If you want a chance to properly flex those superpowered muscles of yours in either City of Heroes or City of Villains, you might find it useful to find out all the latest changes made to the Training Room Server. As expected, a host of bug fixes and gameplay enhancements were sneaked into the latest build of the test server. Check out the full list in our full article after the jump.

Valve Corporation's Team Fortress 2 has already undergone a few updates here and there, and here's yet another one that manages to fix some gameplay balancing issues and bugs. Check out the complete lowdown on the update in the full article.

Those bogged down by hate and spam messages via the Steam client will certainly be pleased with the new update. After you install this update, you'll be able to filter out messages from undesirable Steam members, as well as track down messages by putting timestamps. More to this update in the full article.

A lot of players often see the Ranger in NCsoft's Guild Wars as simply an auxiliary unit used to shutdown casters on an team. While this may be true in some (ok, most) cases, the class is versatile enough to also act as a pressure unit dealing good DPS to an entire party as well as a skirmisher to rapidly drop flag runners and other opponents. For more on this class, head on over to the full article.

With the large amount of player feedback for Pirates of the Burning Sea swamping the devs at Flying Lab Software, the team has decided to create an exclusive "strike team" dedicated to implemented the many user interface features planned out for the game. The team is comprised of some of the core members of the PotBS dev team and are very excited to bring to players all the featured content they have lined up.

For more details, check out the full article after the jump!

A minor hiccup, guys. Dark AleX's latest custom firmware was supposed to hit today, however, we've been getting reports that it could be delayed.

Mathieulh and Ketchup shed light as to why Team M33 won't be releasing CFW PSP 3.80 M33 just yet. Read more to hear the full story.

Update 2: bug found, DAX calls it a night, released soon, MAYBE.

* Article originally posted Jan 11, 2008 at 12:17PM

While even the developers gotta rest during the holidays, this doesn't mean they'll be leaving us out in the cold. Electronic Art's recently released a new Command & Conquer 3 APOC Update which covers details on their next BattleCast Primetime and the state of the lobby issue that's been giving you guys grief. More details are available in the full article.

Six new screenshots from Auran Games' upcoming MMORPG title Fury have come our way via MMORPG.com. These screenshots show of more of the game's beautiful graphics, provided by the Unreal Engine 3. Check 'em out below.

   

Australian video game developer Auran has touted Fury as "the best PvP experience ever". One of the cool things that the game brings to the PvP arena is its unique spell and ability activation feature. The words "cooldown time" aren't found in the Fury vocabulary, and spell and abilities within the game activate instantly. Do we hear somebody saying "spell spam"?

Fury is currently in closed beta and is slated for an early October release.

Check out more screenshots behind the Full Article link!

A new anti-spam solution was recently implemented on the server side of Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest II and it looks to be pretty efficient.

This new system reviews messages sent and flags those which have been identified as spam. All the flagged messages will not be sent to the players in their initial form, but in an abbreviated form with a tag saying "[Spam]" right before it.

Players will have the option to see the message in full by clicking on the [View] option right at the end of the message. Players can also choose to completely remove all traces of the identified spam by modifying their Chat Options and opting out of receiving the system message.

Of course a few spam messages will probably be getting through the system. If that happens, players can file a /report and /petition noting the person who sent the message so that the Customer Service department can take action on the spammer and further improve the filter. For an illustrated step by step guide, feel free to click on our read link. More updates as they happen.

We've covered quite a few details on how the Spam Prevention Tool works in World of Warcraft and how to maximize its use when reporting spammers. Blizzard Poster/ Forum Moderator Nethaera has posted a short FAQ with some details on the new Squelch feature included in the tool.

First and foremost, what happens when you report a player for spamming you? Well, Nethaera basically said that the player you reported is automatically squelched for the rest of your gaming session. This means that he/she will be ignored even when you change characters. A report will be sent to the GMs for review. Appropriate action will then be implemented depending on the situation.

Another feature that was discussed is using this to report mail spammers. Nethaera gave word that reporting these players is similar to the chat reporting. Just click on the"Report Spam" option and you will automatically ignore all mail from the said user. If multiple reports are given by different players, then all mail from the said player become temporarily invisible until the game masters have reviewed the case.

The spam reports are limited to five per player over a 24-hour period. In addition, it is only possible to send reports at a rate of one per minute. I assume this is to prevent the use of this tool as a denial of service weapon on WoW with spammers just flooding the accounts of the GMs with multiple reports. The same reporting restrictions apply, i.e. you will not be able to report any players on your friends, guild list or yourself.

That said, we encourage everyone to actively use this tool and help rid WoW of the common enemy we all face: spammers. After that we can go back to ganking each other. For now though, let's just keep "ganking" these spammers by sending in reports. Be sure to keep checking back here for more updates on World of Warcraft.