It has finally arrived, the final battle against the Black Mage is upon us. If you have been playing or following Maple Story for a while you know that the Black Mage is the big bad of the Maple World. Always he was in the background but now it is time to bring the fight to him. Are you ready? I'm ready.

Red Thomas kicks off operations in Black Hole Sun and learns a few lessons along the way. Those hard lessons are your gain as he lists out some must-know tips for players who want to jump-start their own operations in X4: Foundations.

If you've been taking a look at Book of Demons that will be arriving on Steam later today for $25, you may want to check out the GameSpace review-of-the-week where "Jatobi" writes, "It's Paper Diablo. It's fun for what it is, but could use a little more to it. Level design is fairly simple, yet I don't expect much more due to the constraints of movement. The card system is a cool feature, but you quickly figure out that certain cards are useless, and certain cards are just overpowered."

Soulworker Online players looking forward to class advancement for Erwin Arclight will be able to check out what the new abilities brings to the table thanks to today's update. He now has access to an explosive rifle as a "secondary weapon with six new skills".

Neverwinter players on both XBox One and PlayStation 4 will be able to check out the Heart of Fire content expansion starting January 15th. The story is penned by the founders of Penny Arcade and sends players off on "an exciting path through the ranks of the famous adventuring company (Acquisitions Incorporated), from eager intern to a grizzled, full-fledged team member".

Lucky players who've been selected to take part in the first technical alpha for The Division 2 will need to be prepped and ready to go for the December 15th event. Download of the client is already available. The event is slated to "run on a certain scale and host a limited number of players so" the dev team can "gather up the feedback and the data" they require. This is an NDA-bound event that begins at 5:00 am Pacific / 8:00 am Eastern on Saturday.

The last few updates were part of BioWare's attempt to put the genie back in the bottle by knocking the Eternal Alliance down a few pegs. Jedi Under Siege is the first real step towards a full course correction and return to the game's roots as a story of conflict between the Sith Empire and Galactic Republic. The problem is that, at least so far, it's about as awkward as I expected it to be.