There's just a whole lot of WAR news goodness going on today, and since I'm going out of town for a few days, be sure you submit it if you find it before our other news folks do!

First news is Mark Jacobs, who's back to starting his posts with "Folks"!  Which is always a good sign.  Over at Vault he had this to say, among other things:

Regarding the NDA lift, we hope to lift the NDA next week, one month before launch. I wish I could lift it right now but as I've said elsewhere, we need to take care of a three issues before the NDA is lifted. One has already been taken care of and I hope that by the end of next week, the other two will be taken care of as well. Once we lift the NDA I'll go into more detail as to what the issues were and why I wanted to hold things up. The remaining two issues are not earth-shattering by any means but when I explain things, I hope you'll understand why I wanted to wait another week.

Previously in the post he talked about the open beta, the preview weekend, extending the head start for CE pre-orders, and just so much other good stuff you simply can't miss it !

Also, July newsletters started going out today!  Be sure not to delete yours, since the Road To War site asks for codes that can be found in them.

We've got about a month to go before a ton of big news starts rolling in, and in the mean time you can join us on the WAR forums , or chatting in IRC!  But no news is allowed to occur while I'm out of town - or someone has to text it to me.  I simply can't be the last to know!!  Come on Sept. 18th!!