Okay, there's some complicated math involved here, but I'm pretty sure that everyone in MAG, the Playstation 3's fantastic online shooter, gets a new map. To enjoy your new map, you don't have to do anything. Just join a sabotage game -- that's the one where one team has to hijack vehicles and escape through enemy defenses -- and you'll eventually see someplace you've never seen before.

The reason for this is that the rules for maps have changed. Previously, each of the game's three factions has a map that pits it against one of the other factions. While this is cool, it means that you will never see the map fought over by the two factions that aren't yours. This was an incentive to max our your character's level, which made him eligible to switch factions.

But last week, developer Zipper Interactive announced that the sabotage game mode would be "faction neutral" from now on, which meant everyone would be eligible for the map his faction would never seen. According to Zipper's community manager in the article's comments section, there are plans for the same change to at least one other mode as well. Which means another new map is on the way.



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