NCsoft has announced a new digital magazine for Aion called "Aion: The Magazine." The monthly issued magazine will be available exclusively through the official Aion website, with each issue to include an exclusive in-game item.

Details on the magazine's contents can be found below:

The Official Aion Magazine offers the high-quality design and editorial of a printed magazine together with the interactive content only offered by a digital magazine. Issue 1 is a massive 100 page issue, but each issue you can look forward to...

• - Over 60 pages of editorial in the digital magazine every month
• - Exclusive interviews getting you behind the scenes of the game
• - Guild of the Month and Players of the Month features
• - Getting Started section, helping you understand your class, the game, and key areas throughout Aion
• - Expert Guides to key content to help you hone your Aion skills
• - Bonus unique in-game item with every issue, exclusive to magazine subscribers

A single issue will run you $3.99, though you can save some scratch by subscribing to the 6 (10% off) or 12 (20% off) issue package, both of which come with an array of bonus in-game items.

Pre-orders for the first issue of Aion: The Magazine, which will be published on March 26th, are being taken now, with the first issue's exclusive in-game item consisting of a "Kerub Hat."

Subscribe to Aion: The Magazine

Atari and Cryptic Studios have released a new video featuring a behind-the-scenes look at a voice-over session with the recently announced "voice of Star Trek Online" Zachary Quinto.

Quinto, of course, played Spock in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek film released earlier this year. In Star Trek Online, Quinto will voice an Emergency Medical Hologram that will guide players through the game's tutorial.

Watch the video here.

Be sure to stay for the end of the video. Why? Let's just say the ESRB should add Mildly Evil Eyebrows to their rating for STO.

Rise of the Godslayer is the first expansion for Funcom's Age of Conan, and we've got an exclusive dev diary video on the expansion to bring you up to speed.



The video opens up with Funcom Director of Communications Erling Ellingsen explaining why Funcom chose GamesCom to reveal the expansion to the world. Ellingsen says that the fact the expansion was playable to gamers at GamesCom proved very valuable to Funcom as they were able to receive direct feedback from players.

Lead Expansion Designer Joel Bylos explains the reason Funcom decided to explore the oriental-themed Khitai with their first expansion, "It's about involving players in a completely new story, far away from the place where they began their journey."

Craig Morrison adds that Khitai was always "high on the list" when the company was looking for a new region to explore with their first expansion, but he explains that Howard only mentioned Khitai very briefly in his writings, so they relied on the story of the "Tower of the Elephant" which ties in heavily to Khitai.

Rise of the Godslayer will also make use of "visual storytelling", instead of simply relying on voice acting, quest text, etc. Some examples include a burning effigy of Conan, meteorites containing demons falling out of the sky, guards changing at the wall.

On the visuals of the Rise of Godslayer, Craig Morrison explains that Funcom wanted to look to ancient China and Korea as inspiration for the look of the expansion, while explicitly avoiding Japanese influences due to the fact they felt that it had been overused in recent games. Funcom even went so far as to send some of their team to some of the ancient sites in Korea and China in order to provide players with an authentic experience.

The expansion will contain five massive new regions, populated hundreds of hours of new quests, new dungeons, new endgame raid content, new exploration mechanics such as buried treasures to find and shrines to pray at, new enemy types, and new mounts.

Also coming to Age of Conan with Rise of the Godslayer are additions to combat with the introduction of the alternate advancement system, and new NPC abilities that will enhance enemy AI and make combat more challenging for players.