![Turbine Confirms New Massively Multiplayer Title Featuring In-Game Item Sales [Turbine]](/images/news/47117.jpg)
Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine confirmed that they are working on a new massively multiplayer online game that will sell in-game items for cash.
Word of the game leaked out after a job posting...
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Innovative MMO Twin Skies Not Quite As Innovative Anymore [Oh Well]
![Innovative MMO Twin Skies Not Quite As Innovative Anymore [Oh Well]](/images/news/46765_l.jpg)
Neopets creators Adam Powell and Donna Williams have decided to strip the 3D portion of their MMO Twin Skies in order to focus on creating just another free-to-play online flash game.
Originally envisioned as a 3D MMO that users would be able to interact with directly via flash game content, an announcement... Read more
Aeria Gives Players Money For Christmas [Free Fake Money]
![Aeria Gives Players Money For Christmas [Free Fake Money]](/images/news/45145_l.jpg)
Aeria Games, the online gaming operator responsible for titles like Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online and Dream of Mirror Online, celebrates the holidays by giving away more than $5 million to their community.
Starting December 12th, which just so happens to be four days inn the past, members of the... Read more
Star Wars Old Republic MMO To Be "Microtransaction-Based" [Star Wars: The Old Republic]
![Star Wars Old Republic MMO To Be "Microtransaction-Based" [Star Wars: The Old Republic]](/images/news/44317_l.jpg)
The brand name for BioWare's upcoming Star Wars MMO may be a familiar one, but EA's plans for tempting you to part with your hard-earned cash are not.
Rather than asking for a monthly subscription fee, ala World of Warcraft, EA boss John Riccitiello has strongly hinted that the game will instead be ... Read more
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![Former WoW Developes Still Won't Tell Us What They're Working On [Mmo]](/images/news/46204.jpg)
Back in '06, a bunch of former Worlf of Warcraft developers left Blizzard to form their own studio, Red 5. Which cuts dangerously close to my own choice of studio name, Red Six.
Anyway, that was, quite...
Anyway, that was, quite...
![On Shuttering FTP Servers and the Fate of Virtual Items [Free To Play]](/images/news/41364.jpg)
A couple of big Korean companies have floundered as of late — or at least, some of their games have been big disappointments — and it's raising interesting observations about how companie...
![Ubisoft's Massive MMO Plans Start Small [BMP Capital Markets]](/images/news/41066.jpg)
So now that Ubisoft has purchased World in Conflict development studio Massive Entertainment from Activision, what are they going to do with them? Speaking at the 16th Annual BMO Capitol Markets Interactive...
![Killer: Online Gaming Made Me Crazy [China]](/images/news/40865.jpg)
Just as China declares internet addiction a "mental disorder," 22 year-old Hu Ange from Sichuan Province is now trying to claim insanity after being sentenced to death for poisoning his parents and spending...
![Fable II's Knothole Island DLC Hits Next Week [Fable II]](/images/news/47354.jpg)
Fable II's Knothole Island hits Xbox Live worldwide on Jan. 13 for $10 (800MP). And the expansion isn't coming without gifts. Even gamers who don't purchase it will get some freebies next week.
Knothole...
Knothole...
!["How Do I Change The Color Of SoulCalibur Female Underpants?" [Maximum Risky]](/images/news/47340.jpg)
This is serious stuff. Very serious. An interoffice Namco conversation regarding changing panty colors for the Dreamcast version of SoulCalibur. No, really.
According to the individual who supplied these...
According to the individual who supplied these...
![Sony To Bring In-House Racing Studios Together [Sony]](/images/news/47336.jpg)
Sony have two in-house racing developers. Evolution Studios, who do MotorStorm, and SCEE Liverpool, who do WipeOut. Seems a bit silly having two teams doing the one genre, doesn't it? Does to Sony.
In...
In...
![No Men Allowed (For A Long Time Now...) [Purikura]](/images/news/47332.jpg)
Girls only. Japan's Asahi Shimbun has an article about how Japanese arcades are banning men from sticker picture machines. Why'd they do that?
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...
![Sony Pictures Dates Ghostbusters Game [Sony]](/images/news/47317.jpg)
The release date for the Ghostbusters game has been announced by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in a Ghostbusters Blu-ray movie release — accidently announced, maybe! Doh.
A Sony Pictures pre...
A Sony Pictures pre...
![The Kinetics of Pinball [Pinball]](/images/news/47291.jpg)
The man behind such pinball greats as Fun House, the Addams Family and The Twilight Zone, Pat Lawlor, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the history and design of pinball games.
The interview...
The interview...
Jan 7 EGM, RIP
If you're following the sale of 1up.com and the mass layoffs that ensued on Tuesday afternoon, you'll likely soon be reading a bunch of blog posts and goodbye letters from the dozens of displaced staff...
![Rock Band Branded Memory Cards Come to the Wii [Ces09]](/images/news/47186.jpg)
SanDisk today unveiled a Rock Band branded 2GB memory card for the Wii.
The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the...
The SD cards will sell for $13 a pop and are set to hit the U.S. this spring. With songs taking as much as 50 megs each and the...
[The Independent Games Festival finalists are now revealed, and there's a whole bunch of extremely interesting, innovative titles jockeying for contention again this year.]
The 2009 Independent Games Festival...
The 2009 Independent Games Festival...