GB: Can you give us a brief overview of the storyline surrounding Trials of Atlantis and where you currently stand in its development cycle?

Matt: Right now we're just about ready to head into closed beta. We have many of the zones ready for testing, and we're getting the code ready to support them. The story of Atlantis is that the three Realms have each found a portal to the long-lost world of Atlantis, now half-sunken in the ocean and destroyed. The people of Atlantis, wise in the way of magic and power, realized that their civilization was going to be destroyed, and knew that some day a future culture would find the ruins of Atlantis. The Atlanteans wanted to be sure that their knowledge was passed on only to those worthy of it - so they built a series of obstacle courses into their culture, trials that future explorers would have to pass before they were granted insight into Atlantean magic and power. These are the "trials" of the "Trials of Atlantis".