I’m still trying to figure out what legion to pick next for a legion highlight. A lot of you have reported their interest, so there are definitely many interesting prospects to choose from. It’s a tough decision, but I imagine that the guys over at Aionsource have it even worse with all the brilliant submissions for their Aion Motivational Poster competition.

Meanwhile, let’s look at what’s gone down just recently.

We announced Aion’s release date earlier this week, as a Tuesday surprise. What we’re looking as is a 22nd of September release in North American and the 25th in the European feudalities. The servers are however planned to open at roughly the same time to make up for this difference, so make sure to pre-order if you want to be in there from the very start (here for NA)!

Before that, however, we held a second Aion Closed Beta event (with great success, I might add). I know a lot of you participated there, so send over your best group pictures from this event to ayase@ncsoft.com for me to have a look at. Just as after last test, I’ll make a selection and post some of them up right here in the blog! Can’t wait to see some.

In other news, we have a new fansite joining us from the distant lands of Australia. I hear they speak and write Australian English, so I’m crossing my fingers its content is understandable to most of us (*snickers*). Seriously though, if you’re Australian/New Zealander and are looking forward to Aion – this would be an awesome place to hang out. Say hello to Aion Australia everyone – www.aiononline.com.au.

I also want to plug my Twitter feed again - @aion_ayase. I’ll probably be giving some beta keys away along with the others (@aion_liv, @aion_amboss, @aion_xaen) on there for future Beta events. The next event is scheduled for the 2nd of July, which isn’t too far away, so you’d definitely do good to get on there as a ‘follower’ (as they call it) as soon as possible! 170 of you guys joined up as new followers just in the last 12 hours, which isn’t bad, not bad at all.

Fly safely and send me your Closed Beta screens now, folks.

That is all.

/Ayase