Cryptic Studios, the developers behind City of Heroes, promises to categorically outdo their freshman super hero MMORPG with Champions Online. Based on the pen-and-paper RPG of the same name, Champions Online will offer a previously unseen level of customization when it launches for the PC and Xbox 360. Players will be able to [...]

Users of Halifax bank in the UK who use their account to pay Activision Blizzard for the chance to play Warcraft have a surprise waiting for them. They can’t pay.
Halifax has blamed the situation on the high number of stolen credit cards used to play the game. Simply put, any attempt to pay your [...]

If you’ve ever spent any time playing World of Warcraft, you’re familiar with Peons4Hire, even if you don’t know them by name. The company, owned by In Game Dollar, was responsible for chat spamming players with advertisements for buying in-game gold and items. Peons4Hire were good at what they did, creating characters with [...]

A new documentary is focusing on the lives (and loves, and lost jobs) of MMO fanatics. The seven profiled players are a mix of styles, from the hopelessly addicted, gold farmers, those who have moved on, and the casual players. Thankfully, from the trailer, it doesn’t look like it’s condemning the players even though it [...]

Funcom’s official Anarchy Online community site has the first details on the game’s new tiered pricing scheme. The basic sci-fi MMORPG remains free from level 1-200, but players can now opt to subscribe to just Shadowlands, the game’s first expansion, for 5 USD/EUR a month before taking the plunge and subscribing to the game’s [...]

Hellgate London’s official site has information concerning the first post-release content for the game, called The Stonehenge Chronicles. The update, which will finally bring Hellgate up to version 1.0, nearly three months after its initial release, will introduce Stonehenge and a batch of new quests, areas, weapons, and monsters with it. In addition [...]

These people mean business.
If anything, it’s a sad day in this world when a government feels the need to regulate how people spend their free time. However, it’s even sadder when you need your fix bad enough to enter one of the 563 illegal Internet cafes just to play some Warcraft. The Chinese gaming [...]

World of Raids has a great link to an online flash game that trains players for the Teron Gorefiend raid boss in World of Warcraft’s Black Temple. Like the actual boss fight, the flash game is hard, but with a little practice you’ll soon find yourself a more than capable player ready for a [...]

Following in the footsteps of Bungie and Insomniac, Blizzard has released its first official podcast, BlizzCast. The first episode includes a conversation with Samwise Didier, Blizzard’s Art Director, as well as a sneak peak at World of Warcraft’s upcoming 2.4 patch, which will introduce the Sunwell Plateau, the game’s final, pre-Wrath of the Lich [...]

I once tried to level a World of Warcraft character usually only Discovery XP, experience rewarded whenever your character discovers a new location in the world. I made it to level 6 before giving up. Boingboing has a link to an interesting WoW Insider article about a much more tenacious WoW player trying [...]

38 Studios, the MMO developer founded by Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schillings, is old news. However, just this week at CES, the baseball star announced this would be his last year playing America’s favorite pastime. He told journalists “I’m done. This is my final year,” saying he plans to devote all of [...]

You don’t have to wait until this March for the recently announced Codemasters Online Connect 2008 event in Birmingham, England to hear about the shiny new DirectX 10 graphical update coming to LoTRO… because you’re hearing about it now. Funny how that works, eh?
MMORPG.com has some comparison shots showing off the new graphical wizardry [...]