The MMO Round-Up / Feb 20

The MMO Round-up captures the genre’s most notable happenings of the week in easy to consume, bite-sized portions.

Bungie is apparently working on something like World of Warcraft in space — best said with an echo — called Destiny.

MMO mastermind Richard Garriott talked about the state of social gaming.

The developers of Fallen Earth gave a sneak peak into the game’s new zone Section 4.

CCP left a mysterious message on their Twitter account in the form of a QR code. Spooky? Not really, the code was deciphered as being a message about a fan gathering during PAX East.

The endgame content for RIFT was detailed in a fairly lengthy video.

Runes of Magic is going to be going from a dual class situation to having a 3 classes, two at the ready and one in reserve.

Fallen Earth’s 1.8 patch has made it to the testing servers and offers up extensive changes to abilities.

All your base are belong… ah forget it. Guild bases are coming to the perfect world of Perfect World.

A recent patch has brought extensive changes to the Dervish in Guild Wars.

Players had questions and RIFT Executive Producer Scott Hartsman had some answers.

Champions Online sees a rise in players and profits after going free-to-play, according to a recent report.

Take a fly through of TERA’s Arachnaea zone, but don’t mistake of trying to pronounce it like we did.

Aika Online said hello to Europe this week as it made its debut there.

A second progression server was launched this week for EverQuest due to popular demand.

LEGO Universe wants you to battle for the Nimbus Station.

The 1.4.1 patch for Warhammer Online hit the public test servers this week and you can check out the patch notes if you so desire.

ArenaNet gave a peak behind the scenes of the QA testing for Guild Wars 2.

Want to see whats going on with the next update for City of Heroes, then look no further.

The Feb update for Final Fantasy XI is alive.

Darkfall devs blogged about what’s to come in the game including some changes to the interface.

The MMO Round-Up / Feb 13

The MMO Round-up captures the genre’s most notable happenings of the week in easy to consume, bite-sized portions.

The flood gates for Guild Wars 2 info has opened with tons of info pouring out, like a beta coming in 2011 among other things like this, this and this. Oh yes, and there is some more Guild Wars 2 info and goodies here.

According to Blizzard‘s Mike Morhaime their next MMO will not only break the mold but also be quote “new and fresh”.

NCSoft saw an increase in sales last year thanks to their two fantasy MMOs Lineage II and Aion.

BioWare gave a big hug to World of Warcraft and wants Star Wars: The Old Republic to be just like WoW went it grows up.

Zeus gets all up in your face in the latest trailer for Mytheon released earlier in the week.

Rift’s six day open beta event starts this Tuesday and if you haven’t signed up yet, now is the time to do so.

Frogster — makers of Runes of Magic — donated a hefty sized check to a children’s charity this week.

The next mini-patch for Final Fantasy XI is set to release on Monday.

A new MMO studio called Second Star Interactive popped up this week founded by some industry veterans.

The game Gods and Heroes is looking for a few good volunteers to help them out with a few things.

Champions Online system designer Chris Matz talked about the free-to-play model as well as the future of the game.

World of Tanks got a new tutorial video so that we can learn to play.

CCP reassured the EVE Online fan base that they’re focused on fixing a lot of small problems with the game.

Fallen Earth is set to get a blast of Nuclear Blast, which is a record label featuring heavy metal, apparently.

Fake leaked hacker video from Frogster teases the next update coming to Runes of Magic.

The Battlestar Galactica MMO launched this week, where have you been?

Turbine is bringing Dungeons & Dragons Online: Unlimited to Europe in 2011, the beta testing is set to start in March.

The Crux Prime update for LEGO Universe dropped this week and you can check out the trailer here.

Rank up to beat up, Crysis 2 multiplayer progression trailer explains

As in every multiplayer game, you’ll have to rank up to get the good stuff that’s available you, and Crysis 2 won’t be the exception. But as you progress on the online battlefield of… New York… you’ll discover that Crytek has done one thing a bit different, and that’s enhance your nanosuit-equipped soldier with upgrades that vary depending on how you play the game. If this sounds intriguing, then have a go at the trailer embedded above. If not, then watch it anyway, you just might be.

Crysis 2 is still set for a late-March release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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