We will soon be opening up a testing server to select players. The testing server will be a place where players can play upcoming content and provide feedback to developers. We will also be creating a new board for discussing content in testing.

Please keep an eye out on the forums for more details shortly. The first wave of testers will be able to experience Lockdown before anyone else. They will even be able to go toe-to-toe with the dev team. This will be happening very soon, so watch the forums!

Levels

- Fixed a respawn pad bug in Scarlet Fortress Spiral Court 2 and Grim Gallery.
- Fixed an issue where trying to pick up a mineral of the same size/type you are currently holding would cause the mineral to disappear.

Steam Trading

- Fixed icons for Mist Tanks in Steam inventory interface.

Coliseum

- Fixed joining guild teams.

Valve is currently rolling out a feature that allows for the trading of items between games on Steam. Spiral Knights, Portal 2 and Team Fortress 2 are the first games to participate in this initiative.

You can learn more about the details of this feature here: http://store.steampowered.com/news/6201/

We're excited by the opportunity this feature will afford Steam players interested in trying Spiral Knights and other games on Steam.

Between September 6th 10am PDT and September 19th 10am PDT, purchase energy packages of $9.95 USD or more and receive a special bonus item from the new Rose Regalia Redux costume set for each purchase!

Become a Knight of the Rose, a sacred order of brave and especially dashing heroes whose numerous adventures are the subject of many folk tales. The Knights of the Rose were said to be peerless fencers, believing that their blades were like the flowers of their name: a delicate thing of beauty that hides a vicious sting.

Candlestick Keep
A new Undead level series has appeared within the Clockworks- the Candlestick Keep. These haunted grounds are all that remains of the once prosperous Owlite Academy. Though now overtaken by spookats and other undead horrors, Knights will find Owlite ward candles scattered about the Keep that will save them from what lurks in the dark.

- Grimalkins are giant, shadowy spookats completely immune to damage. They lurk in the dark so stay in the light to avoid their attacks... they cannot be blocked with a shield!

I wanted to give everyone a heads up on some upcoming price changes. These prices will likely go into effect with our next patch.

Krogmo Coin Rewards
Mod Calibrators will increase from 50 to 75 Krogmo Coins.

Punch's Variant Forge
1 Variant Tickets will increase from 15,000 to 20,000 crowns
3 Variant Tickets will greatly decrease from 375,000 to 225,000 crowns

The Spiral Knights Official Soundtrack is now available! This two disc set features thirty one extended, remixed and remastered tracks by composer Harry Mack.

So if you're a fan of the delightful sonic joy that is the music of Spiral Knights, head on over to your favorite online music vendor and pick it up!

iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spiral-knights-original-soundtrack/id45...

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005J49Y2C/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=13...

Rhapsody

A bugfix patch will be released today that includes mostly behind the scenes issues but also includes:
* The white personal color on the Knight Creation interface has been removed.

We are very pleased to announce that Spiral Knights has been nominated for four awards in this years Game Developer's Choice Online Awards!

Best Online Visual Arts
Best Online Game Design
Best Audio For An Online Game
Best New Online Game

Full details:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35348/Finalists_Revealed_For_2011_Gam...

Thank you to all our players for making this possible for us! Wish us luck!

An update will be released today that includes new monsters a couple new features:

The Polyp and the Howlitzer
Two new types of turrets can now be found within the Clockworks: the polyp and the howlitzer.

The polyp is a slime turret that fires piercing barbs and can see in all directions. The howlitzer is an undead turret that fires shadow bullets and will attempt to make a last ditch strike at Knights with its missile-like skull. Watch out!

Both of these monster types have complete status variants:

Polyp
Slick Polyp
Polar Polyp
Silver Polyp
Caustic Polyp