The Ultima Online client has been patched to solve some issues responsible for the constant crashes that many players were reporting in the last days.

Lance Stites, Executive Producer for Aion , in a letter to the playerbase addresses the concerns about server queues and long login times.

A new WOW patch has been released on all european and US servers. With the other changes there is the possibility to create a Death Knight character also if your existing level 80  character is on another server.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced the finalization of the acquisition of Octopi, the company that until yesterday has developed and maintained the Strategy Online Game PoxNora .

CCP has released an important announcement about their space based MMORPG.
On March 10th, - they says - after the Apocrypha expansion, having a graphics card that supports ShaderModel 2 will be the minimum to run EVE. This means GeForce FX (5 series) or ATI R300 (9500, x300) or compatible. EVE Classic will be replaced with EVE Premium Lite. There are no plans to change the specifications further this year.

The EverQuest servers will be down for a few hours on the 20th and 21st of January for a game update and for some server merges.  Here are the details:

The UO: Stygian Abyss website has been updated with new information, screenshots and concept art.
Ultima Online: The Stygian Abyss is the eighth expansion pack for Ultima Online. It was originally slated for release in the summer of 2007 and then posponed to the second half of 2009.

Still scratching your head trying to come up with some good ideas about how to handle the useless gear pieces that accumulate after extensive questing? Thinking of the time and energy you spent to obtain them, it’s not a smart choice just to give throw them away or sell them at a “charity” price before you’ve tried dismantling them and stripping off the valuable elemenst to be incorporated into other gear.

A new article on the Camelot Herald announced a minor changes on the Breastplate that drops on the Shrouded Isles:

Flying Labs Software has released a new patch for POTBS, bringing the game version to 1.10.30.0. This one is considered a milestone update, containing about a month's worth of changes/fixes.

Voting for the election of the members of the Second Council of Stellar Management has ended, and the winners have been announced. The EVE Online Council of Stellar Management, in short CMS, is a democratically elected body of representatives from the playerbase, instituted to improve the communication between the Development Team and the players.

Colin Cragg, Game Director for Anarchy Online, has written an article answering a few common questions on the next coming Engine Upgrade and on the new booster Legacy Of The Xan. Check it out.