NcSoft announced today that their long-running, superhero MMO franchise City of Heroes, has a major expansion in development for the PC and Mac. Titled, "Going Rogue", the expansion aims to blur the line between good and evil:

"City of Heroes Going Rogue will introduce a new alignment system that helps players explore the shades of gray that lie between good and evil. For the first time, hero characters can become villains and vice versa, enabling hero archetypes to cross over to the Rogue Isles™ and villain archetypes to experience Paragon City™. Clearly marked missions, in addition to behaviors and decisions made by the player, will move a hero's or villain's moral compass, which could eventually change the hero's or villain's alignment."

Here's the accompanying announcement trailer to illustrate the idea in a more bombastic fashion. No details on release dates as of yet. For more check the out the official site here.

City of Heroes Going Rogue Announcement Trailer

The adorable little fellow you see picture above is Grunty, the Murloc Marine, the World of Warcraft pet that comes with admission to this year's Blizzcon. According to Blizzard, this Starcraft II inspired fellow "is fully armored and comes equipped with a gauss rifle, which he’ll occasionally fire into the air to make sure no invisible spacecraft are swooping in to attack."

Yes. People in Azeroth will be jealous of you.

Tickets go on sale on Saturday, May 16, with a second allotment to be released on May 30. Check out Blizzard's site for all the details. Grunty will also be given to anyone who orders the DirecTV pay-per-view coverage of Blizzcon, and, judging from prices paid on eBay for WoW pets in previous years, it might be a smart investment, especially if you wait a year or so to unload it. Cha-ching!

What do you think of the little guy? I'm torn. I'm not sure I like such blatant cross-game "synergy" in Blizzard games, but on the other hand, he's pretty adorable. Check out the video below made by MMO Champion!

Finally. A story that absolutely no one will have opinion about.

In an interview with the folks over at IGN UK, Square Enix hotshots Yoshinori Kitase and Takeshi Arakawa revealed that the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII will most likely be English-only, and therefore won't include a Japanese voice track. But before you PlayStation 3 owners start laughing heartedly at your 360 counterparts, its looking like English-only for you as well.

As Kitase points out, the 360s lack of Blu-ray makes it impossible to include the extra voice track, and Square Enix continues to promote platform equality in terms of their production model, even though the company has clearly stated that the 360 is preventing it from doing a few things it would like to have done with the game (i.e. release a Blu-ray version of the demo outside of Japan).

Then again, Kitase seemed genuinely perplexed when he asked, "Are there many people who would like to play with Japanese voices?"

So whether the 360s limitations will result in anything significantly negative and/or damaging to FFXIII's overall game experience when the title finally arrives stateside is entirely speculative at this point. In the meantime, stories like this one will only serve to fuel fan flames, even if PS3 fans could care less about whatever compromises are made on account of the 360.

How many PS3 fans are genuinely upset about a possible English-only version of FFXIII? Honestly.