You may have noticed (or perhaps felt) a steady, far off booming over the past few months. Sometimes, it's more noticeable, as the day to day chaos slows down around you and you have time to sit and think with a cool drink near your hand. As you sit and gaze off into the distance, trying to collect your thoughts, it's there in the background. As ever present and steady as your heartbeat, though not as fast. It's the slow steady pounding of a giant's footsteps, relentless and ever moving forward on its path. Casting a look at the drink near your hand, you can see ripples moving out from the center of your glass in time with each heavy foot fall. Another testament that you are not going crazy, that yes, SOMETHING is out there and in an instant you are sure of two things: that it's really damn big and that it is coming your way.

EverQuest II (EQ2) is slowly making its way towards the gaming market. (Funny, I thought you were talking about my last blind date really. - Ed.) Just last week we were invited into the North American Beta test that had been going on for the past few months. As the sequel to the most popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) on the market, fans of the current Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) game, as well as the simply curious, are anxious to see and hear how things are going. I was intrigued myself since I have been following the development closely after visiting Sony's booth to see in game footage for the past two years at E3.