MMORPG Games & MMO News – MMOCrunch

The worst possible thing to happen to a MMO player is getting their account hacked. All the work that you put in to your account can be gone and the process of getting your character and items back is a painful and long process. Companies of course take steps to protect customers like Blizzard’s Authenticator [...]

Normally when a MMO game reaches the open beta phase of its development cycle, it is pretty close to the version that will be released, minus a few changes and bug fixes.  However it seems that Star Vault, the developers behind Moral Online, have decided to go into open beta while the game is no [...]

NCSoft has announced Aion Magazine, the brand new digital magazine to their latest MMORPG, Aion. Each issue will contain an exclusive in-game item and will cost you 3,99$, although there will be discounts for when buying either 6(10% off) or a 12(20% off) issue package, either of which will also include an array of in-game [...]

February 2 saw the release of two MMORPG.  Both have subscription fees, both offer PvP and PvE content, they include guns and are set in science fiction universes.  The similarities pretty much stop there.  Cryptic Studios’ Star Trek Online is geared to satiate the hungered trekkies out there, while Hi-Rez Studios hopes to appease the [...]

Turbine has announced that Dungeons and Dragon Online’s community has welcomed over one million new players since re-launching the game in September 2009. The success of the new free-to-play/subscription MMO is unquestionable and it makes you think – why don’t more companies do it, instead of failing miserably. The end result: DDO’s population has doubled [...]

True Games Interactive has announced that the closed beta for Petroglyph’s mythology themed MMORPG, Mytheon, has officially started. While this is technically a closed beta test, anyone is free to sign up and participate in the Mytheon Closed Beta by simply visiting the game’s official website.
Of course, it may take some time(up to a week) [...]

I still seem to be hooked on the topic of risk and reward in MMOs. This article continues along that vein, but instead of the harsh, cold realities of item loss, we are going to think in terms of the spirit of the Olympic Games and talk about the sport of Competitive Dungeoneering.
Betting – In this [...]

Today Cryptic Studios released a raid episode fact sheet for the upcoming raid episodes in Star Trek Online. The raid episodes, AKA Raidisodes, are projected to enter testing within the next week and published live the week following. This raid content will introduce a lot of end-game content to the current system, which is almost [...]

After the success of Ether Saga’s “Design-a-Mount” contest, Perfect World Entertainment have decided to dig even deeper, allowing you to design your very own article of clothing for their hit MMORPG, Perfect World in the first ever Perfect World Fashion Contest. It doesn’t matter if you draw it by hand or photoshop it, the only [...]

Popular game portal ijji have spread the word about their latest game – Genesis A.D. The game is a futuristic shooter where players control hi-tech soldiers and battle each other for dominance. Genesis A.D officially launches it’s open beta in Korea on June 25, but there is no official word from ijji about a release [...]