Not only does today see the launch of EQ2's eighth and latest expansion, 'Age of Discovery' (AoD), a brand new EQ2 Players web site, and Frostfell 2012, it also heralds the release of GU62 (Game Update 62) - 'Freeport Reborn', a free game update for all EQ2 players to get their teeth stuck into featuring the rebuilt city of Freeport.

'Freeport Reborn' features over 130 new quests, including new racial, archetype and Freeport storyline quests, a visual facelift (which from the preview screenshots and videos does look pretty impressive), a seamless zone (with the exception of the Hamlets which are now instanced). All Freeport housing is now moved to the Jade Tiger Inn for further convenience where I understand a single portal is also placed giving access to all Prestige Housing.

Learn more about 'Freeport Reborn' after the jump (full Game Update notes coming later on, stay tuned!)...

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So, assuming there is no further additional postponement, GU61 (Game Update 61) goes live today with an expected approximate 3 hour server downtime commencing at 7am - 10am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), 10am - 3pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 3pm - 6pm BST (British SummerTime) and 4pm - 7pm CET (Central European Time).

After the jump are the extensive GU61 Update Notes for your viewing pleasure (plundered from EQ2 Wire), which includes item re-itemisation, the continuation of the Velious saga with extensive new quest lines and the Plane of War dungeon and raid zone, new dynamic dungeons, house rating system, in-built video capture / upload system!, AA revamp (mainly class tree + added tradeskill tree), Flying Fae and Arasai, House Signs + a whole lot of other crafted goodness, Beastlord prelude event and much more! The Dungeon Finder has been postponed for a week or two. Read the full update notes...

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A super slick looking trailer for tomorrow's Game Update, 'War of Zek', has been published by SOE.

The trailer published in SOE's Youtube Channel focuses on the Velious storyline aspect of this game update, the coming of Rallos Zek, and appears to show a new instance from Velious in the Fortress of Drunder (I think) with a rather red look & feel and some great looking mobs. The highlights are listed as 'New Dungeons to Explore!', 'New House Rating System', 'Dungeon Finder System', and 'All Items Revamped, Level 20+' in that order. Just a few hours left now, are you ready?!

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Most of you are probably aware now that Game Update 61 (GU61), scheduled to be published to the live servers on Tuesday, 23rd August, has been postponed until Thursday, 25th August to allow for additional testing and tweaks to be made.

News of the postponement can be found here on the SOE forums as well as here on EQ2 Players. It looks like this update may be a mixed bag of tricks, although personally speaking, I'm quite excited about it. On the one hand there are some very interesting new features and changes coming to the game, Dynamic Dungeons, Dungeon Finder (rumoured to be coming a few days after GU61 goes live, the prelude event to the new Beastlord class being added later in the year, flying Fae and Arasai, a large chunk of additional content and quests in Velious, a new video capture feature built into the game, new Achievements and much more actually.

After the jump we take a closer look at GU61, stuff we've found from around the web, and the important things you need to know for when you log in on Thursday after the patch...

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