Champions Online may be only a few months on the market, but Cryptic isn't wasting any time before deploying its next massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Earlier this month, the Atari-owned studio locked in a February 2 release date for Star Trek Online, having picked up the rights to ma...... >>More...
This is actually a good MMO but too bad better ones are coming out later this year and early 2010.
The folks over at Marvel has given us a brief road map for their two MMOs based on their superheroes.
The comic company behind Spider-Man and the X-Men tells us more about Marvel’s two upcoming massively multiplayer online games and why they are for.
In the near future, after you’ve se...... >>More...
Here's an interesting story. A new law was recently passed in Australia forbidding retailers from selling any online game that has not been classified by the Australian Classification Board. This also includes purchasing games online. There are hefty penalties if one is caught breaking this law.
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Following its announcement of merging servers last month and recently laying off employees in its U.S. offices, Funcom will be closing more than half of its Age of Conan servers. Funcom will close 31 of 48 Age of ...... >>More...
The first in-game footage of BioWare's upcoming PC MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released tomorrow, December 12, the studio and LucasArts have revealed.
The footage will mark the beginning of a video documentary series that examines the game, which is set in the timeframe of the Sta...... >>More...
Turbine has opened its social networking site for The Lord of the Rings Online to the public for the first time, reports Eurogamer.
The site, My LOTRO, is available for a very limited time as a "beta preview". The preview closes tomorrow, Friday December 12.
At the moment, My LOTRO is ...... >>More...

Publisher Electronic Arts today classified BioWare's upcoming Star Wars MMO The Old Republic as a "microtransaction-based" title, indicating that the title will at least provid...... >>More...

Atari has announced that it has acquired US-based MMO developer Cryptic Studios in a performance-linked deal.
The company, previously responsible for City of Heroes and City of Villains, which made o...... >>More...
Jeffrey Steefel, executive producer for Lord of the Rings online, has said the company's strategy is still focused on yearly expansions to its MMO.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Steelfel explained that despite neither of the developer's main rivals, Blizzard or Mythic, adopting a similar strategy, i...... >>More...

German publisher Frogster has announced a date for the open beta test for its free-to-play fantasy MMO for PC, Runes of Magic.
The beta is open to all players and will begin a week on Monday, on...... >>More...

Funcom begins the process of consolidating servers for its fantasy MMO, Age of Conan, this week.
With the game having sold well at launch but lost many of its subscribers in the months since, the move is in...... >>More...

German-based developer Acony has integrated ProFX, Allegorithmic's procedural texturing middleware for real-time 3D content, into Parabellum, a free-to-play first-person shooter and massively multiplaye...... >>More...
New screenshots from Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. This game looks better and better each time new screenshots are released!
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