The following was posted by Raven on the Tera site. Unfortunately copy and paste totally fucked up the table so I had a go manually:
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One of the most asked questions in the last weeks were about the upcoming beta phases for TERA. Today we want to share our plan for all upcoming beta sessions with you, so be sure to check out our complete list:

CBT 1 from 17.02.2012 to 19.02.2012
CBT 2 from 02.03.2012 to 04.03.2012
CBT 3 from 16.03.2012 to 18.03.2012
CBT 4 from 30.03.2012 to 01.04.2012
CBT 5 from 13.04.2012 to 15.04.2012

I had planned on a few pictures here but Im writing this at work and the pics are on my home PC so, well, sorry about that. I'll edit it tonight with them when I get home.

This weekend was a lot about spending money and sadly in no way about making it. My recruitment into PCGE corp went well and I now have access to all the private stuff. They appear to be quite well organised but as to how well that planning makes its way into reality in game I won’t know for a few weeks.

So as informed on previous threads, I have renewed my Meg Deminer character in EvE Online. Quite a few changes seem to have occurred since my departure, most notable of which is the Captain Quarters where you get your own room on space stations in which you can wander around, enter consoles and walk to the hangar bay to view your ships. You don’t get anything extra in the way of abilities or controls there but it definitely makes for a beautiful interface – if you spent the time making a nice looking character that is.

Yesterday I cancelled my Star Wars subscription. There were a few reasons for this which I will try to surmise as follows:

1. I think the server I joined must be one of the few which hosts the least number of guilds. Truly, in all of my 26 levels I have only noticed 3 different guild names. I dont mean they are big guilds either, as most of the people I see are not in guilds at all.

Yesterday morning my new MP3 player arrived from Amazon; the Creative Zen Style M300 4Gb.

Although not as small as I had anticipated from the picture on Amazons website, it is still a pretty compact thing and honestly is lighter than the enclosed manual that came with it. The device measures 43mm wide x 54mm tall and is 12mm thick. The front visible / useable display measures 26mm wide x 27mm high and surrounding that are touch sensitive areas for play/pause, menu back, and advance and rewind.

Well I honestly thought one of you would have started this before me, but I waited and waited and either no one got anything or people are shy. I find the former harder to believe than the latter so come on and enlighten us. Me first:

Obviously my main present was my new PC which I got a month ago, but I also got...
New Clive Cussler book "The Race" - because I like Clive Cussler books and he doesnt release them on Kindle.
Andy McNab book "Battlefield 3; The Russian" - because I like Battlefield 3.

I've been wanting a new MP3 player for some time now, especially since I have started running. My current one is a 2Gb iPod Nano 1st Generation and while it is a lovely looking device it really doesn't hold as many tracks as you'd think you could fit on 2Gb of memory. What with wanting a selection of tracks for running to plus a selection of random ones I like, the space soon gets full.

Following on from Stigg's post below I remembered a game which my youngest son plays a lot of. Apparently it has been in Beta for a while and has recently had a full release.

Imagine Minecraft combined with Team fortress and you have a nice little online shooter called
"Ace of Spades"
http://www.ace-spades.com/

Taken from their website:-

Many many years ago I owned a book. I no longer have it, what happened to it I don't know, but I long to read it again and Valas shouting about Anne McCaffrey's passing has reminded me of it. I can't tell you who the author was however I can say the following in the hope that someone will say "I know that, its called....." & "it was written by...."

The book was quite thick. I'd say around 1.5 inches or 40mm

The book was quite large, approx the same size as a hardback book but this was a paperback book

So after meeting my contact in Riverwood and nabbing all of her worldly possessions after she left the room (by the way if anyone is after a Katana sword there is one on the wall rack near the apoca…apothca…spell thing table), I mounted my trusty steed and we set off to kill another dragon. I’ll keep this all brief, partly because Gormash has already covered this in his updates, and partly so I don’t give too much of the game away to people who have yet to play these bits.