Those of you who have opted to receive newsletters and promotions from SOE may already be experiencing glee over the recent announcement that Vanguard is welcoming players back to the game, and letting them experience first-hand all the great changes and performance enhancements that have been made!

Vanguard has been experiencing some much-deserved positive buzz, which is not only the result of improvements to the game, but also a testament to our amazing community who certainly do their part to get the word out!

Here's our part! FREE game time! Those who had previously played Vanguard, but cancelled over 60 days ago for whatever reason, should find their accounts reactivated from June 26 th , 2008 until July 31 st 2008.

Isle of Dawn, the smaller download version of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, should be available at the end of the Summer, but we're ready to show off our stuff now by offering some free play time and a unique mount to previous players!

We haven't forgotten our existing players – not only will they have more people to group with during this period, but they will receive a special

With Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures passing its one-month milestone, game director Gaute Godager has one of the most successful launches in MMO history under his belt - but the work is only beginning. A month of frantic patching has produced a more stable, playable, enjoyable game, but the weeks and months to come will make or break Conan, as Funcom strives to ensure that players are happy, entertained - and paying their subscriptions.

In the past fortnight, the team revealed some of its plans for the coming months, in the form of new content and systems for the game. Despite our heartfelt affection for Age of Conan, there's no question that Funcom still has much work to do, and many criticisms to answer - so we tracked down Gaute in his northern fastness (well, phoned his Oslo office) to talk about the launch, future plans, and the issues setting the game's forums alight at the moment.

Eurogamer: You've had somewhere over a million sales of the game in its first month - did you expect that level of success?

Gaute Godager: We've actually had over a million sell-ins, which means that that's the number of copies that have gone to shops. That's a bit different from sell-th

Player Characters

Archetype

* New buff counters were added to a number of mage and soldier effects.
* All gathering feats should now have the correct proficiency suffix in their name (e.g. 'You need Woodcutting Novice to perform this action' messages).
* The Goad ability can be trained and used on a NPC that does not have aggro on you. You must be in combat to use this ability.
* The buffs from rogue general feats Concealment, Distraction and Mountaineer will now be removed from characters when they untrain feats.
* You can no longer enter spellweaving when climbing or swimming. If you are hiding or crouching and enter spellweaving, you will leave that state immediately.

Assassin

* Flesh Rot now applies a separate debuff for each player
* Lotus Weapons now applies a separate debuff for each player.

Bear Shaman

* Wreck Armor I+II+III combos now have improved visuals and sound.

Conqueror

* You may now use Incite the Ranks if Fire Weave is running.

Dark Templar

* Soul Barrier's cast time has been reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second.
* Changed the Cooldown of Unhallowed Blight III to 20s.
* Changed the Unholy Debuff to be 5% on all combos and changed the duration of the

Now MMOsite is proud to announce that we have established MMOsite Magic World Online Vault! The new vault currently includes MWO skill info, monster info, quest info, item info, map info and some excellent gudies, and more data and guides will be added soon. And players can also help us to post some guides or walkthrough to make our vault better. Just keep your eyes peeled for MMOsite Magic World Online Vault!