EverQuest II has announced that it will go free to play (F2P) without segregated servers for subscribers vs. free players starting in early December.  Sony Online Entertainment says that subscription titles are a dying breed in the industry and as caretakers of one of its oldest and most...

The official launch date for Star Trek Online’s planned migration to free to play (F2P) has been announced.  Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios, makers of the game, have announced the F2P launch date to be January 17, 2012. Celebrating the announcement, the developers...

See Global Entertainment (aka See Virtual Worlds, makers of Planet Michael) and ZQGame (a Chinese MMO maker) have announced that they will be releasing a browser-based multiplayer online (MMO) based on the Total Recall movie and franchise. The two companies have partnered with Sony...

Star Wars: The Old Republic will be hosting its third closed beta weekend soon and developers have announced that invitations are being sent to lucky players via email. Invites are being sent to North American applicants, but the beta weekend time table hasn’t been...

Blizzard has posted its third quarter (Q3) subscriber base as 10.3 million.  That is down from a reported 11.4 million at the first of the year (Q1) and over 800,000 less than the company’s second quarter (Q2) total of 11.1 million. The loss is close to 10% of the company’s...

Turbine has announced that the European (EU) migration for Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) will end on November 9, 2011.  The EU migration service will be disabled and accounts that have not migrated will not be automatically moved because of European privacy laws regarding accounts. ...

The biggest international game trade show in Korea, G-Star, will launch its 2011 event on Thursday, November 10th.  The show features a wide array of arcade, board, console, online and mobile games, vendors, and developers.  This year’s show is at BEXCO in Busan. The show will...

Guild Wars 2 is a game being developed by ArenaNet that promises to be one of the hottest MMO RPG releases in some time.  The game has a large following based on its retail success.  The game’s developers have released new tidbits detailing some in-game items and mechanics that...

RaiderZ EU, coming to Europe next year, will be a free to play (F2P) MMO focused on team play and interaction.  It’s expected to be a player versus environment (PvE) game.  Its closed beta just launched November 3rd. The game has officially launched a teaser website from which...

The latest patch for the ACE Online MMO has launched, bringing with it new content, monsters, and the much-awaited Infinity Field 3 addition. ACE has become a popular MMO because of its player vs. player (PvP) focus.  With the addition of Infinity Field 3, however, this takes on a whole...

Flyff (Fly for fun) has launched the Renaissance update (v18) into open beta so players can now check out the new content expansion themselves.  The expansion adds new dungeons, gear and over 100 new quests. The new expansion is slated for final release this November.  gPotato, the...

According to Sony Online Entertainment, the recent long outage of DC Universe Online is due to the game seeing over 120,000 new users in less than a week after going free to play (F2P).  The massive number of new users have put the U.s. game servers under heavy burden and lead to the...