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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has suggested that Massive Entertainment - the Swedish developer Ubi acquired from Activision Blizzard this week - will be put to work making MMOs.

"We just bought it from them since those guys have Bli ...... >>More...

Battlefield Heroes developer EA DICE announced that it will take the cartoonish PC shooter's current closed beta offline starting tonight, planning to focus on polishing the backend instead.

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In an open letter to fans, game designer Richard Garriott stated he will be leaving publisher NCsoft, where he headed up development on the sci-fi MMO Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa.

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The U.S. Army may use MMO games like World of Warcraft as simulation training for new artificial intelligence that would see use in holographic soldiers for training.

It so ...... >>More...