News Roundup: Sims City Life Stories

• Age of Conan's Field of the Dead makes an picturesque debut.  Stop reading.  Start watching.
• The "laptop friendly" Sims Life Stories divulges its first chapter.
• Loki, an RPG for the PC, is handing would-be mages what they're craving, with sneak peaks of the meteor spell, exodus spell, and the firewand.
• City Life: World Edition unfolds a brand new trailer for armchair civic engineers.
  

• A dev diary from CME, developers of upcoming MMO, Stargate Worlds, reevaluates the Fighter-Mage-Healer triumvirate for sci-fi settings.
• Ten Ton Hammer still has 2,000 Scions of Fate Beta Keys to give away.  Anyone?  Anyone?
• Killer Betties talks to Asuna, Director of Trioncube for the Nintendo DS.
• Jon Wood, Managing Editor at MMORPG.com, writes a column on the future of EA Mythic's Ultima Online.
• Also, registered users at MMORPG.com (costs nothing) can pick up a free issue of Massive magazine (guess what genre it covers?)  Only 10,000 copies will be given out -- well, minus one.  I signed up for a copy.
  

• Patch up NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007 with version 3.0.3.  Eastsiiiiide!