Now that we've all recovered from the holidays, I'd like to take a moment and let you guys know what's coming in the near future. But first of all, thank you for a great holiday experience with Spiral Knights. We all had a great time playing with you all and seeing everyone sport their Santy hats.

Now, down to business:

- Based on your feedback we will be removing the gate passes required to access more advanced tiers from the Haven Arcade. A player will still need the appropriate Tier Clearance to access each tier from Haven, but no longer needs to work their way through each tier of each gate from Haven. The current Gate Pass table in the Progress tab of the character panel will remain, albeit slightly tweaked as a handy tracker of tiers you have yet to explore on each gate.

- Firestorm Citadel will be gaining a dangerous new level as well as characters that tell the story behind it.

- We're also working on The Core! Details need to remain scarce at the moment, but everything is looking great and we will be making this exciting new experience available to players as soon as its ready.

- The Exchange UI will receive a few more visual changes to make it clear to novice players that it is a live market.

- Trinket stats will receive another pass and many more will soon become available.

- Lastly, we will be adding a few bits aimed at making the level creation process (using minerals) clear to new players.

Thanks again for playing Spiral Knights in 2010. We hope you continue to join us for our 2011 adventure!