Even after introducing the Riftway System to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, it seems Sony Online Entertainment is still looking for more ways to make things easier for adventurers traveling across the land of Telon. Vanguard producer Thom Terrazas recently revealed that revamps for the Riftway System are coming, making things even easier and more user-friendly. Read all about it in the full article.

We have just received word that the dev team for Sony Online Entertainment's (SOE) Vanguard: Saga of Heroes MMORPG has moved into the SOE office located in San Diego. The move will entail several changes for the Vanguard team, including the appointment of Thom Terrazas - an eight-year SOE veteran - as their new leader.

The move will grant the Vanguard dev team further access to shared resources and the combined talent of the SOE's dev teams for their other games. On the downside of this news, it's also been reported that not all the members of the Carlsbad group will be invited to stay aboard.

For the gamer folk, this means that the developers may have just gotten additional means to make your in-game experience more enjoyable. For one, there's Vanguard's third patch, the first phase of which kicks in today. The update will carry several new features, including the hot new wyvern mount.

Planetside is a science fiction themed MMORPG, set against the backdrop of futuristic planetary warfare among three rival empires, published by Sony Online Entertainment. This year, Planetside observed its third anniversary online.

According to creator Thom Terrazas in an interview with MMORPG.COM, Planetside is unique in that there can be hundreds of players fighting in one area. Players can play in an FPS-style, and in-game content is regularly updated. The game has garnered hundreds of thousands of players since its launch, many of which have created ongoing fighting units (think "guilds," Terrazas says) with their own websites. Terrazas fully supports and works with these fan sites, saying  "The fan sites and most importantly to the players, we have all made the game what it is today."

Upcoming changes includes a new aircraft, called the "Wasp," which is a " variant of the Mosquito that has been built to suit a different role." There will also be improvements to existing vehicles, such as the "Sunderer" and the "Galaxy Gunship." When this project is finished, next on the agenda is the creation of "new toys" for the Combat Engineering class.

"There will be a new class of Combat Engineers and possibly some other classes that may have the ability to deploy tank traps to stop enemy vehicles from passing through specific choke points in the game," says Terrazas. In addition, there will be new variants for every weapon in the game," he adds.

One concern that Terrazas expressed was cheaters. "We’ll be working on some code to combat some of those unpleasant cheaters out there using hacks before we get back to some additional vehicle, weapon and combat engineering equipment," he stated.