Shields: In-Game confirmation

We all know we'ew getting them but this is the first in-game screenie confirmation I've seen.

Courtesy of Meris608 on U.S forums:
Extra, extra, read all about it

Am i missing it but where does it say anything about shields, all he is talking about is fire shield and looking at his power trys id say he was a fire tank or scrapper

The bit surrounded by the green boxy thing, the newsie NPCs comment

You reading the highlighted bit in green from the NPC Newsie?

Oooh! Shiny.

Well umm... for me this is very very... Umm... Very old news since I heard those say it before.
We are talking weeks if not a month or two old.

Well, think of it as the Hello magazine of shineyness rather than a profound literally announcement and achievement analygous to 'War and Peace'.

As mentioned, Its just the first in-game mention I'd seen of the future feature.
Shiney shiney, everyone loves shiney!

To be honest, and this is completely unsupported hearsay I picked up from some forum somewhere in the U.S. I believe this was just relating to the Cimeroa shields the Centurions use. I have no doubts whatsoever that shilds will be coming soon, but this has been going on for a while now.