Star Trek Online is alive and kickin'. Cryptic Studios, developers of City of Heroes/City of Villains and the upcoming Champions Online have ended the mysterious countdown on their website at the Comic Con yesterday by officially announcing that they have taken over the development of the MMO from the development studio Perpetual Entertainment, which had to be closed down earlier this year. more...

Blizzard waited for the E3 to close down before they made a move that quite some World of Warcraft fans have been waiting for long: It seems like the beta for the new expansion Wrath of the Lich King is just about to start. more...

The CEO of EA, John Riccitiello, had something that can only be described as a slip of the tongue. more...

The superhero slash supervillain MMO's City of Heroes and City of Villains were up to now separated from each other. If you wanted to acces the villain world, you had to buy a retail copy of the respective game. If you rather felt like being the good-hearted superhero, you had to go for the equivalent. But you didn't have access to both worlds by only buying one of the two games. more...

Mark Jacobs, Mythic Entertainment VP and General Manager, just confirmed in an interview that some major features will be cut from the upcoming MMO Warhammer Online to make sure that it can really be released this fall. And one thing is for sure: We are definitely talking about really major features here. Read on. more...

Alright, so this is a news article about Flagship Studios apologizing once more for Hellgate: London. You could argue that this is not really news, because there wasn't an opportunity for weeks that the few people working there wouldn't use to apologize. But still: Read on for some promises about their new project Mythos. more...

Age of Conan always seemed to be the underdog on the MMO market. Why should anybody want to play a game set in the universe of a very aged barbarian out of some 80ies movies (the original Conan books by Robert E. Howard are from the 30ies)? more...

UPDATE: We've just learned that NCsoft, who will not be joining E3 in mid-July, plan to attend PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) in Seattle, which will start in 58 days, 23 hours and 23 minutes. Sadly, at this stage, the Guild Wars team is not giving interviews.

This may sound like a direct blow to the face of every Guild Wars fan out there: the Guild Wars 2 Beta has now been officially postponed to next year. It seems that the development of the subscription-free MMO is still in need of much more time. more...

Just to let you know that the people working for www.eurogamer.net were obviously able to squeeze some more information out of Funcom about what they have in mind for the future of Age of Conan, which celebrated a very successful start in the last month; the game has by now shipped over a million units. more...

Cryptic Studios, developers of the MMO's City of Heroes and City of Villains, put a countdown timer in the games section on their website very recently, which will end on July 27th. In the background of the countdown you can see a picture that clearly has to do something with a science-fiction setting (asteroid-rain and planets can be seen). And this picture leads to speculations in the "Star Trek Online" fan-base now. more...