Star Wars MMO: The Old Republic announced

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In July, CEO of EA John Riccitiello revealed the existence of a second Star Wars massively-multiplayer-online-game, or MMOG, as they’re known. The first, Star Wars Galaxies, was initially popular when released in 2003, but after sweeping changes were made to the gameplay in late 2005, players left in their droves. This new attempt at hooking the vast intellectual property that is Star Wars into a MMO framework looks like it could be successful…

New contender to the MMO throne: Age of Conan gears up for a massive launch

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Veteran MMO developers Funcom are about to launch their most ambitious online world to date, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. It’s already off to a good start -800,000 fans have actually ticked the ‘Yes, I would like to be bombarded with junk mail’ box (so did I, actually) and have signed up to the newsletter, and over 1 million players have reportedly signed up to the open beta phase…

The Sims Online closes – as new MMORPG Stargate Worlds opens its beta

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There probably isn’t that much of a crossover between The Sims Online (recently renamed the beyond abysmal “EA-Land”) players and those keen on signing up to a beta test of new MMORPG Stargate Worlds, but you never know.

EA announced the closure of EA-Land this week, to the sadness of the few young girls and odd men who are still hanging in there. The doors on the once-promising Sims Online universe will close forever on August 1, 2008.

But, as in nature, one death is always replaced by a new, glorious birth! Publisher FireSky has announced that preliminary registration for its beta…