Category: MMO News

Blizzard Entertainment recently added some new pets to their online store including the Celestial Steed Flying Mount. This is the first mount to be sold in the online store. The flying horse sells in the World of Warcraft store for $25. In the first 4 hour period it generated over $2 million dollars in sales. […]

Myst Online is back. Cyan Worlds has raised enough money to open a first phase open source Myst Online: URU Live server. This is a free version of the Myst Online massively multiplayer online role playing game with no subscription or client download cost. MO:UL includes Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, Uru: To D’ni, and Uru: […]

We have written before about the amazing value of virtual goods in the Entropia Universe massively multiplayer online role playing game. The auction for the Crystal Palace Space Station in Planet Calypso has sold for 3,300,000 PED. This virtual game currency when converted to US dollars is $330,000. The winning bidder was Buzz “Erik” Lightyear. […]

Aion Online went live as of 12:00 PDT today and is now open. The servers quickly filled up and server balancing was necessary. A queing system is in place although some users are getting messages that even the que is full. The problems are currently being addressed but continue to expect wait times. Since NCSoft […]

Funcom is still having problems with Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures. It now appears that Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures and Funcom are both dying a slow death. The slide continues and Funcom reported a 4th quarter loss of $23.3 million. Subscriber levels for Age of Conan are now estimated to be below one hundred thousand. This […]