Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen,

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Christopher Carter - the Public Relations Manager here at Curse. Today, I have the pleasure of bringing you some very grand news.

We are excited to annouce that our new Curse portal is in late stage development with a scheduled release for late June. The new portal will also be launched along with our new URL: www.curse.com

The new Curse.com portal is meant to bring to light our many existing and exciting portal functionality and will also includes many new tools, applications, services and content. Our goal is to better enable, simplify and improve all of your gaming needs with the services and tools from Curse. Most importantly, we are retaining all our existing functionality, while adding and improving to every aspect of your Curse experience.

"V4", as it's dubbed, will bring a complete re-design across all aspects and segments of the portals. After much work, feedback, suggestions and quality assurance, we are going to provide you with a better user interface, a new flow, look and feel, all designed to significantly improve the usability of our site, its functionality and thus your experience. These relevant changes will increase your interaction with the extensive amounts of content and tools, with other users and the MMO communities that interest you most.

Curse is about you - Curse is about our MMO communities. Keeping this in mind, we are actively working on the development of many new free features, tools, services and content which will be included in the launch. Some of the new features include: Multiple new game resource databases, free video sharing & hosting, an improved wiki system, as well as a fully functional and interactive community social network where you may tie any pertinent content type across the portal directly into your profile.

There are actually many other improvements and features in development which we can't disclose just yet that will exceed your expectations and reach far beyond current applications and services in the market. All this, while keeping Curse membership, our tools, communities and our new social network initiatives Free, of course.

We expect the new portal Curse.com to launch towards the end of June, and are looking forward to receiving your feedback, suggestions and comments. A “private beta” phase will be made available soon to our most active community members.

Stay tuned for more detailed information regarding functionalities, features and tools to be included in "V4".

The Curse.com Team