The Agency HQ has gone undercover and found some screen shots to share with us!

Our contingency plan is starting to show some success. We've gathered some new camera shots and present them to you for analysis.

Some of these have been seen before, but were missing from the gallery. And if you haven't checked out the pictures from the ION trailer, make sure you do.

They've got a great collection going over there.  Their operatives are certainly being pushed to the limit!

As I previously reported, OGR went to the SOE Seattle event that happened during the ION gaming conference last week!  Now that the Friday Ravecast is done, it's available for download, and you can hear all about what happened at the event on the recording.

If you're looking for pictures, Leonai has those for us too!

You can find the original write up of the experience here, while you're waiting for the Ravecast to download!

The Agency HQ has come through yet again with a new piece of intel regarding SOE's upcoming MMO, The Agency.

This time, they have seven exclusive shots of weaponry and some operative cards in their gallery!

Online Gaming Radio's Leonai had a chance to visit SOE's Seattle office a few weeks back during a super seekrit get together they were having, and she has some coverage for us up on her blog!

Walking in showed a few others walking around, some with early drinks, some just talking and hanging out. I got a chance to quickly talk with Hal who reminded me of someone who’s had a little too much caffeine in his system, but he’s in Seattle. If you’re going to live in Seattle, you may as well be part of the caffeine scene, right?

In any event, this was more a mingling level of an event. Lots of people talking and making light conversation, lots of awesome artwork hidden in the back where there wasn’t supposed to be photography, an ice sculpture of a gun, and an open bar for most of the evening.

Hal is, of course, lead designer of the upcoming MMO, The Agency!  If you're looking for more details, be sure to listen to the Ravecast tomorrow on Online Gaming Radio!

SOE's development of upcoming MMO The Agency has turned from cross platform support for both the PS3 and the PC, to not allowing cross platform play.  In an interview this week with GamesRadar senior world designer Kevin O’Hara only commented on whether or not they should allow cross platform spying.

As well as a de rigueur stylised cartoony look, Sony Online are currently developing The Agency for the PlayStation 3 with half the team playtesting with controllers and the other half with mice and keyboards. However, whether PC players will be able to spy on console players is still undecided according to O’Hara: “We could allow it, but the bigger question is should we allow it? We’re well aware of the arguments against doing so. In fact, our own internal rule is: we won’t compromise one platform’s gameplay just to support both.”

But last time we heard from SOE's president John Smedley he bet against cross platform play.

“If I was a betting man, I’d bet that we don’t allow it,” said Smedley of cross-platform play. “You’ll still be able to log in with your character on either [PS3 or PC].”

SOE still plans on giving cross-platform play a shot, but the shooter mechanics of The Agency make for a tough translation between a console’s controller and a PC’s mouse and keyboard setup.

It remains to be seen which options will be available for both platforms, and how things will work, technically, for both types of players.