Van Hemlock takes inspiration from a news from some days ago to propone a discussion: "Do older players have a right to be better off in the game, purely by virtue of their time served? Or should an online game be a place of constant renewal, where a player’s status must be continually earned on a weekly or monthly basis?"
I think the whole Van Hemlock article is interesting and worth a read.

Perseus of Hakkar sent us an email to inform us about a new interesting massively multiplayer online games developer house entering the market. "Red 5 Studios", we read in the Press Release, "is an independent developer of massively multiplayer online entertainment founded by key developers and executives behind Blizzard Entertainment®'s hit game World of Warcraft®.".

The official Press Release in view at the Dungeons and Dragons Online website, tells that the game has finally reached its gold stage. Launch is scheduled for the 28th of February.

Second Life seems to be always in the news. This time it gained an highlighted article on Wired.
The article is about making real money by playing Second Life. Some people seems to be able to succeed in this.

We asked our readers which MMORPG publisher they do think is the worst, the one they hate the most. The fight has mostly been between Electronic Arts and Sony Online Entertainment, but in the lasta days SOE rushed a few more votes and won. We wonder how much the Star Wars Galaxies New Player Experience influenced the result.

Sometimes for us MMORPG players it is difficult to explain to a not MMORPG veteran what our games are, what are the differences between them, that there is something more than just exping to gain levels to get better equipment to exp faster to gain levels to get... ok, you know (is there really more???? ).

BUT!
But believe me, there IS a way.

Let's start.

The first case of griefing in the three years story of A Tale in the Desert happened. Teppy, Pharaoh of Egypt and head of the dev team, meditates the happening.

Stratics received a press release announcing a new MMORPG magazine called The MMO Gamer.

The Walt Disney produced MMORPG, ToonTown Online, has been reviewed by the staff of MMORPG.com.

In our last week poll, we asked our readers "What is your favourite SCI-FI setting?". Star Wars won, but we will put online the same poll again when the hype for Star Trek Online will get higher.