CCP Games in Iceland has named Chinese game publisher TianCity as the exclusive publishing outlet for the popular EVE Online MMO’s upcoming mainland China release.  The partnership was announced at a press conference in Shanghai today. The latest release of EVE Online is coming in...

The term “massive multiplayer online” (MMO) has meant a lot of things since its inception in the 1990s.  Today, one genre of MMO are social games that include real-time or near-real-time play aspects into their models.  While most social games, such as Zynga’s...

On Sunday the 19th, SteelWar Online, a new space-based MMO, entered open beta.  Developer PopPace is now accepting beta players into the game for testing. The game is a robot battle MMO taking place in open space.  It’s free to play and claim to be the first in its genre of...

On Valentine’s Day, 21,879 couples took virtual marriage vows in Rift, matching nearly 44,000 players with their in-game soul mates.  Rift will now take its place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most in-game marriages in a 24 hour period. “Establishing this record...

WarpPortal has announced that the Korean and North American servers for Requiem will be merging on March 7th.  Players will benefit from several events launching once the merger is complete.  These include: Green rice cake & blue rice cake global drop event for all players. Raid...

Drew Karpyshyn, lead writer for BioWare (makers of Star Wars: The Old Republic and other MMOs), has resigned after working for the company for 12 years.  He says, in a blog post, that he’s retiring from the gaming industry to focus on writing novels and possibly screen...

Jagged Alliance Online has entered open beta and interested players can sign up for testing and start playing the game.  New features to go with this open beta include: Defeated opponents now drop loot that can be collected by the mercenaries during the mission. When a player aims at an...

Just before Christmas, I did an editorial regarding children’s MMOs and mentioned a newcomer to the field, Little Space Heroes.  The game debuted as an open beta offering in October last year and has been gunning forward since. Bubble Gum Interactive, which makes the game, has...

Mike Ferguson, lead developer at Guild Wars 2, has released updated information for the new player versus player (PvP) environment World vs World.  Releasing soon, the update will be one of the most massive of player army versus player army games ever made. Each WvW system pits three...

A large number of dedicated Lord of the Rings Online players are big player vs player fans, getting their freep on regularly.  Others are lovers of the creep culture that comes with PvP and the ability to warg out or orc it all on the freeps in the zone.  The Ettenmoors is one of...

Star Trek Online has announced the details for the first Foundry Challenge in the game, a contest where players create a scenario and other players vote on their favorites.  Builders have three weeks, starting from yesterday, to build their mod and submit them.  After the deadline,...

The Requiem update for Rusty Hearts has deployed, giving players of this popular hack-and-slash MMO new content including a new playable character. The new character is Roselle Vergerius (pictured) is a purchasable player character who, like most females in this game, is scantily clad and...