Square Enix has taken time away from sueing French retailers to announce that an upcoming mini-expansion for their MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI, will be made available for pre-purchase on July 5th.
The upcoming expansion is entitled A Moogle Kupo d’Etat - Evil in Small Doses, and reportedly focuses on the Moogles in the game and problems [...]

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Blizzard has been working on a secret MMO for some time now and details have been ridiculously scarce ever since the project began. However, if a recent trademark filing is anything to go by we might be one step closer to discovering what the game’s title will be.
Cataclysm is the filing and was filed for [...]

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To all of the World of Warcraft players out there which side are you, Alliance or Horde? Regardless, have you ever felt the urge to switch sides but haven’t been able to?
Well, according to an official Blizzard forum poster by the name of Nethaera, you will soon be able to do that:
“There’s still much work [...]

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It seems that a San Francisco resident by the name of Esther Leong has taken Square Enix of America to court for $5 million. The subject of the law suit is regarding MMO Final Fantasy XI and “unfair business practices, false advertising and unjust enrichment”.
According to Kotaku, Esther Leong is claiming that Square Enix “lied [...]

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EA is really taking out the big guns in an attempt to take down Blizzard and their World of Warcraft — Recently announced is the merger of Warhammer Online developer Mythic and Mass Effect developer, BioWare.
These two merged studios will form a new RPG/MMO studio group with most all of the executives from both studios [...]

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What may not seem as good news to the all dominating, all conquering World of Warcraft, it turns out that Lord of The Rings Online, one of the main competitors to WoW, is actually growing in subscribers.
While other MMOs face the fact and give up against WoW, which usually means shutting down or merging servers, [...]

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NCsoft’s upcoming MMO Aion (they make a lot of MMOs, in case you didn’t notice), will be getting a collector’s edition, like many other NCsoft MMO titles.
The Aion Collector’s Edition will include a figurine (pictured above) and the game’s soundtrack as well. Oh, and it’ll also come in a great looking box (also picture above), [...]

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It seems that Activision just can’t stop raping the Call of Duty franchise. If it wasn’t enough that there are countless Call of Duty games out there, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick recently said at a analyst meeting;
“[What] would be the natural evolution of a property like Call of Duty into a massively multiplayer environment — [...]

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Atlus Online has just announced that their free-to-play MMORPG Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent has officialy gone live.
The game’s beta apparantly went live back in May which recieved generally good feedback. To celebrate the game’s launch, Atlus will be holding both screenshot and national anthem contest which have you sending in the coolest screenshot you [...]

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Yep, as expected: another weekend, lots of games discounted on Steam. This time, it’s selected MMO games, which will see price cuts from 20% to 75%. The list of games:
City of Heroes Architect Edition - $15.99
Guild Wars Trilogy - $39.99
EVE Online: Apocrypha - $7.49
Lineage II: Gracia & trade Final - $15.99
Lineage - $7.99
EverQuest II Rise [...]

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Here’s something we let slip by from E3, All Points Bulletin’s character creation tool which is showcased extensively in the above video.
Realtime Worlds really did a great job of giving players the ability to tweak and perfect their character any way they want. They also briefly showcased the ability to customize cars from their paintjob [...]

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Hollywood trade magazine Variety reports that Neverwinter Nights developer Cryptic Studios is developing an MMO based on the Neverwinter Nights universe. The report also suggests that Atari’s main intention with the acquisition of the studio was the MMO, which Atari is putting all its bets on. No other details of the game were mentioned, other [...]

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Huxley, the anticipated MMOFPS will be free of monthly subscriptions, according to publisher ijji.com, who revealed that the game will be supported through micro-transactions — and we assume some form of in-game advertising as well. The publisher also revealed that the game would not be cross platform playable with the PC and Xbox 360 versions. [...]

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Final Fantasy XII isn’t even out yet and already Square Enix is taking the wraps off of Final Fantasy XIV. Don’t expect to gain much in terms of gameplay from the above trailer as it is entirely CG. Of course, it the CG is done beautifully as in all Final Fantasy games.
Anyways, we know now [...]

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At E3 Iron Will Technologies is unveiling an innovation of theirs that’ll bring many gamers back down memory lane to a time of bad haircuts, ripped-up jeans and Fred Savage. In his classic film The Wizard where he attempts to get a young video game prodigy to a gaming competition. One of the most tense [...]

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