Jan 13 is the most recent news, steam greenlight shortly after. For anyone who doesn't know, Shards Online is developed by some old UO coders. The games dev team doesn't have any of the real pioneers behind UO and imo the guys in charge of Shards took UO in a direction I didn't really like. I was an early advocate for Shards Online due to it's interesting server hierarchy but who knows what they've done to it since then since I haven't really been keeping tabs on it.