In an attempt to fight gold selling and other RTM trades, Runescape has changed the policy regarding in-game trades. Starting from now, it will not be possible anymore to do any in game unbalanced trade.
The official explanation follows.

It is time for the 2007 final assessment at Turbine, a time to go back to the past months and evaluate how LOTRO has progressed so far. Jeffrey Steefel, the Executive Producer for Lord of the Rings Online, shares with us his thoughts.

Gamasutra has a nice piece listing five most important MMO moments of 2007 that are going to become history.

VestGame Entertainment, the North American Publisher of the Chinese hit MMORPG World of Kung Fu has announced that it will begin its final closed beta test on Wednesday, December 19th.

With a letter to the players, GM Xarfox of Gala-Net announces that all Space Cowboy game servers will be shut down permanently.

Here is the list of changes introduced last week on EverQuest 1. The patch mostly fixed some buggy quests and items and removed the chance to miss a note for many bard songs.

EQ2 Live Update 41 is now online on the test server. The patch introduces the new concept of Achievement Profile, which lets you "save" your archivement points configuration for later, and finally puts an end to the lame level 20 locking on PvP servers introducing XP gains for each PvP kills even when the XP gains are locked.

Here is the second part of the article describing how summoning will work in Runescape, once it will be released in January 2008. The first part is available here .

With this article, the Runescape developers announces the release of a new game system, scheduled for release on January 2008, which will allow players to summon creatures to fight at their side.

The Warhammer Online website has an update on the development status, with particular notes about the Inevitable City and Realm versus Realm combat.

Until now Trinity, the newest game expansion for EVE Online, has received many praises both from veteran and new players. It is not common at all that a MMORPG developer decides that it is worth to invest into updating the Graphical engine and redesigning 70% of the game graphics instead than just putting all that time and money into a new game, and this gives a clear idea on how serious is CCP about the long term projects for EVE.
But as usual, the bigger the updates are, the longest the issue lists. So, forgetting for once the boot.ini issue that has been covered sufficiently by the other MMORPG websites, let's see what others are the known problems that came after the deployment of Trinity, while waiting, as usual, for a bugfixing patch.

Angels Online, the new MMORPG from IGG has been anxiously anticipated by tons of players since it was first announced. Today the AO team is going to give players a sneak preview of some of the game features.