard. (You have to take the common nickname for Richard and apply it here to fully grasp the irony.) Richard was a roleplayer, and a damn good one. He was also responsible. He didn’t respond to flirting, and he never led anyone to believe he was a woman in real life; he simply stepped into the role of a lady cleric each time he logged her on, and let his true gender remain a mystery to most.

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Online Weddings - we've all heard of them. Have you ever seen one in person, though? Perhaps not? Well, Merriandra over at Ten Ton Hammer Vanguard has! She has the rare experience of both participating in her own and officiating at other online weddings in her days as a Guide in EQLive:

Over the next two years, I stood on top of an aviak tower, in Felwithe, inside Kedge Keep, in the middle of Lake Rathe, in the Arena, in the Plane of Hate, in the Plane of Air, on the bridge between the Karanas (the bride kept zoning) and in Highkeep to perform wedding ceremonies. Perhaps two thirds of the couples chose an approach that more closely resembled "till levels do us part", rather than "tell death do us part." One beautiful, formal, and very serious wedding was held in Felwithe, and everything was perfect, until one of a groomsman cast a hostile spell on a guard (by accident!), a slip of the finger that wiped out the entire wedding party. The poor bride was in tears.

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Ok this one time in EQ we were storming the Plane of Sky...

Sound familiar? Looks like they're bringing back Sky. If I still played the game I'd be ecstatic. If I still played hah!

It was a fun zone. However, this time it's supposedly bigger, badder and filled with more monsters. GameCloud interviews Ryan Schwayder about this new expansion

Gamecloud - First, how did the idea for the Kingdom of Sky expansion come about?

Ryan "Blackguard" Shwayder - We'd been planning this expansion for some time, planting seeds of the story throughout the base game and Desert of Flames, as well as in the back-story for EverQuest II. With the collapse of some of the planes in the absence of the gods, the effects of such an occurrence would be felt throughout Norrath.

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