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Gala-Net starts the Open Beta for its cute MMORPG Iris Online, available through the gPotato games portal. From today November 24^th, everyone can go and try this new MMO, featuring three races for players to choose and explore the lands of Arcana, a world ruled by strange magical forces that will lead players into a mystery tale.

Iris Online offers a unique and in-depth Tarot Card system and thrilling PvP. Don’t get  mislead by its cute appeal and lovable characters, this game offers a lot, like the monster transformation system, instanced dungeons and special PvP areas, to throw yourself into frenzy battles of duels and conquering.

The game is now in Open Beta. Though everyone can get in, the item shop is not available yet and all fans have to wait for a final release, to get the maximum from this new anime-like MMO. If you want to give it a run, don’t hesitate and download the client, once you register, on the official website.

Trickster Online recently celebrated its 4th anniversary with in-game festivities and competitions. To finish off the events with a bang, SG Interactive has prepared a major content update for Trickter Online‘s players to feast upon. Keeping in mind the new player experience, the developers are rolling out updated maps, a compass guide for quests, and an overhauled resurrection system.

Chris Lee, CEO over at SG Interactive, has been listening closely to player feed back over the past few months. He explains, “We’re confident that the upcoming additions will make it easier than ever for new players to join in the fun, and are very excited to be revealing this update as we finish celebrating Trickster Online’s 4th Anniversary!” Tutorial pop-ups and detailed guidance systems are in place to assist the wary adventurer as he/she steps out from the new player zone for the first time. The new resurrection system will allow players to respawn at the exact location of death, though players at or above level 20 will incur an XP loss.

Check out the game site for more details.

Earthrise, an upcoming scifi-themed MMO from Masthead Studios, is gaining significant momentum in the anticipation of its launch. Touted as a sandbox title, Earthrise will shed the restraints of explicit class types in favor of a more open, skill-based system (think EvE or Darkfall). In this post-apocalyptic world, players will compete on the battlefield as well as the market, where crafting and the economy are just another means of carving your own destiny. PvP takes on a new flavor as well, allowing players to fight for certain factions or simply pursue a personal goal.

In anticipation of a Q4 release, Masthead Studios has released a brand new Earthrise website for us to explore. It’s certainly aesthetically pleasing, with a nice panoramic concept piece spread out behind a seductive female pistoleer. While the site is still pretty bare, there is an apt game description, as well as some news bits and a community portal. Also, if you haven’t already, throw your beta application in before it’s too late!

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Trion Worlds is about to start its closed beta phase for its upcoming MMO Rift: Planes of Telara. A lot of information has been released, about this awesome-looking game, lately. As the beta comes closer, now, we have a juicy pack of new things to tell you, regarding what’s really new on RPOT.

As you can see above, the Guardian Capital of Sanctum has been revealed. This city takes its name from the holy Sanctum of the Vigil, a sacred temple where the priests summon riftspawn, to interrogate the monsters and know where the next rift will appear. This is the place where the Consecrators made their headquarters. This order is for agents that track cultists and monster to their own lairs. If you want to face the Defiant, this is the place to go. There you will be sent to battle the Guardian’s enemies immediately and you’ll seek glory on the battlefield. May you join the Guardian ranks and this will be your holy ground.

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December 7, 2010 is the date everything changes across the world of Azeroth in Blizzard’s number one MMO, World of Warcraft, and there are no end of very good reasons why any self-respecting WoW player needs the Cataclysm expansion on Day One. Among the biggest draws of World of Warcraft’s third expansion is the inclusion of two new playable races: the savage Worgen joining the Alliance, and the mercenary Goblins siding with the Horde. While archeology, an increased level cap, new endgame content and a completely renovated Azeroth are intriguing, new playable races truly spice up this expansion.

Whether you’re for the Horde or Alliance for life, you need to know exactly what you’re getting into when you roll up that first goblin or worgen, and that starts with racial traits and class opportunities. While these abilities may not be quite etched in stone, racial abilities (commonly referred to as ‘racials’) will probably roll out like this:

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Forsaken World, the upcoming MMORPG of Perfect World Entertainment, is living its first beta phase. Next one, beta phase 2, starts next November 24^th and looks like this giant MMO publisher don’t want to miss the chance of letting us all know its game better.

From now, PWE will be releasing a Developer Diary series, regarding Forsaken World, explaining a lot of things about the game. In addition to all the press releases and the official website, giving information regularly, now we bring you the first introduction Video. What can I say? The video talks by itself.

It’s great that PWE decided to release this kind of videos. You can really get a sneak-peak at the game, learning many features and getting the ambience of it. We’ll stay tuned for new videos of  and we’ll bring them to you, avid gamer, always here, on MMOCrunch.

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Next December 1, Nexon America will release an update for its MMO Vindictus. Episode 4 will be a free content update, bringing several additions attached in the form of two new dungeons and an increased level cap.

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We all know World Warcraft is the king of kings on the MMO world. Blizzard made such a great game and has taken care of it. Though some might say they don’t like the game anymore, the truth is that millions of players pay for it every month and it looks strong as a made-of-oak-wood staff.

Blizzard knows what it’s all about on the gaming business. They’ve made WOW to be a great MMO, even if it misses player housing and other features, but they were failing on the community part of it. Years ago, games like EQ2 set a community site, where players could check their characters, upload screenshots, check their statistics and more, Lord of the Rings Online has  mylotro.com site, for some similar features, but WOW is missing that feature completely. Now, though features like the aforementioned are missing still, a new community website with new services has been released.

Congratulations to all WOW players. Blizzard has set and release a new community website, where you can check all the details about the game, access to a lot of services, forums, contests and a future game guide under development at the moment.

If you’re interested on it, go to the official new community website for World of Warcraft.

CCP has recently released a new trailer, introducing Incursion, the next expansion for the sci-fi space MMO EVE Online.

This time, EVE players will face a new threat, the returning of Sansha Kuvakei. Along with him, comes the angered Sansha’s Nation, ready to destroy everything in the name of vengeance. Looks like, this time, the main goal will be stopping this threat. Sansha’s Nation brings devastating technology and will push players to the limits, every pilot must give the best, if he wants to survive.

Incursion will bring many new features with it, when it launches this month. In addition to the new Character Creation System, you’ll see new Sansha’s Nation ships, Environment System Effects and many more. For a full description, go to the official Incursion features page.

The time is close, brave pilots. Prepare yourselves for the Incursion.

Welcome everyone to a new chapter of MMOries of a Gamer, the weekly column where I tell you of my MMO life, telling you stories of many games I’ve played.

Last week, I left you wondering what would be the fate of two crazy adventurers, kind of lost into the Old Forest on Lord of the Rings Online. They made it out of the dangerous areas of the forest and just arrived on a grassy hill, with a house on it, when they heard someone singing,

“Hey dol, derry dol!”

Yes, dear friends, right there he was, Tom Bombadil.

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