Champions Online has announced details concerning the Serpent Lantern Adventure Pack set to arrive next month.

The expansion offers many new updates to Champions Online. The “adventure pack” features new enemies, locations and items centered around battling the games VIPER nemesis as you search for a powerful and mysterious object – the Serpent Lantern. There will also be new NPC’s to interact with, new costumes to unlock, three new perks, action figures to collect and a slue of other add-ons that will flesh out the new expansion.

For the fully detailed article and trailer from Champions Online on the Serpent Lantern adventure pack, click here.

Good news for fans of browser-based games, Winds of Conquest is a brand new one that lets you find the excitement of building your own company. Be the best business manager, constantly evolving your company, protecting it by rivals, overcoming issues and doing everything else you normally get paid for doing. You can also manage your business places, transportation, factories and production, competing against other players in a round-based style to see who has the brightest future as a business manager.

Publisher GamesCampus has revealed details about Soul Master, their “genre-bending” MMORTS, which is also free-to-play, by the way. Soul Master will combine the character advancement of an action RPG with the depth and gameplay balance of an Real Time Strategy game. The game tries to bring together the best of both worlds, with you being able to create and progress a character, take them on various quests and missions just like in any other ORPG, but you will also be able to send your character out hunting for resources, constructing buildings and producing and upgrading their very own army of units with which to battle the enemies. More information on Soul Master is coming soon, and the game is looking nice. If you like anime styled characters, that is.

Have you heard of the developer Runic Games? A small studio, started by whatever was leftover from Flagship Studios. And Flagship Studios was a small studio started by whatever was leftover from Blizzard North. And Blizzard North we know best for bringing us what is considered to be the greatest hack and slash RPG of all time, Diablo. Anyway, Runic started small. They quickly started working on their first game, Torchlight. Well, the game was a huge success and apparently the publisher of Jade Dynasty and Perfect World likes owning companies that make good games, go figure. So, Perfect World Entertainment acquired most of Runic Games. This means that PWE will be the new publisher for the upcoming Torchlight MMORPG. Great news, I say.

As Final Fantasy XIV makes its transition from alpha to beta, the public are given another opportunity to apply for a testing position. It seems that the Playstation 3 beta will also begin shortly, as users are given the option to enter the code that was received when registering the Playstation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIII through the Square Enix members site. Apart from access to the beta, the code will also grant the user an exclusive in-game item.

For more information on the Final Fantasy XIV beta, head on over to the official beta registration website.

MMORPG.com recently sat down with lead Guild Wars 2 designer Colin Johanson to discuss some questions and debates that were raging around forums concerning their newly mentioned Dynamic Events system.

Some of the most pressing issues were whether the Dynamic Events system would have any kind of resetting feature or if it worked on some other, less familiar principal. The discussion also targeted if players will miss any content considering the style of questing that Guild Wars 2 hopes to implement.

To read the full Guild Wars 2 designer interview about the Dynamic Events systems, click here.

Following up on Joar’s recent post concerning the new expansion pack coming in Mid-June, Aika Online has released three new screenshots to gaming website MMORPG.com.

Along with this news, Akia Online has recently released a new patch note. Client updates include: Distribution of CSS prizes, minor changes to clarify item names and descriptions, and small changes to the user interface of the Aitan Arena for clarity purposes. Other updates include continuations of their popular youtube series of webcasts.

To see the new pics from MMORPG.com’s original article on Aika Online’s new screenshots , click here.

If you’ve been excited for Final Fantasy XIV, then you are certainly in for a treat as we have a huge amount of screenshots for the upcoming beta test. Final Fantasy XIV is currently still in alpha, however that hasn’t stopped Square Enix from promoting its game. We also have the entire map of Eorzea – Final Fantasy XIV’s world.

Visually, the beta is quite the significant leap over the alpha version. Below are some comparison screenshots:

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Keep on checking MMOCrunch for all the latest news on Final Fantasy XIV.

The closed beta for Kingdom Heroes, Aeria Games’ latest MMORPG, has started today, May 19. The game itself is a fantasy martial arts MMO that, of course, will be free to play. It emphasizes on Player versus Player combat and is definitely looking great. Anyone interested can apply for becoming a participant in the closed beta on the game’s official website. You can also read more about the game, the lore and the setting there.

French publisher Ubisoft has announced 5 free MMO’s in development. That happened during a post earnings conference call on May 18, 2010 when the CFO of Ubisoft, Alain Martinez, “slipped” that the major video game publisher had no less than five “massively multiplayer online light” games in development. You can be sure that one of them is the Heroes of Might and Magic MMORPG that recently hit closed beta. The rest we’ll see soon enough, I hope.