The Star Wars:The Old Republic site has seen an update detailing the bonuses for those who pre-order the game.  SWTOR fans who order the digital release before the game comes out later this year will receive some cool extras for in-game enhancement. All pre-orders include: A color stone...

Age of Conan: Unchained has implemented the annual Night of Lost Souls special Halloween events expansion to the game.  It will be in effect until November 6th. The events in-game will bring back popular features from previous Night of Lost Souls years as well as some new things.  This...

The first day of Blizzcon 2011 had the announcement of the new World of Warcraft expansion, known as Mists of Pandaria.  The expansion will come with a new playable race from the new maps, the Pandaren.  As it sounds, they are a panda-like race of humanoid bears. The new Pandaren race...

The Angels Online development team has announced that their latest expansion for the game, Pharaoh’s Lost Treasure, will feature seven new maps and new bosses. The areas will be based in Ancient Egypt with the history and culture of Egypt displayed along with “the three...

Frogster has announced that their MMO, Mythos, will be closing its European servers on October 27 and no longer offering game access in the EU.  The announcement was made in game forums, citing a lack of long term popularity for the game in the region. Players are being encouraged to...

WindSlayer, the popular 2D Zelda-like game, has started closed beta with its latest rendition, WindSlayer 2. Nadirim, a browser-based Arabian Nights MMO from Twisted Tribe, will enter open beta starting in November. WindSlayer 2 is now accepting closed beta applications on its website and...

The EverQuest development team has announced that the much-anticipated Veil of Alaris expansion will be coming on November 18th.  This will be the 18th expansion to the game since its public unveiling.  Pre-orders for the expansion package are now being accepted. Alaris brings many new...

CCP, the makers of EVE Online and whose upcoming World of Darkness MMO and Dust 514 PlayStation offering were heavily anticipated by press during the recent EVE Online convention in Iceland, has announced that they have laid off 20% of their employees and will significantly curb...

Halloween events are happening all over the MMO genre starting this week.  Aaron covered LOTRO events yesterday.  Here are some others happening around the gameverse. Lucent Heart has deployed spooky plans for players in a variety of Halloween-themed events happening through to November...

Cryptic, makers of Champions Online, has introduced Archetype Rotation into the game from now through to the end of November.  During the event, players are given an extra character slot and each week, a different archetype is spotlighted for players to try. The schedule for the...

The World of Tanks developers at Wargaming.net have updated the news site and players forum with a new question and answer regarding new tanks and changes to be added to the pending v7.x patches. WoT developers have been planning to add a new line of tanks, these the ones made by France...

The Lord of the Rings Online has begun the annual Harvestmath fall festival events.  All of the usual favorites will be there, including the Haunted Burrow (which debuted last year) with its fun and spooky quests and rewards, dance contests and other emote-learning events, special...