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After basically losing 50% of its community by announcing that its going to charge a subscription, Realtime Worlds are trying their best to get some support for their upcoming title, APB, by giving away goodies to those of you who preorder. The video explains it best.

Cops and robbers MMO, All Points Bulletin (APB), now has an official release date in the EU (UK) on July 2nd, according to the updated FAQs on the game’s official website. Predictably too, the MMO will be released earlier in the US on June 29th. The new FAQ also sets out the game’s pricing structure which …

Funcom has announced their new Age of Conan offline leveling mechanic, introduced in the 1.07.2 patch that hit the live servers today. Senior Community Manager Oliver ‘Tarib’ Kunz details the system in a post on the game’s official forums. The new feature kicks off by giving each active account four levels which can distributed to …

This week’s MMO report goes over Star Trek Online’s new trailer, with some Deep Space 9 crossover mission, the new Star Wars: The Old Republic dev diary and more from Uncle Casey’s mail bag.

The eagerly anticipated World of Warcraft feature length movie is still a long way off, according to Blizzard’s vice president of creative development Chris Metzen. “We’re still kind of getting it together with [Sam] Raimi and his team and jamming on themes that we want to chase.”, he said, probably via /say.  So, in Hollywood …

The APB beta playtest this week has some huge changes by all accounts as rumours start to fly that an open beta is approaching. This week’s patch update can only be described as a monster.  4.6GB in size and with more fixes and changes than you can shake a stick at.  This is the official …

With the tenth anniversary of Guild Wars upon us, developer ArenaNet has put out what they’re calling their “design manifesto” for the upcoming sequel. In it, they describe much of what they consider to be wrong with traditional MMORPGs, and how they plan to go about fixing them. “It sometimes feels like our industry has …

Nothing much to this post really but I am trying to reorganise alot of the site’s structure and these images needed to go somewhere!  That said, as the title suggests, I have added three new APB screenshots from Sunday’s beta testing session.  The first features the A-Team van which seemed to do nothing other than …

With the new site I thought it would be a nice idea to fill it with much more content on a daily basis (if possible).  Our first attempt at this is to incorporate G4TV’s weekly MMO report – just for Riz.  In this week’s episode, Casey drops by to tell you about the Blizzard Store’s …

A Taiwanese man has been named as the first player to ‘finish’ World of Warcraft. ‘Little Gray’, as his character’s known, is the first to successfully complete all of the MMO’s 986 achievements listed in the armory, reports MMO Champion. To reach the milestone the Taiwanese power-player killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, …

Dark Horizons has reported that Sam Raimi has signed on to direct a film based on the Warcraft universe, with Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures joining forces to release the film. Starting out as several award-winning PC games in 1994, the Warcraft universe is a rich fantasy setting that revolves around the epic conflict between …

â„¢ Despite what many think, we’re not all FPS fanboys or anti-WoW, so I thought I’d post a mini preview of upcoming, cops and robbers MMORPG, APB, or All Points Bulletin as it’s also known. You never know, you may actually like it. APB looks like a dream game; a massively multiplayer take on cops …

A little news today for you World of Warcraft junkies (you know who you are, slackers!) as Blizzard announce that it will soon be possible to change faction in Azeroth, despite stating a billion times that it would never happen. Essentially of course it’s just another way that Blizzard are able to keep on track …

In the cold, harsh northlands the Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. With the armies of the undead and the necromantic power of the plague threatening to sweep across the land, only the mightiest heroes can oppose the Lich King’s will and …

It’s time to leave the sunny plains of Azeroth for the bloody fields in Warhammer Online, or is it? The chappies at GameRadar have posted an interesting article on why you should ditch World of Warcraft, in favour of Warhammer Online. Here’s a snippet: Quote: In WAR, Orcs don’t dance like MC Hammer outside the …