MMORPG Games & MMO News – MMOCrunch

Today we received some new screenshots of EmpireCraft 2.0, which are posted below. For those of you not familiar with EmpireCraft, it is a browser based MMORTS game similar to Evony.  You have a town, created an army and try to take over other peoples towns.  There’s obviously more to it, but that’s the gist [...]

In a surprise announcement, the largest free virtual market for buying, selling and trading MMO accounts, MarkeeDragon.com, has announced they are getting out of the virtual marketplace business, sort of.  MMOBay.net, a leading auction site for virtual goods has acquired the MD forums, which are in the process of being transfered over.  No mention was [...]

Crisp, the foremost expert on behavioral analysis technology for online communities, today announced NetModerator for MMOs.  NetModerator promises to finally put an end to cheaters, spammers, farmers, botters, powerleveling and griefing.  Quite a list.
NetModerator will allow MMO companies to use real-time profiling to identify and deal with these naughty activities.
Crisp’s new control system [...]

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 [...]

This might be a little late, but I’m sure there are some that have not been keeping up with Lego Universe news, so I wanted to post it anyway. This is the second Lego Universe trailer that was released and shows us the bad guys in the game, although no new in-game footage.

It’s been a long time since we heard the latest numbers for Funcom’s Age of Conan, however with the release of update 6 and their guild ranking system, we can now guesstimate how many subscribers AoC really has.   As I did last week with CrimeCraft when I guesstimated there numbers were below 10,000, I went [...]

Gala-net has announced that Allods Online open beta will begin for North America on Feb 16th.  Back in Nov 09 when we had our Allods Online closed beta key giveaway, we received an overwhelming response for keys, in fact we still receive requests for keys, so I’m sure this is welcomed news for many of [...]

Gala-Net today announced that the new expansion to their free to play MMORPG, Rappelz, will launch on February 24th.  The expansion titled, Rappelz Epic VI: Resurrection, will be available to all players for free and will revive the main storyline of the evil Witch and introduce new pets to Rappelz.
In Epic VI: Resurrection, the most [...]

Not too long ago I speculated that CrimeCraft might be in trouble when they announced back in Oct 09 they would start to offer an free subscription option. Today, I was browsing around CrimeCraft’s website and noticed they had a leaderboard setup for individual players and gangs.   So I decided to add up the numbers [...]

Today we are proud to offer our readers a chance to get into the closed beta of Aika Online in our latest beta key giveaway.   For those of you unfamiliar with Aika Online it is an upcoming fantasy MMORPG from Gala-net.  Designed to re-imagine the “massively” in MMORPG,  Aika presents three major PvP modes [...]